Engineering the State, Pietz

Автор: McElwee Pamela D.
Название: Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam
ISBN: 0295995483 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295995489
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century—from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics—as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature’s sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms “environmental rule.” Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.

Автор: Fan Shuhua
Название: The Harvard-Yenching Institute and Cultural Engineering: Remaking the Humanities in China, 1924 1951
ISBN: 0739168509 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780739168509
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Цена: 113850.00 T
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Описание: Through an empirical, multi-archival study of a transnational foundation-the Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) from the 1920s to the early 1950s-this book presents the story of transplanting Western/American humanities scholarship into Asia/China and addresses central questions in U.S.-China relations.

Автор: Wei Dong; Yanqing Lian; Yong Zhang
Название: Sustainable Development of Water Resources and Hydraulic Engineering in China
ISBN: 3319616293 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319616292
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book presents the gatherings of the "2016 International Conference on Water Resource and Hydraulic Engineering," which primarily focused on the sustainable development of water resources and the environment in both China and the United States. water quality analysis and water pollution;

Автор: Logistics Engineering Institution, CMES
Название: Proceedings of China Modern Logistics Engineering
ISBN: 3662446731 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783662446737
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 200260.00 T
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Описание: Proceedings of China Modern Logistics Engineering covers nearly all areas of logistics engineering technology, focusing on the latest findings and the following theoretical aspects: Logistics Systems and Management Research;

Автор: Marsden
Название: Engineering Empires
ISBN: 0230507042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230507043
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 37260.00 T
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Описание: Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

Автор: Salvatore Basile
Название: Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything
ISBN: 0823271781 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780823271788
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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It’s a contraption that makes the lists of “Greatest Inventions Ever”; at the same time, it’s accused of causing global disaster. It has changed everything from architecture to people’s food habits to their voting patterns, to even the way big business washes its windows. It has saved countless lives . . . while causing countless deaths. Most of us are glad it’s there. But we don’t know how, or when, it got there.
It’s air conditioning.
For thousands of years, humankind attempted to do something about the slow torture of hot weather. Everything was tried: water power, slave power, electric power, ice made from steam engines and cold air made from deadly chemicals, “zephyrifers,” refrigerated beds, ventilation amateurs and professional air-sniffers. It wasn’t until 1902 when an engineer barely out of college developed the “Apparatus for Treating Air”—a machine that could actually cool the indoors—and everyone assumed it would instantly change the world.
That wasn’t the case. There was a time when people “ignored” hot weather while reading each day’s list of heat-related deaths, women wore furs in the summertime, heatstroke victims were treated with bloodletting . . . and the notion of a machine to cool the air was considered preposterous, even sinful.
The story of air conditioning is actually two stories: the struggle to perfect a cooling device, and the effort to convince people that they actually needed such a thing. With a cast of characters ranging from Leonardo da Vinci and Richard Nixon to Felix the Cat, Cool showcases the myriad reactions to air conditioning— some of them dramatic, many others comical and wonderfully inconsistent—as it was developed and presented to the world. Here is a unique perspective on air conditioning’s fascinating history: how we rely so completely on it today, and how it might change radically tomorrow.

Автор: Marsden, Ben.
Название: Engineering empires :
ISBN: 0333772784 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333772782
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 111790.00 T
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Описание: Engineers are empire-builders. Watt, Brunel, and others worked to build and expand personal and business empires of material technology and in so doing these engineers also became active agents of political and economic empire. This book provides a fascinating exploration of the cultural construction of the large-scale technologies of empire.

Автор: Pamela D. McElwee
Название: Forests Are Gold: Trees, People, and Environmental Rule in Vietnam
ISBN: 0295995475 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780295995472
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Цена: 91960.00 T
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Forests Are Gold examines the management of Vietnam's forests in the tumultuous twentieth century--from French colonialism to the recent transition to market-oriented economics--as the country united, prospered, and transformed people and landscapes. Forest policy has rarely been about ecology or conservation for nature's sake, but about managing citizens and society, a process Pamela McElwee terms "environmental rule." Untangling and understanding these practices and networks of rule illuminates not just thorny issues of environmental change, but also the birth of Vietnam itself.

Автор: Harper Kristine C.
Название: Make It Rain: State Control of the Atmosphere in Twentieth-Century America
ISBN: 022643723X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226437231
Издательство: Wiley
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Цена: 31680.00 T
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Описание: Weather control. Juxtaposing those two words is enough to raise eyebrows in a world where even the best weather models still fail to nail every forecast, and when the effects of climate change on sea level height, seasonal averages of weather phenomena, and biological behavior are being watched with interest by all, regardless of political or scientific persuasion. But between the late nineteenth century--when the United States first funded an attempt to "shock" rain out of clouds--and the late 1940s, rainmaking (as it had been known) became weather control. And then things got out of control.
In Make It Rain, Kristine C. Harper tells the long and somewhat ludicrous history of state-funded attempts to manage, manipulate, and deploy the weather in America. Harper shows that governments from the federal to the local became helplessly captivated by the idea that weather control could promote agriculture, health, industrial output, and economic growth at home, or even be used as a military weapon and diplomatic tool abroad. Clear fog for landing aircraft? There's a project for that. Gentle rain for strawberries? Let's do it Enhanced snowpacks for hydroelectric utilities? Check. The heyday of these weather control programs came during the Cold War, as the atmosphere came to be seen as something to be defended, weaponized, and manipulated. Yet Harper demonstrates that today there are clear implications for our attempts to solve the problems of climate change.

Автор: Hayden J. A. Bellenoit
Название: The Formation of the Colonial State in India
ISBN: 0415704472 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415704472
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 163330.00 T
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Описание: In the period between the 1770s and 1840s, through the process of colonial state formation, the early colonial state in India was able to harness and extract vast amounts of agrarian wealth in north India. However, little is known of the histories of the Indian scribes and the role they played in shaping the early patterns of British colonial rule.This book offers a new way of interpreting the colonial state’s origins in north India. It examines how the formation of early agrarian revenue settlements exacerbated an extant late Mughal taxation tradition, and how the success of British power was shaped by this extant paper-oriented revenue culture. It goes on to examine how the service and cultural histories of various Hindu scribal communities fit within broader changes in political administration, taxation, patterns of governance and a shared Indo-Islamic administrative culture. The author argues that British power after the late eighteenth century came as much through bureaucratic mastery, paper and taxes as it did through military force and commercial ruthlessness. The book draws upon private family papers, interviews and Persian sources to demonstrate how the fortunes of scribes changed between empires, and the important role they played at the height of the British Raj by 1900.Offering a detailed account of how agrarian wealth provided the bedrock of the colonial state’s later patterns of administration, this book is a unique and refreshing contribution to studies in South Asian History, Governance and Imperialism.