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Tobacco in Global Perspective, 1780–1960

Trade, Knowledge, and Labour

Edición de Alexander van Wickeren, Jean Stubbs, William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...

Series series History (R0)
This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco’s ‘second globalisation’, a concept little employed by historians thus far, ... Leer más

$107.99 USD

This edited collection provides an in-depth analysis of the imperial, colonial, and postcolonial history of tobacco from 1780 to 1960, which was one of the major periods of change in the global tobacco economy. It brings together case-studies from known and lesser-known tobacco regions of the world to interrogate tobacco’s ‘second globalisation’, a concept little employed by historians thus far,
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Prefiguring Utopia

The Auroville Experiment

de Suryamayi Aswini Clarence-Smith ...

Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide.This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal ... Leer más

$37.99 USD

Auroville in Tamil Nadu, South India, is an internationally recognized endeavour in prefiguring an alternative society: the largest, most diverse, dynamic and enduring of intentional communities worldwide.This book is a critical and insightful analysis of the utopian practice of this unique spiritual township, by a native scholar. The author explores how Auroville’s founding spiritual and societal
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The Future Is Now: An Introduction to Prefigurative Politics

The Future Is Now

de Eleonora Gea Piccardi, Laura Centemeri, Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Francesca Forno, Mikko Laamanen, Arturo Escobar, Jilly Traganou, Paul Raekstad, Luke Yates, Davina Cooper, Ana Cecilia Dinerstein, Chiara Bottici, Antonietta De Vita, Harry Pitts, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Erik Mygind du Plessis, Francesco Vittori, Stefan Wahlen, Joost De Moor, Viviana Asara, Emil Husted, Suryamayi Clarence-Smith ...

Series series Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21st Century
The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies.Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying ... Leer más

$41.99 USD

The gloomy prospect of climate change and ecosystems' collapse calls for an urgent rethinking of all aspects of our life: how we work, produce, eat, spend, take care of each other, relate to nature, and organize our societies.Prefigurative initiatives are attracting a growing amount of attention from scholars and activists precisely because they are envisioning alternative futures by embodying
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Greening Industrialization in Sub-Saharan Africa

de Ralph Luken, Edward Clarence-Smith ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Africa
This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.The book critically examines the concept of greening industrialisation and describes the progress and data challenges of monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals confronting African countries. The chapters summarise the policy and programme literature ... Leer más

$64.99 USD

This book explores the concept of greening industrialisation and issues and considerations surrounding it through the lens of Sub-Saharan Africa.The book critically examines the concept of greening industrialisation and describes the progress and data challenges of monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals confronting African countries. The chapters summarise the policy and programme literature
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The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century

de William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...

First Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of ... Leer más

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First Published in 1989. Well over a million slaves were exported from Indian Ocean and Red Sea ports in Eastern Africa during the nineteenth century, and millions more were shifted around the interior of the continent and along the coast of East Africa. And yet we still know remarkably little about this great movement of people, particularly from an economic point of view. This is a collection of
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Cocoa and Chocolate, 1765-1914

de William Gervase Clarence-Smith ...

Cocoa and Chocolate,1765-1914 focuses on the period from the Seven Years War, to the First World War, when a surge of economic liberalism and globalisation should have helped cocoa producers to overcome rural poverty, just as wool transformed the economy of Australia, and tea that of Japan. The addition of new forms of chocolate to Western diets in the late nineteenth century led to a great cocoa ... Leer más

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Cocoa and Chocolate,1765-1914 focuses on the period from the Seven Years War, to the First World War, when a surge of economic liberalism and globalisation should have helped cocoa producers to overcome rural poverty, just as wool transformed the economy of Australia, and tea that of Japan. The addition of new forms of chocolate to Western diets in the late nineteenth century led to a great cocoa
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Sexual Diversity in Asia, c. 600 - 1950

Edición de Raquel A.G. Reyes, William G. Clarence-Smith ...

Series series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series
Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western ... Leer más

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Non-reproductive sex practices in Asia have historically been a source of fascination, prurient or otherwise, for Westerners, who being either Catholic or Protestant, were often struck by what they perceived as the widespread promiscuity and licentiousness of native inhabitants. Graphic descriptions, and pious denunciations, of sodomy, bestiality, transvestitism, and incest, abound in Western
... Leer más
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream

de William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrado por a full cast, Adjoa Andoh, Rupert Penry-Jones, Clarence Smith, Amanda Root, David Harewood, Roy Hudd, Saskia Wickham ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Completo

2 hora 18 minutos

Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the mischievous Puck, who bewitches their leader, Bottom, ... Leer más

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Shakespeare’s most imaginative and merry play is set in an enchanted wood amidst fairies and sprites.When Oberon, King of the Fairies, uses his magic upon four runaway lovers in a midsummer wood outside Athens, chaos ensues. Who really loves whom? Meanwhile, a band of well-meaning but bungling local actors have their rehearsal sabotaged by the mischievous Puck, who bewitches their leader, Bottom,
... Leer más

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As You Like It

de William Shakespeare, E.A. Copen, Pierre Arthur Laure, Tom Wheelwright ...

Narrado por a full cast, Clarence Smith, Gerard Murphy, Stephen Mangan, Niamh Cusack ...

Series series The Arkangel Shakespeare Collection
Completo

2 hora 27 minutos

This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.ACT IScene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied his inheritance and any formal education. When Orlando ... Leer más

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This pastoral is one of Shakespeare’s best-loved comedies, due to its delightful heroine, the wise, witty, and virtuous Rosalind, who complicates her love life by disguising herself as a young man.ACT IScene 1. Orlando, the youngest son of Sir Rowland de Boys, has been kept “rustically at home” by his older brother, Oliver; he has been denied his inheritance and any formal education. When Orlando
... Leer más

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The Last of the Mohicans & The Spy

Two BBC Radio full-cast dramatisations

de James Fenimore Cooper ...

Narrado por Rose Leslie, Helen McCrory, Garrick Hogan, Burn Gorman, Alex Waldmann, Clarence Smith, Alfredo Michelsen, Okon Jones, Full Cast ...

Completo

3 hora 48 minutos

BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore CooperA founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic The Spy, widely considered the world's first espionage ... Leer más

$12.99 USD

BBC Radio drama adaptations of two action-packed adventures by James Fenimore CooperA founding father of American literature, James Fenimore Cooper was one of America's first professional novelists, and a pioneer of both the Western and the historical romance. Included here are his 1826 masterpiece The Last of the Mohicans and his 1821 classic The Spy, widely considered the world's first espionage
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Grisly Tales from the Cabaret of Dr Caligari

A BBC Radio 4 Surreal Comedy

de Alan Gilbey ...

Narrado por John Woodvine, Adjoa Andoh, Stephen Tompkinson, Ronald Herdman, Jane Whittenshaw, Clarence Smith, Alan Barker, Cassie Macfarlane, Full Cast ...

Completo

2 hora 51 minutos

An all-star dark comedy set in the mysterious world of Dr CaligariIn a seedy backstreet, in a rotting theatre, the sinister Dr Caligari runs a cabaret with his demonic assistants, Snuff and Anthrax. A riot of a listen, this surreal and macabre comedy follows the smooth-talking Dr Caligari as he encourages unwilling guests to tell their story in his London nightclub. Written by Alan Gilbey, strange ... Leer más

$18.99 USD

An all-star dark comedy set in the mysterious world of Dr CaligariIn a seedy backstreet, in a rotting theatre, the sinister Dr Caligari runs a cabaret with his demonic assistants, Snuff and Anthrax. A riot of a listen, this surreal and macabre comedy follows the smooth-talking Dr Caligari as he encourages unwilling guests to tell their story in his London nightclub. Written by Alan Gilbey, strange
... Leer más
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Posters of the Moulin Rouge

Eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas based on the characters of Toulouse-Lautrec

de John Peacock ...

Narrado por Frances Barber, Stephen Thorne, Full Cast, Julie Covington, Angela Pleasence, Bonnie Langford, Clarence Smith, Dermot Crowley, Miranda Richardson, Bernard Hill ...

Completo

6 hora 40 minutos

Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic Parisian poster stars come to life in these full-cast dramas, set in 19th-century Montmartre1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name - and launch ... Leer más

$17.99 USD

Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic Parisian poster stars come to life in these full-cast dramas, set in 19th-century Montmartre1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name - and launch
... Leer más

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