Tabla de Contenidos: “…Neither native nor stranger : places, encounters, prophecies -- "A war between soldiers and prophets" : embodied resistance in colonial Belgian Congo, 1921 -- Threatening gestures, immoral bodies : Kingunza after Kimbangu -- Dancing with the invisible : everyday performances under Mobutu Sese Seko -- Dancing disorder in Mobutu's Zaire : animation politique and gendered nationalisms -- Bundu dia Kongo and embodied revolutions : performing Kongo pride -- Transforming modern society…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…William Gilmore Simms: a biographical overview / David Moltke-Hansen -- William Gilmore Simms as orator -- "Barnwell Agricultural Society oration" (1840) -- "The sense of the beautiful" (1870) -- "The social principle" (1842) -- "The sources of American independence" (1844) -- "Choice of a profession" (1855) -- "Inauguration of the Spartanburg Female College" (1855) -- "South Carolina in the Revolution" (1856) -- "The social moral, lecture 1" (1857) -- "The antagonisms of the social moral, North and South" (1857)…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Tokugawa background : the ideal and the real -- The mid-century crisis -- The early Meiji Revolution -- The 1880s and 1890s : defining a Japanese national identity -- Late Meiji : an end and a beginning -- An emerging mass society : demands for equity and the dilemmas of choice -- Contesting the modern in the 1930s -- The dark valley -- "Enduring the unendurable" and starting over in the "new" Japan -- Conflict and consensus in the 1950s -- The "economic miracle" -- and its underside -- The "rich country" -- The "lost decade" -- Whither Japan?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Activating Theories of Money’s Origins and Orders / Key Phases of Medieval Money and Coinage -- From the Fall of Rome to Charlemagne (c.400–800) / From Charlemagne to the Commercial Revolution (c.800–1150) / From the Commercial Revolution to the Black Death (c.1150–1350) / From the Black Death to the New World (c.1350–1500) / Themes in the Study of Medieval Money and Coinage -- Money and Society / Money and the Economy / Money, Coins, and Archaeology / Money and Literature / Art in the Round: Tradition and Creativity in Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage / Coins and Identity: From Mint to Paradise / Back Matter -- Bibliography -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The Stalinist revolution -- Making the Stalinist revolution -- Exterminating internal threats to socialist unity -- War and illusions -- Soviet aims and Western concessions -- Taking Eastern Europe -- The communists in Berlin -- Restoring the Stalinist dictatorship in a broken society -- Shadows of the Cold War -- Stalin and Truman: false starts -- Potsdam, the bomb and Asia -- Soviet retribution and post-war trials -- Settling retribution and ethnic groups -- Reaffirming communist ideology -- Stalin's Cold War -- New communist regimes in Poland and Czechoslovakia -- The pattern of dictatorships: Bulgaria, Romania, and Hungary -- Communism in Yugoslavia, Albania, and Greece -- The passing of the communist moment in Western Europe -- Stalin's choices and the future of Europe -- Stalinist failures: Yugoslavia and Germany -- Looking at Asia from the Kremlin -- New waves of Stalinization -- Stalin's last will and testament…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Patterns of income distribution -- Marx's theory of history -- Managers in Marx's analysis -- Sociality and class societies -- Managerialism and managerial capitalism -- A wealth of alternative interpretations -- Hybridization as analytical challenge -- Varying trends of inequality -- The sequence of social orders -- Class and imperial power structures -- The politics of social change -- Tendencies, crises, and struggles -- Utopian capitalism in bourgeois revolutions -- Utopian socialism and anarchism -- Self-proclaimed scientific socialism -- The economics and politics of managerialisms -- The potential of popular struggle…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Marshall -- Conclusion : the French Revolution and beyond / T.C.W. Blanning…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Roman Londinium to Saxon Lundenwic: continuity and change (A.D. 43-800) -- New centers in the North -- The revolution in the countryside -- Crafting tools and ornaments for the new societies -- Royal exchange and everyday trade -- Spread of the new religion -- Arts, scholarship, and education -- Charlemagne's elephant and the history of Europe…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The origins and development of Nazism, 1919-1928 -- Weimar democracy in crisis -- The rise of Hitler and Nazism -- The historical roots of Nazi ideology -- Party structure, propaganda, and followers during the "early years of struggle" -- The seizure and consolidation of power, 1929-1934 -- Parliamentary paralysis and the Nazi breakthrough of 1930 -- Hitler's legal path to power -- The pseudolegal revolution -- The nazification of German society, 1934-1938 -- The total state versus the dual state and polycracy -- Political biology, culture, and society -- SS terror, anti-semitism, and resistance to nazification -- The rise and fall of the Nazi empire in Europe, 1933-1945 -- The fuhrer as statesman: ideology and foreign policy -- The fuhrer as warrior: victory and conquest -- From domination to retreat -- The Holocaust, resistance, and defeat -- The struggle for justice and historical memory -- From Nuremberg to vergangenheitsbewltigung -- The intractable Nazi legacy in film: propaganda and history…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…The turn away from laissez faire; 2. The Bolshevik revolution and the socialist calculation debate; 3. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…; Chapter 3 - Biology versus society?; Chapter 4 - Experiencing emotions: the lived boy; Chapter 5 - Desire, excess and the transgression of corporeal boundaries; Chapter 6 - Gender and the transformation of intimacy: a 'stalled revolution'?…”

“…Society is at the threshold of a revolution that will transform the ways in which materials and products are created. …”

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Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- The spirit of adventure -- Yale time -- Beginnings -- Welcome to Yale -- The university's role in society -- Universities and our common wealth -- The American university as an engine of economic growth -- Universities as urban citizens -- The global university -- The graduate's role in society -- Education for self and for others -- On controversy -- Taking the next step -- The task of citizenship -- Beyond community service: the nation and the wider world -- Reflections on revolution -- China on my mind -- Thinking about September 11 -- Building a better Yale -- Yale's fourth century -- Yale at 300 -- Honoring schools, teachers, and traditions -- An embryonic democracy -- A salute to Princeton -- Remembering Oxford -- Chasing after society -- James Tobin, scholar-hero -- A devoted mentor -- Shimon Peres -- Blessed is the match -- Reflections on the American economy -- Can America compete in world markets?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Hunters and farmers, c. 2.5 million-3000 BC -- The first class societies, c. 3000-1000 BC -- Ancient empires, c. 1000-30 BC -- The end of antiquity, c 30 BC-AD 650 -- The medieval world, c. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Acknowledgements ix PART I The logic 1 (26) 1 The nature and origin of modern society 3 (7) 2 The failure and success of East Asia 10 (8) 3 The self-transforming machine 18 (9) PART II Reflection 27 (34) 4 The discovery of distance 29 (11) 5 The face in the mirror 40 (9) 6 Institutions that reflect 49 (12) PART III Entrepreneurship 61 (34) 7 Origins of the entrepreneurial outlook 63 (10) 8 The age of the demiurge 73 (11) 9 Institutions that get things done 84 (11) PART IV Pluralism 95 (32) 10 A world in pieces 97 (12) 11 The polite alternative 109 (9) 12 Institutions dealing with conflicts 118 (9) PART V European paths to modernity 127 (10) 13 Institutions and revolutions 129 (8) PART VI China 137 (44) 14 Reflection 139 (13) 15 Entrepreneurship 152 (10) 16 Pluralism 162 (9) 17 Europe and China compared 171 (10) PART VII Reform and revolution in Japan and China 181 (24) 18 Foreign challenges, Japanese responses 183 (10) 19 Japan and China in a modern world 193 (12) PART VIII The future of modern society 205 (11) 20 The new politics of modernisation 207 (9) Notes 216 (22) Bibliography 238 (20) Index 258.…”