Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Escaping Kakania is about fascinating characters—soldiers, doctors, scientists, writers, painters—who traveled from their eastern European homelands to colonial Southeast Asia. Their stories are told by experts on different countries in the two regions, who bring diverse approaches into a conversation that crosses disciplinary and national borders. The 14 chapters deal with the diverse encounters of eastern Europeans with the many faces of colonial southeast Asia. Some essays directly engage with post-colonial studies, contributing to an ongoing critical re-evaluation of eastern European “semi-peripheral” (non-)involvement in colonialism. Other chapters disclose a range of perspectives and narratives that illuminate the plurality of the travelers’ positions while reflecting on the specificity of the eastern European experience. The travellers moved—as do the chapter authors—between two regions that are off-centre, in-between, shiftingly “Eastern,” and disorientingly heterogeneous, thus complicating colonial and postcolonial notions of “Europe,” “East,” and East-West distinctions. Both at home and overseas, they navigated among a multiplicity of peoples, “races,” and empires, Occidents and Orients, fantasies of the Self and the Other, adopting/adapting/mimicking/rejecting colonialist identities and ideologies. They saw both eastern Europe and southeast Asia in a distinctive light, as if through each other—and so will the readers of Escaping Kakania.

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern. --- Southeast Asia --- Description and travel. --- European representations of Asia. --- Travel and travel writing. --- colonialism/empire. --- eastern Europe. --- southeast Asia.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

These classic studies of the history of economic change in 19th- and 20th-century United States, Canada, and British West Indies examine national product; capital stock and wealth; and fertility, health, and mortality. "A 'must have' in the library of the serious economic historian."-Samuel Bostaph, Southern Economic Journal

History of North America --- Economic growth --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799 --- United States --- North America --- Economic conditions --- 330.35 (73) --- 338 (73) --- US / United States of America - USA - Verenigde Staten - Etats Unis --- 331.100 --- 338.8 --- Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09}--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden. --- Economische groei. --- Economic conditions. --- Conferences - Meetings --- 338 (73) Economische situatie. Economische structuur van bepaalde landen en gebieden. Economische geografie. Economische produktie.economische produkten. Economische diensten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 330.35 (73) Economische groei. Kwantitatieve toename. Technische vooruitgang --zie ook {338.09}--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Economische groei --- E-books --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. --- North America - Economic conditions --- United States - Economic conditions --- west indies, britain, england, colonialism, empire, colony, canada, united states, economics, mortality, health, fertility, wealth, capital stock, national product, economy, transaction, choice, rent, mobility, utah, frontier, inheritance, ohio, birth control, contraceptives, family size, nonfiction, nutrition, labor, gender, women, caribbean, race, class, industrialization, railway, finance, funds. --- United States of America