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The Emergence of Brand-Name Capitalism in Late Colonial India

Advertising and the Making of Modern Conjugality

by Douglas E. Haynes ...

Series series Critical Perspectives in South Asian History
This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a 'brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical ... Read more

$33.19 USD

This book examines the emergence of professional advertising in western India during the interwar period. It explores the ways in which global manufacturers advanced a 'brand-name capitalism' among the Indian middle class by promoting the sale of global commodities during the 1920s and 1930s, a time when advertising was first introduced in India as a profession and underwent critical
... Read more
Small Town Capitalism in Western India

Artisans, Merchants, and the Making of the Informal Economy, 1870–1960

by Douglas E. Haynes ...

Series Book 20 - Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society
This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the ... Read more

$43.49 USD

This book charts the history of artisan production and marketing in the Bombay Presidency from 1870 to 1960. While the textile mills of western India's biggest cities have been the subject of many rich studies, the role of artisan producers located in the region's small towns have been virtually ignored. Based upon extensive archival research as well as numerous interviews with participants in the
... Read more
Teaching Toward Slow Hope

Place-Based Learning in College and Beyond

by Douglas Haynes ...

Reimagining college as a space for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.Teaching Toward Slow Hope reveals what happens when higher education dares to become something more than transactional. Rather than positioning education as a financial investment, this book reimagines college as a space where students cultivate the skills and relationships needed for "collaborative survival" in an ... Read more

$31.19 USD

Reimagining college as a space for connection, meaning, and collective resilience.Teaching Toward Slow Hope reveals what happens when higher education dares to become something more than transactional. Rather than positioning education as a financial investment, this book reimagines college as a space where students cultivate the skills and relationships needed for "collaborative survival" in an
... Read more
Solastalgia

An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World

by Paul Bogard, Laura Erin England, Kathryn Nuernberger, Kathryn Miles, Suzanne Roberts, Joan Naviyuk Kane, Meera Subramanian, Lauren K. Alleyne, Roopali Phadke0, Cynthia Belmont1, Angela Pelster2, Nickole Brown3, Sean Hill4, Holly Haworth5, Kathleen Dean Moore6, J. Drew Lanham7, Genevieve Guenther8, Ken Hada9, Susan Clayton0, Priscilla Solis Ybarra1, Ben Goldfarb2, Douglas Haynes3, Leah Naomi Green4, Jennifer Westerman5, Erica Cavanagh6, Priya Shukla7, Marco Wilkinson8, Janisse Ray9, Jennifer Atkinson0, Elena Passarello1, Taylor Brorby2, Sarah Jaquette Ray3, Alison Hawthorne Deming4, Scott Russell Sanders5 ...

Series series Ecologia
"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a ... Read more

$23.79 USD

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"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold, "is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." As climate change and other environmental degradations become more evident, experts predict that an increasing number of people will suffer emotional and psychological distress as a result. Many are feeling these effects already. In the pages of Solastalgia, they will find a
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Imperial Medicine

Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease

by Douglas M. Haynes ...

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith, ... Read more

$50.39 USD

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith,
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Every Day We Live Is the Future

Surviving in a City of Disasters

by Douglas Haynes ...

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains ... Read more

$19.49 USD

When she was only nine, Dayani Baldelomar left her Nicaraguan village with nothing more than a change of clothes. She was among tens of thousands of rural migrants to Managua in the 1980s and 1990s. After years of homelessness, Dayani landed in a shantytown called The Widows, squeezed between a drainage ditch and putrid Lake Managua. Her neighbor, Yadira Castellón, also migrated from the mountains
... Read more
Imperial Medicine

Patrick Manson and the Conquest of Tropical Disease

by Douglas M. Haynes ...

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith, ... Read more

$62.99 USD

In 1866 Patrick Manson, a young Scottish doctor fresh from medical school, left London to launch his career in China as a port surgeon for the Imperial Chinese Customs Service. For the next two decades, he served in this outpost of British power in the Far East, and extended the frontiers of British medicine. In 1899, at the twilight of his career and as the British Empire approached its zenith,
... Read more
A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960

Edited by Veronika Fuechtner, Douglas E. Haynes, Ryan M. Jones ...

Series Book 26 - California World History Library
Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide ... Read more

$31.49 USD

Starting in the late nineteenth century, scholars and activists all over the world suddenly began to insist that understandings of sex be based on science. As Japanese and Indian sexologists influenced their German, British, and American counterparts and vice versa, sexuality, modernity, and imaginings of exotified “Others” became intimately linked. The first anthology to provide a worldwide
... Read more
The Mexican Revolution

Conflict and Consolidation, 1910-1940

by John Mason Hart, Nicholas Villanueva Jr., Don M. Coerver, Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga, Linda B. Hall, Francisco E. Balderrama, Jürgen Buchenau, Lewis E. Stephen0, Assad Marti´nez Carlos1, Thomas Benjamin2 ...

Series Book 44 - Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the ... Read more

$8.69 USD

In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.These essays, the result of the
... Read more
Fit to Practice

Empire, Race, Gender, and the Making of British Medicine, 1850-1980

by Douglas M. Haynes ...

Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven withthe institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory body of the medical profession. The GMC's management of the medical register from 1858 to 1980 ... Read more

$17.99 USD

Fit to Practice proposes a new narrative of the making of the modern British medical profession, situating it in relation to the imperatives and tensions of national and imperial interests. The narrative is interwoven withthe institutional history of the General Medical Council (GMC), the main regulatory body of the medical profession. The GMC's management of the medical register from 1858 to 1980
... Read more
Zookeeper

A timeless free verse poem that encourages us to view our lives with the patterns found in nature.

by Douglas S. Haynes ...

A timeless free verse poem that encourages us to view our lives like the zoo with the patterns found in nature and valuable life lessons are made inspiring. Illustrated by Daniel J. Middleton to bring smiles to faces. Author Douglas S. Haynes is a practicing attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who began writing poetry in 2011. He publishes regularly in Louisville Bar Briefs. Zookeeper was the ... Read more

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A timeless free verse poem that encourages us to view our lives like the zoo with the patterns found in nature and valuable life lessons are made inspiring. Illustrated by Daniel J. Middleton to bring smiles to faces. Author Douglas S. Haynes is a practicing attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, who began writing poetry in 2011. He publishes regularly in Louisville Bar Briefs. Zookeeper was the
... Read more
Rethinking Markets in Modern India

Embedded Exchange and Contested Jurisdiction

Edited by Ajay Gandhi, Barbara Harriss-White, Douglas E. Haynes, Sebastian Schwecke ...

To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian ... Read more

$118.89 USD

To people operating in India's economy, actually existing markets are remarkably different from how planners and academics conceive them. From the outside, they appear as demarcated arenas of exchange bound by state-imposed rules. As historical and social realities, however, markets are dynamic, adaptative, and ambiguous spaces. This book delves into this intricate context, exploring Indian
... Read more

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Every Day We Live Is the Future

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A Global History of Sexual Science, 1880–1960

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