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Author |
: Laleh Khalili |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2020-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786634818 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786634813 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sinews of War and Trade by : Laleh Khalili
How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.
Author |
: Laleh Khalili |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2021-08-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781786634825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1786634821 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sinews of War and Trade by : Laleh Khalili
How shipping is central to the very fabric of global capitalism In our networked world, the realities governing the international movement of freight are easily forgotten. But maritime transport remains the bedrock of trade. Convoys perpetually crisscross the oceans, carrying gas, oil, ore – indeed, every type of consumable and commodity. These movements, though practically invisible, mean that control of the seas is vital in an age when no nation can survive on domestic products alone. Professor and author Laleh Khalili travelled the Mediterranean, the Red Sea, and the Indian Ocean aboard gigantic container ships to investigate the secretive and sometimes dangerous world of maritime trade. What she discovered was strangely disturbing: brutally exploited seafarers enduring loneliness and risking injury to keep the cogs of trade turning. In the Arabian peninsula’s ports, forbidden places encircled by barbed wire and moats of highways, the dockers struggle for benefits and political rights, as they have for generations. Environmental catastrophes threaten with increasing intensity and frequency. Around the oil-trading nations of the Middle East, a history of British colonialism, modern US imperialism, and local autocracies combine to worsen the conditions of modern seafarers, and piracy persists near the Horn of Africa. From her research riding the sea lanes and visiting the major Middle Eastern ports, Khalili has produced a book that exposes the frayed and tense sinews of modern capital, a physical network without which none of our more abstracted webs and systems could operate.
Author |
: James A. Huston |
Publisher |
: Government Printing Office |
Total Pages |
: 814 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0160899141 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780160899140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sinews of War by : James A. Huston
Author |
: Benjamin Bacon |
Publisher |
: Presidio Press |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015039052496 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sinews of War by : Benjamin Bacon
Reveals the story of the transport of infantry regiments, artillery, and supplies to the battlefield during the Civil War, showing how the war was really won. Includes bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author |
: Dan Lainer-Vos |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2013-04-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745664415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745664415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sinews of the Nation by : Dan Lainer-Vos
Fundraising may not seem like an obvious lens through which to examine the process of nation-building, but in this highly original book Lainer-Vos shows that fundraising mechanisms - ranging from complex transnational gift-giving systems to sophisticated national bonds - are organizational tools that can be used to bind dispersed groups to the nation. Sinews of the Nation treats nation-building as a practical organizational accomplishment and examines how the Irish republicans and the Zionist movement secured financial support in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. Comparing the Irish and Jewish experiences, whose trajectories of homeland-diaspora relations were very different, provides a unique perspective for examining how national movements use economic transactions to attach disparate groups to the national project. By focusing on fundraising, Lainer-Vos challenges the common view of nation-building as only a matter of forging communities by imagining away internal differences: he shows that nation-building also involves organizing relationships so as to allow heterogeneous groups to maintain their difference and yet contribute to the national cause. Nation-building is about much more than creating unifying symbols: it is also about creating mechanisms that bind heterogeneous groups to the nation despite and through their differences.
Author |
: Liam Campling |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 433 |
Release |
: 2021-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781784785239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1784785237 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capitalism and the Sea by : Liam Campling
What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for the modern capitalist economy. While sea beds are drilled for their fossil fuels and minerals, and coastlines developed for real estate and leisure, the oceans continue to absorb the toxic discharges of our carbon civilization - warming, expanding, and acidifying the blue water part of the planet in ways that will bring unpredictable but irreversible consequences for the rest of the biosphere. In this bold and radical new book, Campling and Colás analyze these and other sea-related phenomena through a historical and geographical lens. In successive chapters dealing with the political economy, ecology and geopolitics of the sea, the authors argue that the earth's geographical separation into land and sea has significant consequences for capitalist development. The distinctive features of this mode of production continuously seek to transcend the land-sea binary in an incessant quest for profit, engendering new alignments of sovereignty, exploitation and appropriation in the capture and coding of maritime spaces and resources.
Author |
: Jatin Dua |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2019-12-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520973299 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520973291 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Captured at Sea by : Jatin Dua
How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.
Author |
: Jairus Banaji |
Publisher |
: Haymarket Books |
Total Pages |
: 156 |
Release |
: 2020-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781642592115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1642592110 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Brief History of Commercial Capitalism by : Jairus Banaji
The rise of capitalism to global dominance is still largely associated – by both laypeople and Marxist historians – with the industrial capitalism that made its decisive breakthrough in 18th century Britain. Jairus Banaji’s new work reaches back centuries and traverses vast distances to argue that this leap was preceded by a long era of distinct “commercial capitalism”, which reorganised labor and production on a world scale to a degree hitherto rarely appreciated. Rather than a picture centred solely on Europe, we enter a diverse and vibrant world. Banaji reveals the cantons of Muslim merchants trading in Guangzhou since the eighth century, the 3,000 European traders recorded in Alexandria in 1216, the Genoese, Venetians and Spanish Jews battling for commercial dominance of Constantinople and later Istanbul. We are left with a rich and global portrait of a world constantly in motion, tied together and increasingly dominated by a pre-industrial capitalism. The rise of Europe to world domination, in this view, has nothing to do with any unique genius, but rather a distinct fusion of commercial capitalism with state power.
Author |
: Stefano Liberti |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2013-11-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781781682326 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1781682321 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Land Grabbing by : Stefano Liberti
To the governments and corporations buying up vast tracts of the Third World, it is ‘land leasing’; to its critics, it is nothing better than ‘land grabbing’ – the engine powering a new era of colonialism. In this arresting account of how millions of hectares of fertile soil are stolen to feed wealthy westerners thousands of miles away, journalist Stefano Liberti takes readers on a tour of contemporary exploitation. It is a journey encompassing a Dutch-owned model farm in Ethiopia; a conference in Riyadh, where representatives of Third World governments compete to attract Saudi investors; meetings in Rome where the fate of nations is decided; and the headquarters of the Movement of Landless Workers in São Paulo. Since the food crisis of 2007–8, when the cost of staples such as rice and corn went through the roof, the race to acquire land in the southern hemisphere has become more intense than ever. Land Grabbing is the shocking story of how one half of the world is starved to feed the other.
Author |
: Betty Kobayashi Issenman |
Publisher |
: UBC Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780774841894 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0774841893 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Sinews of Survival by : Betty Kobayashi Issenman
Betty Issenman examines all aspects of winter and summer Inuit clothing, going back 4000 years, with particular emphasis on northern Canadian Inuit. She also describes the kinds of material and tools used to make the clothing. The focus is on on Inuit clothing as protection, identity, and culture bearer, roles it has played for thousands of years. No other book brings together contemporary and historical material from the circumpolar worlds with original research. Sinews of Survival is a fascinating study of Inuit clothing, past and present. It includes over 200 illustrations of various kinds of clothing. The voices of the Inuit are heard throughout the text in quotations from consultations and the literature. By describing one component of Inuit society, the author opens a pathway to understanding the culture as a whole.