Calcutta poor : elegies on a city above pretense
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Calcutta poor : elegies on a city above pretense
（An East gate book）
M.E. Sharpe, c1997
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index
内容説明・目次
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: pbk ISBN 9781563249808
内容説明
This work addresses the political, cultural and economic dimensions of Irish life, presenting Ireland as a hybrid of cultures and peoples. Coverage includes an analysis of how Irish literature and folklore reflect the desire for national independence in both political and cultural forms.
目次
- This volume addresses the political, cultural and economic dimensions of Irish life, presenting Ireland as a hybrid of cultures and peoples. Coverage includes: an explanation of how the literature and folklore reflect the desire for national independence in both political and cultural forms
- an analysis of how the Gaelic, Norman English, Elizabethan English, Ulster Planter English, Scots, Cromwellian English and Williamite English conflict and meld into the present character of Ireland and the Irish
- a discussion of how the English impact, Catholicism, the Land Question, emigration, literacy and Gaelic cultural nationalism coalesce to create Irish nationalism
- emphasis on the influence of British presence on Irish values and personality
- an examination of how the Irish question moved Britain in the direction of liberal democracy and the welfare state
- and an exploration of Ireland as a paradigm case of a country fighting imperialism and colonialism to move from colony to nation state, accomplishing the latter through one of the 20th century's most notable guerrilla wars of liberation.
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: hard ISBN 9781563249815
内容説明
Calcutta is notorious for its pavement dwellers, street children, and scavengers that have become a portrait of the worst sort of human degradation. In this illuminating critique, Thomas investigates the standard solutions - improved housing, increased job creation, and intervention of social services agencies - only to come to the conclusion that such initiatives have little effect on the inherent nature of the problem of poverty. Based on historical and anthropological findings, and the author's visits to the slums of Calcutta, what becomes clear is that even in the midst of great poverty, there is a nobility of character, a vitality of ethnic and cultural ties, and an energy that bring out inventiveness and ingenuity in the lives of the poor. If Calcutta's poverty is not to be an intractable problem, these internal forces must be awakened to generate solutions. Illustrated with stunning photographs, Thomas's reflections provide new insight into an age-old problem.
目次
Preface, Introduction, Impressions, Black Town and the City of Palaces, Bhadralok and the Genteel Poor, Refugees and Migrants, Slums and Squatters, Bustees from Within, Improving the Bustees, Caste and Occupational Niches, Providing Livelihoods, Mobilizing the Community, Slum Politics, The Intractability of Urban Poverty, Notes, Bibliography, Index
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