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Peter Zeihan, The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation Of American Preeminence And The Coming Global Disorder. Twelve, Hachette Book Group, 2014., Laina Farhat–Holzman Apr 2017

Peter Zeihan, The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation Of American Preeminence And The Coming Global Disorder. Twelve, Hachette Book Group, 2014., Laina Farhat–Holzman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Patrick Manning, Migration In World History. Routledge, 2013 2Nd Ed., Connie Lamb Apr 2017

Patrick Manning, Migration In World History. Routledge, 2013 2Nd Ed., Connie Lamb

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


End Matter Apr 2017

End Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


The Transformation Of The Information Wave Into Virtual Civilization And The Ethical Questions It Raises, Andrew Targowski Apr 2017

The Transformation Of The Information Wave Into Virtual Civilization And The Ethical Questions It Raises, Andrew Targowski

Comparative Civilizations Review

The purpose of this investigation is to define the main contents and issues of the impact of informing systems on the rise and development of Virtual Civilization. The methodology is based on an interdisciplinary big-picture view of the elements of development of virtual civilization and their interdependency. Among the findings are the following: Virtual Civilization has infrastructural characteristics, a world-wide unlimited, socially constructed work and leisure space in cyberspace, and it can last centuries/millennia—as long as informing systems are operational. Practical implications: The mission of Virtual Civilization is to control the public policies of real civilizations in order to secure …


Chess Game Of Civilizations, Ambassador Sallama Shaker Apr 2017

Chess Game Of Civilizations, Ambassador Sallama Shaker

Comparative Civilizations Review

The theory of civilization clash is applied to the situation in the Middle East which appears to be more the result of intra-regional rivals. The latter would include the Sunni-Shiite rivalry and the competition between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Currently, Syria is the overt demonstration of these intra-regional rivalries.


Beyond Eurasia: Technology In Africa, The Americas, And Oceania In Pre-Modern Times, Norman Rothman Apr 2017

Beyond Eurasia: Technology In Africa, The Americas, And Oceania In Pre-Modern Times, Norman Rothman

Comparative Civilizations Review

This article traces the development of indigenous technology before the arrival of outsiders after the 15th century. It covers sub-Saharan Africa, pre-Columbian Americas, and Oceania. Under the first category, the role of Bantu-speakers in spreading technology is examined as are the evolution of advanced societies throughout Africa. In the second category, the achievements of the Mayan, Aztec, and Inca are examined. In the third category, the role of the Austronesians and Polynesians are examined.


Civilizational Analysis And Paths Not Taken, Part Ii: The Great Divergence, Toby Huff Apr 2017

Civilizational Analysis And Paths Not Taken, Part Ii: The Great Divergence, Toby Huff

Comparative Civilizations Review

The current president of the Association and noted scholar in the foundations of modern science discusses the evolution of distinct civilization with stress on Islamic and Chinese civilizations. The article covers three encounters that have occurred in history between different civilizations. The first encounter was between Byzantium and the Islamic World in the 9th and 10th century; the second was the interaction between the West and Islam in the 12th century, and the third was between European missionaries and China after 1400. His conclusion is that despite cross-pollination in various areas, the basic features of the Islamic and Chines cultures …


Workplace Bullying In The United States And Canada: Organizational Accountability Required In Higher Education, Leah P. Hollis Apr 2017

Workplace Bullying In The United States And Canada: Organizational Accountability Required In Higher Education, Leah P. Hollis

Comparative Civilizations Review

This article is a comparative study of bullying in the workplace in Canada and the United States. It examines the effect of laws, productivity, and organization culture upon this practice. It uses current and recent data to address the issue.


M. Alper Yalcinkaya, Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, And Society In The Nineteenth–Century Ottoman Empire. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2015., Toby Huff Apr 2017

M. Alper Yalcinkaya, Learned Patriots: Debating Science, State, And Society In The Nineteenth–Century Ottoman Empire. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2015., Toby Huff

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Peter Demetz, Prague In Black And Gold: Scenes In The Life Of A European City. New York: Hill And Wang, 1997., William Mcgaughey Apr 2017

Peter Demetz, Prague In Black And Gold: Scenes In The Life Of A European City. New York: Hill And Wang, 1997., William Mcgaughey

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Tseggai Isaac And Andrew Targowski, African Civilization In The 21st Century. Focus On Civilizations And Cultures Series. New York: Nova Publishers, 2015., Leland Conley Barrows Apr 2017

Tseggai Isaac And Andrew Targowski, African Civilization In The 21st Century. Focus On Civilizations And Cultures Series. New York: Nova Publishers, 2015., Leland Conley Barrows

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Michael Romann And Alex Weingrod, Living Together Separately: Arabs And Jews In Contemporary Jerusalem. Princeton University Press, 2014., Mary Tepfenhart Apr 2017

Michael Romann And Alex Weingrod, Living Together Separately: Arabs And Jews In Contemporary Jerusalem. Princeton University Press, 2014., Mary Tepfenhart

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Transforming The United Nations System: Designs For A Workable World. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press, 2013., Michael Andregg Apr 2017

Joseph E. Schwartzberg, Transforming The United Nations System: Designs For A Workable World. Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University Press, 2013., Michael Andregg

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


The Stories We Tell, Abigail A. Hoekstra Apr 2017

The Stories We Tell, Abigail A. Hoekstra

MAD-RUSH Undergraduate Research Conference

Two or Three Things I Know for Sure tells the story of Dorothy Allison as she comes to terms with her past and strives to move beyond it, to be empowered and embodied by it. In this short memoir, Allison explores the relationship she has with her mother and how that relationship has influenced her individuality and character, whose complacency has restricted Allison. Allison breaks away from the stories she has been told to tell a new story of abuse and disembodiment in which she finds love, and in turn, embodiment; the unification of her body and spirit. Story-telling and …


Strangers With Cameras: The Consequences Of Appalachian Representation In Pop Culture, Chelsea L. Brislin Jan 2017

Strangers With Cameras: The Consequences Of Appalachian Representation In Pop Culture, Chelsea L. Brislin

Theses and Dissertations--English

Representations of the Appalachia region in literature, art and pop culture have historically shifted between hyperbolic, colorful caricatures to grotesque, sensationalized, black and white photography. This wide spectrum of depictions continually resonates within the North American psyche due to its shared commonality of Appalachia as the cultural “other.” This othering frequently leaves audiences with a kind of relief that this warped representation of backwards, rural poverty is not their own progressive, present-day reality. Countless artists have exploited the region in order to show the impoverished side of rural Appalachia and spin a failed capitalistic way of life into a romanticized, …


Nature And Human Flourishing In The Laws Of Manu And The Daodejing, Qijing Zheng Jan 2017

Nature And Human Flourishing In The Laws Of Manu And The Daodejing, Qijing Zheng

Honors Theses

By comparing the interpretation of dharma in the ancient Indian Laws of Manu (Manusmṛti) with the concepts of dao in the Chinese classic, Daodejing, this thesis discusses that, despite the plausible perception that the former represents despotic, hierarchical governance while the latter promotes freedom (and even anarchy), the two texts in fact share a similar envision of human flourishing through the following of one's nature, as well as a foundational belief that both laws and political ideals emerge from nature.


French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat Dec 2016

French Women In Art: Reclaiming The Body Through Creation/Les Femmes Artistes Françaises : La Réclamation Du Corps À Travers La Création, Liatris Hethcoat

Student Scholar Symposium Abstracts and Posters

The research I have conducted for my French Major Senior Thesis is a culmination of my passion for and studies of both French language and culture and the history and practice of Visual Arts. I have examined, across the history of art, the representation of women, and concluded that until the 20th century, these representations have been tools employed by the makers of history and those at the top of the patriarchal system, used to control women’s images and thus women themselves. I survey these representations, which are largely created by men—until the 20th century. I discuss pre-historical …


Introduction To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke Dec 2016

Introduction To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided for the introduction.


Thematic Bibliography To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke Dec 2016

Thematic Bibliography To New Work On Immigration And Identity In Contemporary France, Québec, And Ireland, Dervila Cooke

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

No abstract provided.


In Memoriam Oct 2016

In Memoriam

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Back Matter Oct 2016

Back Matter

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Book Reviews Oct 2016

Book Reviews

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Notes Oct 2016

Notes

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Svealand, Götaland And The Rise Of The East-Slavic Kingdom — Response To Piotr Murzionak (Comparative Civilizations Review, No. 73 Fall 2015), Bertil Haggman Sep 2016

Svealand, Götaland And The Rise Of The East-Slavic Kingdom — Response To Piotr Murzionak (Comparative Civilizations Review, No. 73 Fall 2015), Bertil Haggman

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review Sep 2016

Full Issue, Comparative Civilizations Review

Comparative Civilizations Review

No abstract provided.


Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers Aug 2016

Educating The Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, And Future Edited By Alan Bewell, Neil Ten Kortenaar, And Germaine Warkentin, David Carruthers

The Goose

Review of Alan Bewell, Neil ten Kortenaar, and Germaine Warkentin's Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye Past, Present, and Future.


Nebraska's Wedding Crasher, Jennine Capó Crucet Jul 2016

Nebraska's Wedding Crasher, Jennine Capó Crucet

Department of English: Faculty Publications

My building thinks of itself as Lincoln's premier wedding venue. I was not told this when I signed the lease. A glitch of duct work sends the sounds of every single party straight through the exhaust fan of my apartment's bathroom, so loud and clear that I can hear the names of everyone in the wedding party as they are announced -- not just in the bathroom, but from the living room. I can hear when people are clapping, can hear the claps as individual sonic events: I can almost always make out the crisp echo of the last person …


The Cradle Of Democracy And The Longue Durée Of A Crisis: Some Thoughts From The Perspective Of Historical Sociology, Despina Lalaki Jul 2016

The Cradle Of Democracy And The Longue Durée Of A Crisis: Some Thoughts From The Perspective Of Historical Sociology, Despina Lalaki

Publications and Research

The relationship between Modern Greece and the West has always been a complex and tortuous one. Greece as “the cradle of democracy” – a construct at the intersection of western modernity’s political imaginary and Greek national identity – a terribly familiar and powerful cliché which to a great extent, still today, informs our imagination and politics has been at the heart of this relationship. It is rather a truism to suggest that democracy lies at the political core of the civilization that the West insists offering to the rest of the world, yet we tend to forget that this is …


A Reflection On God And Sex: What The Bible Really Says, Howard Wagner Apr 2016

A Reflection On God And Sex: What The Bible Really Says, Howard Wagner

Best Integrated Writing

Wagner uses humor and honest self-appraisal to discuss the contrast between his burgeoning academic knowledge of the Bible and what he had been previously taught, and he determines that faith is an ongoing process.


Conflicting Cultural Identity And The Baz Benin In Edwidge Danticat’S Claire Of The Sea Light, Kellianne Rinearson Apr 2016

Conflicting Cultural Identity And The Baz Benin In Edwidge Danticat’S Claire Of The Sea Light, Kellianne Rinearson

Best Integrated Writing

Rinearson explores the connection between the gangs in Edwidge Danticat’s Claire of the Sea Light and mythological figures in Haitian folklore thus adding nuance to the discussion of Caribbean cultural identity.