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Reframing Paquimé
Reframing Paquimé: Community Formation in Northwest
Chihuahua is a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the
Casas Grandes region by scholars Michael E. Whalen and Paul E.
Minnis. This final installment in their comprehensive study
challenges the dominant view of Paquimé as a hierarchical
society founded by outsiders, presenting instead a compelling
case for a largely locally organized society with Mesoamerican
and Puebloan characteristics. Drawing on twenty-five years of
extensive survey and excavation data, the authors offer a fresh
perspective that reframes our understanding of this remarkable
archaeological site.
Whalen and Minnis bring forth significant new data that
illuminates the cultural and ecological history of Paquimé
and its neighboring communities. The book features more than
fifty new radiocarbon dates, hundreds of analyzed
archaeobotanical and faunal samples, plus tens of thousands of
other artifacts. The data reveal a network of settlements
characterized by corporate and ritual-based authority,
challenging traditional models of the center’s rise,
collapse, and subsequent regional abandonment and arguing that
aspects of the Paquimé culture continued to exist up to
the Spanish Colonial period.
Reframing Paquimé is poised to become an
essential reference for archaeologists interested in Northwest
Mexico and the U.S. Southwest. By addressing the complex
dynamics of community formation and dissolution, Whalen and
Minnis provide invaluable insights that will ignite scholarly
debate and inspire future research. This meticulously
researched volume, authored by leading experts with decades of
fieldwork experience, is a vital addition to any collection on
the archaeology and ethnobotany of ancient North American
societies.
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East
This volume revisits archaeological evidence from Syria, Palestine, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and Egypt describing a variety of land-use patterns and the development of a particular type of settlement across the Near East._x000B__x000B_1. Pierre-Louis Gatier, Villages du Proche-Orient protobyzantin (4ème-7ème s.): Étude régionale _x000B_2. Henry Innes Macadam, Settlements and Settlement Patterns in Northern and Central Transjordania, c. 550 – c. 750_x000B_3. Yoram Tsafrir and Gideon Foerster, From Scythopolis to Bays n - Changing Concepts of Urbanism _x000B_4. Ali Zeyadeh, Settlement Patterns: An Archaeological Perspective. Case Studies from Northern Palestine and Jordan _x000B_5. Robert Schick, The Settlement Pattern of Southern Jordan: The Nature of the Evidence _x000B_6. Donald Whitcomb, The Misr of Ayla: Settlement at al-'Aqaba in the Early Islamic Period _x000B_7. George T. Scanlon, Al-Fust t: The Riddle of the Earliest Settlement_x000B_8. G. R. D. King, Settlement in Western and Central Arabia and the Gulf in the Sixth-Eighth Centuries A.D. _x000B_9. Mikhail B. Piotrovsky, Late Ancient and Early Mediaeval Yemen: Settlement Traditions and Innovations _x000B_10. Michael G. Morony, Land Use and Settlement Patterns in Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq _x000B_11. Alastair Northedge, Archaeology and New Urban Settlement in Early Islamic Syria and Iraq _x000B__x000B_“This volume presents a much needed addition to the history of the transit from Byzantine to Islamic administration _x000B_and a welcome survey of recent archaeology of an understudied period\" (Gladys Frantz-Murphy)
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Urban land acquisition and involuntary resettlement : linking innovation and local benefits
Expansion and development of urban areas require acquisition of land, which, in turn, often requires physical relocation of people who own or occupy this land. Land acquisition and resettlement may also be required to improve the lives of the more than 1 billion people who currently live in slums around the world, most of them in developing countries. Therefore, any effort to embark on significant, sustainable urban development needs to ensure that there are adequate processes for land acquisition and, so that resettlement does not become a constraint to much needed urban development. Planners, policy makers and social scientists can try to implement urban development programs in a way that make people who lose their land, houses or livelihoods become equal partners in the development process. The combination of the high price of urban land, presence of creative individuals in close proximity in urban areas, and the ability of urban space to generate innovative solutions, can help convert urban resettlement into a development opportunity for all. The report illustrates how urban resettlement can become a development opportunity. The Mumbai example shows how the private sector can play a key role, to unleash the potential created by high-value land to provide sustainable housing solutions to those adversely affected, at no cost to the government or the resettlers. Examples from Morocco and Pakistan show how well designed and implemented, citizen-driven resettlement can result in enhanced skills and livelihoods, and can promote overall sustainable urban development. The Mauritania example demonstrates how collective approaches with strong community participation can help address difficult challenges related to housing. The Brazil case shows how resettlement practices with demonstrated, strongly positive outcomes and contributions to urban development can influence governments to incorporate them into their own laws and regulations, helping millions of affected people to benefit from them.
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Rural Arab Demography and Early Jewish Settlement in Palestine
This volume explores the distribution of the rural population in Palestine from the late Ottoman period (1870-1917) to the British Mandate period (1917-1948). The book focuses on demography, specifically migrations, population size, density, growth, and the pattern of distribution in rural Palestine before the inception of Jewish settlement (1882). Grossman traces little-known Muslim ethnic groups who settled in Palestine's rural areas, primarily Egyptians, but also Algerians, Bosnians, and Circassians. The author argues that the Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-third that of the Arab core areas; in the period studied, the decline in per-capita rural Arab farmland was mainly due to overall population growth, not displacement of Arabs; economic development suffered largely because of violent disturbances and natural disasters; the pattern of growth of Egyptian and other Muslim groups was similar to that of the Jews. The main conclusions of this study note that the size of the rural Arab population in the zones occupied by Jews after 1882 was about one-tenth of that which occupied the Arab core zones; most Egyptian settlement areas coincided with those of the Jewish zones; between 1870 and 1945, the decline of Arab farmland was mainly due to Arab population growth rather than Jewish land acquisitions; and most migrants (Jewish and Muslim) settlement zones were leftovers characterized by some form of resource disability.
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Empire and enterprise
This book is about the transformation of England’s trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the ‘Adventurers for Irish land’, raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England’s empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell’s Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England’s empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.
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Settler colonialism : a theoretical overview
A vivid exploration of the history of a very powerful and long lasting idea: building European worlds outside of Europe. Veracini outlines how the founding of new societies was envisaged and practiced and explores the specific ways in which settler colonial projects tried to establish ideal and regenerated political bodies.
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