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Globalization and labor market integration in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Asia
No full textThis chapter uses new data sets to analyze labor market integration between 1882 and 1936 in an area of Asia stretching from South India to Southeastern China and encompassing the three Southeast Asian countries of Burma, Malaya, and Thailand. We find that by the late nineteenth century, globalization, of which a principal feature was the mass migration of Indians and Chinese to Southeast Asia, gave rise to both an integrated Asian labor market and a period of real wage convergence. Integration did not, however, extend beyond Asia to include core industrial countries. Asian and core areas, in contrast to globally integrated commodity markets, showed divergent trends in unskilled real wages
A study of the issues surrounding the understanding of historic military artefacts as primary source documents with particular emphasis on the sword
No full textLire désespérément… W.G. Sebald
No full textDans la foulée d’Évelyne Grossman et de sa réflexion sur « la paradoxale vitalité de la négativité dépressive » (L’angoisse de penser, 2008), cet article envisage l’exploration littéraire de la négativité et de la dépossession de soi, caractéristique d’une certaine modernité que l’on peut faire remonter à Mallarmé, en tant qu’elle peut fonctionner, pour le lecteur, à la manière d’un antidépresseur paradoxal. Questionnant d’abord de façon générale certaines conceptions « sublimantes », réparatrices ou rédemptrices de la littérature (Leo Bersani) et la prégnance des modèles platoniciens et aristotéliciens de la création comme pharmakon, l’auteure tente ensuite de cerner plus spécifiquement, à partir de l’oeuvre de l’écrivain allemand W.G. Sebald, le caractère tout à la fois anxiogène et libérateur de la symbolisation de la perte en littérature.Following Évelyne Grossman and her developments about the “paradoxical vitality of depressive negativity” (L’angoisse de penser, 2008), this article addresses the literary exploration of negativity and self-deprivation, characteristic of a certain modernity one can retrace up to Mallarmé, and proposes that it can function, for the reader, as a paradoxical antidepressant. Questioning at first more generally the current sublimating conceptions of literature and the impregnation of the platonician and aristotelian models of creation as pharmakon, the author seeks then to embrace more precisely, on the basis of the works by German writer W.G. Sebald, the all-together anguishing and liberating effect of the symbolization of loss in literature
Currency Boards and Chinese Banking Development in pre-World War II Southeast Asia: Malaya and the Philippines
No full textThis article examines the relationship between currency boards and the development of local Chinese deposit banking in pre-World War II Malaya and the Philippines. While in both countries Chinese banks filled an important gap in financial intermediation, the currency board system - an especially strict version of the classical gold standard - virtually ensured that these institutions remained small. Moreover, in the 1930s slump the currency board system's preclusion of a central bank and requirement to pay depositors in 100 per cent metropolitan currency, together with the volatility of highly staple-dependent export economies, pushed Chinese banks to the verge of bankruptcy or beyond. Examination of the 1930s crisis in Southeast Asia and role of banks in it reveals more differences from than parallels with 1990s experience.
Traces of trauma in W.G. Sebald and Christoph Ransmayr
No full textBoth W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian author Christoph Ransmayr (1954-) were born too late to know directly the violence of the Second World War and the Holocaust, but these traumatic events are a persistent presence in their work. In a series of close readings of key prose texts, Dora Osborne examines the different ways in which the traces of a traumatic past mark their narratives. By focusing on the authors' use of visual and topographical tropes, she shows how blind spots and inhospitable places configure signs of past violence, but, ultimately, resist our understanding. Whilst links between the two authors are well-documented, this book offers the first full-length study of Sebald and Ransmayr and their complicated relation to the traumatic traces of National Socialism. - from book cover
Röntgenografisch onderzoek van aluminiumkristallen, ontstaan door rekristallisatie
No full textApplied Science
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