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Author:   Julian Go ,  Monika Krause
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.370kg
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9781119237877

ISBN 10:   1119237874
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   26 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Fielding transnationalism: an introduction (Julian Go and Monika Krause) 1. What is a global field? Theorizing fields beyond the nation-state (Larissa Buchholz) 2. Moral accounting as field foundation in an early modern empire: the English East India Company in the late eighteenth century (Nicholas Hoover Wilson) 3. For good and country: nationalism and the diffusion of humanitarianism in the late nineteenth century (Shai M. Dromi) 4. Social fields, subfields and social spaces at the scale of empires: explaining the colonial state and colonial sociology (George Steinmetz) 5. Taken in by the numbers game: the globalization of a religious `illusio' and `doxa' in nineteenth-century evangelical missions to India (Martin Petzke) 6. Fielding supranationalism: the European Central Bank as a field effect (Stephanie L. Mudge and Antoine Vauchez) 7. The lawyers' war: states and human rights in a transnational field (Lisa Stampnitzky) 8. `Western hegemony' in the social sciences: fields and model systems (Monika Krause) 9. Is journalism a transnational field? Asymmetrical relations and symbolic domination in online news (Angele Christin) Notes on contributors Index

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Julian Go is Professor of Sociology at Boston University. He is the author of two award-winning monographs, Patterns of Empire: The British and American Empires, 1688 to the Present (2011) and American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico during U.S. Colonialism (2008). Go is also the editor of Political Power and Social Theory. Monika Krause is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She is the author of The Good Project. Humanitarian Relief NGOs and the Fragmentation of Reason (2014), which won the BSA's Philip Abrams Memorial Prize for best first book in Sociology.

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