City Intelligible by Frank Perlin
City Intelligible seeks to integrate a transcendental philosophical anthropology of commoditisation before industrialisation with a social and cultural, thus empirical anthropology of commodity production and exchange that is global, thus inter-cultural. It treats commodification as a singular and privileged evidence of the universal status of human reasoning, and one that grounds the translational character of human exchange throughout the early centuries, and yet that simultaneously founds ubiquitous cultural differentiation. The book constitutes, therefore, a refutation of the predominant tendency in the humanities to represent cultural difference as inhibiting the very possibility of effective intercultural translation.It treats the factors of economic history as forms of cultural expression, but determined, in their turn, by a continuum of complex societal formation from the very beginnings of intensive agricultural and social settlement. It seeks to derive evidence for the universal foundations of human reasoning through analysis of the culture of commoditisation in marrying a thoroughgoing Kantian analysis with the historical evidence, an approach aspiring to ground the very concept and possibility of a universal human cultural nature underlying all human differentiation.
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Labour, Coercion, and Economic Growth in Eurasia, 17th-20th Centuries
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Worthy Efforts: Attitudes to Work and Workers in Pre-Industrial Europe
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Workers of the World
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The Revolutionary Organisation
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The World in World Wars
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Connecting Seas and Connected Ocean Rims
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Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations
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Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940
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Chains of Gold
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"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth": The First International in a Global Perspective
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Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel
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This House Is Not a Home: European Everyday Life in Canton and Macao 1730–1830
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Women's ILO
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A Global Radical Waterfront
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Worlds of Labour Turned Upside Down
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Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
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The Lifework of a Labor Historian: Essays in Honor of Marcel van der Linden
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Global Agricultural Workers from the 17th to the 21st Century
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Civilizing Missions in the Twentieth Century
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Through the Prism of Gender and Work
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Global Commodity Chains and Labor Relations
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Home-Based Work and Home-Based Workers (1800-2021)
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Ethnicity and the Colonial State
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On Coerced Labor
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A Global History of Consumer Co-operation since 1850
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International Communism and Transnational Solidarity: Radical Networks, Mass Movements and Global Politics, 1919–1939
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Migration History in World History
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Working on Labor
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Global Convict Labour
Frank Perlin, University of London BA History Honours First Class; University of Leiden PhD; author of The Invisible City, and Unbroken Landscape, and substantial articles. Specialisations: historical-anthropological archival research; methodology interdisciplinary and comparative; philosophy of knowledge; derivation of the universal foundation of human reason and difference.
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| ISBN 13 | 9789004414914 |
| ISBN 10 | 9004414916 |
| Title | City Intelligible |
| Author | Frank Perlin |
| Series | Studies In Global Social History |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Brill |
| Year published | 2020-03-05 |
| Number of pages | 688 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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