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June 28, 2023

A Commerce of Knowledge Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760

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Free Download Simon Mills, "A Commerce of Knowledge: Trade, Religion, and Scholarship between England and the Ottoman Empire, 1600-1760"
English | ISBN: 0198840330 | 2020 | 352 pages | PDF | 57 MB
A Commerce of Knowledge tells the story of three generations of Church of England chaplains who served the English Levant Company in Syria during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Reconstructing the careers of its protagonists in the cosmopolitan city of Ottoman Aleppo, Simon Mills investigates the links between English commercial and diplomatic expansion, and English scholarly and missionary interests: the study of Middle-Eastern languages; the exploration of biblical and Greco-Roman antiquities; and the early dissemination of Protestant literature in Arabic. Early modern Orientalism is usually conceived as an episode in the history of scholarship. By shifting the focus to Aleppo,

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June 27, 2023

Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade

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Free Download Lance A. Compa, "Human Rights, Labor Rights, and International Trade"
English | 2003 | ISBN: 081221871X, 0812233409 | PDF | pages: 328 | 12.4 mb
Labor rights have traditionally been a concern of labor law scholars and practitioners whose work concentrates exclusively on domestic developments. In the past decade, however, the globalization of investment and production has expanded the bounds of labor rights discourse.

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June 26, 2023

Buying into Fair Trade Culture, Morality, and Consumption

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Free Download Keith R. Brown, "Buying into Fair Trade: Culture, Morality, and Consumption"
English | 2013 | pages: 201 | ISBN: 0814725376, 0814725368 | PDF | 1,9 mb
Stamped on products from coffee to handicrafts, the term "fair trade" has quickly become one of today’s most seductive consumer buzzwords. Purportedly created through fair labor practices, or in ways that are environmentally sustainable, fair-trade products give buyers peace of mind in knowing that, in theory, how they shop can help make the world a better place. Buying into Fair Trade turns the spotlight onto this growing trend, exploring how fair-trade shoppers think about their own altruism within an increasingly global economy.

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June 26, 2023

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I Selling Enlightenment

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Free Download Mark Curran, "The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe I: Selling Enlightenment"
English | ISBN: 1441178902 | 2018 | 248 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This volume is a ground-breaking contribution to enlightenment studies and the international and cross-cultural history of print. The result of a five year research project, the volume traces the output and dissemination of books and how reading tastes changed in the years 1769-1794. Mapping the book trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a Swiss publisher-wholesaler which operated throughout Europe, the authors reconstruct the cosmopolitan elite culture of the later enlightenment, incorporating many engaging case studies. The STN’s archives are uniquely rich in both detail and range, and while these archives have long attracted book historians (notably Robert Darnton, a leading scholar of the Enlightenment), existing work is fragmentary and limited in scope. By means of comparative study, the author considers the entire book market across Europe, making local, regional and chronological nuances, based on advanced taxonomies of subject content, author information, markers of illegality and much more. This volume is, in short, the most diverse and detailed study of the late 18th-century book trade yet, while offering fresh insights into the enlightenment.

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