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Empires of Nature 自然帝国

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2003-07-02 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctv10tq44x.7

J. Andermann

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引用次数: 5

Lost in the Translation 迷失在翻译中

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-12-19 DOI: 10.5040/9781501304538.ch-002

H. Harootunian

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引用次数: 13

The Art of Transition: Latin American Culture and Neoliberal Crisis (review) 转型的艺术:拉丁美洲文化与新自由主义危机(评论)

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-12-19 DOI: 10.5860/choice.39-3869

P. Dove

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引用次数: 0

Lead Us Not into Translation: Notes toward a Theoretical Foundation for Asian Studies 《不要把我们引入翻译:亚洲研究的理论基础笔记》

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-12-19 DOI: 10.4000/TRANSTEXTS.458

M. Dutton

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引用次数: 32

Uncertain Dominance: The Colonial State and Its Contradictions (With Notes on the History of Early British India) 不确定的统治地位:殖民国家及其矛盾(附注早期英属印度的历史)

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.4324/9780429027239-8

S. Sen

引用次数: 2

Eurocentrism, Modern Knowledges, and the "Natural" Order of Global Capital 欧洲中心主义、现代知识与全球资本的“自然”秩序

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.4324/9780429027239-10

Edgardo Lander, Mariana F. Past

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引用次数: 15

Orientalism, Anti-Orientalism, Relativism 东方主义，反东方主义，相对主义

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.4324/9780429027239-6

R. Chuaqui, M. Brudzinski

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引用次数: 0

World-System and "Trans"-Modernity 世界体系与“跨”现代性

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.4324/9780429027239-9

Enrique D. Dussel, Alessandro Fornazzari

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引用次数: 98

Postmodern Geographies of the U.S. South 美国南方的后现代地理学

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.4324/9780429027239-5

Madhu Dubey

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引用次数: 2

Another Reason: Science and the Imagination of Modern India (review) 另一个原因:现代印度的科学与想象(评论)

Nepantla: Views from South Pub Date : 2002-07-01 DOI: 10.5860/choice.37-4046

A. Skaria

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引用次数: 5