Atlas of American Migration presents U.S. history through the movement of its people. More than 150 maps; charts; and graphs combine with an authoritative text to tell the story; from the prehistoric wanderers who crossed the Bering Strait to today's Asian immigrants; from the movement westward to the flight to the suburbs. Sweeping in its coverage; Atlas of American Migration belongs on the shelves of scholars; students; and anyone interested in American history.
#536262 in Books Syracuse University Press 1997-11-01Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.03 x .60 x 6.12l; .69 #File Name: 0815605072200 pages
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2 of 14 people found the following review helpful. Islamist schizophreniaBy William Garrison Jr."Cultural Schizophrenia" Islamic Societies Confronting the West" by Daryush Shayegan (translated from the French by John Howe) [1997].Former professor of comparative philosophy and Indology at Tehran Univ.; former director of the Institute for Ismai'li Studies in Paris. Seyyed Hossein Nasr (Prof. Islamic Studies; George Washington Univ.): "He brilliantly sheds new light on a number of issues that have been superficially glossed over in much of the current literature."Given the title of the book; I thought that the book would discuss; well; you know; schizophrenia. I don't recall seeing the word appearing after the third page. I thought that the author would analyze the works of Psychologist A and compare thoughts with those of Psychologist B; C; D... at least. But; NO.The author provides a couple of paragraphs of thoughts from about 50 or so philosophers; and other thinkers. You know; the usual: Jung; Kant; Nietzsche; Horkheimer; strong on Michel Foucault; a German or two; a Frenchman; some Brits; Chinese; Hindu; even someone from Peru (or was it Paraguay?).The author banters about concepts like the "Hemiplegic Outlook" and "Egocentric consciousness" in trying to bring together some joint-philosophy of modernism; which is alien to the stuck-in-the-mud Islamists. The author wrote: "Other thinkers; such as the Egyptian Abduh; the Syrian al-Kawakibi and the Indian Muhammad Iqbal (1876-1938); explored the themes of backwardness (ta'akhur) and inertia (jumud); opposing them with the ideas of evolution (tatawwur) and progress (taraqqi) acquired from the West. The idea of innovation (bid'a); condemned by Islam as `the worst of things'; was re-evaluated; there was even talk of reopening the long-closed door of ijtihad (individual power of decision) [p. 52].The author concluded: "The [Iranian] mullahs are putting their most unhinged fantasies into effect; giving free rein to their unbridled imagination; whipping the cult of martyrdom from frenzy to paroxysm; reducing timeless myths to their most flatly operational allude: and they are innovating in all directions. They have given concrete form to hallucinatory possibilities that once seethed harmlessly in the formless magma of our collective unconscious" [p. 174].I believe the author could have condensed this 188-page book down to about 30 pages of relevancy. Not amongst the first books that I would grab to investigate the concept of Islamist schizophrenia.
