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Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian copperbelt.(Review)
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FERGUSON, JAMES. Expectations of modernity: myths and meanings of urban life on the Zambian copperbelt. xviii, 326 pp., illus., bibliogr. Berkeley, London: Univ. of California Press, 1999. $45.00 (cloth), $17.95 (paper)
'The Copperbelt'. At one time as iconic a site of ethnography and theory as 'Nilotics', the Copperbelt studies of the 1950s and 1960s represented the first and most extended attempt by British social anthropologists to grapple with the city and with industry. Yet apart, perhaps, from 'Kalela', what is now read by the average undergraduate? Probably ...
 "The Economist (US)")
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Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; JEAN MONNET: THE FIRST STATESMAN OF INTERDEPENDENCE. By Francois Duchene. W.W.Norton; 478 pages; Pounds 22 and $30 THE essence of Jean Monnet's legacy to European politics is a simple idea. Just as, within a...
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CELEBRATING FIFTY YEARS OF UNITY: A Look at EU Founder Jean Monnet.
Magazine article from: Europe
; ...for today's EU, came from a French businessman named Jean Monnet. He believed that controlling the raw materials of war...is now remembered as the Father of Europe. In 1912, Jean Monnet, then aged twenty-four, tried to book a passage on...
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NEW CHAIRMAN FOR JEAN MONNET ASSOCIATION.(Philippe Laurette)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: European Report
; ...The Administrative Board of the Jean Monnet Association has appointed Philippe...and has acted as Secretary of the Jean Monnet Association since 1991. Georges...memory and build on the work of Jean Monnet, one of the founders of the European...
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CHINESE PROFESSOR WINS JEAN MONNET PRIZE 2008.(Brief article)
Newspaper article from: European Report
; ...Shanghai, was presented with the Jean Monnet Prize 2008 for his academic action...November in Brussels, during the Jean Monnet/ECSA-World Conference on A...European University Council for the Jean Monnet Programme, and Professor Manuel...
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JEAN MONNET'S DREAM Europe's 50-year plan Christopher Booker's Notebook
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London
; ...was always the long-term plan of Jean Monnet, the creator of the Coal and Steel...be complete. An understanding of Monnet's ideology also explains, for...does not go far enough". What Monnet wanted was a "supranational" body...
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 "Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)")
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Czech ambassador joins EU debate at university; EUROPE: Dr Pavel Seitfer to address Jean Monnet Centre.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...talk to staff and students of the Jean Monnet Centre. Dr Seifter will offer...Tomas Christansen, director of the Jean Monnet Centre at Aberystwyth, said, "The visit of Dr Seifter to the Jean Monnet Centre is an important milestone...
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The Gulf quest for visionaries in the mould of Monnet: the booming Gulf needs a long-term vision. The European Union's founding fathers could provide inspiration.(THE LAST WORD)(Jean Monnet)
Magazine article from: MEED Middle East Economic Digest
; ...were in 1950 when French politicians Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman unveiled plans...into things of lasting substance. Monnet and Schuman had a vision of a united...with a visionary in the mould of Monnet and Schuman who can look beyond the...
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Samaranch Awarded Medal by Jean Monnet Foundation
Newspaper article from: Xinhua English Newswire
; The International Olympic Committee President Juan Antonio Samaranch was awarded a Gold Medal by the Jean Monnet Foundation for Europe in a ceremony in Lausanne, Switzerland, on Wednesday. An IOC press release said King Juan Carlos of Spain...
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 "Daily News Egypt (Egypt)")
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Wanted: An Arab Jean Monnet.
Newspaper article from: Daily News Egypt (Egypt)
; ...religiously and culturally as homogeneous as the Middle East. For Europe, the starting point was visionary leaders like Jean Monnet and the creation of new institutions like the Coal and Steel Community. In the Middle East, the process of regional...
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Jean Monnet: The First Statesman of Interdependence.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Foreign Affairs
; ...likely creators of a new European world. Monnet's career in international affairs began...had its lasting impact with the postwar Monnet plan for economic renewal in France and...reconciliation through the Schuman Plan. Monnet had the most extraordinary links to people...
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