Debt and Indebtedness at Emar 9781501515309, 9781501521805

Debt and Indebtedness at Emar 9781501515309, 9781501521805

This book is the first comprehensive study of debts and credit system at Emar. It focuses on the socio-economic aspects

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Time at Emar: The Cultic Calendar and the Rituals from the Diviner's Archive 9781575065229

The recent large-scale watershed projects in northern Syria, where the ancient city of Emar was located, have brought th

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Debt and Guilt 9781350063433

The issue of debt and how it affects our lives is becoming more and more urgent. The "Austerity" model has bee

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Money from Nothing: Indebtedness and Aspiration in South Africa 9780804793155

This book explores South Africa's "crisis" of consumer indebtedness, set against the longer history of ex

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Indigenous Dispossession: Housing and Maya Indebtedness in Mexico 9781503614352

Following the recent global housing boom, tract housing development became a billion-dollar industry in Mexico. At the n

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Jesus, Debt, and the Lord's Prayer : First-Century Debt and Jesus' Intentions 9781630874667, 9781625647931

Deeply rooted in the story of Jesus of Nazareth is a concern for people mired in debt. Debt was a central control mechan

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Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank

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Public Debt, Inequality, and Power: The Making of a Modern Debt State 9780520960428

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s open access publishing

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Social Movements and the Politics of Debt: Transnational Resistance against Debt on Three Continents 9789048553273

It would have been hard to miss the pivotal role debt has played for contentious politics in the last decades. The North

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Rhetoric in Debt 9780271096520

In recent years, household indebtedness in the United States reached its highest levels in history. From mortgages to st

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