"China and Globalization in the Amazon examines Chinese investment in the Global South, with particular attention to industrial activity in Latin America. Based on ethnographic work conducted in several Chinese factories in the Amazon region of Brazil, whether private, partially private or...

Through engaging interdisciplinary analysis of commercial themes, this book interprets under-appreciated interactions between China and a very young United States in the first decades after the American Revolutionary War. With its attention to visual culture, Narratives of Free Trade yields a...

1. Introduction -- 2. The projects -- 3. Breaking down the walls : voluntary distributed computing and citizen science -- 4. Communities in voluntary distributed computing -- 5. Competition and co-operation : the race to discover and to win -- 6. Moderators, super-moderators, beta testers and...