Автор: Houlihan Patrick J Название: Catholicism and the Great War ISBN: 1108446027 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108446020 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5069.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A transnational comparative history of Catholic lived religion in Germany and Austria-Hungary during the Great War, this book demonstrates how Catholic forms of belief and practice enabled soldiers on the front line, as well as women and children on the home front, to endure war and loss.
Автор: Benn Charles D. Название: China`s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty ISBN: 0195176650 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195176650 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 2770.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Tang Dynasty (618-907), traditionally regarded as the golden age of China, was a time of patricians and intellectuals, Buddhist monks and Taoist priests, poetry and music, song and dance. In China`s Golden Age: Everyday Life in the Tang Dynasty, Charles Benn paints a vivid picture of the lifestyle behind the grandeur of the Tang culture.
Описание: From the end of WWI to the 1950s, a group of British writers and artists including George Orwell, Barbara Jones, and Dylan Thomas forged a politics that resisted the empty idealism of their age. Celebrating the wisdom and pragmatism of ordinary life, they offered a remedy for the destructive polarization that afflicts us again today.
Название: Everyday crisis-living in contemporary zimbabwe ISBN: 0367863103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367863104 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 22202.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the everyday lives of ordinary Zimbabweans in the context of national crises in post-2000 Zimbabwe.
Since the early decades of the eighteenth century, European, and especially British, thinkers were preoccupied with questions of taste. Whether Americans believed that taste was innate—and therefore a marker of breeding and station—or acquired—and thus the product of application and study—all could appreciate that taste was grounded in, demonstrated through, and confirmed by reading, writing, and looking. It was widely believed that shared aesthetic sensibilities connected like-minded individuals and that shared affinities advanced the public good and held great promise for the American republic.
Exploring the intersection of the early republic's material, visual, literary, and political cultures, Catherine E. Kelly demonstrates how American thinkers acknowledged the similarities between aesthetics and politics in order to wrestle with questions about power and authority. Judgments about art, architecture, literature, poetry, and the theater became an arena for considering political issues ranging from government structures and legislative representation to qualifications for citizenship and the meaning of liberty itself. Additionally, if taste prompted political debate, it also encouraged affinity grounded in a shared national identity. In the years following independence, ordinary women and men reassured themselves that taste revealed larger truths about an individual's character and potential for republican citizenship.
Did an early national vocabulary of taste, then, with its privileged visuality, register beyond the debates over the ratification of the Constitution? Did it truly extend beyond political and politicized discourse to inform the imaginative structures and material forms of everyday life? Republic of Taste affirms that it did, although not in ways that anyone could have predicted at the conclusion of the American Revolution.
Описание: This book explores the rise of consumerism and the expanding variety of goods available in Japan. Japan is placed within the comparative context of the `consumer revolution` in Europe and North America, contributing to the analysis of the ways in which consumption and everyday life change in the course of economic development.
Автор: Kuuliala Jenni, Peake Rose-Marie, Rдisдnen-Schrцder Pдivi Название: Lived Religion and Everyday Life in Early Modern Hagiographic Material ISBN: 3030155552 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030155551 Издательство: Springer Цена: 16769.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book discusses the ways in which early modern hagiographic sources can be used to study lived religion and everyday life from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century.
Описание: Sebastian Felten examines regional and global circuits of monetary exchange in early modern Europe by analysing everyday practices in the Dutch Republic. He considers how peasants and craftsmen, stewards and churchmen, merchants and metallurgists combined many types of money in their everyday lives and thus fashioned plural monetary system.
Описание: This book examines the politics of crime and the response to it in Potchefstroom, a small settler colonial city in South Africa. It draws on the city`s everyday practices and experiences of physical and virtual security to offer local bottom-up insights into private security.
Автор: Giustino Cathleen M. Название: Socialist Escapes ISBN: 1782389253 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781782389255 Издательство: Berghahn Рейтинг: Цена: 4796.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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During much of the Cold War, physical escape from countries in the Eastern Bloc was a nearly impossible act. There remained, however, possibilities for other socialist escapes, particularly time spent free from party ideology and the mundane routines of everyday life. The essays in this volume examine sites of socialist escapes, such as beaches, campgrounds, nightclubs, concerts, castles, cars, and soccer matches. The chapters explore the effectiveness of state efforts to engineer society through leisure, entertainment, and related forms of cultural programming and consumption. They lead to a deeper understanding of state–society relations in the Soviet sphere, where the state did not simply “dictate from above” and inhabitants had some opportunities to shape solidarities, identities, and meaning.
Автор: Balogun Oluwakemi M. Название: Beauty Diplomacy: Embodying an Emerging Nation ISBN: 1503610977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503610972 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3762.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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Even as beauty pageants have been critiqued as misogynistic and dated cultural vestiges of the past in the US and elsewhere, the pageant industry is growing in popularity across the Global South, and Nigeria is one of the countries at the forefront of this trend. In a country with over 1,000 reported pageants, these events are more than superficial forms of entertainment. Beauty Diplomacy takes us inside the world of Nigerian beauty contests to see how they are transformed into contested vehicles for promoting complex ideas about gender and power, ethnicity and belonging, and a rapidly changing articulation of Nigerian nationhood. Drawing on four case studies of beauty pageants, this book examines how Nigeria's changing position in the global political economy and existing cultural tensions inform varied forms of embodied nationalism, where contestants are expected to integrate recognizable elements of Nigerian cultural identity while also conveying a narrative of a newly-emerging, globally-relevant Nigeria. Oluwakemi M. Balogun critically examines Nigerian pageants in the context of major transitions within the nation-state, using these events as a lens through which to understand Nigerian national identity and international relations.