Автор: Matthew Oldham Название: Lots of things to spot in London ISBN: 1474916198 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474916196 Издательство: Usborne Рейтинг: Цена: 5270.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: This busy book will take you on a tour of London`s most famous sights, from bustling Trafalgar Square to majestic Buckingham Palace, Camden Market and Piccadilly Circus. Every picture is crammed with things to spot and talk about, and there are puzzles, games and four pages of stickers too. The puzzle answers are included at the back of the book.
Автор: Haynes Anthony, Haynes Karen, Habeshaw Sue Название: 53 Interesting Things to do in your Lectures: Tips and strategies for really effective lectures and presentations ISBN: 1743311567 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781743311561 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 14280.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Coauthored by two reporters from the Restatement on Employment Law, this casebook covers topics of critical interest to future practitioners. It introduces the concept of employment-at-will, and contractual and tort-based exceptions. It provides an overview of employment discrimination law, and a major chapter on wage and hour law, as well as chapters on workplace injuries and employee benefits.
Автор: Alison K. Smith, Matthew P. Romaniello, Tricia Sta Название: The Life Cycle of Russian Things: From Fish Guts to Faberge, 1600 - Present ISBN: 1350186023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350186026 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The Life Cycle of Russian Things re-orients commodity studies using interdisciplinary and comparative methods to foreground unique Russian and Soviet materials as varied as apothecary wares, isinglass, limestone and tanks. It also transforms modernist and Western interpretations of the material by emphasizing the commonalities of the Russian experience.
Expert contributors from across the United States, Canada, Britain, and Germany come together to situate Russian material culture studies at an interdisciplinary crossroads. Drawing upon theory from anthropology, history, and literary and museum studies, the volume presents a complex narrative, not only in terms of material consumption but also in terms of production and the secondary life of inheritance, preservation, or even destruction. In doing so, the book reconceptualises material culture as a lived experience of sensory interaction. The Life Cycle of Russian Things sheds new light on economic history and consumption studies by reflecting the diversity of Russia’s experiences over the last 400 years.
Автор: Hoffenberg Название: Oceania and the Victorian Imagination ISBN: 1138249416 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138249417 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 58170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Oceania, or the South Pacific, loomed large in the Victorian popular imagination. It was a world that interested the Victorians for many reasons, all of which suggested to them that everything was possible there. This collection of essays focuses on Oceania’s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature, and the world of children. Each of these had significant impact. The literature discussed affected mainly the middle and upper classes, while exhibitions and photography reached down into the working classes, as did missionary presentations. The experience of children was central to the Pacific’s effects, as youthful encounters at exhibitions, chapel, home, or school formed lifelong impressions and experience. It would be difficult to fully understand the Victorians as they understood themselves without considering their engagement with Oceania. While the contributions of India and Africa to the nineteenth-century imagination have been well-documented, examinations of the contributions of Oceania have remained on the periphery of Victorian studies. Oceania and the Victorian Imagination contributes significantly to our discussion of the non-peripheral place of Oceania in Victorian culture.
The Global Lives of Things considers the ways in which 'things', ranging from commodities to works of art and precious materials, participated in the shaping of global connections in the period 1400-1800. By focusing on the material exchange between Asia, Europe, the Americas and Australia, this volume traces the movements of objects through human networks of commerce, colonialism and consumption. It argues that material objects mediated between the forces of global economic exchange and the constantly changing identities of individuals, as they were drawn into global circuits. It proposes a reconceptualization of early modern global history in the light of its material culture by asking the question: what can we learn about the early modern world by studying its objects?
This exciting new collection draws together the latest scholarship in the study of material culture and offers students a critique and explanation of the notion of commodity and a reinterpretation of the meaning of exchange. It engages with the concepts of 'proto-globalization', 'the first global age' and 'commodities/consumption'. Divided into three parts, the volume considers in Part One, Objects of Global Knowledge, in Part Two, Objects of Global Connections, and finally, in Part Three, Objects of Global Consumption. The collection concludes with afterwords from three of the leading historians in the field, Maxine Berg, Suraiya Faroqhi and Paula Findlen, who offer their critical view of the methodologies and themes considered in the book and place its arguments within the wider field of scholarship.
Extensively illustrated, and with chapters examining case studies from Northern Europe to China and Australia, this book will be essential reading for students of global history.
Автор: Hoffenberg Peter H. Название: Oceania and the Victorian Imagination: Where All Things Are Possible. Edited by Richard D. Fulton and Peter H. Hoffenberg ISBN: 1409457117 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409457114 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Focusing on Oceania`s impact on Victorian culture, most notably travel writing, photography, international exhibitions, literature and the culture of childhood, this collection examines the Victorians` engagement with the Pacific. Whether intriguing accounts of its exotic peoples, flora.
Автор: LeCain Timothy J Название: Matter of History ISBN: 1107592704 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107592704 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 29570.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Part materialist manifesto, part empirical case study, and part methodological guide, The Matter of History develops a radical new post-anthropocentric understanding of the past that explains how powerful organisms and things pushed diverse nations and cultures towards a global `Great Convergence`.
Название: Wild things ISBN: 1874267936 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781874267935 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 55170.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Wild Things assembles eleven substantive and original essays on the cultural and social dimensions of environmental history. They address a global cornucopia of social and ecological systems, from Africa to Europe, North America and the Caribbean, and their temporal range extends from the 1830s into the twenty-first century.
Название: Writing the lives of people and things, ad 500-1700 ISBN: 1472450671 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472450678 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 158230.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this volume scholars from an array of different disciplines have embraced what biography can offer them, expanding the remit of biography from people to things, tracing the `life` of their chosen object from creation to use, to disposal, to rediscovery. The book explores the diversity of biography and the multi-disciplinary application of historical biography in the period 500-1700.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, booming demand for natural resources transformed China and its frontiers. Historians of China have described this process in stark terms: pristine borderlands became breadbaskets. Yet Manchu and Mongolian archives reveal a different story. Well before homesteaders arrived, wild objects from the far north became part of elite fashion, and unprecedented consumption had exhausted the region's most precious resources.
In A World Trimmed with Fur, Jonathan Schlesinger uses these diverse archives to reveal how Qing rule witnessed not the destruction of unspoiled environments, but their invention. Qing frontiers were never pristine in the nineteenth century--pearlers had stripped riverbeds of mussels, mushroom pickers had uprooted the steppe, and fur-bearing animals had disappeared from the forest. In response, the court turned to "purification;" it registered and arrested poachers, reformed territorial rule, and redefined the boundary between the pristine and the corrupted. Schlesinger's resulting analysis provides a framework for rethinking the global invention of nature.
Автор: Weisel Mindy Название: Daughters of Absence ISBN: 0988439034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780988439030 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 20850.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Lamb Jonathan, Lamb Название: The Things Things Say ISBN: 0691171254 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691171258 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 26400.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
One of the new forms of prose fiction that emerged in the eighteenth century was the first-person narrative told by things such as coins, coaches, clothes, animals, or insects. This is an ambitious new account of the context in which these it narratives became so popular. What does it mean when property declares independence of its owners and begins to move and speak? Jonathan Lamb addresses this and many other questions as he advances a new interpretation of these odd tales, from Defoe, Pope, Swift, Gay, and Sterne, to advertisements, still life paintings, and South Seas journals.
Lamb emphasizes the subversive and even nonsensical quality of what things say; their interests are so radically different from ours that we either destroy or worship them. Existing outside systems of exchange and the priorities of civil society, things in fact advertise the dissident obscurity common to slave narratives all the way from Aesop and Phaedrus to Frederick Douglass and Primo Levi, a way of meaning only what is said, never saying what is meant. This is what Defoe's Roxana calls the Sense of Things, and it is found in sounds, substances, and images rather than conventional signs.
This major work illuminates not only it narratives, but also eighteenth-century literature, the rise of the novel, and the genealogy of the slave narrative.
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