Novels, Maps, Modernity, Bulson, Eric

Автор: Parkins Ilya
Название: Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli
ISBN: 0857853279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780857853271
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century, when the democratization of fashion began. Examining the idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past. This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.

Автор: Stark Rodney
Название: How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity
ISBN: 161017139X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610171397
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: In this page-turning, myth-busting history, acclaimed author Rodney Stark shows exactly why Western civilization triumphed over other cultures—and why we all should be thankful it did.Modernity developed only in the West—in Europe and North America. Nowhere else did science and democracy arise; nowhere else was slavery outlawed. Only Westerners invented chimneys, musical scores, telescopes, eyeglasses, pianos, electric lights, aspirin, and soap.The question is, Why?Unfortunately, that question has become so politically incorrect that most scholars avoid it. But acclaimed author Rodney Stark provides the answers in this sweeping look at Western civilization.Taking readers on a thrilling journey from ancient Greece to the present, Stark challenges much of the received wisdom about Western history. How the West Won shows, for example:Why the fall of Rome was the single most beneficial event in the rise of Western civilizationWhy the “Dark Ages” never happenedWhy the Crusades had nothing to do with grabbing loot or attacking the Muslim world unprovokedWhy there was no “Scientific Revolution” in the seventeenth centuryWhy scholars’ recent efforts to dismiss the importance of battles are ridiculous: had the Greeks lost at the Battle of Marathon, we probably would never have heard of Plato or AristotleStark also debunks absurd fabrications that have flourished in the past few decades: that the Greeks stole their culture from Africa; that the West’s “discoveries” were copied from the Chinese and Muslims; that Europe became rich by plundering the non-Western world.This bold, insightful book will force you to rethink your understanding of the West and the birth of modernity—and to recognize that Western civilization really has set itself apart from other cultures.

Автор: Thompson, Emily
Название: The soundscape of modernity: architectural accoustics and the culture of listening in America
ISBN: 0262701065 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780262701068
Издательство: MIT Press
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Описание: A vibrant history of acoustical technology and aural culture in early-twentieth-century America.

Автор: Mignolo, Walter D.
Название: Darker Side of Western Modernity
ISBN: 0822350785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822350781
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Описание: During the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, coloniality emerged as a new structure of power as Europeans colonized the Americas and built on the ideas of Western civilization and modernity as the endpoints of historical time and Europe as the center of the world. Walter D. Mignolo argues that coloniality is the darker side of Western modernity, a complex matrix of power that has been created and controlled by Western men and institutions from the Renaissance, when it was driven by Christian theology, through the late twentieth century and the dictates of neoliberalism. This cycle of coloniality is coming to an end. Two main forces are challenging Western leadership in the early twenty-first century. One of these, “dewesternization,” is an irreversible shift to the East in struggles over knowledge, economics, and politics. The second force is “decoloniality.” Mignolo explains that decoloniality requires delinking from the colonial matrix of power underlying Western modernity to imagine and build global futures in which human beings and the natural world are no longer exploited in the relentless quest for wealth accumulation.

Автор: Ping
Название: China`s Search for Modernity
ISBN: 0333977157 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780333977156
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Twenty years after a return from fundamentalism to economic reality, China has become the world`s tenth largest economy and an increasingly important global power. The author focuses on China`s quest for and experience of modernity.

Автор: Blouin
Название: Japan and the Cosmopolitan Gothic
ISBN: 1137305215 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137305213
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Japan is imagined routinely in American discourse as a supernatural entity. Gothic tales from these two cultures have been exchanged, consumed, and adapted. Here, Blouin examines a prevalent tendency within the United States-Japan cultural relationship to project anxiety outward only to find shadowy outlines of the self abroad.

Автор: Delanty G
Название: Modernity and Postmodernity
ISBN: 0761959041 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780761959045
Издательство: Sage Publications
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Описание: A new way of conceptualizing the modernity-postmodernity debate, and an exciting new approach to the roots of contemporary social theory.

Автор: Rakha Youssef
Название: Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam`s the Mummy
ISBN: 3030613534 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030613532
Издательство: Springer
Цена: 60550.00 T
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Описание: It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam`s The Mummy (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt`s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient Egyptian identities through watching the film.

Название: The Routledge Companion to Modernity, Space and Gender
ISBN: 0367505606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367505608
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book reframes the discussion of modernism, space and gender; examining how "modernity" has been defined in various cultural contexts of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, how this definition has been expressed spatially, and what effect this has had on women in their everyday lives.

Автор: Anna Frangoudaki, Caglar Keyder
Название: Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey: Encounters with Europe, 1850-1950
ISBN: 1350173967 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350173965
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: This is a clear and original examination of the impact of modernity on Greece and Turkey, and the influence of the West on these former states of the Ottoman Empire during the crucial hundred years between 1850 and 1950. Ways to Modernity in Greece and Turkey explores the reactions and coping mechanisms displayed in both societies in reaction to Europe's all-pervasive influence. Elites in both societies engaged in defensive modernisation, culminating in parallel attempts to mould their nations in line with the western blueprint. The authors examine reforms in the legal regime, the changing nature of family and gender relations, and re-engineered conceptions of space and the built environment. They describe and analyse different aspects of the changes in the two societies over this period, as they defined their practices and identities against Europe, and often against each other.

Автор: Willert
Название: The New Ottoman Greece in History and Fiction
ISBN: 3319938487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319938486
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: It focuses on how narratives about cultural co-existence under Ottoman rule are used as a prism of national self-awareness and argues that the interpretations of Greece`s Ottoman legacy are part of the cultural battles over national identity and belonging.

Автор: Marriott, David
Название: Haunted life
ISBN: 0813540283 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813540283
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Examines the complex interplay between racial fears and anxieties and the political-visual cultures of suspicion and state terror. This work helps readers to consider how media technologies are ""haunted"" by the phantom of racial slavery. It is an exploration of the legacies of black visual culture and the political, deeply sexualized violence.