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2 produkter

1. 

   Cultural Career of Coolness

   Discourses and Practices of Affect Control in European Antiquity, the United States, and Japan

   Av Ulla Haselstein, Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit m. fl.

   Inbunden, 2013

   1963 kr

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   Cool is a word of American English that has been integrated into the vocabulary of numerous languages around the globe. Today it is a term most often used in advertising trendy commodities, or, more generally, in promoting urban lifestyles in our postmodern age. But what is the history of the term …

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   Poetics and Politics of the Desert

   Landscape and the Construction of America

   Av Catrin Gersdorf

   Inbunden, 2009

   1928 kr

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   This study explores the ways in which the desert, as topographical space and cultural presence, shaped and reshaped concepts and images of America. Once a territory outside the geopolitical and cultural borders of the United States, the deserts of the West and Southwest have since emerged as …