Publications in Partnership with the Shelby Cullom Davis Center at Princeton University – serie
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7 produkter
Spaces of the Modern City
Imaginaries, Politics, and Everyday Life
Av Gyan Prakash, Kevin M. Kruse
Häftad, 2008
809 kr
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By United Nations estimates, 60 percent of the world's population will be urban by 2030. With the increasing speed of urbanization, especially in the developing world, scholars are now rethinking standard concepts and histories of modern cities. The Spaces of the Modern City historicizes the …
Noir Urbanisms
Dystopic Images of the Modern City
Av Gyan Prakash
Häftad, 2010
351 kr
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Dystopic imagery has figured prominently in modern depictions of the urban landscape. The city is often portrayed as a terrifying world of darkness, crisis, and catastrophe. Noir Urbanisms traces the history of the modern city through its critical representations in art, cinema, print journalism, …
Facing Fear
The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Inbunden, 2012
1254 kr
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Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of …
Facing Fear
The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective
Häftad, 2012
464 kr
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Fear is ubiquitous but slippery. It has been defined as a purely biological reality, derided as an excuse for cowardice, attacked as a force for social control, and even denigrated as an unnatural condition that has no place in the disenchanted world of enlightened modernity. In these times of …
Cultures in Motion
Av Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
544 kr
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In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late …
Cultures in Motion
Av Daniel T. Rodgers, Bhavani Raman m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
333 kr
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In the wide-ranging and innovative essays of Cultures in Motion, a dozen distinguished historians offer new conceptual vocabularies for understanding how cultures have trespassed across geography and social space. From the transformations of the meanings and practices of charity during late …
Formations of Belief
Historical Approaches to Religion and the Secular
Av Philip Nord, Katja Guenther m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
477 kr
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For decades, scholars and public intellectuals have been predicting the demise of religion in the face of secularization. Yet religion is undergoing an unprecedented resurgence in modern life—and secularization no longer appears so inevitable. Formations of Belief brings together many of today's …
