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Possessing Nature
Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
Häftad, 1996
306 kr
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In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet fifty years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Italian patricians, their curiosity fueled by new voyages of exploration and the humanist rediscovery of …
Women of Paris and Their French Revolution
Häftad, 1998
359 kr
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During the French Revolution, hundreds of domestic and working-class women of Paris were interrogated, examined, accused, denounced, arrested, and imprisoned for their rebellious and often hostile behavior. Here, for the first time in English translation, Dominique Godineau offers an illuminating …
Beyond the Pale
The Jewish Encounter with Late Imperial Russia
Häftad, 2004
456 kr
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A surprising number of Jews lived, literally and figuratively, "beyond the Pale" of Jewish Settlement in tsarist Russia during the half-century before the Revolution of 1917. Thanks to the availability of long-closed Russian archives, along with a wide range of other sources, Benjamin Nathans …
New Cultural History
Av Lynn Hunt
Häftad, 1989
382 kr
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Across the humanities and the social sciences, disciplinary boundaries have come into question as scholars have acknowledged their common preoccupations with cultural phenomena ranging from rituals and ceremonies to texts and discourse. Literary critics, for example, have turned to history for a …
Venice's Hidden Enemies
Italian Heretics in a Renaissance City
Av John Martin
Inbunden, 1993
842 kr
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How could early modern Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom and social harmony, also have become a center of religious dissent and inquisitorial repression? To answer this question, John Martin develops an innovative approach that deftly connects social and cultural history. The result …
Hooliganism
Crime, Culture, and Power in St. Petersburg, 1900-1914
Inbunden, 1993
794 kr
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In this pioneering analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies, Joan Neuberger takes us to the streets of St. Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: increasing hostility between …
Private Lives and Public Affairs
The Causes Célèbres of Prerevolutionary France
Av Sarah Maza
Häftad, 1995
441 kr
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From 1770 to 1789 a succession of highly publicized cases riveted the attention of the French public. Maza argues that the reporting of these private scandals had a decisive effect on the way in which the French public came to understand public issues in the years before the Revolution.
Cholera in Post-Revolutionary Paris
A Cultural History
Inbunden, 1996
867 kr
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Cholera terrified and fascinated nineteenth-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. Its symptoms were gruesome, its sources were mysterious, and it tended to strike poor neighborhoods hardest. In this insightful cultural history, Catherine Kudlick explores the dynamics of class …
On the Postcolony
Häftad, 2001
397 kr
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Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of post colonial studies writing today. In "On the Postcolony" he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as …
Listening in Paris
A Cultural History
Häftad, 1996
456 kr
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Beginning with the simple question, 'Why did audiences grow silent?' "Listening in Paris" gives a spectator's-eye view of opera and concert life from the Old Regime to the Romantic era, describing the transformation in musical experience from social event to profound aesthetic encounter. James H. …
Passions of the Tongue
Language Devotion in Tamil India, 1891–1970
Häftad, 1997
306 kr
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Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? "Passions of the Tongue" analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's …
Struggle for the Breeches
Gender and the Making of the British Working Class
Av Anna Clark
Häftad, 1997
333 kr
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Linking the personal and the political, Anna Clark depicts the making of the working class in Britain as a 'struggle for the breeches.' The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries witnessed significant changes in notions of masculinity and femininity, the sexual division of labor, and sexual …
Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany
Häftad, 2000
289 kr
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In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted …
Crime, Cultural Conflict, and Justice in Rural Russia, 1856-1914
Inbunden, 1999
614 kr
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This book is the first to explore the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. Drawing upon previously untapped provincial archives and a wealth of other neglected primary material, Stephen P. Frank offers a major reassessment of the interactions …
Taste and Power
Furnishing Modern France
Häftad, 1998
350 kr
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Louis XIV, regency, rococo, neoclassical, empire, art nouveau, and historicist pastiche: furniture styles march across French history as regimes rise and fall. In this extraordinary social history, Leora Auslander explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-seventeenth to the early …
Three-Piece Suit and Modern Masculinity
England, 1550–1850
Av David Kuchta
Inbunden, 2002
562 kr
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In 1666, King Charles II felt it necessary to reform Englishmen's dress by introducing a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. We learn what inspired this royal revolution in masculine attire - and the reasons for its remarkable longevity - in David Kuchta's engaging and handsomely …
Collective and the Individual in Russia
A Study of Practices
Inbunden, 1999
926 kr
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Oleg Kharkhordin has constructed a compelling, subtle, and complex genealogy of the Soviet individual that is as much about Michel Foucault as it is about Russia. Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, Kharkhordin demonstrates that Party rituals--which forced …
Beyond the Cultural Turn
New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture
Av Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt
Häftad, 1999
306 kr
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Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new …
Speaking with Vampires
Rumor and History in Colonial Africa
Av Luise White
Häftad, 2000
306 kr
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During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their …
Frail Social Body
Pornography, Homosexuality, and Other Fantasies in Interwar France
Inbunden, 2000
578 kr
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Amid the national shame and subjugation following World War I in France, cultural critics there - journalists, novelists, doctors, and legislators, among others - worked to rehabilitate what was perceived as an unhealthy social body. Carolyn J. Dean shows how these critics attempted to reconstruct …
France and the Cult of the Sacred Heart
An Epic Tale for Modern Times
Inbunden, 2000
714 kr
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In a richly layered and beautifully illustrated narrative, Raymond Jonas tells the fascinating and surprisingly little-known story of the Sacre-Coeur, or Sacred Heart. The highest point in Paris and a celebrated tourist destination, the white-domed basilica of Sacre-Coeur on Montmartre is a key …
New Biography
Performing Femininity in Nineteenth-Century France
Häftad, 2000
412 kr
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"The New Biography" looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of these women - activists, writers, and philosophers - became controversial figures …
Politics and Theater
The Crisis of Legitimacy in Restoration France, 1815-1830
Av Sheryl Kroen
Inbunden, 2000
867 kr
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Moliere's anticlerical comedy Tartuffe is the unique prism through which Sheryl Kroen views postrevolutionary France in the years of the Restoration. Following the lead of the French men and women who turned to this play in the 1820s to make sense of their world, Kroen exposes the crisis of …
Fascist Modernities
Italy, 1922-1945
Inbunden, 2001
518 kr
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat's innovative cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship is a provocative discussion of the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. Eloquent, pathbreaking, and deft in its use of a broad range of materials, this work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a …
Popular Theater and Society in Tsarist Russia
Inbunden, 2002
719 kr
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This is the most comprehensive study available of the popular theater that developed during the last decades of tsarist Russia. Swift examines the origins and significance of the new "people's theaters" that were created for the lower classes in St. Petersburg and Moscow between 1861 and 1917. His …
Women Writing Opera
Creativity and Controversy in the Age of the French Revolution
Av Jacqueline Letzter, Robert Adelson
Inbunden, 2001
867 kr
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In the age of the French Revolution, opera was the locus of cabals, intrigues, and violent journalistic invective. Yet it was also a period when women composers and librettists gained access to concert halls as never before, some of their works among those most performed in Paris. Jacqueline …
Fascist Spectacle
The Aesthetics of Power in Mussolini's Italy
Häftad, 2000
289 kr
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This richly textured cultural history of Italian fascism traces the narrative path that accompanied the making of the regime and the construction of Mussolini's power. Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi reads fascist myths, rituals, images, and speeches as texts that tell the story of fascism. Linking …
Emancipation of Writing
German Civil Society in the Making, 1790s–1820s
Av Ian McNeely
Inbunden, 2003
1181 kr
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The Emancipation of Writing is the first study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship, and the state in Germany. Stitching together micro- and macro-level analysis, it reconstructs the vibrant, textually saturated civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the …
Obstinate Hebrews
Representations of Jews in France, 1715-1815
Inbunden, 2003
756 kr
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Enlightenment writers, revolutionaries, and even Napoleon discussed and wrote about France's tiny Jewish population at great length. Why was there so much thinking about Jews when they were a minority of less than one percent and had little economic and virtually no political power? In this …
Ottoman Tragedy
History and Historiography at Play
Inbunden, 2003
1035 kr
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In the space of six years early in the seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire underwent such turmoil and trauma - the assassination of the young ruler Osman II, the re-enthronement and subsequent abdication of his mad uncle Mustafa I, for a start - that a scholar pronounced the period's …
