Modernity – Bücher, CDs, LPs und mehr, Seite 7

Ellen Gardner Nakamura
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice . In this …

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Vincent Colapietro
Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom

John William Miller's radical revision of the idealistic tradition anticipated some of the most important developments in contemporary thought, developments often associated with thinkers like Heidegger, …

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Nicholas Norman Adams
Terminal Destruction

This book examines contemporary technologically saturated life and argues that decline is not approaching but already underway. It names current reality as immediate modernity and defines its dominant sta…

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Calvyn Clarence Du Toit
Object Spirituality

Object Spirituality critically examines the implications of the emerging philosophical movement of Speculative Realism for the study of spirituality and theology. This work challenges the traditional theo…

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Benjamin P Hein
The Migrant's Spirit

When a process popularly known as the Industrial Revolution first took hold in Germany in the mid-nineteenth century, many contemporaries were stunned by the scale and ferocity of the transformation. Whil…

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Billy Johnson
Publishing Place

The 1917 Halifax Explosion all but destroyed a thriving book-publishing industry centred in Halifax and Saint John. In the wake of the devastation, dozens of periodicals emerged in its place, reshaping th…

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Nils Riecken
Abdallah Laroui and the Location of History

Contemporary Thought in the Islamic World

Abdallah Laroui and the Location of History is the first major study that considers Laroui's unique theoretical interventions, revealing how his work provides insights into local, regional, and global deb…

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Michael A. Cook
A History of the Muslim World

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Müammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that…

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Silvia Balzan,
Relational Modernities

Portuguese-born Mozambican architect Amâncio "Pancho" Guedes (1925-2015) designed several hundred buildings that became icons of late-colonial African modernism. His expressive design language, …

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Venita Datta
Rival Modernities

What do Buffalo Bill and Gustave Eiffel have in common? These celebrities are both part of Venita Datta's analysis of competing notions of modernity and French-American relations at the turn of the twenti…

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Zhang Eujeong,
Brother Is a Street Musician

DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation

The history of the Korean popular music industry dates back a century before the beginnings of K-Pop, to when the Korean peninsula was still under Japanese rule. Though Koreans didn't have an independent …

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Elizabeth Kutesko
Fashion at the Frontier

Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Revisiting Dana Bertran Merrill's remarkable archive, this innovative interrogation of photographs of the anonymous workforce who built the Madeira-Mamoré railroad reveals how fashion inhabited a landscap…

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Chen Mandel-Edrei
Hagiography in the Age of Mass Publishing

Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture

Taking an innovative approach to the study of religious literature and literary modernity, this book examines an overlooked body of texts -- collections of Hasidic hagiographic stories about pious leaders…

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Zhang Eujeong,
Brother Is a Street Musician

DITTA: Korean Humanities in Translation

The history of the Korean popular music industry dates back a century before the beginnings of K-Pop, to when the Korean peninsula was still under Japanese rule. Though Koreans didn't have an independent …

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Queere Moderne - Queer Modernism

Dazzling, erotic, groundbreaking---the queer alternative history of modernism.Desire, eroticism, playing with gender---these qualities in the works of queer artists are not regarded here as external to th…

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José Miguel Nanni Soares
Joseph de Maistre

This study attempts to synthesize Joseph de Maistre's historical (and political) reflections on a phenomenon as momentous as the French Revolution. Although not a professional historian or philosopher, Ma…

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Robert Kargon, Karen Ann Fiss, Morris Fraser Low, Arthur Molella
World's Fairs on the Eve of War

Since the first world's fair in London in 1851, at the dawn of the era of industrialization, international expositions served as ideal platforms for rival nations to showcase their advancements in design,…

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Tom Campbell
Disablement in the Age of Ambivalence

This book examines how disability is shaped by the transformation of modern society, using Zygmunt Bauman's concepts of solid modernity and liquid modernity to understand the changing forms of power, excl…

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Franciscans and Scotists on War

Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middle East and Asia. This global brotherhood was…

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