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

Mark William Roche,
Beautiful Ugliness

Искусство -- не всегда о прекрасном во многих произведениях темой, предметом, элементами художественного языка становятся проявления уродства. Будь то формальное или содержательное безобразие, оно служит …

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Crossroads Africa

Crossroads Africa explores the role of Africa and Africans in shaping the early modern world (c. 1300-1700). These essays identify and analyze key spaces, objects, and ideas that emerged on the continent …

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Fantastic Creatures in Italian Literature

This volume explores the mysterious relationship between imagination and creatures-be they animals or hybrids- through the field of Italian literary history from its origins through the early modern perio…

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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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Ellen Gardner Nakamura
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

SOAS Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

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 b…

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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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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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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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Stephen Chan
The Economic Transformation and Political Economy of Zambia

Palgrave Studies in African and Development Economics

This book examines the economic and political development of Zambia since its independence in 1964. Based on detailed and original research, it explores the challenges faced during each period of Zambia's…

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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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David Ngendo-Tshimba
The Yira Folk Across the Congo-Uganda Border

This book argues that in order to fully understand contemporary African borderlands, we need to incorporate precolonial spatial knowledge and practice. Investigating the history of the Yira people at the …

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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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Christian Tagsold
Turning Gardens in Japan into Japanese Gardens

In the mid nineteenth century, as Japan rapidly modernized, garden building declined in popularity. Only in the late nineteenth century did a new class of political and business leaders revive interest in…

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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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Zhang Eujeong,
Brother Is a Street Musician

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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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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Zhang Eujeong,
Brother Is a Street Musician

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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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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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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