cultural history
The Renaissance in Italy: a Social and Cultural History of the Rinascimento
... Guido Ruggiero’s new social and cultural history of Italy between 1250 and 1575 begins at the end of the world and ends at the beginning of the ‘Great Social Divide’. The world that ended around 1250 was ...
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A Cultural History of Climate
... My reading of A Cultural History of Climate leaves me with one final question that needs further scrutiny. It is a question equally relevant to our creation of future climates as to our reading of past ...
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The American Dream: A Cultural History
... what history – or at any rate, historical scholarship – is supposed to ...American cultural history in a very general sense, it may also serve to obscure, rather than truly clarify, the contours of ...
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Historical Perception of Architecture and Cultural History Approach
... the cultural history, ...the cultural history, due to the paid attention to the historical and social points of the art and architecture works and attempts for perceiving them by the people in ...
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The Spectral Arctic: a Cultural History of Ghosts and Dreams in Polar Exploration
... methodological framework created by historians of witchcraft, spiritualism, and ghosts, like Owen Davies, Peter Marshall, and Keith Thomas. The Spectral Arctic complements and positions itself confidently within this ...
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Skin, paper, tiles: a cross cultural history of Kadiwéu art
... rights, cultural property and economic survival, looking in particular at the commissioning of Kadiwéu designs for a housing estate and an associated exhibition in Berlin early in the twentieth-first ...
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Traditional Knowledge of Sankardev Than: A Cultural History Paradigm
... Traditional knowledge focuses to the thought, originality and practices of indigenous and local communities. Generally, traditional knowledge is spreaded orally from generation to generation. India has its prosperous ...
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'Memory wrapped round a corpse' : a cultural history of English Hecubas
... 2003 onwards, entails a striking shift in England’s cultural conception of and attitude towards war-victims. The long-established tradition of Euripides’ so- called ‘Peace-Play’, with its more straightforward ...
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At Home in Hollywood: Hope of Heaven as Cultural History, Autobiography, and Fiction
... of detective: trying to make sense of Henderson's version of Miller's story, Malloy suggests to Peggy, "Well, let's us be detectives" (128).. And Malloy plays a convincing detect[r] ...
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'Black Athena' and Africa's contribution to global cultural history
... Asia and North East Africa, and of the con~imction, in recent centuries, of the Greek miracle as a Eurocentric, racialist myth: the appropriation and application of [r] ...
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Tosca’s Prism: Three Moments in Western Cultural History
... The numerous contributors reflect international and disciplinary diversity, with writers specializing in history, poetic and dramatic literature, musicology, music theory, and perform- ance. The essays unveil new ...
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California’s Cross: A Cultural History of Pentecostalism, Race, and Agriculture
... What then is to be made of the quotidian acts of farmworkers? We get a glimpse into subaltern arts by locating the sorts of practices that comprised Apostólico culture. Based on the photographs of church life captured by ...
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Religio cultural heritage of libation, memory and Obang cultural history, Northwest Cameroon
... on history and historical records are unique in a variety ...that history starts only when facts are written, and as such, the absence of written records on the African continent for them meant lack of ...
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Australian Stories of Coffee in Melbourne and Environs: A Selective Cultural History
... Our local cafe culture has a long history, and it has taken not only the cafes of the 1950s but also the people who fraternised the cafes at that time who had also come from overseas, [r] ...
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To Grahamstown and back : towards a Socio-Cultural History of Southern Africa
... In a sense, I have come full circle. It was as a first-year student at Rhodes University in Grahamstown that I first caught a glimpse of the full implications of apartheid and its racist legislation. For the first time ...
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"A Peace of Sorts": A Cultural History of the Belfast Agreement, 1998 to 2007
... a history from above, concentrating on interactions between powerful political actors, and using opinion polls and elections to assess the success - or failures - of the ...
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The Cultural History of the Corset and Gendered Body in Social and Literary Landscapes
... The use of corsetry at present time can be explained in terms of post-feminist ideas borrowing from the contemporary feminist critic Naomi Wolf (2002) who claims that the corset now is replaced by the new control devices ...
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America’s Ocean Wilderness: a Cultural History of Twentieth Century Exploration
... Kroll’s interpretation of the evidence is creative and smart. The final two chapters on Eugenie Clark, Thor Heyerdahl and Jacques Cousteau, are particularly strong. The chapter on Clark, which examines gender and the ...
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Inhabiting the border - A Cultural History of Privacy & Photography
... The 'right' to privacy however, was not truly acknowledged until the twentieth century. From its mere beginnings there was discussion about the boundaries of this 'privacy-law'. The right of privacy, which protects ...
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'Diplomacy as theatre': recasting the Bandung conference of 1955 as cultural history
... For one, the choice of Gedung Merdeka (Freedom Building) as the principal venue of the conference has some significance worth mentioning. Originally, it was built in 1895 as the Concordia Society Club, an elite Dutch ...
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