Club Red is a sweeping and insightful history of Soviet vacationing and tourism from the Revolution through perestroika, part of the regime’s effort to transform the poor and often illiterate citizenry into new Soviet men and women.
Peter Marboe hat die österreichische Kulturpolitik über Jahrzehnte maßgeblich mitgeprägt: von seinen Anfängen als Referent im Kabinett des ehemaligen Bundeskanzlers Josef Klaus, über seine 17 Jahre als Diplomat in New York, sein Wirken als Sektionsleiter im Außenministerium, bis hin zu seiner Zeit als Wiener Kulturstadtrat und Intendant des Mozartjahres.
This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of European modernism, provides a bold new perspective on a movement that defined the cultural landscape of the early twentieth century.
Joseph Gorres war mehr als ein Publizist und Wissenschaftler - er war eine Stimme des Widerstands, ein unbeugsamer Streiter fur Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit.
Joseph Gorres war mehr als ein Publizist und Wissenschaftler - er war eine Stimme des Widerstands, ein unbeugsamer Streiter fur Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit.
In Folklore and Ethnology of the Modern World, Simon Bronner identifies "e;cultural engagements"e; that people use to reconcile tradition and modernity and confront the anxieties of the present by bringing together the past, often represented by tradition, and the immediate digital, unreal future.
This book argues that the songs on Bob Dylan’s John Wesley Harding are deeply concerned with the fractures in collective memory and politics contemporary with its composition and recording.
This book presents an original and engaging study of the cultural history and literary significance of hairwork – the crafting of decorative objects, such as jewellery, from human hair – in Victorian Britain.
After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja Gopel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in.
This socio-historical monograph compares the two theologians Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) and Martin Rade (1857-1940) in a transatlantic juxtaposition, with a particular focus on the political and social dimensions of their thought and work.
A coruscating analysis of current international relations, setting out the dangers the world will face if the West does not succeed in reinventing itself.
This study explores the short term migration of Bangladeshi women to Malaysia to work inlabour intensive, export oriented factories, and considers the consequences of their decisionto migrate.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
The Un-Reality Effect in the Cinema of Attractions offers an original rethinking of early European cinema through the lens of its visual and cultural entanglements.
Russlands InformationskriegNach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion naherten sich Ost und West an euphorisch und uberzeugt, bestehende Unterschiede durch vermeintlich gemeinsame Ziele ausgleichen zu konnen.
Cross-border Mobility: Women, Work and Malay Identity in Indonesia offers a fresh perspective on the association between mobility and the ethnocultural category 'Malay'.
This book provides a groundbreaking examination of the interplay between culture and politics in Indigenous psychology, a field that challenges the perceived universality of Western psychological norms by emphasizing the cultural specificity of local communities.
This book is an examination of the globalization of the Yijing from cross-cultural and comparative perspectives, with a special focus on the Yijing encounters with world religions and thoughts over the past centuries.
En este especial de la Revista Gestion Cultural, abordamos la compleja interseccion entre el contexto sociopolitico argentino y la gestion cultural sindical en un momento marcado por la crisis.
This book analyzes Persian carpets through the holistic and multifaceted perspective of cultural linguistics and semiotics, unveiling the deep connections between art, tradition, and collective memory.
Der Band ist das Ergebnis der Forschung uber Oberschlesien, einer Industrieregion, die in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten von drei Kulturen beeinflusst wurde: der deutschen, der polnischen und der tschechischen.
The book covers a wide range of cinematic femininities: It starts with Marilyn Monroe's cool phrase "e;We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle"e;, which self-confidently marked her profession - with a wink, because she did not say "e;to sparkle"e;.
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond.
Women Staging and Restaging the Nineteenth Century is the first book to explore overlooked histories of women who filled the theatrical stages of the nineteenth century, dialoguing with contemporary adaptations, reworkings, and retellings of these histories in Great Britain and beyond.
A Reflection Through Fashion Upcycling: The Archive in Pieces stands as a seminal work at the intersection of fashion studies, material culture, and sustainability discourse.
A follow-up to the author's prescient bestseller, first published in 1982, that alerted the public to the likely impacts of information technologies and the emergence of a post-industrial society.
