Cultural studies

Out on Assignment illuminates the lives and writings of a lost world of women who wrote for major metropolitan newspapers at the start of the twentieth century.

Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.

Popular representations of the Vietnam War tend to emphasize violence, deprivation, and trauma.

The National Endowment for the Arts is often accused of embodying a liberal agenda within the American government.

James Connelly and Giuseppina D'Oro present a new edition of R.

The concept of systematicity is central to Immanuel Kant's conception of scientific knowledge and to his practical philosophy.

What does it mean to be Chinese?

This book capitalizes on brilliant recent work on sixteenth-century iconoclasm to extend the study of images, both their making and their breaking, into an earlier period and wider discursive territories.

This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience - including women - than had access to the original texts.

In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance humanists rediscovered a secret, natural language hidden in the visual wisdom of the proverb 'the eyes are the windows of the soul'.

A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life at the abbey of St Albans - one of Britain's greatest Benedictine monasteries - during the lifetime of Thomas Walsingham (c.

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2011 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 2,3, University of Gottingen (Philosophische Fakultat), language: English, abstract: At the turn of the nineteenth century, the city of New York underwent a tremendous change that is regarded as a complete "e;transformation of American culture"e; (Zurier).

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to Hereditary Right', discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner.

Sarah Banet-Weiser complicates the standard feminist take on beauty pageants in this intriguing look at a hotly contested but enduringly popular American ritual.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

When Katherine Miller was first asked to train chefs to be advocates, she thought the idea was ludicrous.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Sprach- und Geisteswissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Rahmen dieser Forschungsarbeit soll die Frage beantwortet werden, inwiefern das Tragen von Dreadlocks an weißen Personen als problematisch zu bewerten und als kulturelle Aneignung zu bezeichnen ist.

This book offers a powerful reappraisal of the history of British boxing, revealing how the sport became both a platform for visibility and a site of struggle for migrants and minority individuals and communities.

The philosophy of Epictetus, a freed slave in the Roman Empire, has been profoundly influential on Western thought: it offers not only stimulating ideas but practical guidance in living one's life.

In this Oxford Guide to Film Musicals, author Hannah Lewis gives readers fascinating new insights into the development, style, and reception of the 2016 film musical La La Land.

Science always raises more questions than it can contain.

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Medien, Kunst, Musik, Note: 2,0, FernUniversität Hagen (Institut für Neuere deutsche Literatur- und Medienwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Es soll die Funktion des Musikvideos als politisches Format am Beispiel von Deutschland untersucht werden, indem die Ideologiekritik und die Darstellung nationaler Identität im Video analysiert wird.

Above all other titles, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) prized that of logician.

Above all other titles, Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) prized that of logician.

Arguments about liberalism's meanings, endurance, imminent death, or revival are widespread in modern political thought.

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context.

Recent trends in tourism have seen a decline in the traditional mass-consumption model, accompanied by a rise in a more segmented tourism to which local communities must adapt.

Arguments about liberalism's meanings, endurance, imminent death, or revival are widespread in modern political thought.

Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.

Offering a clear and accessible introduction to the fast-growing field of archaeogenetics, this book pays particular attention to the methods and approaches that are reshaping how archaeologists and historians think about the past.

The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "e;child of nature.

The Mind of a Patriot presents an intellectual life of a major figure who has traditionally been seen as an anti-intellectual "e;child of nature.

World-renowned food politics expert Marion Nestle joins forces with former cereal executive Lisa Sutherland to examine what cereal boxes reveal about American culture and food politics.

By the 1840s, many Americans recognized that the institution of slavery was destroying Southern landscapes while threatening to expand into the West.

Der Operationsplan Deutschland ist eine Reaktion auf die sich verschärfende sicherheitspolitische Lage in Europa.

Der Operationsplan Deutschland ist eine Reaktion auf die sich verschärfende sicherheitspolitische Lage in Europa.

The First World War did not end in November 1918.

This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years.

This book examines how the Soviet past is culturally negotiated, reimagined, and recreated in new temporal regimes; how the Soviet project is "e;recycled"e; and used as a key component in the construction of a new Russian collective identity; and how it has metamorphosed from a historical dimension to the sphere of myth.

This book features essays by Michael L.

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina.

Tackling the critical issue of the growing skepticism toward science, this volume explores the complex forces driving the anti-science movement.

Crime and Popular Culture: Rule Breakers analyses society's fascination with criminals and investigates the changing acceptability of rule breakers across different times and contexts through a cultural criminological lens.

This book highlights the resilience and courage of Muslim women who have spoken out under challenging circumstances across history and geography.

On July 3, 1972, twenty-four hippies from Clearwater, Florida, set up tents and settled in for the night at Briar Bottom, a public US Forest Service campground in western North Carolina.

'This is a book that has needed to be written for years.

K-pop Dance Education is the first comprehensive guide to teaching, studying, and researching K-pop dance in global contexts.