Edges of Empire is a timely reassessment of the history and legacy of Orientalist art and visual culture through its focus on the intersection between modernization, modernism and Orientalism.
This book brings together a range of anthropological writings that are inspired by the French philosopher Michel Foucault and examine Foucault's contribution to current theories of modernity.
Question of Method in Cultural Studies brings together a group of scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to consider one of the most vexing issues confronting the proverbial 'anti-discipline' of cultural studies.
American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present.
This concise Companion offers an innovative approach to understanding the Modernist literary mind in Britain, focusing on the intellectual and cultural contexts, which shaped it.
This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture.
Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought.
This major intervention into debates about the postcolonial and the global proposes that theory should embody unevenness as symptom even as it envisions strategies to get beyond unevenness.
Comparative Economic Systems: Culture, Wealth and Power in the 21st Century explains how culture, in various guises, modifies the standard rules of economic engagement, creating systems that differ markedly from those predicted by the theory of general market competition.
A Companion to Contemporary Britain covers the key themes and debates of 20th-century history from the outbreak of the Second World War to the end of the century.
Dieses praxisorientierte Handbuch führt systematisch in die Welt des Online Pokers ein und richtet sich sowohl an Einsteiger als auch fortgeschrittene Spieler.
How the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite, and how their consumer habits affect us allIn today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite.
New York City witnessed unparalleled growth in the first half of the nineteenth century, its population rising from thirty thousand people to nearly a million in a matter of decades.
A classic of British cultural studies, Profane Culture takes the reader into the worlds of two important 1960s youth cultures-the motor-bike boys and the hippies.
A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world.
Social conventions are those arbitrary rules and norms governing the countless behaviors all of us engage in every day without necessarily thinking about them, from shaking hands when greeting someone to driving on the right side of the road.
The emphasis on practical experience over ideology is viewed by many historians as a profoundly American characteristic, one that provides a model for exploring the colonial challenge to European belief systems and the creation of a unique culture.
This book provides a surprising answer to two puzzling questions that relate to the very "e;soul"e; of the professional study of economics in the late twentieth century.
This wide-ranging study of language and cultural change in fourteenth-century England argues that the influence of oral tradition is much more important to the advance of literacy than previously supposed.
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'A roadmap for a new generation' VOGUE'Radical, funny and fearless' VANITY FAIRTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERAn electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le TigreKathleen Hanna's rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, '90s, and beyond.
A beautifully illustrated global history of collage from the origins of paper to todayWhile the emergence of collage is frequently placed in the twentieth century when it was a favored medium of modern artists, its earliest beginnings are tied to the invention of paper in China around 200 BCE.
Descubre la esencia del 'hygge', el secreto danés para una vida más feliz y significativa, en esta guía práctica y acogedora que te llevará por un viaje transformador hacia el bienestar y la felicidad cotidiana.
Wilhelm Dilthey ist aufgrund seiner deskriptiv-analytischen Psychologie – im Zusammenspiel mit seinen wissenschaftstheoretischen und geistesgeschichtlichen Schriften – als ein Vorläufer der wissenschaftlichen Phänomenologie anzusehen.
El deseo de entender a los demas y sus mundos no es solo una ambicion del antropologo, sino tambien de todos los profesionales centrados en las relaciones cara a cara, ya que necesitan tanto un conocimiento "e;intelectualmente critico"e; de los propios destinatarios y de su mundo como una conciencia critica de sus efectos en la interaccion con ellos.
