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Author | : Trent MacNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316519589 |
Download Birth Control and American Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
MacNamara reveals how ordinary women and men legitimized birth control through private moral action, as opposed to public advocacy, in the early twentieth century.
Author | : William Rowe |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download Memory and Modernity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Samba and carnival, radio soaps and telenovelas, oral poetry, popular drama, Amerindian art. This illustrated overview of Latin America's popular culture considers the broad spectrum of cultural forms in the various countries of the subcontinent. Exploring the ways in which daily life and ritual have resisted and been influenced by Western mass culture, Memory and Modernity traces the main anthropological, sociological and political debates about the nature of popular culture. Rowe and Schelling use their analysis of the development of a culture industry in Latin America to engage with wider debates about modernity, drawing out the contrast between Latin America's cultural wealth and its widespread material poverty. In challenging the assumptions of much Western cultural criticism, this book will be essential reading for students of Latin American society, while offering the general reader a concise and accessible overview of an exciting and varied popular culture.
Author | : James Edward Smethurst |
Publisher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0807834637 |
Download The African American Roots of Modernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The period between 1880 and 1918, at the end of which Jim Crow was firmly established and the Great Migration of African Americans was well under way, was not the nadir for black culture, James Smethurst reveals, but instead a time of profound response fr
Author | : Kenneth J. Bindas |
Publisher | : Culture America (Hardcover) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780700624003 |
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Modernity and the Great Depression explores how the worst economic, social, and political crisis in the last century created the space for a national conversation about the ideals of modernity--order, planning, and reason.
Author | : Thomas Welskopp |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2016-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311044674X |
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The ten essays in this volume deal with the debates and conflicts about modernity in a period of American history when the tensions and strains caused by seemingly unrestrained change and the reactions to it were particularly severe and tangible. Partly concentrating on the margins or dark underworlds of modernity, such as racism and violence, partly focusing on the allegedly unlimited space to negotiate and create social order from scratch, the contributions to this volume show that, and discuss why, modernity was an issue in contemporary United States which seemed to have been even more hotly contested than in Europe at the same time, albeit sometimes in terms of “Americanism” rather than “modernism”. In this book, European scholars of the United States apply variations on the transnational discourse on modernity to unexpected dimensions of U.S. history, making this volume a fascinating example of the present-day enterprise of internationalizing American studies.
Author | : Walter Kalaidjian |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2005-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521829953 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Original essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author | : Michael Thomas Carroll |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2000-09-28 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0791491854 |
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Does technology alter our ways of being in and perceiving the world, or does it merely serve as a conduit for predetermined patterns of culture? In addressing this question, Popular Modernity in America examines a broad range of related cultural and technological phenomena—from Bing Crosby to Ice Cube, from the invention of the telegraph to the celebratory heralding of the internet in the 1990s—that have helped shape American popular culture over the past 150 years. Throughout, it avoids the binaries that label popular culture as inherently liberatory or subtly oppressive, arguing instead for the triadic relationship of experience, technology, and myth, each of which has an active role to play in how we interact with popular culture.
Author | : Thomas C. Oden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Download Two Worlds Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thomas C. Oden describes the cultural shifts occurring in both Russia and America, focusing on the two worlds of perishing modernity and emerging postmodernity, and discussing what these monumental changes mean for Christianity and American Christians. 168 pages, paper
Author | : Deborah Gustlin |
Publisher | : Cognella Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2017-08-18 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781516503438 |
Download Art Appreciation Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Creative Art: Methods and Materials educates readers about a variety of art methods and the ways different civilizations have used them in artistic expression. Each of the fourteen chapters is designed around a specific art method and material, and includes examples of art works and the artists who created them. Students learn about bronze casting, stone carving, clay sculpture, woodcuts and posters, glass work, and installation art. Each method is matched to artists both ancient and modern. Rather than adhering to a standard approach that focuses on white, male, European artists, the book broadens the student's perspective by including often overlooked female artists. Global in approach and comprehensive in coverage of arts forms, representations, and styles throughout history, Creative Art has been developed for sixteen-week courses in art appreciation, or introductory survey courses in art history.
Author | : Robert D. Richardson |
Publisher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 638 |
Release | : 2007-09-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0547526733 |
Download William James Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The definitive biography of the fascinating William James, whose life and writing put an indelible stamp on psychology, philosophy, teaching, and religion—on modernism itself. Often cited as the “father of American psychology,” William James was an intellectual luminary who made significant contributions to at least five fields: psychology, philosophy, religious studies, teaching, and literature. A member of one of the most unusual and notable of American families, James struggled to achieve greatness amid the brilliance of his theologian father; his brother, the novelist Henry James; and his sister, Alice James. After studying medicine, he ultimately realized that his true interests lay in philosophy and psychology, a choice that guided his storied career at Harvard, where he taught some of America’s greatest minds. But it is James’s contributions to intellectual study that reveal the true complexity of man. In this biography that seeks to understand James’s life through his work—including Principles of Psychology, The Varieties of Religious Experience, and Pragmatism—Robert D. Richardson has crafted an exceptionally insightful work that explores the mind of a genius, resulting in “a gripping and often inspiring story of intellectual and spiritual adventure” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “A magnificent biography.” —The Washington Post