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Book Circular s  of Information

Download or read book Circular s of Information written by United States. Office of Education and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abnormal Man

Download or read book Abnormal Man written by Arthur MacDonald and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Enlightened Mind  Education in the Long Eighteenth Century

Download or read book The Enlightened Mind Education in the Long Eighteenth Century written by Amanda Strasik and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Enlightenment philosophical and scientific thought during the long eighteenth century in Europe and North America (c. 1688-1815) sparked artistic and political revolutions, reframed social, gender, and race relations, reshaped attitudes toward children and animals, and reconceptualized womanhood, marriage, and family life. The meaning of “education” at this time was wide-ranging and access to it was divided along lines of gender, class, and race. Learning happened in diverse environments under the tutelage of various teachers, ranging from bourgeois mothers at home, to Spanish clergy, to nature itself. The contributors to this cross-disciplinary volume weave together methods in art history, gender studies, and literary analysis to reexamine “education” in different contexts during the Enlightenment era. They explore the implications of redesigned curricula, educational categorizations and spaces, pedagogical aids and games, the role of religion, and new prospects for visual artists, parents, children, and society at large. Collectively, the authors demonstrate how new learning opportunities transformed familial structures and the socio-political conditions of urban centers in France, Britain, the United States, and Spain. Expanded approaches to education also established new artistic practices and redefined women’s roles in the arts. This volume offers groundbreaking perspectives on education that will appeal to beginning and seasoned humanities scholars alike.

Book The Great Cat Massacre

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Darnton
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2009-05-12
  • ISBN : 0465010482
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book The Great Cat Massacre written by Robert Darnton and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-05-12 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark history of France and French culture in the eighteenth-century, a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730s held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they choked with laughter when they reenacted it in pantomime some twenty times? Why in the eighteenth-century version of Little Red Riding Hood did the wolf eat the child at the end? What did the anonymous townsman of Montpelier have in mind when he kept an exhaustive dossier on all the activities of his native city? These are some of the provocative questions the distinguished Harvard historian Robert Darnton answers The Great Cat Massacre, a kaleidoscopic view of European culture during in what we like to call "The Age of Enlightenment." A classic of European history, it is an essential starting point for understanding Enlightenment France.

Book Modern Philology

Download or read book Modern Philology written by Philip Schuyler Allen and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 30-54 include 1932-56 of "Victorian bibliography," prepared by a committee of the Victorian Literature Group of the Modern Language Association of America.

Book The Foucault Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michel Foucault
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1984-11-12
  • ISBN : 0394713400
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book The Foucault Reader written by Michel Foucault and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1984-11-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of half a dozen disciplines ranging from literary criticism to the history of criminology. But of his many books, not one offers a satisfactory introduction to the entire complex body of his work. The Foucault Reader was commissioned precisely to serve that purpose. The Reader contains selections from each area of Foucault's work as well as a wealth of previously unpublished writings, including important material written especially for this volume, the preface to the long-awaited second volume of The History of Sexuality, and interviews with Foucault himself, in the course of which he discussed his philosophy at first hand and with unprecedented candor. This philosophy comprises an astonishing intellectual enterprise: a minute and ongoing investigation of the nature of power in society. Foucault's analyses of this power as it manifests itself in society, schools, hospitals, factories, homes, families, and other forms of organized society are brought together in The Foucault Reader to create an overview of this theme and of the broad social and political vision that underlies it.

Book The Popularization of Medicine

Download or read book The Popularization of Medicine written by Roy Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early modern centuries a body of popularized medical writings appeared, telling ordinary people how they could best take care of their own health. Often written be doctors, such books gave simple advice for home treatments, while commonly warning of the dangers of magic, quackery, old wive's tales and faith-healing. The Popularization of Medicine explores the rise of this form of people's medicine, from the early days of printing to the Victorian age, focusing on the different experiences of Britain, the Continent and North America.

Book Jean Jacques Rousseau  Politics  art  and autobiography

Download or read book Jean Jacques Rousseau Politics art and autobiography written by John T. Scott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together critical assessments of the broad range of Rousseau's thought, with a particular emphasis on his political theory, this systematic collection is an essential resource for both student and scholar.

Book Sleep

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marie de Manacéïne
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1897
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 456 pages

Download or read book Sleep written by Marie de Manacéïne and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Framing Childhood in Eighteenth Century English Periodicals and Prints  1689   1789

Download or read book Framing Childhood in Eighteenth Century English Periodicals and Prints 1689 1789 written by Anja Müller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shedding light on an important and neglected topic in childhood studies, Anja Müller interrogates how different concepts of childhood proliferated and were construed in several important eighteenth-century periodicals and satirical prints. Müller focuses on The Tatler, The Spectator, The Guardian, The Female Tatler, and The Female Spectator, arguing that these periodicals contributed significantly to the construction, development, and popularization of childhood concepts that provided the basis for later ideas such as the 'Romantic child'. Informed by the theoretical concept of 'framing', by which certain concepts of childhood are accepted as legitimate while others are excluded, Framing Childhood analyses the textual and graphic constructions of the child's body, educational debates, how the shift from genealogical to affective bonding affected conceptions of parent-child relations, and how prints employed child figures as focalizers in their representations of public scenes. In examining links between text and image, Müller uncovers the role these media played in the genealogy of childhood before the 1790s, offering a re-visioning of the myth that situates the origin of childhood in late eighteenth-century England.

Book The Body and the French Revolution

Download or read book The Body and the French Revolution written by Dorinda Outram and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-02-06 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1989, is an analysis of what changed in 1789 with the French Revolution and what contemporary life owes to the event. It was not simply a series of events with worldwide repercussions, but also represented the foundation of the middle-class domination of social, cultural and political space, which survives today and is the site of major crises of public culture. One such site is the body. In spite of its prominence in consumer culture as an object of adornment and beautification, the human body retains none of its historic dignity and authority. The argument of this book is that the French Revolution played a crucial part in this diminution of the body. It traces revolutionary models of behaviour around the body and public life, and explains how such myths as the division between public and private, male and female worlds, and such masculine values as ‘objectivity’ were an integral part of the new public world created by the revolutionary middle class.

Book Catalogue of the Library of Congress

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Congress written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Fatigue

    Book Details:
  • Author : Georges Vigarello
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2022-10-14
  • ISBN : 1509549269
  • Pages : 374 pages

Download or read book A History of Fatigue written by Georges Vigarello and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2022-10-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Stress,” “burn out,” “mental overload”: the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have witnessed an unrelenting expansion of the meaning of fatigue. The tentacles of exhaustion insinuated themselves into every aspect of our lives, from the workplace to the home, from our relationships with friends and family to the most intimate aspects of our lives. All around us are the signs of a “burn-out society,” a society in which fatigue has become the norm. How did this happen? This pioneering book explores the rich and little-known history of fatigue from the Middle Ages to the present. Vigarello shows that our understanding of fatigue, the words used to describe it, and the symptoms and explanations of it have varied greatly over time, reflecting changing social mores and broader aspects of social and political life. He argues that the increased autonomy of people in Western societies (whether genuine or assumed), the positing of a more individualized self, and the ever expanding ideal of independence and freedom have constantly made it more difficult for us to withstand anything that constrains or limits us. This painful contradiction causes weariness as well as dissatisfaction. Fatigue spreads and becomes stronger, imperceptibly permeating everything, seeping into ordinary moments and unexpected places. Ranging from the history of war, religion and work to the history of the body, the senses and intimacy, this history of fatigue shows how something that seems permanently centered in our bodies has, over the course of centuries, also been ingrained in our minds, in the end affecting the innermost aspects of the self.

Book Nurturing Yesterday s Child

Download or read book Nurturing Yesterday s Child written by Mary Spaulding and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1994-06-30 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A true collector's item, Nurturing Yesterday's Child offers an illustrated history of the care of children from early Greek, Roman and Egyptian times to the present -- a history that will inform you and touch your heart. There is much to fascinate a parent and particularly those with medical connections and interests. Dr. Theodore Drake (1891-1959), co-inventor of Pablum, collected feeding vessels, rattles and teethers, amulets, furniture, books, stamps, and coins during a lifetime of medical studies and practice in Canada and abroad. His collection encompasses some 3,000 artifacts, 1,500 rare books, 1,000 prints, 1,000 coins and medals, and all child welfare stamps up to the 1950s. Nurturing Yesterday's Child is a remarkable tribute to a remarkable man who showed the same amount of care and thoughtfulness when amassing this vast collection as he showed for the health of children throughout a long and distinguished medical career.

Book Biographie Universelle  Ancienne Et Moderne

Download or read book Biographie Universelle Ancienne Et Moderne written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Clio Medica  Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae  Vol  9

Download or read book Clio Medica Acta Academiae Internationalis Historiae Medicinae Vol 9 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-01-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Médecin Genevois Jacques Ballexserd (1726-1774) et 1' “Education Physique des Enfants” /G. De Morsier --Bellini's Concept of Catarrh: An Examination of a Seventeenth-Century Iatromechanical Viewpoint /G. M. Klass --Les Origines de la Transfusion Sanguine. III /Jean-Jacques Peumery --Book Reviews --Circulation Physiology and Medical Chemistry in England 1650-1680. AUDREY B. DAVIS, Coronado Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1973, 263 pp, with illus, US Dollar8.50. /Arthur Donovan --Microbiology and the Spontaneous Generation Debate during the 1870's. GLENN VANDERVLIET, Coronado Press, Lawrence, Kansas, 1971, 147 pp, with illus, US Dollar5. /Norman Howard-Jones --C. G. Kratzenstein, Professor Physices Experimentalis Petropol. et Havn. and His Studies on Electricity during the Eighteenth Century. E. SNORRASON, Odense University Press. Odense, Denmark, 1974, 206 pp, with illus. /Lester S. King --Medicine and Man. NOËL POYNTER, Penguin Books, London, 1973, 196 pp, US Dollar2.25. /William K. Beatty --Pills, Profits, and Politics. MILTON SILVERMAN and PHILIP R. LEE, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1974, xviii + 403 pp, US Dollar10.95. /James Harvey Young --The Life and Times of Thomas Wakley. S. SQUIRE SPRIGGE, Huntington, Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co., New York, 1974, 509 pp, facsimile of 1899 ed. /Norman Howard-Jones --The House of Life Per Ankh. Magic and Medical Science in Ancient Egypt. PAUL GHALIOUNGUI, B. M. Israël, Amsterdam, 1973, 198 pp, 26 pls., 17 illus. Hfl. 48,-. /Vilh. Möller-Christensen --Contributors to this Issue.