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Book Les Chiens de Paris

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  • Author : Barnaby Conrad
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780500016558
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book Les Chiens de Paris written by Barnaby Conrad and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogs are widely pampered by their owners in Paris. Elevated almost to the status of human beings, well-fed and immaculately groomed, these creatures are seen throughout the city riding the Metro, sitting in the front seat of a taxi, or relaxing side by side with their maitre at a cafe table.

Book Histoire Physiologique Et Anecdotique Des Chiens de Toutes Les Races

Download or read book Histoire Physiologique Et Anecdotique Des Chiens de Toutes Les Races written by Bénédict-Henry Révoil and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Beast in the Boudoir

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  • Author : Kathleen Kete
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520326857
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book The Beast in the Boudoir written by Kathleen Kete and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Kete's wise and witty examination of petkeeping in nineteenth-century Paris provides a unique window through which to view the lives of ordinary French people. She demonstrates how that cliché of modern life, the family dog, reveals the tensions that modernity created for the Parisian bourgeoisie. Kete's study draws on a range of literary and archival sources, from dog-care books to veterinarians's records to Dumas's musings on his cat. The fad for aquariums, attitudes toward vivisection, the dread of rabies, the development of dog breeding—all are shown to reflect the ways middle-class people thought about their lives. Petkeeping, says Kete, was a way to imagine a better, more manageable version of the world—it relieved the pressures of contemporary life and improvised solutions to the intractable mesh that was post-Enlightenment France. The faithful, affectionate family dog became a counterpoint to the isolation of individualism and lack of community in urban life. By century's end, however, animals no longer represented the human condition with such potency, and even the irascible, autonomous cat had been rehabilitated into a creature of fidelity and affection. Full of fascinating details, this innovative book will contribute to the way we understand culture and the creation of class. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994.

Book Realms of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pierre Nora
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780231109260
  • Pages : 808 pages

Download or read book Realms of Memory written by Pierre Nora and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third and final volume in Pierre Nora's award-winning (for Volume I) REALMS OF MEMORY, which includes groundbreaking discussions of France's past, powerfully demonstrates how a nation can both recover and rediscover its identity through remembrance, how rewriting history can forge new paradigms of cultural identity, and how meanings attached to an event can be as significant as the event itself. 146 illustrations.

Book Brain  Mind  and Medicine

Download or read book Brain Mind and Medicine written by Robert Guskind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Richet was one of the most remarkable figures in the history of medical science. He is best known for his work on the body's immune reactions to foreign substances for which he won the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1913. Richet was also a poet, playwright, historian, bibliographer, political activist, classical scholar, and pioneer in aircraft design.Brain, Mind, and Medicine is the first major biography of Richet in any language. Wolf brilliantly situates Richet's work in the intellectual currents of Europe during the latter half of the nineteenth and early twentieth century. Richet was a contemporary of Wilhelm Wundt and William James. All three considered psychology to be an aspect of physiology governed by biological laws. But while James and Wundt considered consciousness as a process influenced by experience without much reference to neural structures, Richet's focus was on the brain itself as shaped by genetics and experience and serving as the organ of the mind.Brain, Mind, and Medicine illuminates a significant chapter in scientific and cultural history. It should be read by medical scientists, historians, and individuals interested in medicine and psychology.

Book Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages

Download or read book Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages written by Hannele Klemettilä and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores views of the natural world in the late Middle Ages, especially as expressed in Livre de chasse (Book of the Hunt), the most influential hunting book of the era. It shows that killing and maiming, suffering and the death of animals were not insignificant topics to late medieval men, but constituted a complex set of issues, and could provoke very contradictory thoughts and feelings that varied according social and cultural milieus and particular cases and circumstances.

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  • Author :
  • Publisher : Odile Jacob
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 2738186424
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book written by and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim written by Jeffrey C. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long recognised as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile Durkheim's work has been the subject of intense debate over the years. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays re-examines the impact of Durkheim's thought, considering the historical contexts of his work as well as evaluating his ideas in relation to current issues and controversies. Eminent authorities in the field have contributed to this up-to-date overview, giving the reader - both students and academics - a chance to engage directly with leading figures in the field about contemporary trends, ideas and dilemmas. This volume reflects the cross-disciplinary application of Durkheim's theories and will interest scholars of anthropology, political science, cultural studies and philosophy, as well as sociology. This is a landmark volume that redefines the relevance of Durkheim to the human sciences in the twenty-first century.

Book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867

Download or read book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867 written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition  1867

Download or read book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867 written by Great Britain. Committee on Education and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Resentment and the Right

Download or read book Resentment and the Right written by Sarah Shurts and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resentment and the Right: French Intellectual Identity Reimagined, 1898-2000 examines a century-long struggle between cultural spokesmen on the extreme right and left to dominate and define the concept of “the intellectual.” This struggle began with the introduction of the “intellectual” during the Dreyfus Affair of 1898 and continues even today among the intellectuals of the Nouvelle Droite. This struggle to monopolize the public perception of intellectual identity, and the status of moral and political guide the title conferred, consumed the intellectual leaders of the extreme right and left and saturated their engagement in political affairs. Because the left was the first to claim the title of intellectual in 1898, they defined the concept according to their own values and experiences. Hereafter, when intellectuals of the extreme right felt called to engage in public affairs, they portrayed their struggle for recognition as one of an oppressed and ostracized minority against a hegemonic left. Their resentment of this perceived repression became integral to their linguistic tropes, professional trajectories, cultural practices, and their self-conceptualization as intellectuals. The book is organized around the argument that at each perceived national crisis throughout the century, when intellectuals felt called to engage, the right-wing struggle to define true intellectual identity for the public followed a similar cycle: self-identification as intellectuals, perception of exclusion by the intellectual left, resentment of this ostracism and development of linguistic tropes of left-wing hegemony and right-wing repression, differentiation, revaluation, and reappropriation of cultural values, self-imposed segregation of social networks and professional trajectories, internalization and revaluation of their perceived role as intellectual pariahs, and eventual isolation, alienation, and radicalization from the mainstream intellectual and political world. All together this has resulted in a very different experience of intellectual life and a distinctive understanding of what it means to be an intellectual over the century.

Book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition  1867     Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty  Containing the report by the Executive Commissioner  and appendices

Download or read book Reports on the Paris Universal Exhibition 1867 Presented to Both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty Containing the report by the Executive Commissioner and appendices written by Great Britain. Royal Commission for the Paris Exhibition (1867) and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Sociologists and French  Sociologues  in the Interwar Years

Download or read book British Sociologists and French Sociologues in the Interwar Years written by Baudry Rocquin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comparative study of the development of sociology in Britain and France between 1920 and 1940, taking a broad definition of the discipline to examine divergence across the channel in the interwar years. Rocquin charts the tension between differing schools of thought, presenting an alternative history of Europe based on cultural and intellectual struggle, and variation in theoretical visions of society - a divide that is still crucial in understanding the present situation between Continental Europe and the United Kingdom. This is a compelling addition to the history of sociology, and will be of interest to students and scholars across history, historical sociology, politics, European studies, and the sociology of knowledge.

Book Dogopolis

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  • Author : Chris Pearson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 022679704X
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book Dogopolis written by Chris Pearson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dogopolis presents a surprising source for urban innovation in the history of three major cities: human-canine relationships. Stroll through any American or European city today and you probably won’t get far before seeing a dog being taken for a walk. It’s expected that these domesticated animals can easily navigate sidewalks, streets, and other foundational elements of our built environment. But what if our cities were actually shaped in response to dogs more than we ever realized? Chris Pearson’s Dogopolis boldly and convincingly asserts that human-canine relations were a crucial factor in the formation of modern urban living. Focusing on New York, London, and Paris from the early nineteenth century into the 1930s, Pearson shows that human reactions to dogs significantly remolded them and other contemporary western cities. It’s an unalterable fact that dogs—often filthy, bellicose, and sometimes off-putting—run away, spread rabies, defecate, and breed wherever they like, so as dogs became a more and more common in nineteenth-century middle-class life, cities had to respond to people’s fear of them and revulsion at their least desirable traits. The gradual integration of dogs into city life centered on disgust at dirt, fear of crime and vagrancy, and the promotion of humanitarian sentiments. On the other hand, dogs are some people’s most beloved animal companions, and human compassion and affection for pets and strays were equally powerful forces in shaping urban modernity. Dogopolis details the complex interrelations among emotions, sentiment, and the ways we manifest our feelings toward what we love—showing that together they can actually reshape society.

Book The Decline of the Third Republic  1914 1938

Download or read book The Decline of the Third Republic 1914 1938 written by Philippe Bernard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-02-26 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a detailed account of the Third Republic in France between the outbreak and conduct of the First World War and the fall of Leon Blum's Front Populaire soon after Hitler's invasion and annexation of Austria in 1938. Following the trauma of war, France slipped into the "era of illusions" which despite the comparative prosperity of the 1920s led to the slump and the severe social and economic unrest of the 1930s. The short-lived experiment of Blum's Front Populaire gave way to more conservatively-based ministries, but by 1938 a new common enemy began to draw together the political opinion of the country.

Book Paris chien

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  • Author : Jackie Clark Mancuso
  • Publisher : Paris-Chien Adventure
  • Release : 2013-06-05
  • ISBN : 9780615545424
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Paris chien written by Jackie Clark Mancuso and published by Paris-Chien Adventure. This book was released on 2013-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hudson, an adventurous Norwich terrier, moves to Paris, he loves the sights and smells. But when he tries to make friends, he discovers the Parisian dogs only speak French. Though initially disheartened, little Hudson's desire to make friends is so strong that he learns a new language. Paris-Chien strikes a universal chord as it shows how it feels to be the new kid in any situation. Gouache illustrations of markets, cafes, dogs, and parks make Paris come alive. French words appear in a petit dictionnaire at the end, so you'll even learn a little French.