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Book The Crowds and the Veiled Woman

Download or read book The Crowds and the Veiled Woman written by Marian Cox and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Crowd

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  • Author : John Plotz
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2000-12-03
  • ISBN : 9780520923058
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Crowd written by John Plotz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-12-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1800 and 1850, political demonstrations and the tumult of a ballooning street life not only brought novel kinds of crowds onto the streets of London, but also fundamentally changed British ideas about public and private space. The Crowd sets out to demonstrate the influence of these new crowds, riots, and demonstrations on the period's literature. John Plotz offers compelling readings of works by Thomas De Quincey, Thomas Carlyle, William Wordsworth, Maria Edgeworth, and Charlotte Bronte, arguing that new "representative" crowds became a potent rival for the representational claims of literary texts themselves. As rivals in representation, these crowds triggered important changes not simply in how these authors depicted crowds, but in their notions of public life and privacy in general. The Crowd is the first book devoted to an analysis of crowds in British literature. In addition to this being a noteworthy and innovative contribution to literary criticism, it addresses ongoing debates in political theory on the nature of the public-political realm and offers a new reading of the contested public discourses of class, nation, and gender. In the end, it provides a sophisticated and rich analysis of an important facet of the beginning of the modern age.

Book Crowds and Democracy

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  • Author : Stefan Jonsson
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2013-10-08
  • ISBN : 0231164785
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Crowds and Democracy written by Stefan Jonsson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1918 and 1933, the masses became a decisive preoccupation of European culture, fueling modernist movements in art, literature, architecture, theater, and cinema, as well as the rise of communism, fascism, and experiments in radical democracy. Spanning aesthetics, cultural studies, intellectual history, and political theory, this volume unpacks the significance of the shadow agent known as “the mass” during a critical period in European history. It follows its evolution into the preferred conceptual tool for social scientists, the ideal slogan for politicians, and the chosen image for artists and writers trying to capture a society in flux and a people in upheaval. This volume is the second installment in Stefan Jonsson’s epic study of the crowd and the mass in modern Europe, building on his work in A Brief History of the Masses, which focused on monumental artworks produced in 1789, 1889, and 1989.

Book Current Opinion

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  • Author : Edward Jewitt Wheeler
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1910
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 726 pages

Download or read book Current Opinion written by Edward Jewitt Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Anne Trilogy

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  • Author : Posie Graeme-Evans
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-06-26
  • ISBN : 1451689187
  • Pages : 1392 pages

Download or read book The Anne Trilogy written by Posie Graeme-Evans and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 1392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three glorious novels in one package. The Innocent, The Exiled, and The Uncrowned Queen follow the life of Anne de Bohun, a beautiful, spirited young woman who captures the heart of King Edward IV, as he defends his throne in the devastating War of the Roses. Also included in this special ebook collection—an Introduction by the author with four-color photos and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the trilogy. The Innocent: The year is 1450, a dangerous time in medieval Britain. Civil unrest is at its peak and the legitimacy of the royal family is suspect. Meanwhile, deep in the forests of western England, a baby is born. Powerful forces plot to kill both mother and child, but somehow the newborn girl survives. Her name is Anne. Fifteen years later, England emerges into a fragile but hopeful new age, with the charismatic young King Edward IV on the throne. Anne, now a young peasant girl, joins the household of a wealthy London merchant. Her unusual beauty provokes jealousy, lust, and intrigue, but Anne has a special quality that saves her: a vast knowledge of healing herbs. News of her extraordinary gift spreads, and she is called upon to save the ailing queen. Soon after, Anne is moved into the palace, where she finds her destiny with the man who will become the greatest love of her life—the king himself. The Exiled: The enchanting Anne faces the challenge of raising her child in exile. Always resourceful, she flourishes as a merchant and is able to support her household. But Anne has a secret that her enemies could use to destroy her. Her beloved son is the product of a passionate affair with the king, Edward IV, who knows nothing of his existence. If this information were to fall into the wrong hands, it could prove lethal for Anne and her child. She struggles to find peace in a world of duplicity and suspicion, where adversaries masquerade as allies, and someone very powerful wants her dead. Yet, despite the pressure of her enemies, what pains Anne the most is that she is unsure when or if she will see her darling Edward again. The Uncrowned Queen: As England tears itself apart in the War of the Roses, Anne de Bohun lives far from the intrigues of cities and courts. Once King Edward IV's mistress, she has found safety with their son in Brugge. But now Edward himself is a hunted fugitive, and Anne's real father, King Henry VI, rules again from Westminster. Summoned by an enigmatic message from her lover, Anne is drawn once more to the passion, the excitement, and the deadly danger that Edward brings into her life. But now, the girl who was once a penniless servant has a child to protect and an inheritance to defend. Can she let her love for Edward threaten everything she has? Or will she need his help to protect her from the powerful enemy who means to destroy her?

Book Veiled Women

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  • Author : Marmaduke William Pickthall
  • Publisher : DigiCat
  • Release : 2022-09-04
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 205 pages

Download or read book Veiled Women written by Marmaduke William Pickthall and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Veiled Women" by Marmaduke William Pickthall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Book Bible Teacher s Commentary

Download or read book Bible Teacher s Commentary written by Larry Richards and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this outstanding Christian Education resource, the entire Bible Genesis 1 to Revelation 22 is divided into teachable units. There are many link-to-life ideas to help teach each unity to any age group.

Book Current Literature

Download or read book Current Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades  Journal

Download or read book Bookseller and the Stationery Trades Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments  Ephesians and Colossians

Download or read book The International Critical Commentary on the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments Ephesians and Colossians written by Samuel Rolles Driver and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book They Must Be Represented

Download or read book They Must Be Represented written by Paula Rabinowitz and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Must Be Represented examines documentary in print, photography, television and film from the 1930s through the 1980s, using the lens of recent feminist film theory as well as scholarship on race, class and gender emerging from the new interdisciplinary approach of American cultural studies. Paula Rabinowitz discusses the ways in which these four media shaped truth-claims and political agency over the decades: in the 1930s, about poverty, labor and popular culture during the depression; in the 1960s, about the Vietnam War, racism, work and counterculture; and in the 1980s, about feminist and gay critiques of gender, history, narrative and cinema. A great deal of documentary expression has been influenced by developments in cultural anthropology, as committed artists brought their cameras and typewriters into the field not only to report, but also to change the world. Yet recently the projects of both anthropology and documentary have come under scrutiny. Rabinowitz argues that the gendering of vision that occurs when narratives confirm to conventional genres profoundly affects the relation of documentarian to subject. She goes on to define this gendering of vision in documentary as an ethnographic process. Ultimately, this polemical study challenges the construction of the spectator in psychoanalytic film theory, and articulates a new model for theorizing power relations in culture and history.

Book Nurturing the Nation

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  • Author : Lisa Pollard
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005-01-31
  • ISBN : 9780520937536
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Nurturing the Nation written by Lisa Pollard and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-01-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on gender and the family, this erudite and innovative history reconsiders the origins of Egyptian nationalism and the revolution of 1919 by linking social changes in class and household structure to the politics of engagement with British colonial rule. Lisa Pollard deftly argues that the Egyptian state's modernizing projects in the nineteenth century reinforced ideals of monogamy and bourgeois domesticity among Egypt's elite classes and connected those ideals with political and economic success. At the same time, the British used domestic and personal practices such as polygamy, the harem, and the veiling of women to claim that the ruling classes had become corrupt and therefore to legitimize an open-ended tenure for themselves in Egypt. To rid themselves of British rule, bourgeois Egyptian nationalists constructed a familial-political culture that trained new generations of nationalists and used them to demonstrate to the British that it was time for the occupation to end. That culture was put to use in the 1919 Egyptian revolution, in which the reformed, bourgeois family was exhibited as the standard for "modern" Egypt.

Book The Ladies  Companion

Download or read book The Ladies Companion written by and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Letters to the Corinthians

Download or read book The Letters to the Corinthians written by William Barclay and published by Saint Andrew Press. This book was released on 2013-01-25 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was when he was in Ephesus in AD55 that Paul, learning that things were not all well in Corinth, wrote to the church there. This was to be his call to one of the greatest cosmopolitan cities of the ancient world. This title guides the reader through these letters and the story they tell, showing how they reveal the character of the man.

Book Egypt as a Woman

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  • Author : Beth Baron
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 0520251547
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Egypt as a Woman written by Beth Baron and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Can anything new be said about modern Egyptian nationalism? Beth Baron's book Egypt as a Woman, one of the best modern Egyptian history books to appear in several years, leaves no doubt that it can. With evenhandedness and generosity, Baron shows how vital women were to mobilizing opposition to British authority and modernizing Egypt.”—Robert L. Tignor, author of Capitalism and Nationalism at the End of Empire “A wonderful contribution to understanding Egyptian national and gender politics between the two world wars. Baron explores the paradox of women’s exclusion from political rights at the very moment when visual and metaphorical representations of Egypt as a woman were becoming widespread and real women activists—both secularist and Islamist—were participating more actively in public life than ever before.”—Donald Malcolm Reid, author of Whose Pharaohs? Archaeology, Museums, and Egyptian National Identity from Napoleon to World War I

Book Something for Everyone

Download or read book Something for Everyone written by Simone Boogaarts-de Bruin and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The urban population is becoming increasingly diverse and growing (ethnic) diversity is having a singular effect on nightlife in Dutch cities. By studying the motivation behind and nightlife choices of the young people who participate in ethno-party scenes, Boogaarts-de Bruin investigates how the changing urban population affects the supply side of the nightlife market using an analytical model she has developed and which she calls the model of structured choice. This approach is sensitive to the flexible use of the processes of agency and structure due to the systematic distinction that it makes between societal and personal factors. Accordingly, it is revealed that in order to analyze and adequately explain the nightlife experiences of and choices made by ethnic youngsters, an integrated model is required which centralizes the interaction between the structural strategies of the producers on the one hand and the personal preferences and agency of the consumers on the other. What is more, this book demonstrates that nightlife has changed because of the increasing ethnic diversity of the Dutch population. Finally, in the epilogue, the fieldwork results are discussed in light of the currently heated debate regarding the integration processes of ethnic minority young people (in nightlife).