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Book Uneasy Subjects

Download or read book Uneasy Subjects written by Silke Stroh and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scottish and “Celtic fringe” postcolonialism has caused much controversy and unease in literary studies. Can the non-English territories and peoples of the British Isles, faced with centuries of English hegemony, be meaningfully compared to former overseas colonies? This book is the first comprehensive study of this topic which offers an in-depth study of Gaelic literature. It investigates the complex interplay between Celticity, Gaeldom, Scottish and British national identity, and international colonial and postcolonial discourse. It situates post/colonial elements in Gaelic poetry within a wider context, showing how they intersect with socio-historical and political issues, anglophone literature and the media. Highlighting the centrality of Celticity as an archetypal construct in colonial discourses ancient and modern, this volume traces post/colonial themes and strategies in Gaelic poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. Central themes include the uneasy position of Gaels as subjects of the Scottish or British state, and as both intra-British colonised and overseas colonisers. Aiming to promote interdisciplinary dialogue, it is of interest for scholars and students of Scottish Studies, Gaelic and English literature, and international Postcolonial Studies.

Book Uneasy Street

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  • Author : Rachel Sherman
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2019-05-14
  • ISBN : 0691195161
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Street written by Rachel Sherman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A surprising and revealing look at how today’s elite view their wealth and place in society From TV’s “real housewives” to The Wolf of Wall Street, our popular culture portrays the wealthy as materialistic and entitled. But what do we really know about those who live on “easy street”? In this penetrating book, Rachel Sherman draws on rare in-depth interviews that she conducted with fifty affluent New Yorkers—from hedge fund financiers and artists to stay-at-home mothers—to examine their lifestyle choices and understanding of privilege. Sherman upends images of wealthy people as invested only in accruing social advantages for themselves and their children. Instead, these liberal elites, who believe in diversity and meritocracy, feel conflicted about their position in a highly unequal society. As the distance between rich and poor widens, Uneasy Street not only explores the lives of those at the top but also sheds light on how extreme inequality comes to seem ordinary and acceptable to the rest of us.

Book The Uneasy State

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  • Author : Barry D. Karl
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1985-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226425207
  • Pages : 268 pages

Download or read book The Uneasy State written by Barry D. Karl and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985-06-15 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major interpretive history of the reform era, Barry Karl presents an imaginative and thoughtful perspective on America's quest for political, economic, and cultural nationalism. Challenging accepted interpretations, he argues that the two world wars and the depression did not successfully unite the country so that a national managerial state could emerge as it did in other industrial nations. Karl draws on an impressive array of sources to support his position, offering insightful comments on popular culture—movies, novels, comic strips, and detective stories—and brilliant analyses of technological change and its impact. Karl shows how Americans approached the central dilemmas of modern life, such as the clash between planned efficiency and autonomous individualism, which they managed to patch over but never fully resolve. Above all, he finds that America's commitment to the autonomous individual is both an aspiration and a curse.

Book Uneasy Alchemy

Download or read book Uneasy Alchemy written by Barbara L. Allen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How coalitions of citizens and experts have been effective in promoting environmental justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor.

Book Uneasy Virtue

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  • Author : Barbara Meil Hobson
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 1990-03-15
  • ISBN : 0226345572
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Virtue written by Barbara Meil Hobson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Barbara M. Hobson . . . makes a compelling case for the reform of prostitution policy in . . . Uneasy Virtue. [This volume] demonstrates an effective analytical approach to understanding public policy and its impact on prostitution policy. . . .Uneasy Virtue proves particularly relevant today as right wing groups begin to guide discourse and influence policy around reproductive rights, sexuality and the future of gender equality. As Hobson proposes, the reform of prostitution polciy must be viewed in the broader context of the political and economic struggles to emancipate women and thereby create a more rational society."—Samuel Suchowlecky, Commentaries

Book Celts  Romans  Britons

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  • Author : Francesca Kaminski-Jones
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2020-09-30
  • ISBN : 0198863071
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Celts Romans Britons written by Francesca Kaminski-Jones and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the ways in which ideas associated with the Celtic and the Classical have been used to construct identities (national/ethnic/regional etc.) in Britain, from the period of the Roman conquest to the present day.

Book Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor

Download or read book Life and Letters of Bayard Taylor written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Biblical World

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  • Author : William Rainey Harper
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book The Biblical World written by William Rainey Harper and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Books for New Testament study ... [By] Clyde Weber Votaw" v. 26, p. 271-320; v. 37, p. 289-352.

Book Life and Letters

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  • Author : Bayard Taylor
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 390 pages

Download or read book Life and Letters written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life and letters  ed  by M  Hansen Taylor and H E  Scudder

Download or read book Life and letters ed by M Hansen Taylor and H E Scudder written by Bayard Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Christ

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  • Author : Ernest DeWitt Burton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1908
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 330 pages

Download or read book The Life of Christ written by Ernest DeWitt Burton and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uneasy Partners

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  • Author : Leo F. Goodstadt
  • Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
  • Release : 2005-01-01
  • ISBN : 9789622097339
  • Pages : 360 pages

Download or read book Uneasy Partners written by Leo F. Goodstadt and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the wisdom about the way capitalism and colonialism joined forces to transform Hong Kong into one of the world's great cities, this book deploys case studies of the clash of interests between alien colonials and their Chinese constituents and the conflict between a pro-business government and its political and social responsibilities.

Book Exhibitors Daily Review

Download or read book Exhibitors Daily Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Re Thinking Literary Identities

Download or read book Re Thinking Literary Identities written by Laura Monrós-Gaspar and published by Universitat de València. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain is changing, and so is Europe. The aim of this book, therefore, is to reflect upon the processes of (re)creation of art and literature within and against the backdrop of the shifting paradigms of the world as we know it. At a time when the political relations between Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world are being redefined, this book examines the (de)construction of modern identities through the (de)codification of classical and contemporary mythologies.

Book Readings in Melbourne

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  • Author : Sir Archibald Michie
  • Publisher : London : S. Low, Martson, Searle & Rivington
  • Release : 1879
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Readings in Melbourne written by Sir Archibald Michie and published by London : S. Low, Martson, Searle & Rivington. This book was released on 1879 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses on English life in the city of Melbourne. They cover a period commencing with the earlier gold discoveries, and they close with the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh to the colony, in the year 1868.

Book Tchitchikoff s Journeys

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  • Author : Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Tchitchikoff s Journeys written by Nikolaĭ Vasilʹevich Gogolʹ and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Life of Christ

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  • Author : Ernest De Witt Burton
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1900
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book The Life of Christ written by Ernest De Witt Burton and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: