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Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

The history of collecting is a topic of central importance to many academic disciplines and shows no sign of abating in popularity. As such scholars will welcome this collection of essays by internationally recognised experts that gathers together for the first time varied and stimulating perspectives on the nineteenth-century collector and art market for French eighteenth-century art and ultimately the formation of collections that form part of such august institutions as the Louvre and the National Gallery in London. The book is the culmination of a successful conference organised jointly between the Wallace Collection and the Louvre on the occasion of the acclaimed exhibition Masterpieces from the Louvre: The Collection of Louis La Caze. Exploring themes relating to collectors critics markets and museums from France England and Germany the volume will appeal to academics and students alike and become essential reading on any course that deals with the history of collecting the history of taste and the nineteenth-century craze for the perceived douceur de vivre of eighteenth-century France. It also provides valuable insight into the history of the art markets and the formation of museums. | Delicious Decadence – The Rediscovery of French Eighteenth-Century Painting in the Nineteenth Century

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The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America

The Routledge History of Nineteenth-Century America provides an important overview of the main themes within the study of the long nineteenth century. The book explores major currents of research over the past few decades to give an up-to-date synthesis of nineteenth-century history. It shows how the century defined much of our modern world focusing on themes including: immigration slavery and racism women's rights literature and culture and urbanization. This collection reflects the state of the field and will be essential reading for all those interested in the development of the modern United States.

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Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich’s mid-century modern architecture is increasingly recognised for its qualities of light landscape and lifestyle. In the 1950s 60s and 70s around 2 000 new homes were created to the most modern standards without destroying the qualities which had made Dulwich so attractive to previous generations. With both historic and new photography this book showcases the award-winning work of the Dulwich Estate’s architects Austin Vernon & Partners working with house builder Wates. Today there is much to be learned from the architects and landscape planners who saw their role as fundamental to building Britain’s modern society. | Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

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Nineteenth Century Spain A New History

Nineteenth Century Spain A New History

Nineteenth century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires wars political instability and frustrated modernisation the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years offers a fresh perspective on this century showing how and why elements of backwardness and modernity ran in parallel through Spain. Bounded by the military and imperial crises of 1808 and 1898 this study pays special attention to the experience of war on politics and society and integrates the latest historical debates in its analysis. | Nineteenth Century Spain A New History

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Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy

Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy

Read through the lens of a single key concept in twentieth-century French philosophy that of the problem this book relates the concept to specific thinkers and situates it in relation both to the wider history of philosophy and contemporary concerns. How exactly should the notion of problems be understood? What must a problem be in order to play an inaugurating role in thought? Does the word problem have a univocal sense? What is at stake – theoretically ethically politically and institutionally – when philosophers use the word? This book addresses these and other questions and is devoted to making historical and philosophical sense of the various uses and conceptualisations of notions of problems problematics and problematisations in twentieth-century French thought. In the process it augments our understanding of the philosophical programs of a number of recent French thinkers reconfigures our perception of the history and wider stakes of twentieth-century French philosophy and reveals the ongoing theoretical richness and critical potential of the notion of the problem and its cognates. Working through the twentieth-century and focussing on specific thinkers including Foucault and Deleuze this book will be of interest to all scholars of French philosophy. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki. | Problems in Twentieth Century French Philosophy

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Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Military Strategy in the 21st Century

Military Strategy in the 21st Century explores military strategy and the new challenges facing Western democracies in the twenty- first century including strategy in cyber operations and peacekeeping challenges for civil-military relations and the strategic choices of great powers and small states. The volume contributes to a better understanding of military strategy in the twenty- first century through exploring strategy from three perspectives: first the study of strategy and how our understanding of strategy has changed over time; second new areas for strategic theory such as peacekeeping and cyberspace; and third the makers of strategy and why states choose suboptimal strategies. With the increasing number of threats challenging strategy makers such as great power rivalry terrorism intrastate wars and transnational criminal organisations Military Strategy in the 21st Century will be of great value to scholars of IR Security Studies Strategic Studies and War Studies as well as policymakers and practitioners working with military strategy in particular and international security and war in general. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Strategic Studies.

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The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Beyond Recovery

The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Beyond Recovery

There is an unfortunate argument being made that feminist scholarship of eighteenth-century literary studies has fulfilled its potential in academic circles. The Future of Eighteenth-Century Feminist Scholarship: Beyond Recovery shows us otherwise. Each of the essays in this volume reaffirms the feminist principles that form the foundation of this area then builds upon them by acknowledging the inevitable conflicts they or their subjects have faced and the contradictions they or their subjects have lived. | The Future of Feminist Eighteenth-Century Scholarship Beyond Recovery

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Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature An Essential Guide for Secondary Teachers

Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature An Essential Guide for Secondary Teachers

Teaching nineteenth-century literature can be an incredibly rewarding experience resulting in lessons which are exciting and engaging and enable amazing levels of student progress. This essential handbook guides teachers through the key events of the period offering theoretical approaches and a wealth of practical ideas for teaching nineteenth-century fiction and poetry in the secondary classroom. Supporting and inspiring teachers as they introduce nineteenth-century texts to their students and nurture their interest and enthusiasm for the genre Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature provides a grounding in the major historical events of the nineteenth century describes pedagogical approaches to teaching fiction and poetry and offers step-by-step guidance on the use of literary resources. Chapters offer advice on overcoming the particular challenges of the genre including unwieldy plots complex vocabulary and unfamiliar sentence structures and illustrate how texts from the period can be made fully accessible to even the youngest pupils. With a range of detailed activities photocopiable lesson plans case studies and extracts for use in the classroom teachers will be able to quickly and easily build a scheme of work that is stimulating and beneficial for children of varying abilities. Equipping teachers with the knowledge understanding and resources they need to teach nineteenth-century literature in an engaging inspiring and intellectually stimulating way this practical and accessible text will be an invaluable resource for secondary school English teachers students and trainees. | Teaching Nineteenth-Century Literature An Essential Guide for Secondary Teachers

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Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets

Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets

In Mina Loy Twentieth-Century Photography and Contemporary Women Poets Linda A. Kinnahan explores the making of Mina Loy’s late modernist poetics in relation to photography’s ascendance by the mid-twentieth century as a distinctively modern force shaping representation and perception. As photography develops over the course of the century as an art form social tool and cultural force Loy’s relationship to a range of photographic cultures emerging in the first half of the twentieth century suggests how we might understand not only the intriguing work of this poet but also the shaping impact of photography and new technologies of vision upon modernist poetics. Framing Loy’s encounters with photography through intersections of portraiture Surrealism fashion documentary and photojournalism Kinnahan draws correspondences between Loy’s late poetry and visual discourses of the body urban poverty and war discerning how a visual rhetoric of gender often underlies these mappings and connections. In her final chapter Kinnahan examines two contemporary poets who directly engage the camera’s modern impact –Kathleen Fraser and Caroline Bergvall – to explore the questions posed in their work about the particular relation of the camera the photographic image and the construction of gender in the late twentieth century.

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Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century The Political Struggle of the 21st Century

Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century The Political Struggle of the 21st Century

This title was first published in 1999: The author contends that economic democracy is the economic system the U. S. purports to have but has thus far failed to achieve because it like all the economic powers that have gone before seeks to control the economies of weaker nations. It is the shocking lack of economic democracy and the efforts of so many to achieve it that fuels today's conflicts and will fuel those of the 21st century. To show how and why this comprehensive work provides a detailed analysis of the history of numerous aspects of the development of the Neo-Mercantilist world economy; the geopolitical systems put in place by the developed world to manage and perpetuate that economy; and the numerous proposals and modeling plans that have been offered over the years for the achievement of economic democracy. | Economic Democracy: The Political Struggle of the 21st Century The Political Struggle of the 21st Century

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Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

This volume analyzes representations of disability in art from antiquity to the twenty-first century incorporating disability studies scholarship and art historical research and methodology. This book brings these two strands together to provide a comprehensive overview of the intersections between these two disciplines. Divided into four parts: Ancient History through the 17th Century: Gods Dwarfs and Warriors 17th-Century Spain to the American Civil War: Misfits Wounded Bodies and Medical Specimens Modernism Metaphor and Corporeality Contemporary Art: Crips Care and Portraiture and comprised of 16 chapters focusing on Greek sculpture ancient Chinese art Early Italian Renaissance art the Spanish Golden Age nineteenth century art in France (Manet Toulouse-Lautrec) and the US and contemporary works it contextualizes understandings of disability historically as well as in terms of medicine literature and visual culture. This book is required reading for scholars and students of disability studies art history sociology medical humanities and media arts. | Disability and Art History from Antiquity to the Twenty-First Century

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American Engineers of the Nineteenth Century A Biographical Index

American Engineers of the Nineteenth Century A Biographical Index

First published in 1978. This biography aims solve the problem of the lack of access to information regarding American engineers and technologists of the nineteenth-century whilst also providing opportunities for scholars to study and assess the work of hitherto little known potentially important figures. This title will be of interest to scholars and students of science and history. | American Engineers of the Nineteenth Century A Biographical Index

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Staging 21st Century Tragedies Theatre Politics and Global Crisis

Staging 21st Century Tragedies Theatre Politics and Global Crisis

Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre Politics and Global Crisis is an international collection of essays by leading academics artists writers and curators examining ways in which the global tragedies of our century are being negotiated in current theatre practice. In exploring the tragic in the fields of history and theory of theatre the book approaches crisis through an understanding of the existential and political aspect of the tragic condition. Using an interdisciplinary perspective it showcases theatre texts and productions that enter the public sphere manifesting notably participatory immersive and documentary modes of expression to form a theatre of modern tragedy. The coexistence of scholarly essays with manifesto-like provocations interviews original plays and diaries by theatre artists provides a rich and multifocal lens that allows readers to approach twenty-first-century theatre through historical and critical study text and performance analysis and creative processes. Of special value is the global scope of the collection embracing forms of crisis theatre in many geographically diverse regions of both the East and the West. Staging 21st Century Tragedies: Theatre Politics and Global Crisis will be of use and interest to academics and students of political theatre applied theatre theatre history and theatre theory. | Staging 21st Century Tragedies Theatre Politics and Global Crisis

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English Vocabulary Today Into the 21st Century

English Vocabulary Today Into the 21st Century

English Vocabulary Today: Into the 21st Century offers an innovative perspective on the ways in which contemporary English language vocabulary continues to adapt and grow in light of emerging technologies and ideas. The book begins with a concise history of the English language followed by chapters covering key topics including lexical change semantic change and word-formation. Additional chapters highlight unique topics not often covered in English language studies including the mental lexicon inclusive language and the importing and exporting of words between English and other languages. Chapter discussions are enhanced by dynamic examples from a wide range of varieties of English including American British Australian New Zealand Canadian South African and South Asian. Taken together English Vocabulary Today: Into the 21st Century offers students a clear and comprehensive understanding of the multi-faceted nature of English vocabulary today as well as new insights into its continued development. | English Vocabulary Today Into the 21st Century

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20th Century Britain Economic Cultural and Social Change

20th Century Britain Economic Cultural and Social Change

20th Century Britain provides an authoritative and accessible survey of contemporary research on economic activity society political development and culture. Written by leading academics it examines recent advances in scholarship and gives a grounding in established approaches and topics. The first part comprises thematic essays covering the whole of the twentieth century including chapters on the economy economic management big business parliamentary politics leisure work health international economic relations and empire. It uncovers key areas of equality and diversity in chapters on women living standards social mobility ethnicity and multiculturalism and gender and sexuality. The most recent subfields of historical studies are also explored including disability history and environmental economic history. The second part focuses on seismic events and topics covering shorter timeframes including the World Wars interwar Depression Britain and European integration sexual behaviours civil society the 1960s cultural revolution and resisting racism. This collection provides an essential guide to current academic thinking on the most important elements of twentieth-century British history and is a useful tool for all students and scholars interested in modern Britain. | 20th Century Britain Economic Cultural and Social Change

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British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century

British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century

Originally published in 1969. In the seventeenth century neither the literary genre nor the term ‘autobiography’ existed but we see in seventeenth-century literature many kinds of autobiographical writings to which their authors gave such titles as ‘Journal of the Life of Me Confessions etc. This work is a study of nearly two hundred of these published and unpublished which together represent a very varied group of writings. The book begins with an examination of the rise of autobiography as a genre during the Renaissance. It discusses seventeenth-century autobiographical writings under two main headings – ‘religious’ where the autobiographies are grouped according to the denomination of their writer and ‘secular’ where a wide variety of writings is examined including accounts of travel and of military and political life as well as more personal accounts. Autobiographies by women are treated separately and the author shows that they in general have a deeper revelation of sentiments and more subtle self-analyses than is found in comparable works by men. Sources and influences are recorded and also the essential historical details of each work. This book gives a critical analysis of the autobiographies as literary works and suggests relationships between them and the culture and society of their time. Review of the original publication: …a contribution to cultural history which is of quite exceptional merit. Its subject is of great intrinsic interest and manifest importance and Professor Delany has treated it with exemplary thoroughness lucidity and intelligence. Lionel Trilling | British Autobiography in the Seventeenth Century

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International Conflict in the Twentieth Century A Christian View

International Conflict in the Twentieth Century A Christian View

First published in 1960 International Conflict in the Twentieth Century considers how to solve the problem of human relations for external affairs. Stepping back from the more common focus on current affairs the book explores in detail the processes and patterns of history the principles that underlie foreign policy the ethical issues involved in international affairs and the role of Christianity in a time of global revolution. In doing so it covers a variety of topics including morality scientific approaches to politics lessons from history and human nature. International Conflict in the Twentieth Century will appeal to those with an interest in religion and politics religious philosophy and religious and political history. | International Conflict in the Twentieth Century A Christian View

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The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance

The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance brings together a selection of particularly memorable performances beginning with Nell Gwyn in a 1668 staging of Secret Love and moving chronologically towards the final performance of John Philip Kemble's controversial adaptation of Thomas Otway's Venice Presever'd in October 1795. This volume contains a wealth of contextual materials including contemporary reviews portraits advertisements and cast lists. By privileging event over publication this collection aims to encourage an understanding of performance that emphasizes the immediacy - and changeability - of the theatrical repertoire during the long eighteenth century. Offering an invaluable insight into the performance culture of the time The Routledge Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Performance is a unique much-needed resource for students of theatre.

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Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

This edited collection of essays focuses on the topic of protest during the Enlightenment of the long eighteenth century (roughly 1670-1833). Resistance in the eighteenth century was extensive and the act of protest to foment meaningful societal change took on many forms from the circulation of ballads swearing of oaths to riots and work stoppages or the composition of essays novels posters caricatures political cartoons as well as theater and opera. The contributors to this volume examine the causes of protest as well as the broad ways in which common artifacts such as poles trees drums conchs and songs acted as flashpoints for conflict and vehicles of protest. Rather than approaching the topic with strict geographical temporal and structural limitations this book focuses on the time period from an international perspective and an interdisciplinary scope. Because of its wide scope this book is an important contribution to the subject that will be of interest to both faculty and students of the history of protest resistance and the changes that these forces bring as it also reminds us that the protests of today are rooted in historical resistances of the past. | Protest in the Long Eighteenth Century

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