Kashuba, Irma M.
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p.
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Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition. Jan2010, p1-8. 8p.
A biographical essay about Denis Diderot , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Standup Comedy as Humorous Detachment: Enlightenment Roots from Diderot and Sade.
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Theatrical Colloquia. 2020, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p93-104. 24p.
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Rosenblum, Joseph
As editor of and contributor to the Encyclopedia, Diderot codified and promulgated the...
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World Philosophers & Their Works. Feb2000, p1-3. 3p.
As editor of and contributor to the Encyclopedia, Diderot codified and promulgated the views of the French Enlightenment. He developed a philosophy of nature and promoted biology and chemistry with physiological investigations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Robb, Bonnie
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1986 World Drama Index, p163-168. 6p.
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Research Guide to Biography & Criticism. 1986 World Drama Index, p163-168. 6p.
This article presents a research guide to the life and works of playwright Dennis Diderot . He was born on October 5, 1713 , in Langres, Champagne, France, to Didier Diderot and Angé1ique Vigneron. At the beginning of his career, Diderot published his works anonymously for the most part, although his authorship became known and caused him trouble. There has been plenty of documentary evidence on Diderot's life for biographers, except for the period of his early formative years in Paris, about which little has been discovered.
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
Dalrymple, Mary;Dalrymple, Mary
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structur...
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The Handbook of Lexical Functional Grammar
2023; Vol. 00013
Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) is a nontransformational theory oflinguistic structure, first developed in the 1970s by Joan Bresnan andRonald M. Kaplan, which assumes that language is best described andmodeled by parallel structures representing different facets oflinguistic organization and information, related by means offunctional correspondences. This volume has five parts. Part I,Overview and Introduction, provides an introduction to core syntacticconcepts and representations. Part II, Grammatical Phenomena, reviewsLFG work on a range of grammatical phenomena or constructions. PartIII, Grammatical modules and interfaces, provides an overview of LFGwork on semantics, argument structure, prosody, information structure,and morphology. Part IV, Linguistic disciplines, reviews LFG work inthe disciplines of historical linguistics, learnability,psycholinguistics, and second language learning. Part V, Formal andcomputational issues and applications, provides an overview ofcomputational and formal properties of the theory, implementations,and computational work on parsing, translation, grammar induction, andtreebanks. Part VI, Language families and regions, reviews LFG workon languages spoken in particular geographical areas or in particularlanguage families. The final section, Comparing LFG with otherlinguistic theories, discusses LFG work in relation to othertheoretical approaches.
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Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-century Nordic Countries : Reason and Orthodoxy
Johannes Ljungberg;Erik Sidenvall;Johannes Ljungberg;Erik Sidenvall
This book explores the concept of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries duri...
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Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-century Nordic Countries : Reason and Orthodoxy
2023
This book explores the concept of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. It argues that Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices in this European region. In the book's three parts, specialist historians explore themes central to students of the early modern era – historical writing, material culture, ecclesiastical and legal reform, censorship, cameralism and innovative medical practices. It offers a timely reconsideration of a complex period in European history from a northern perspective.
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Political Reason and the Language of Change : Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
Adriana Luna-Fabritius;Ere Nokkala;Marten Seppel;Keith Tribe;Adriana Luna-F...
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in earl...
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Political Reason and the Language of Change : Reform and Improvement in Early Modern Europe
2023
This collection of essays re-examines ideas of change and movements for change in early modern Europe without presuming that'progressive'change was the outcome of'reforms'.'Reform'today implies rational, incremental change to public institutions and procedures.'Improvement'has a more general application, emphasising the positive outcome to which'reform'is oriented. But the language of reform is today used of historical personalities and movements that did not themselves use the term, and who in many cases were not necessarily seeking the progressive change that we would understand today. The activities of'reform'were embedded in contemporary politics, and while'improvement'was part of a contemporary vocabulary, its real presence has been obscured by the range of natural languages in which it was expressed. Contributors to this volume seek to establish what was meant by contemporary usage. Bringing together scholars of Russia, Southern, Western, Central and Northern Europe, this collection sheds new light on both common and divergent features of a political process too often treated as a uniform movement towards modernity. This volume is a useful resource for students and scholars interested in Enlightenment studies, intellectual history, and conceptual history in early modern Europe. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Civic improvement--Europe - Social problems--Europe - Enlightenment--EuropeContent provider:
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
Jan Hansen;Jochen Hung;Jaroslav Ira;Judit Klement;Sylvain Lesage;Juan Luis ...
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians f...
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The European Experience : A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe, 1500–2000
2023
The European Experience brings together the expertise of nearly a hundred historians from eight European universities to internationalise and diversify the study of modern European history, exploring a grand sweep of time from 1500 to 2000. Offering a valuable corrective to the Anglocentric narratives of previous English-language textbooks, scholars from all over Europe have pooled their knowledge on comparative themes such as identities, cultural encounters, power and citizenship, and economic development to reflect the complexity and heterogeneous nature of the European experience. Rather than another grand narrative, the international author teams offer a multifaceted and rich perspective on the history of the continent of the past 500 years. Each major theme is dissected through three chronological sub-chapters, revealing how major social, political and historical trends manifested themselves in different European settings during the early modern (1500–1800), modern (1800–1900) and contemporary period (1900–2000). This resource is of utmost relevance to today's history students in the light of ongoing internationalisation strategies for higher education curricula, as it delivers one of the first multi-perspective and truly ‘European'analyses of the continent's past. Beyond the provision of historical content, this textbook equips students with the intellectual tools to interrogate prevailing accounts of European history, and enables them to seek out additional perspectives in a bid to further enrich the discipline.
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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine
Vivienne Lo;Michael Stanley-Baker;Vivienne Lo;Michael Stanley-Baker
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to...
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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine
2022
The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions Sickness and Healing Food and Sex Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices The World of Sinographic Medicine Wider Diasporas Negotiating Modernity This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer;Doris Gruber;Arno Strohmeyer
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze trav...
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On the Way to the '(Un)Known'? : The Ottoman Empire in Travelogues (c. 1450-1900)
2022; Vol. 00036
This volume brings together twenty-two authors from various countries who analyze travelogues on the Ottoman Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. The travelogues reflect the colorful diversity of the genre, presenting the experiences of individuals and groups from China to Great Britain. The spotlight falls on interdependencies of travel writing and historiography, geographic spaces, and specific practices such as pilgrimages, the hajj, and the harem. Other points of emphasis include the importance of nationalism, the place and time of printing, representations of fashion, and concepts of masculinity and femininity. By displaying close, comparative, and distant readings, the volume offers new insights into perceptions of'otherness', the circulation of knowledge, intermedial relations, gender roles, and digital analysis.
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian von Tschilschke;Beatrice Schuchardt;Christian...
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Protagonists of Production in Preindustrial European Literature (1700-1800) : Male and Female Entrepreneurs, Craftspeople, and Workers
2022; Vol. 00028
What form did the portrayal of business owners, entrepreneurs, peasants, craftspeople and similar ‘protagonists of production'take before it became the subject of negative assessments in the epoch of industrialization? Focusing on the European Enlightenment movement with a special emphasis on Spain, this volume sheds light on how both male and female figures working in production are represented by novels, plays, economic tracts and in the press. Literary scholars, historians, and economists analyse how those portrayals are related to the history of economic thought, 18th-century economic discourse, and enlightened Political Economy. With an epilogue by Deirdre McCloskey.
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Andere Ästhetik : Grundlagen – Fragen – Perspektiven
Annette Gerok-Reiter;Jörg Robert;Matthias Bauer;Anna Pawlak;Annette Gerok-R...
Was ist Kunst? Was leistet Kunst? Warum bewegt uns Kunst? Und warum kommt ästhetischen...
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Andere Ästhetik : Grundlagen – Fragen – Perspektiven
2022; Vol. 00001
Was ist Kunst? Was leistet Kunst? Warum bewegt uns Kunst? Und warum kommt ästhetischen Fragestellungen gerade heute wieder eine besondere Relevanz zu? Diesen Fragen geht der seit 2019 von der DFG eingerichtete Tübinger Sonderforschungsbereich 1391 Andere Ästhetik nach. Dabei möchte er die historische Tiefenschicht eines Perspektivwechsels aufarbeiten, der sich darauf richtet, Kunst und Künste nicht in autonomen Sonderräumen zu situieren. Hierfür bringt das Forschungsprojekt die 2000-jährige europäische Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte vor dem 18. Jahrhundert neu in Anschlag. Der Band erläutert, worin der Gewinn der Konzentration auf die Vormoderne besteht, welche Neujustierung der Analyseinstrumentarien damit verbunden ist und welche grundsätzlichen Konsequenzen für Fragen der Ästhetik sich hieraus ergeben. Die Beiträge, die von den Philologien über die Kunstgeschichte, Archäologie und Musikwissenschaft bis hin zur Geschichtswissenschaft, Theologie und den Digital Humanities reichen, bieten hierfür konkrete Beispiele. Ziel ist es, von den ästhetischen Reflexionen der Vormoderne aus Impulse auch und gerade für die Diskussionen in der Gegenwart zu gewinnen. Der Band rückt Fragen der Ästhetik in neuer Weise von der Vormoderne aus in den Blick bietet gegenüber autonomieästhetisch orientierten heuristischen Ansätzen eine grundlegende Alternative an profiliert einen Perspektivwechsel mit interdisziplinärem Gewinn
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
Jonathan P. Ribner;Jonathan P. Ribner
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religi...
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Loss in French Romantic Art, Literature, and Politics
2022
An interdisciplinary examination of nineteenth-century French art pertaining to religion, exile, and the nation's demise as a world power, this study concerns the consequences for visual culture of a series of national crises—from the assault on Catholicism and the flight of émigrés during the Revolution of 1789, to the collapse of the Empire and the dashing of hope raised by the Revolution of 1830. The central claim is that imaginative response to these politically charged experiences of loss constitutes a major shaping force in French Romantic art, and that pursuit of this theme in light of parallel developments in literature and political debate reveals a pattern of disenchantment transmuted into cultural capital. Focusing on imagery that spoke to loss through visual and verbal idioms particular to France in the aftermath of the Revolution and Empire, the book illuminates canonical works by major figures such as Eugène Delacroix, Théodore Chassériau, and Camille Corot, as well as long-forgotten images freighted with significance for nineteenth-century viewers. A study in national bereavement—an urgent theme in the present moment—the book provides a new lens through which to view the coincidence of imagination and strife at the heart of French Romanticism. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, French literature, French history, French politics, and religious studies.
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik;Martin Hummel;Anna Gazdik
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type c...
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Dictionnaire historique de l’adjectif-adverbe
2021; Vol. 00001
Le Dictionnaire historique de l'adjectif-adverbe recense les groupes de mots du type couper court, dans lesquels un verbe est combiné avec un adjectif à fonction adverbiale. Ordonnées alphabétiquement, les 2 600 entrées du dictionnaire vont de abaisser bas à voter utile. Elles sont attestées par quelque 12 000 citations couvrant l'histoire de la langue française, du Moyen Âge à nos jours. « Expressions savoureuses » selon Lucien Tesnière, les adjectifs-adverbes constituent une ressource stylistique précieuse tant en littérature que dans la publicité et au quotidien. Ce dictionnaire fait ainsi la part belle au plaisir de la langue. Élaboré à partir de quelque 70 publications dédiées à la morphologie et à la syntaxe de l'adjectif-adverbe dans la Romania, il combine de façon unique documentation lexicographique et recherche linguistique.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
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Dictionary of World Biography
2021
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
William Max Nelson;William Max Nelson
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of...
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The Time of Enlightenment : Constructing the Future in France, 1750 to Year One
2021
A new idea of the future emerged in eighteenth-century France. With the development of modern biological, economic, and social engineering, the future transformed from being predetermined and beyond significant human intervention into something that could be dramatically affected through actions in the present. The Time of Enlightenment argues that specific mechanisms for constructing the future first arose through the development of practices and instruments aimed at countering degeneration. In their attempts to regenerate a healthy natural state, Enlightenment philosophes created the means to exceed previously recognized limits and build a future that was not merely a recuperation of the past, but fundamentally different from it. A theoretically inflected work combining intellectual history and the history of science, this book will appeal to anyone interested in European history and the history of science, as well as the history of France, the Enlightenment, and the French Revolution.
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Philosophy, French--18th century - Enlightenment--France--Influence - Enlightenment--France - Forecasting--Social aspects--France--History--18th century - Future, The--Philosophy - Future, The--Social aspects--France--History--18th centuryContent provider:
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Cultures in Conflict : Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe C. 1800–2000
Alexander Maurits;Johannes Ljungberg;Erik Sidenvall;Alexander Maurits;Johan...
This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where re...
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Cultures in Conflict : Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe C. 1800–2000
2021
This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious history.
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Latin As the Language of Science and Learning
Philipp Roelli;Philipp Roelli
This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and lea...
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Latin As the Language of Science and Learning
2021; Vol. 00007
This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science'through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science'as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin's heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
Gianni Paganini;Margaret C. Jacob;John Christian Laursen;Gianni Paganini;Ma...
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic tex...
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Clandestine Philosophy : New Studieson Subversive Manuscrips in Early Modern Europe, 1620-1823
2020
Clandestine philosophical manuscripts, made up of forbidden works including erotic texts, political pamphlets, satires of court life, forbidden religious texts, and books about the occult, had an avid readership in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, becoming objects of historical research by the twentieth century. The purveyors of the clandestine could be found in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, Denmark, Spain, and not least in Paris or London. Despite the heavy risks, including prison, the circulation of these manuscripts was a prosperous venture. After Ira Wade's pioneering contribution (1938), Clandestine Philosophy is the first work in English entirely focused on the philosophical clandestine manuscripts that preceded and accompanied the birth of the Enlightenment. Topics from philosophy, political and religious thought, and moral and sexual behaviour are addressed by contemporary authors working in both America and Europe. These manuscripts shed light on the birth of pornography and provide an important avenue for investigating philosophical, religious, political, and social critique.
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Underground literature--Europe--Manuscripts--Congresses - Philosophy, Modern--History--Congresses - Philosophy (General) - Underground literature--Europe--History and criticism--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--19th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--17th century--Congresses - Manuscripts, European--History--18th century--CongressesContent provider:
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
Edith Hall;Henry Stead;Edith Hall;Henry Stead
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the liv...
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
2020
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone'. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
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Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Ireland--History - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History - Working class--Ireland--Intellectual lifeContent provider:
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Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society
Heikki Haara;Koen Stapelbroek;Mikko Immanen;Heikki Haara;Koen Stapelbroek;M...
The'Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History'of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual ...
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Passions, Politics and the Limits of Society
2020; Vol. 00001
The'Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History'of the Helsinki Centre for Intellectual History is a forum for frontline research of intellectual history broadly construed. HYIH promotes the study of intellectual history from a range of methodological and cross-disciplinary perspectives. The University of Helsinki has a long and distinguished tradition of research in the field of intellectual history. This journal endorses the work of the intellectual historians in Helsinki as well as intellectual history in general. It is committed to advancing original scholarship wide-ranging in scope and international in readership.
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Human rights - Economics--Moral and ethical aspects--EuropeContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. ...
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment
Silke Pasewalck;Matthias Weber;Silke Pasewalck;Matthias Weber
The first issue of the newly designed Journal for Culture and History of the Germans i...
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Bildungspraktiken der Aufklärung / Education practices of the Enlightenment
2020; Vol. 00001
The first issue of the newly designed Journal for Culture and History of the Germans in Eastern Europe (JKGE) addresses the specific conditions of education practices and education processes in the era of Enlightenment in Eastern Europe and its pluricultural and multilingual regions. Research on the Enlightenment period and on ‘entangled history'has recently gained a more global focus, and this has foregrounded questions of transfer, translation, networking, interferences, asynchronicity and ambivalence. Were educational practices guided by rationality or by a spirit of colonialism, or somewhere along the spectrum between these? To what extent did the structures of authority exercise an influence on educational initiatives and practices, especially those in popular education? How did the multiconfessional context of Eastern Europe affect the transition from religious education to strongly rational ways of organizing knowledge and education? Researchers from Germany, Estonia, Austria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary focus on aspects of education practices in politics, science, education, church life and culture.
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
Miloslav Rechcigl;Miloslav Rechcigl
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is ...
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Essays on the Arts and Sciences
2019; Vol. Volume II
To celebrate the 270th anniversary of the De Gruyter publishing house, the company is providing permanent open access to 270 selected treasures from the De Gruyter Book Archive. Titles will be made available to anyone, anywhere at any time that might be interested. The DGBA project seeks to digitize the entire backlist of titles published since 1749 to ensure that future generations have digital access to the high-quality primary sources that De Gruyter has published over the centuries.
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Science--Czechoslovakia - Arts--CzechoslovakiaContent provider:
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
Mary Ellen Snodgrass;Mary Ellen Snodgrass
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of to...
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Coins and Currency : An Historical Encyclopedia, 2d Ed.
2019
During ancient times currency took varied forms, including beaver skins, bales of tobacco, and sea salt blocks. As art and technology advanced, monetary systems and currencies altered. Today, coins and currency provide an historical and archeological record of culture, religion, politics, and world leaders. This updated second edition offers numerous entries of historical commentary on the role of coins and currency in human events, politics, and the arts. It begins with the origin of coins in ancient Sumer, and follows advancements in metallurgy and minting machines to paper, plastic, and electronic moneys designed to ease trade and halt counterfeiting and other forms of theft. A timeline of monetary history is provided along with a glossary and bibliography. Numerous photographs of coins and bills provide an up-close look at beautiful and ingenious artifacts.
