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Spanning from the 1876 exposition in Philadelphia, through Paris 1889, and culminating in Paris 1900, this book examines how Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico forged the image of a modernizing Latin America at the moment of their insertion into the new visual economy of capitalism.
This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries.
Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that... Læs mere
This book explores the professional and social lives of the soldiers who served in the army of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century.
The case of Jumbo exposed the 'human dilemma' of modern living, wherein people celebrated individual animals to cope or distract themselves from the wholesale slaughter of animals required by modern consumerism.
This book explores the role of television in the 1950s and early 1960s, with a focus on the relationship between Tories and TV.
Where is Egypt headed? Did the people 'bring down the government'? Has the country become the first front in a regional counter-revolution... Læs mere
This volume advances the discussions of leadership in Africa's specific history, culture, economy, and politics. The... Læs mere
This monograph is an exploration of the historical legacy of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, in particular in Goa,... Læs mere
This book examines and critiques the fact that Chile’s claims to economic exceptionalism have been embodied, often quite aggressively, in a heterosexual, and primarily male, ideal.
But in the absence of a positive vision of how society and the economy might develop in the future, the present trajectory of capitalism will never be derailed, no matter how acute the critique of present-day developments.
This book examines the views of Greek Church Fathers on hoarding, saving, and management of economic surplus, and their development primarily in urban centres of the Eastern Mediterranean, from the late first to the fifth century.