Modern Worlds
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Turner S Modern World
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Author : David Blayney Brown
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2021-05-04
Turner S Modern World written by David Blayney Brown and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-04 with Art categories.
A landmark publication positions Turner as a pioneer in depicting contemporary life in the wake of dizzying changes resulting from industrialization and modernization. This monograph is tied to the first exhibition to highlight Turner's contemporary imagery--the most exceptional and distinctive aspect of his work. Rather than making claims for Turner as a proto-modernist, it explores what constituted modernity during his lifetime and what it meant to be a modern artist. Turner's career spanned the Napoleonic Wars, the rise of the British Empire, the birth of finance capitalism and modern industrialization, as well as political, scientific, and cultural advances that transformed society and shaped the modern world. While historians have long recognized that the industrial and political revolutions of the late eighteenth century inaugurated far-reaching change and modernization, these were often ignored by artists as they did not fit into established categories of pictorial representation. This publication shows Turner updating the language of art and transforming his style and practice to produce revelatory, definitive interpretations of modern subjects.
Making The Modern World
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Author : Vaclav Smil
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-12-16
Making The Modern World written by Vaclav Smil and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-16 with Technology & Engineering categories.
How much further should the affluent world push its material consumption? Does relative dematerialization lead to absolute decline in demand for materials? These and many other questions are discussed and answered in Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization. Over the course of time, the modern world has become dependent on unprecedented flows of materials. Now even the most efficient production processes and the highest practical rates of recycling may not be enough to result in dematerialization rates that would be high enough to negate the rising demand for materials generated by continuing population growth and rising standards of living. This book explores the costs of this dependence and the potential for substantial dematerialization of modern economies. Making the Modern World: Materials and Dematerialization considers the principal materials used throughout history, from wood and stone, through to metals, alloys, plastics and silicon, describing their extraction and production as well as their dominant applications. The evolving productivities of material extraction, processing, synthesis, finishing and distribution, and the energy costs and environmental impact of rising material consumption are examined in detail. The book concludes with an outlook for the future, discussing the prospects for dematerialization and potential constrains on materials. This interdisciplinary text provides useful perspectives for readers with backgrounds including resource economics, environmental studies, energy analysis, mineral geology, industrial organization, manufacturing and material science.
The Origins Of The Modern World
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Author : Robert B. Marks
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2006-07-27
The Origins Of The Modern World written by Robert B. Marks and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-27 with History categories.
This clearly written and engaging book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world. Unlike most studies, which assume that the "rise of the West" is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, and an escape from "the biological old regime."
History Of The Modern World
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
History Of The Modern World written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with World history categories.
Contents include: V.1: Origins of the modern world; V.2: Religion and change in Europe; V.3: Old and new worlds; V.4: The Age of Enlightenment; V.5: Revolution and change; V.6: The changing balance of power; V.7: World War I and its consequences; V.8: World War II and the Cold War; V.9: The world today; V.10: Index.
The Crisis Of The Modern World
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Author : René Guénon
language : en
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Release Date : 2001
The Crisis Of The Modern World written by René Guénon and has been published by Sophia Perennis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-particularly that of the 'age of darkness' preceding the end of the present world-to social criticism, surpassed only by The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, his magnum opus. In the present work Guénon ruthlessly exposes the 'Western deviation': its loss of tradition, its exaltation of action over knowledge, its rampant individualism and general social chaos. His response to these conditions was not 'activist', however, but purely intellectual, envisioning the coming together of Western intellectual leaders capable under favorable circumstances of returning the West to its traditional roots, most likely via the Catholic Church, or, under less favorable ones, of at least preserving the 'seeds' of Tradition for the time to come.
Children And Books In The Modern World
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Author : Ed Marum
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-10-12
Children And Books In The Modern World written by Ed Marum and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-12 with Education categories.
This text is concerned with contemporary attitudes and approaches to the teaching of literacy, children's literature and other non-book texts and media. Based on research from the UK, the USA and Europe it makes a contribution to theory and practice.
The Modern World
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Author : Malcolm Bradbury
language : en
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Release Date : 1988
The Modern World written by Malcolm Bradbury and has been published by Harvill Secker this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Modern World Emerges
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Author : Judith Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Jacaranda
Release Date : 1986-01-01
The Modern World Emerges written by Judith Lawrence and has been published by Jacaranda this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-01 with World history categories.
Sport And Democracy In The Ancient And Modern Worlds
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Author : Paul Christesen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-10-15
Sport And Democracy In The Ancient And Modern Worlds written by Paul Christesen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-15 with History categories.
This book explores the relationship between sport and democratization. Drawing on sociological and historical methodologies, it provides a framework for understanding how sport affects the level of egalitarianism in the society in which it is played. The author distinguishes between horizontal sport, which embodies and fosters egalitarian relations, and vertical sport, which embodies and fosters hierarchical relations. Christesen also differentiates between societies in which sport is played and watched on a mass scale and those in which it is an ancillary activity. Using ancient Greece and nineteenth-century Britain as case studies, Christesen analyzes how these variables interact and finds that horizontal mass sport has the capacity to both promote and inhibit democratization at a societal level. He concludes that horizontal mass sport tends to reinforce and extend democratization.
The Birth Of The Modern
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Author : Paul Johnson
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-10-31
The Birth Of The Modern written by Paul Johnson and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with History categories.
A classic study of fifteen crucial years in the formation of the modern world The Birth of the Modern has established itself as a new kind of historical work - an examination of the way the matrix of the modern world was formed. Paul Johnson, one of today's most popular historians, takes fifteen critical years and subjects them to a fascinatingly detailed analysis: their geopolitics and politics, their cultural and intellectual life, their technology and science. He investigates every area of life, in every corner of the world. And he makes of this huge variety of elements a coherent narrative, told through the lives and actual words of the age's people - outstanding and ordinary - so that the reader feels he was there.
