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The Invention Of The West
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Author : Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Invention Of The West written by Christopher Lloyd GoGwilt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Literary Criticism categories.
By placing Joseph Conrad's fiction at the center of an examination of the term "the West", this study reconceives the major contours of Conrad's work to show how the contemporary commonplace idea of the West emerged around the turn of the century from the combined and related phenomena of European imperial expansion and a crisis of democratic politics. The author argues that twentieth-century ideas of the West can be traced to the convergence of two distinct discursive contexts: the "new imperialism" of the 1890's that gave wider currency to oppositions between East and West, and the influence of nineteenth-century Russian debates on Western European ideas of Europe. The work of Conrad is shown to be uniquely suited to studying the relation between these two cultural and political contexts, since they provided Conrad with his two great themes - colonialism and revolution.
The Invention Of The Western Film
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Author : Scott Simmon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003-06-30
The Invention Of The Western Film written by Scott Simmon 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 2003-06-30 with Performing Arts categories.
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The Invention Of The West
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Author : Christopher Gogwilt
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005-06
The Invention Of The West written by Christopher Gogwilt and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-06 with categories.
By placing Joseph Conrad's fiction at the center of an exam'n. of the term the West,Ó this study reconciles the major contours of Conrad's work to show how the contemporary idea of the West emerged around the turn of the 20th cent. This study revises & clarifies our understanding of the imaginative geography & casts important light on a late-Victorian moment of ideological remapping. The discussion wends its way through a confluence of turn-of-the-cent. literary, cultural, & political phenomena & their reflections & refractions in Conrad's art. The idea of the West continues to dominate the geopol. cartography of our day, legitimizing the privileges, obscuring the contradict., & protecting the interests of the imperial syst. it both demarcates & disguises.
The American West
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Author : David Hamilton Murdoch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The American West written by David Hamilton Murdoch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
"In addition to presenting a sustained analysis of how and why the myth originated, Murdoch demonstrates that the myth was invented, for the most part deliberately, and then outgrew the purposes of its inventors. 'The American West' answers the questions that have too often been either begged or ignored. Why should the West become the focus for myth in the first place, and why, given the long process of western settlement, is the cattleman's West so central and the cowboy, of all prototypes, the mythic hero? And why should the myth have retained its potency up to the last decade of the twentieth century?"--Back cover.
The Invention Of Law In The West
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Author : Aldo Schiavone
language : en
Publisher: Belknap Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Invention Of Law In The West written by Aldo Schiavone and has been published by Belknap Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with History categories.
Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-renowned classicist, reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion, following its course over the centuries, setting out from the earliest origins and moving up to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidationâe"an age of unprecedented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic predisposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpretation that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal machinery and the discourse that was constructed around itâe"formalism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.
Civilizing The Enemy
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Author : Patrick Thaddeus Jackson
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2006-06-26
Civilizing The Enemy written by Patrick Thaddeus Jackson and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-26 with Political Science categories.
For the past century, politicians have claimed that "Western Civilization" epitomizes democratic values and international stability. But who is a member of "Western Civilization"? Germany, for example, was a sworn enemy of the United States and much of Western Europe in the first part of the twentieth century, but emerged as a staunch Western ally after World War II. By examining German reconstruction under the Marshall Plan, author Patrick Jackson shows how the rhetorical invention of a West that included Germany was critical to the emergence of the postwar world order. Civilizing the Enemy convincingly describes how concepts are strategically shaped and given weight in modern international relations, by expertly dissecting the history of "the West" and demonstrating its puzzling persistence in the face of contradictory realities. "By revisiting the early Cold War by means of some carefully conducted intellectual history, Patrick Jackson expertly dissects the post-1945 meanings of "the West" for Europe's emergent political imaginary. West German reconstruction, the foundation of NATO, and the idealizing of 'Western civilization' all appear in fascinating new light." --Geoff Eley, University of Michigan "Western civilization is not given but politically made. In this theoretically sophisticated and politically nuanced book, Patrick Jackson argues that Germany's reintegration into a Western community of nations was greatly facilitated by civilizational discourse. It established a compelling political logic that guided the victorious Allies in their occupation policy. This book is very topical as it engages critically very different, and less successful, contemporary theoretical constructions and political deployments of civilizational discourse." --Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University "What sets Patrick Jackson's book apart is his attention, on the one hand, to philosophical issues behind the kinds of theoretical claims he makes and, on the other hand, to the methodological implications that follow from those claims. Few scholars are willing and able to do both, and even fewer are as successful as he is in carrying it off. Patrick Jackson is a systematic thinker in a field where theory is all the rage but systematic thinking is in short supply." --Nicholas Onuf, Florida International University Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Assistant Professor of International Relations in American University's School of International Service.
Invention Of The Western Film A Cultural History Of The Genre S First Half Century
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Author : SCOTT. SIMMON
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003
Invention Of The Western Film A Cultural History Of The Genre S First Half Century written by SCOTT. SIMMON and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with categories.
Invention Of West
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Author : A. GREENBERG
language : en
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date : 1925-01-21
Invention Of West written by A. GREENBERG and has been published by Harper Perennial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1925-01-21 with Fiction categories.
Race
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Author : Ivan Hannaford
language : en
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press
Release Date : 1996
Race written by Ivan Hannaford and has been published by Woodrow Wilson Center Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
But he also finds the first traces of modern ideas of race and the protoscences of late medieval cabalism and hermeticism. Following that trail forward, he describes the establishment of modern scientific and philosophical notions of race in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and shows how those notions became popular and pervasive, even among those who claim to be nonracist.
Germany And The West
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Author : Riccardo Bavaj
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2017-06
Germany And The West written by Riccardo Bavaj and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with History categories.
“The West” is a central idea in German public discourse, yet historians know surprisingly little about the evolution of the concept. Contrary to common assumptions, this volume argues that the German concept of the West was not born in the twentieth century, but can be traced from a much earlier time. In the nineteenth century, “the West” became associated with notions of progress, liberty, civilization, and modernity. It signified the future through the opposition to antonyms such as “Russia” and “the East,” and was deployed as a tool for forging German identities. Examining the shifting meanings, political uses, and transnational circulations of the idea of “the West” sheds new light on German intellectual history from the post-Napoleonic era to the Cold War.