The Modern Period


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Society In Early Modern England


Society In Early Modern England
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Author : Phil Withington
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2010-09-20

Society In Early Modern England written by Phil Withington and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-20 with History categories.


The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries have traditionally been regarded by historians as a period of intense and formative historical change, so much so that they have often been described as ‘early modern' - an epoch separate from ‘the medieval' and ‘the modern'. Paying particular attention to England, this book reflects on the implications of this categorization for contemporary debates about the nature of modernity and society. The book traces the forgotten history of the phrase 'early modern' to its coinage as a category of historical analysis by the Victorians and considers when and why words like 'modern' and 'society' were first introduced into English in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In so doing it unpicks the connections between linguistic and social change and how the consequences of those processes still resonate today. A major contribution to our understanding of European history before 1700 and its resonance for social thought today, the book will interest anybody concerned with the historical antecedents of contemporary culture and the interconnections between the past and the present.



The Modern Period Room


The Modern Period Room
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Author : Penny Sparke
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-08-21

The Modern Period Room written by Penny Sparke and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-21 with Architecture categories.


With contributors drawn from a broad range of disciplines, The Modern Period Room brings together a carefully selected collection of essays to consider the interiors of the modern era and their more recent reconstructions from a variety of different viewpoints. Contributions from leading design historians, architects and curators of the history of the domestic interior in the UK engage with the issues and conventions surrounding the modern period room to expose the conflicting tensions that lie beneath the conceptual and physical strategy of the modern period room's representational technique. Exploring themes and examples by prestigious architects, such as Ernö Goldfinger, Truus Schroeder and Gerrit Rietveld, the authors reveal the specific coding of presented interior spaces. This illustrated new take on the historiography of twentieth century show interiors enables historians and theorists of architecture, design and social history to investigate the contexts in which this representational device has been used.



Privacy In The Modern Age


Privacy In The Modern Age
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Author : Marc Rotenberg
language : en
Publisher: New Press, The
Release Date : 2015-05-12

Privacy In The Modern Age written by Marc Rotenberg and has been published by New Press, The this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-12 with Law categories.


The threats to privacy are well known: the National Security Agency tracks our phone calls; Google records where we go online and how we set our thermostats; Facebook changes our privacy settings when it wishes; Target gets hacked and loses control of our credit card information; our medical records are available for sale to strangers; our children are fingerprinted and their every test score saved for posterity; and small robots patrol our schoolyards and drones may soon fill our skies. The contributors to this anthology don't simply describe these problems or warn about the loss of privacy—they propose solutions. They look closely at business practices, public policy, and technology design, and ask, “Should this continue? Is there a better approach?” They take seriously the dictum of Thomas Edison: “What one creates with his hand, he should control with his head.” It's a new approach to the privacy debate, one that assumes privacy is worth protecting, that there are solutions to be found, and that the future is not yet known. This volume will be an essential reference for policy makers and researchers, journalists and scholars, and others looking for answers to one of the biggest challenges of our modern day. The premise is clear: there's a problem—let's find a solution.



The Modern Period


The Modern Period
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Author : Lara Freidenfelds
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2009-06-15

The Modern Period written by Lara Freidenfelds and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-15 with History categories.


Winner, 2010 Emily Toth Award for Best Book in Women’s Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association The Modern Period examines how and why Americans adopted radically new methods of managing and thinking about menstruation during the twentieth century. In the early twentieth century women typically used homemade cloth "diapers" to absorb menstrual blood, avoided chills during their periods to protect their health, and counted themselves lucky if they knew something about menstruation before menarche. New expectations at school, at play, and in the workplace, however, made these menstrual traditions problematic, and middle-class women quickly sought new information and products that would make their monthly periods less disruptive to everyday life. Lara Freidenfelds traces this cultural shift, showing how Americans reframed their thinking about menstruation. She explains how women and men collaborated with sex educators, menstrual product manufacturers, advertisers, physical education teachers, and doctors to create a modern understanding of menstruation. Excerpts from seventy-five interviews—accounts by turns funny and moving—help readers to identify with the experiences of the ordinary people who engineered these changes. The Modern Period ties historical changes in menstrual practices to a much broader argument about American popular modernity in the twentieth century. Freidenfelds explores what it meant to be modern and middle class and how those ideals were reflected in the menstrual practices and beliefs of the time. This accessible study sheds new light on the history of popular modernity, the rise of the middle class, and the relationship of these phenomena to how Americans have cared for and managed their bodies.



The Modern Period Room 1870 1950 The Construction Of The Exhibited Interior


The Modern Period Room 1870 1950 The Construction Of The Exhibited Interior
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Author : Brenda Martin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006

The Modern Period Room 1870 1950 The Construction Of The Exhibited Interior written by Brenda Martin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Interior decoration categories.




Literature Of The Western World Neoclassicism Through The Modern Period


Literature Of The Western World Neoclassicism Through The Modern Period
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Release Date : 1992

Literature Of The Western World Neoclassicism Through The Modern Period written by and has been published by MacMillan Publishing Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.




Modern Times


Modern Times
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Author : Mica Nava
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15

Modern Times written by Mica Nava and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.


Confronting the contemporary poststructuralist debate from the perspective of cultural of cultural historiography, this book presents an historical study of race and ethnicity. Specifically, it provides an account, both theoretical and applied, of the combination of sexual, racial and ethnic underpinning and shaping the experiences of English men and women in various colonies in the nineteenth century. Although accessible for the student, the book will be received seriously by both theorists and historians.



Teaching The Early Modern Period


Teaching The Early Modern Period
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Author : D. Conroy
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2011-06-03

Teaching The Early Modern Period written by D. Conroy and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.


This innovative project unites leading scholars of English, History and French to examine the challenges of teaching early modern literature, history and culture within higher education. The volume sets out a variety of approaches to teaching the period and aims to revitalize the connection between teaching and research.



A Cultural History Of The Modern Age


A Cultural History Of The Modern Age
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Author : Egon Friedell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12

A Cultural History Of The Modern Age written by Egon Friedell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with History categories.


This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi c mind: in nature-research, language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry, and religion. All systems of thought produced in this century, either begin with the scientifi c outlook as their foundation or regard it as their highest and fi nal goal. Friedell claims three main streams pervade the eighteenth century: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Classicism. In ordinary use, by "Enlightenment" we mean an extreme rationalistic tendency of which preliminary stages were noted in the seventeenth century. Th e term "Classicism", is well understood. Under the term "Revolution" Friedell includes all movements directed against what has been dominant and traditional. Th e aims of such movements were remodeling the state and society, banning all esthetic canons, and dethronement of reason by sentiment, all in the name of the "Return to Nature." Th e Enlightenment tendency might be seen as laying the ground for an age of revolution. Th is second volume continues Friedell's dramatic history of the driving forces of the twentieth century.



Notable American Women


Notable American Women
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Author : Barbara Sicherman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1980

Notable American Women written by Barbara Sicherman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Biography categories.


Modeled on the "Dictionary of American Biography, "this set stands alone but is a good complement to that set which contained only 700 women of 15,000 entries. The preparation of the first set of "Notable American Women" was supported by Radcliffe College. It includes women from 1607 to those who died before the end of 1950; only 5 women included were born after 1900. Arranged throughout the volumes alphabetically, entries are from 400 to 7,000 words and have bibliographies. There is a good introductory essay and a classified lest of entries in volume three.