Women And The Railway 1850 1915 Breaching National Borders Rail Travel In Europe And Empire
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Women And The Railway 1850 1915 Breaching National Borders Rail Travel In Europe And Empire
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Author : Anna Despotopoulou
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Women And The Railway 1850 1915 Breaching National Borders Rail Travel In Europe And Empire written by Anna Despotopoulou and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with English fiction categories.
Women's experiences of locomotion during a period of increased physical mobility and urbanisation are explored in this monograph. The five chapters analyse Victorian and early Modernist texts which concentrate on women in transit by train.
Women And The Railway 1850 1915
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Author : Anna Despotopoulou
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-01
Women And The Railway 1850 1915 written by Anna Despotopoulou and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-01 with Social Science categories.
Examines cultural representations of women's experience of the railway in a period of heightened mobility Women's experiences of locomotion during a period of increased physical mobility and urbanisation are explored in this monograph. The 5 chapters analyse Victorian and early Modernist texts which concentrate on women in transit by train, including Wilkie Collins's No Name, George Meredith's Diana of the Crossways, Elizabeth Gaskell's North and South, Henry James's The Spoils of Poynton and The Wings of the Dove, and stories by Rhoda Broughton, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Dickens and Katherine Mansfield. They highlight the tension between women's boundless physical, emotional, and sexual aspiration - often depicted as closely related to the freedom and speed of train travel - and Victorian gender ideology which constructed the spaces of the railway as geographies of fear or manipulation. Key features: The first full-length examination of texts by and about women which explore the railway as a gendered space within a British and European context Explores a variety of cultural discourses which deal with women and the railway: fiction, poetry, news stories and commentaries, essays, paintings, and philosophical writings Proposes a reconceptualization of the public/private binary
Learning Empire
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Author : Erik Grimmer-Solem
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-26
Learning Empire written by Erik Grimmer-Solem 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 2019-09-26 with History categories.
The First World War marked the end point of a process of German globalization that began in the 1870s. Learning Empire looks at German worldwide entanglements to recast how we interpret German imperialism, the origins of the First World War, and the rise of Nazism.
Reframing Singapore
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Author : Derek Thiam Soon Heng
language : en
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Release Date : 2009
Reframing Singapore written by Derek Thiam Soon Heng and has been published by Amsterdam University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Over the past two decades, Singapore has advanced rapidly towards becoming a both a global city-state and a key nodal point in the international economic sphere. These developments have caused us to reassess how we understand this changing nation, including its history, population, and geography, as well as its transregional and transnational experiences with the external world. This collection spans several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences and draws on various theoretical approaches and methodologies in order to produce a more refined understanding of Singapore and to reconceptialize the challenges faced by the country and its peoples.
English As A Global Language
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Author : David Crystal
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-03-29
English As A Global Language written by David Crystal 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 2012-03-29 with Foreign Language Study categories.
Written in a detailed and fascinating manner, this book is ideal for general readers interested in the English language.
European Elites And Ideas Of Empire 1917 1957
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Author : Dina Gusejnova
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-06-16
European Elites And Ideas Of Empire 1917 1957 written by Dina Gusejnova 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 2016-06-16 with History categories.
Explores European civilisation as a concept of twentieth-century political practice and the project of a transnational network of European elites. This title is available as Open Access.
An Archaeology Of The Iron Curtain
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Author : Anna McWilliams
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-12-20
An Archaeology Of The Iron Curtain written by Anna McWilliams and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-20 with Cold War categories.
The Iron Curtain was seen as the divider between East and West in Cold War Europe. The term refers to a material reality but it is also a metaphor; a metaphor that has become so powerful that it tends to mark our historical understanding of the period. Through the archaeological study of two areas that can be considered part of the former Iron Curtain, the Czech-Austrian border and the Italian-Slovenian border, this research investigates the relationship between the material and the metaphor of the Iron Curtain. As a study of the archaeology of the contemporary past this thesis brings forward methodological issues when dealing with many different sources as well as general reflections on our historical understanding.
A History Of Yugoslavia
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Author : Marie-Janine Calic
language : en
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-15
A History Of Yugoslavia written by Marie-Janine Calic and has been published by Purdue University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-15 with History categories.
Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? A History of Yugoslavia provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive synthesis of the political, cultural, social, and economic life of Yugoslavia—from its nineteenth-century South Slavic origins to the bloody demise of the multinational state of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Calic takes a fresh and innovative look at the colorful, multifaceted, and complex history of Yugoslavia, emphasizing major social, economic, and intellectual changes from the turn of the twentieth century and the transition to modern industrialized mass society. She traces the origins of ethnic, religious, and cultural divisions, applying the latest social science approaches, and drawing on the breadth of recent state-of-the-art literature, to present a balanced interpretation of events that takes into account the differing perceptions and interests of the actors involved. Uniquely, Calic frames the history of Yugoslavia for readers as an essentially open-ended process, undertaken from a variety of different regional perspectives with varied composite agenda. She shuns traditional, deterministic explanations that notorious Balkan hatreds or any other kind of exceptionalism are to blame for Yugoslavia’s demise, and along the way she highlights the agency of twentieth-century modern mass society in the politicization of differences. While analyzing nuanced political and social-economic processes, Calic describes the experiences and emotions of ordinary people in a vivid way. As a result, her groundbreaking work provides scholars and learned readers alike with an accessible, trenchant, and authoritative introduction to Yugoslavia's complex history.
State And Nation Making In Latin America And Spain
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Author : Miguel A. Centeno
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-29
State And Nation Making In Latin America And Spain written by Miguel A. Centeno 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 2013-03-29 with Political Science categories.
The growth of institutional capacity in the developing world has become a central theme in twenty-first-century social science. Many studies have shown that public institutions are an important determinant of long-run rates of economic growth. This book argues that to understand the difficulties and pitfalls of state building in the contemporary world, it is necessary to analyze previous efforts to create institutional capacity in conflictive contexts. It provides a comprehensive analysis of the process of state and nation building in Latin America and Spain from independence to the 1930s. The book examines how Latin American countries and Spain tried to build modern and efficient state institutions for more than a century - without much success. The Spanish and Latin American experience of the nineteenth century was arguably the first regional stage on which the organizational and political dilemmas that still haunt states were faced. This book provides an unprecedented perspective on the development and contemporary outcome of those state and nation-building projects.
Colonizing Russia S Promised Land
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Author : Aileen E. Friesen
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2020
Colonizing Russia S Promised Land written by Aileen E. Friesen and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe, examines how Russian Orthodoxy acted as a basic building block for constructing Russian settler communities in current-day southern Siberia and northern Kazakhstan.