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Moral Communities - The Culture Of Class Relations In The Russian Printing Industry 1867-1907

by Mark D. Steinberg

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 This valuable study offers a rare perspective on the social and political crisis in late Imperial Russia. Mark D. Steinberg focuses on employers, supervisors, and workers in the printing industry as it evolved from a state-dependent handicraft to a capitalist industry. He explores class relations and the values, norms, and perceptions with which they were made meaningful. Using archival and printed sources, Steinberg examines economic changes, workplace relations, professional organizations, unions, strikes, and political activism, as well as shop customs, trade festivals, and everyday life. In rich detail he describes efforts to build a community of masters and men united by shared interests and moral norms. The collapse of this ideal in the face of growing class conflict is also explored, giving a full view of an important moment in Russian history. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Territories Of Grace - Cultural Change In The Seventeenth-Century Diocese Of Grenoble

by Keith P. Luria

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 Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that historians have oversimplified the struggle between high and low culture in early modern Europe. He shows how religion was constructed in a complex relationship between villagers, concerned with creating their own religion, and a bishop, intent on cultivating in his flock a Counter-Reformation style of worship and a new standard of social behavior. Luria analyzes records of pastoral visits, examines forms of devotion to saints, and undertakes an ethnographic investigation of one community, to illustrate this interaction. He uncovers a process of cultural change in which villagers and reformers alike took an active role in creating their own culture by adopting, adapting, or resisting the symbols, practices, and meanings of others. The theoretical insights of his study will be of interest to historians, anthropologists, and others concerned with rural society, comparative religion, and questions of cultural change. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.<br /><br />Many titles in the Voices Revived program are also newly available as ebooks, offered at a discounted price to support wider access to scholarly work.</DIV
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Hooliganism - Crime, Culture, And Power In St. Petersburg, 1900-1914

by Joan Neuberger

~~70,23€~~ 63,21€ 10% OFF

 An analysis of diffuse underclass anger that simmers in many societies. It takes us to the streets of St Petersburg in 1900-1914 to show us how the phenomenon labeled hooliganism came to symbolize all that was wrong with the modern city: society's failure to "civilize" the poor and the proliferation of violence in public spaces.
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Cholera In Post-Revolutionary Paris - A Cultural History

by Catherine J. Kudlick

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 Cholera terrified and fascinated 19th-century Europeans more than any other modern disease. This text explores the dynamics of class relations through an investigation of the responses to two cholera epidemics in Paris.
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Crime, Cultural Conflict, And Justice In Rural Russia, 1856-1914

by Stephen P. Frank

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 Explores the largely unknown world of rural crime and justice in post-emancipation Imperial Russia. This title offers a major reassessment of the interactions between peasantry and the state in the decades leading up to World War I.
Passions Of The Tongue - Language Devotion In Tamil India, 1891-1970

by Sumathi Ramaswamy

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 Why would love for their language lead several men in southern India to burn themselves alive in its name? This title analyzes the discourses of love, labor, and life that transformed Tamil into an object of such passionate attachment, producing in the process one of modern India's most intense movements for linguistic revival and separatism.
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Venice'S Hidden Enemies - Italian Heretics In A Renaissance City

by John Martin

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 Exploring how Renaissance Venice, a city renowned for its political freedom, also became a centre of religious dissent, this study offers a recreation of the social and cultural worlds of the Venetian heretics, and explores the connection between religious belief and social experience.
Taste And Power - Furnishing Modern France

by Leora Auslander

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 This work explores the changing meaning of furniture from the mid-17th to the early-20th century. Analyzing furniture makers, sellers, buyers and arbiters, the book reveals how the aesthetics of everyday life were as integral to political events as economic and social transformations.
Collective And The Individual In Russia - A Study Of Practices

by Oleg Kharkhordin

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 Examining the period from the Russian Revolution to the fall of Gorbachev, this title demonstrates that Party rituals - which forced each Communist to reflect intensely and repeatedly on his or her "self", an entirely novel experience for many of them - had their antecedents in the Orthodox Christian practices of doing penance in the public gaze.
Beyond The Cultural Turn - New Directions In The Study Of Society And Culture

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 Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology.
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Jazz, Rock, And Rebels - Cold War Politics And American Culture In A Divided Germany

by Uta G. Poiger

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 In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. This title traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the different styles.
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On The Postcolony

by Achille Mbembe

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 A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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Politics And Theater - The Crisis Of Legitimacy In Restoration France, 1815-1830

by Sheryl Kroen

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 This work views postrevolutionary France through Moliere's comedy "Tartuffe". The book argues that the Restoration was a critical bridge between emerging practices of the old regime, the revolution, and the post-1830 politics of protest, and brings major 19th-century themes into focus.
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Fascist Modernities - Italy, 1922-1945

by Ruth Ben-Ghiat

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 This cultural history of Mussolini's dictatorship discusses the meanings of modernity in interwar Italy. The work argues that fascism appealed to many Italian intellectuals as a new model of modernity that would resolve the European crisis as well as long-standing problems of the national past.
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The Emancipation Of Writing - German Civil Society In The Making, 1790s1820s

by Ian Mcneely

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 A comprehensive study of writing in its connection to bureaucracy, citizenship and the state in Germany, this text stitches together micro- and macro-level analysis to reconstruct the civic culture of the German southwest in the aftermath of the French Revolution and Napoleon's invasions.
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The Three-Piece Suit And Modern Masculinity - England, 15501850

by David Kuchta

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 In 1666, King Charles II introduced a fashion that developed into the three-piece suit. This text examines the inspiration behind this royal revolution in masculine attire, showing how the ideology of modern English masculinity was a self-consciously political and public creation.
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France And The Cult Of The Sacred Heart - An Epic Tale For Modern Times

by Raymond Jonas

64,93€ + 10% CARD

 This text tells the story of the church of the Sacred Heart in Paris - a monument to French Catholicism and national identity. The book focuses on key moments in its development and draws on archival sources to produce a narrative which encompasses French politics, history, architecture, and art.
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The Women Of Paris And Their French Revolution

by Dominique Godineau

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 This account of the female revolutionaries during the French Revolution describes their lives within political, social, historical and gender-specific contexts. It highlights the importance of these women in creating their political and social roles as female citizens within the New Republic.
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On The Postcolony

by Achille Mbembe

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 A collection of essays that contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of post colonial theory. It is suitable for an interdisciplinary arena of scholarship on colonial and post colonial discourse, history, anthropology, philosophy, political science, psychoanalysis, and literary criticism.
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Speaking With Vampires - Rumor And History In Colonial Africa

by Luise White

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 During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. Providing the stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, this book presents an epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory.
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Possessing Nature - Museums, Collecting, And Scientific Culture In Early Modern Italy

by Paula Findlen

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 In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums.
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Territories Of Grace - Cultural Change In The Seventeenth-Century Diocese Of Grenoble

by Keith P. Luria

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Wondrous In His Saints - Counter-Reformation Propaganda In Bavaria

by Philip M. Soergel

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Moral Communities - The Culture Of Class Relations In The Russian Printing Industry 1867-1907

by Mark D. Steinberg

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