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The interplay between clothes and social order in early modern societies is well known. Differences in dress and hierarchies of…
appearances coincided with and structured social hierarchies and notions of difference. However, clothes did not merely reproduce set social patterns. They were agents of change, actively used by individuals and groups to make claims and transgress formal boundaries. This was not least the case for the revolutionary decades of the late eighteenth century, the period in focus of this book. Unlike previous studies on sumptuary laws and other legal actions taken by governments and formal power holders, this book offers a broader and more everyday perspective on late eighteenth-century sartorial discourse. In 1773, there was a publicly announced prize competition on the advantages and disadvantages of a national dress in Sweden. Departing from the submitted replies, the study opens a window onto the sartorial world. Several fields of cultural history are brought together: social culture in terms of order, hierarchies, and notions of difference; sartorial culture with contemporary views on dress and moral aspects of sartorial practices; and visual culture in terms of sartorial means of making a difference and the emphasis on the necessity of a legible social order.Sylvia Pankhurst: Sexual Politics and Political Activism (Women's And Gender History Ser.)
By Barbara Winslow. 2021
An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia PankhurstAlong with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel,…
Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics.In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Barbara Winslow recovers Sylvia Pankhurst's life and work for a new generation of socialists and feminists. From Pankhurst's organizing with immigrant and working women in London's East End to her revolutionary communism and growing internationalism and anti-fascism, Winslow gives us the story of a brilliantly inspiring unorthodox feminist and unorthodox socialist.With a preface from internationally recognized socialist feminist historian and activist, Sheila Rowbotham.The Great Peace: A Memoir
By Mena Suvari. 2021
A memoir by award-winning actor Mena Suvari, best-known forher iconic roles in American Beauty, American Pie, and Six Feet Under.The…
Great Peace is a harrowing, heartbreaking coming-of-age story set in Hollywood, in which young teenage model-turned-actor Mena Suvari lost herself to sex, drugs and bad, often abusive relationships even as blockbuster movies made her famous. It's about growing up in the 90s, with a soundtrack ranging from The Doors to Deee-Lite, fashion from denim to day-glo, and a woman dealing with the lasting psychological scars of abuse, yet knowing deep inside she desires so much more from life.Within these vulnerable pages, Mena not only reveals her own mistakes, but also the lessons she learned and her efforts to understand and grow rather than casting blame. As such, she makes this a timeless story of girl empowerment and redemption, of somebody using their voice to rediscover their past, seek redemption, and to understand their mistakes, and ultimately come to terms with their power as an individual to find a way and a will to live—and thrive. Poignant, intimate, and powerful, this book will resonate with anyone who has found themselves lost in the darkness, thinking there's no way out. Ultimately, Mena's story proves that, no matter how hopeless it may seem, there's always a light at the end.Science, Culture and National Identity in Francoist Spain, 1939–1959
By Marició Janué i Miret, Albert Presas i Puig. 2021
This book examines the role that science and culture held as instruments of nationalization policies during the first phase of…
the Franco regime in Spain. It considers the reciprocal relationship between political legitimacy and developments in science and culture, and explores the ‘nationalization’ efforts in Spain in the 1940s and 1950s, via the complex process of transmitting narratives of national identity, through ideas, representations and homogenizing practices. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the volume features insights into how scientific and cultural language and symbols were used to formulate national identity, through institutions, resource distribution and specific national policies. Split into five parts, the collection considers policies in the Francoist ‘New State’, the role of women in these debates, and perspectives on the nationalization and internationalization efforts that made use of scientific and cultural spheres. Chapters also feature insights into cinema, literature, cultural diplomacy, mathematics and technology in debates on Catalonia, the Nuclear Energy Board, the Spanish National Research Council, and how scientific tools in Spain in this era fed into wider geopolitics with America and onto the UNESCO stage.Aeroscopics: Media of the Bird's-Eye View
By Patrick Ellis. 2021
In 1900, Paris had no skyscrapers, no tourist helicopters, no drones. Yet well before aviation made aerial views more accessible,…
those who sought such vantages had countless options available to them. They could take in the vista from an observation ride, see a painting of the view from Notre-Dame, or overlook a miniature model city. In Aeroscopics, Patrick Ellis offers a history of the view from above, written from below. Richly illustrated and premised upon extensive archival work, this interdisciplinary study reveals the forgotten media available to the public in the Balloon Era and after. Ellis resurrects these neglected spectacles as "aeroscopics," opening up new possibilities for the history of aerial vision.Nazi Wives: The Women at the Top of Hitler's Germany
By James Wyllie. 2019
Nazi Wives is a fascinating look at the personal lives, psychological profiles, and marriages of the wives of officers in…
Hitler's inner circle.Goering, Goebbels, Himmler, Heydrich, Hess, Bormann—names synonymous with power and influence in the Third Reich. Perhaps less familiar are Carin, Emmy, Magda, Margaret, Lina, Ilse and Gerda... These are the women behind the infamous men—complex individuals with distinctive personalities who were captivated by Hitler and whose everyday lives were governed by Nazi ideology. Throughout the rise and fall of Nazism these women loved and lost, raised families and quarreled with their husbands and each other, all the while jostling for position with the Fuhrer himself. Until now, they have been treated as minor characters, their significance ignored, as if they were unaware of their husbands' murderous acts, despite the evidence that was all around them: the stolen art on their walls, the slave labor in their homes, and the produce grown in concentration camps on their tables.James Wyllie's Nazi Wives explores these women in detail for the first time, skillfully interweaving their stories through years of struggle, power, decline and destruction into the post-war twilight of denial and delusion.The Rise of Euroskepticism: Europe and Its Critics in Spanish Culture
By Luis Martin-Estudillo. 2018
Electronic open access edition funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Covering from 1915 to the present, this book…
deals with the role that artists and intellectuals have played regarding projects of European integration. Consciously or not, they partake of a tradition of Euroskepticism. Because Euroskepticism is often associated with the discourse of political elites, its literary and artistic expressions have gone largely unnoticed. This book addresses that gap. Taking Spain as a case study, author Luis Martín-Estudillo analyzes its conflict over its own Europeanness or exceptionalism, as well as the European view of Spain. He ranges from canonical writers like Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, and Zambrano to new media artists like Valeriano López, Carlos Spottorno, and Santiago Sierra. Martín-Estudillo provides a new context for the current refugee crisis, the North-South divide among EU countries, and the generalized disaffection toward the project of European integration. The eclipsed critical tradition he discusses contributes to a deeper understanding of the notion of Europe and its institutional embodiments. It gives resonance to the intellectual and cultural history of Europe's "peripheries" and re-evaluates Euroskeptic contributions as one of the few hopes left to imagine ways to renew the promise of a union of the European nations.This book is about the intersection of two evolving dance-historical realms—theory and practice—during the first two decades of the eighteenth…
century. France was the source of works on notation, choreography, and repertoire that dominated European dance practice until the 1780s. While these French inventions were welcomed and used in Germany, German dance writers responded by producing an important body of work on dance theory. This book examines consequences in Germany of this asymmetrical confrontation of dance perspectives. Between 1703 and 1717 in Germany, a coherent theory of dance was postulated that called itself dance theory, comprehended why it was a theory, and clearly, rationally distinguished itself from practice. This flowering of dance-theoretical writing was contemporaneous with the appearance of Beauchamps-Feuillet notation in the Chorégraphie of Raoul Auger Feuillet (Paris, 1700, 1701). Beauchamps-Feuillet notation was the ideal written representation of the dance style known as la belle danse and practiced in both the ballroom and the theater. Its publication enabled the spread of belle danse to the French provinces and internationally. This spread encouraged the publication of new practical works (manuals, choreographies, recueils) on how to make steps and how to dance current dances, as well as of new dance treatises, in different languages. The Rechtschaffener Tantzmeister, by Gottfried Taubert (Leipzig, 1717), includes a translated edition of Feuillet’s Chorégraphie. Theory and Practice in Eighteenth-Century Dance addresses how Taubert and his contemporary German authors of dance treatises (Samuel Rudolph Behr, Johann Pasch, Louis Bonin) became familiar with Beauchamps-Feuillet notation and acknowledged the Chorégraphie in their own work, and how Taubert’s translation of the Chorégraphie spread its influence northward and eastward in Europe. This book also examines the personal and literary interrelationships between the German writers on dance between 1703 and 1717 and their invention of a theoria of dance as a counterbalance to dance praxis, comparing their dance-theoretical ideas with those of John Weaver in England, and assimilating them all in a cohesive and inclusive description of dance theory in Europe by 1721. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.Erasmus: Intellectual of the 16th Century
By Nathan Ron. 2021
This book is a sequel to Nathan Ron's Erasmus and the “Other.” Should we consider Erasmus an involved or public intellectual…
alongside figures such as Machiavelli, Milton, Locke, Voltaire, and Montesquieu? Was Erasmus really an independent intellectual? In Ron's estimation, Erasmus did not fully live up to his professed principles of Christian peace. Despite the anti-war preaching so eminent in his writings, he made no stand against the warlike and expansionist foreign policies of specific European kings of his era, and even praised the glory won by Francis I on the battlefield of Marignano (1515). Furthermore, in the face of Henry VIII’s execution of his beloved Thomas More and John Fisher, and the atrocities committed by the Spanish against indigenous peoples in the New World, Erasmus preferred self-censorship to expressions of protest or criticism and did not step forward to reproach kings of their misdeeds or crimes.Solving the West Georgia Murder of Gwendolyn Moore: A Cry From the Well (True Crime)
By Clay Bryant. 2021
On a sultry August morning in 1970, the battered body of a young woman was hoisted from a dry well…
just outside Hogansville, Georgia. Author and investigator Clay Bryant was there, witnessing the macabre scene. Then fifteen, Bryant was tagging along with his father, Buddy Bryant, Hogansville chief of police. The victim, Gwendolyn Moore, had been in a violent marriage. That was no secret. But her husband had connections to a political machine that held sway over the Troup County Sheriff's Office overseeing the case. To the dismay and bafflement of many, no charges were brought. That is, until Bryant followed his father's footsteps into law enforcement and a voice cried out from the well three decades later.Wicked Wilmington, Delaware (Wicked)
By Kevin McGonegal. 2021
Take a journey through crime and vice in twentieth-century Wilmington, from a Tatnall Street bawdy house to the corporate boardrooms…
of the DuPont Company. Visit the old New Castle County Workhouse, scene of a break-in by a lynch mob and the daring escape of a notorious murderer. A police chief trying to keep his corrupt practices under wraps, agents raiding political headquarters and a detective murdered on the street were all part of city life in the early twentieth century. In later years, stories of a professional killer pleading self-defense, hiding his connections to a mobbed-up Teamsters boss, and runaway lovers caught up in an international extortion scheme show the city's darker side. Local historian Kevin McGonegal chronicles tales of Wilmington's infamous past.Murder at Asheville's Battery Park Hotel: The Search for Helen Clevenger's Killer (True Crime)
By Anne Chesky Smith. 2021
The words of a murderer. In 1936, Helen Clevenger's uncle discovered her bloodied body crumpled on the floor of her…
small room in Asheville's grand Battery Park Hotel. She had been shot through the chest. Buncombe County sheriff Laurence Brown, up for reelection, desperately searched for the white teenager's killer as the public clamored for answers. Even after Sheriff Brown secured a confession from a young Black man, many southerners feared that the crime had not been solved. Author Anne Chesky Smith weaves together varying accounts of the murder and investigation to expose a complex and disturbing chapter in Asheville's history.Texas True Crime Miscellany (True Crime)
By Clay Coppedge. 2021
Outrageous acts of villainy have slowly drifted out of the national limelight and into the dustbin of Texas history. Consider…
the uproar over the 1879 shooting of actor Maurice Barrymore in Marshall and the 1949 murder of oil field legend Tex Thornton in Amarillo. The 1909 Coryell County Courthouse massacre committed by a sixteen-year-old girl remains just as shocking today. For the long-suffering associates of repeat offenders like Fort Worth's Flapper Bandit or Temple's International Man of Mystery, notoriety couldn't fade quickly enough. From the lawless days of the frontier to the rise of organized crime, Clay Coppedge sifts through eighteen obscure case files to chart the evolution of crime and punishment in the state.A incrível história de António Salazar, o ditador que morreu duas vezes
By Marco Ferrari. 2020
Esta é a história do princípio do fim de um ditador. Uma investigação minuciosa a um período em que a…
realidade superou a ficção: a queda de Salazar - da cadeira, do poder e da vida. Um livro importante e admirável do jornalista italiano Marco Ferrari. A 3 de Agosto de 1968, no forte de Santo António da Barra, António de Oliveira Salazar, líder da mais longa ditadura europeia, preparava-se para arranjar os pés com o seu calista quando, inesperadamente, a cadeira onde se sentara parte-se e o ditador cai redondo, batendo com a cabeça na pedra dura do chão. O período que se seguiu roçaria o insólito, com uma longa e barroca encenação de poder e normalidade até ao dia da morte de facto do ditador. Na sequência da famosa queda da cadeira, Marcello Caetano é chamado a substituir Salazar no cargo de presidente do Conselho. No entanto, num país dividido entre os que apoiavam o regime e os que eram aterrorizados pela mão-de-ferro repressiva da PIDE, a situação semicomatosa de Salazar foi mantida em segredo, inclusive do próprio. Ao longo dos dois anos seguintes, o seu gabinete encenava, diariamente, uma farsa para manter o ditador na ignorância sobre a mais real das quedas: a do poder. Reuniões de conselho e visitas de Estado, entrevistas de rádio e televisão, até uma impressão diária exclusiva do Diário de Notícias - um quotidiano imaginário e escrupulosamente montado para manter na ilusão de poder o líder de um governo autoritário e brutal, responsável pela morte de 22 800 portugueses. Baseando-se nos testemunhos recolhidos dos 20. 000 resistentes presos pela PIDE e das suas práticas implacáveis de terror, Marco Ferrari, escritor e jornalista, devolve à nossa memória colectiva a verdade sobre os dois estranhos anos em que Portugal viveu em coma, com um velho ditador que já não o era. Uma investigação minuciosa a um período em que a realidade superou a ficção: a queda de Salazar - da cadeira, do poder e da vida. Um livro importante e admirável que nos relembra a aversão do poder à mudança e quão ridículo e devastador é o autoritarismo.Barbarians in the Sagas of Icelanders: Homegrown Stereotypes and Foreign Influences
By William H. Norman. 2022
This book explores accounts in the Sagas of Icelanders of encounters with foreign peoples, both abroad and in Iceland, who…
are portrayed according to stereotypes which vary depending on their origins. Notably, inhabitants of the places identified in the sagas as Írland, Skotland and Vínland are portrayed as being less civilized than the Icelanders themselves. This book explores the ways in which the Íslendingasögur emphasize this relative barbarity through descriptions of diet, material culture, style of warfare and character. These characteristics are discussed in relation to parallel descriptions of Icelandic characters and lifestyle within the Íslendingasögur, and also in the context of a tradition in contemporary European literature, which portrayed the Icelanders themselves as barbaric. Comparisons are made with descriptions of barbarians in classical Roman texts, primarily Sallust, but also Caesar and Tacitus, showing striking similarities between Roman and Icelandic ideas about barbarians.Abigail (Wives of King David #2)
By Jill Eileen Smith. 2010
The novel, Abigail, is the second book in a trilogy on the wives of King David. Abigail's hopes and dreams…
for the future are wrapped up in her handsome, dark-eyed betrothed, Nabal. But when the long-awaited wedding day arrives, her drunken groom behaves shamefully. Nevertheless, Abigail tries to honor and respect her husband despite his abuse. Meanwhile, Abigail's family has joined David's wandering tribe as he and his people keep traveling to avoid the dangerous Saul. When Nabal suddenly dies, Abigail is free to move on with her life, and thanks to her brother, her new life includes a new husband--David. The dangers of tribal life on the run are serious, but there are other dangers in young Abigail's mind. How can David lead his people effectively when he goes against God? And how can Abigail share David's love with his other wives? Jill Eileen Smith, bestselling author of Michal, draws on Scripture, historical research, and her imagination as she fills in the blanks to unveil the story of Abigail and David in rich detail and dramaJejum Ideal
By Michael Mosley. 2019
O MÉTODO MAIS EFICAZ PARA PERDER 9KG EM 4 SEMANAS Descubra a fórmula para perder peso, combater doenças e melhorar…
a sua saúde Michael Mosley é "o maior guru mundial de saúde do intestino" Dr. Barry Marshall, vencedor do Prémio Nobel de Medicina Em 2013, o Dr. Michael Mosley apresentou ao mundo o incrível poder do jejum intermitente, iniciando uma verdadeira revolução no campo da nutrição e da saúde. Neste seu último livro, Jejum Ideal, combina as mais recentes descobertas científicas em nutrição, para criar um plano de dieta muito saudável, fácil de seguir e adaptável a diferentes objectivos e necessidades. A dieta do Jejum Ideal é baseada numa dieta hipocalórica. Um quantidade suficientemente alta de calorias para ser fácil de gerir, sustentável, e ao mesmo tempo, baixa o bastante para desencadear uma série de mudanças metabólicas fundamentais. O plano inclui deliciosas receitas, com baixo teor de hidratos de carbono, ao estilo mediterrânico e menus específicos e perfeitamente equilibrados. É a forma ideal de perder peso, melhorar o humor e reduzir a pressão arterial, a inflamação e o açúcar no sangue. Partindo das pesquisas mais avançadas no campo da nutrição e da biologia, Mosley desenvolveu um método de ponta que combina os benefícios da restrição calórica, jejum intermitente, dieta mediterrânica e cetose alimentar. O resultado? Uma dieta flexível que permite emagrecer rapidamente, com saúde, sem o perigo de recuperar os quilos perdidos. Os elogios da crítica: «A nova dieta revolucionária do Dr. Michael Mosley, criador do programa de jejum intermitente 5:2. É o livro de saúde mais aguardado do ano!»Daily Mail «Este novo livro está repleto de informações fascinantes e é incrivelmente fácil de seguir. Comecei a lê-lo no meio de uma espécie de ressaca pós-natal e não consegui parar.»Dr. Andrew Bailey, membro do Royal College of General Practitioners «Um livro importante, fácil de seguir, cheio de dicas surpreendentes e eficazes para perder peso. Vai mudar muitas vidas para melhor.»Professora Desiree Silva, University of Western Australia «O Dr. Mosley, um dos melhores escritores do mundo sobre nutrição e saúde, volta a consegui-lo com um livro muito informativo e divertido.»Dr. Valter Longo, director do Instituto de Longevidade da University of Southern California «Neste livro conciso e prático, o Dr. Michael Mosley mune-se da ciência mais recente - que aborda a dieta e o exercício que realmente funcionam -, com vários relatos inspiradores, tanto seus como de outras pessoas. Este livro é um triunfo, fornecendo oequilíbrio certo entre conselhos práticos, raciocínio científico e esperança. O Dr. Mosley mostra que, armados com as informações certas, todos temos o poder de perder o excesso de peso corporal para sempre.»Dr. Jack Lewis, locutor e neurocientistaArrancados da Terra
By Lira Neto. 2021
Uma história dos judeus sefarditas. Expulsos de Portugal pela Inquisição, refugiaram-se na Holanda, ocuparam o Brasil e fizeram Nova Iorque…
Com prefácio de Esther Mucznick «É um grande livro, doloroso nalgumas coisas, mas um excelente livro que eu recomendo vivamente.» Paulo Portas Entre os séculos XVI e XVIII, ser judeu em Portugal e respetivas colónias significava viver sob um regime de terror permanente. A Inquisição, ou Tribunal do Santo Ofício, constituía um autêntico Estado dentro do Estado, com poderes absolutos na repressão a crimes religiosos, dos quais professar o judaísmo era um dos mais graves. Denunciados por inimigos, ou mesmo por parentes sob a coação dos inquisidores, os judeus que recusavam a conversão sumária eram submetidos a prolongadas prisões e torturas. Insistir no «danado erro» da apostasia levava à fogueira. Restava-lhes esconderem-se ou fugirem. Milhares de judeus sefarditas abandonaram Portugal e fixaram-se noutros países europeus, nomeadamente na Holanda, em cuja capital se desenvolveu uma próspera colónia israelita de origem lusitana nas primeiras décadas do século XVII. A salvo da censura e da repressão, floresceu uma brilhante geração de rabinos, intelectuais e pensadores revolucionários. Depois da invasão holandesa do Nordeste brasileiro, na década de 1630, muitos judeus cruzaram o oceano para aí tentar uma vida melhor. E aí prosperaram, até ao retorno do jugo português e da Inquisição, que os obrigou a recomeçar a sua jornada incessante em busca da Nova Canaã. Dos cárceres do Santo Ofício à esperança do Novo Mundo, o reputado jornalista e biógrafo Lira Neto mapeia as vidas errantes dos pioneiros que formaram a primeira comunidade judaica das Américas, no Recife, e que ajudaram a construir Nova Iorque.Early Modern Trauma: Europe and the Atlantic World (Early Modern Cultural Studies)
By Erin Peters, Cynthia Richards. 2021
The term trauma refers to a wound or rupture that disorients, causing suffering and fear. Trauma theory has been heavily…
shaped by responses to modern catastrophes, and as such trauma is often seen as inherently linked to modernity. Yet psychological and cultural trauma as a result of distressing or disturbing experiences is a human phenomenon that has been recorded across time and cultures. The long seventeenth century (1598–1715) has been described as a period of almost continuous warfare, and the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries saw the development of modern slavery, colonialism, and nationalism, and witnessed plagues, floods, and significant sociopolitical, economic, and religious transformation. In Early Modern Trauma editors Erin Peters and Cynthia Richards present a variety of ways early modern contemporaries understood and narrated their experiences. Studying accounts left by those who experienced extreme events increases our understanding of the contexts in which traumatic experiences have been constructed and interpreted over time and broadens our understanding of trauma theory beyond the contemporary Euro-American context while giving invaluable insights into some of the most pressing issues of today.A gateway to the West and an outpost for eastern capital and culture, St. Louis straddled not only geographical and…
political divides but also cultural, racial, and sectional ones. At the same time, it connected a vast region as a gathering place of peoples, cultures, and goods. The essays in this collection contextualize St. Louis, exploring French-Native relations, the agency of empire in the Illinois Country, the role of women in &“mapping&” the French colonial world, fashion and identity, and commodities and exchange in St. Louis as part of a broader politics of consumption in colonial America. The collection also provides a comparative perspective on America&’s two great Creole cities, St. Louis and New Orleans. Lastly, it looks at the Frenchness of St. Louis in the nineteenth century and the present.French St. Louis recasts the history of St. Louis and reimagines regional development in the early American republic, shedding light on its francophone history.