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Buying Respectability

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002842
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Buying Respectability written by Thomas Adam and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 19th-century Leipzig, Toronto, New York, and Boston, a newly emergent group of industrialists and entrepreneurs entered into competition with older established elite groups for social recognition as well as cultural and political leadership. The competition was played out on the field of philanthropy, with the North American community gathering ideas from Europe about the establishment of cultural and public institutions. For example, to secure financing for their new museum, the founders of the Metropolitan Museum of Art organized its membership and fundraising on the model of German art museums. The process of cultural borrowing and intercultural transfer shaped urban landscapes with the building of new libraries, museums, and social housing projects. An important contribution to the relatively new field of transnational history, this book establishes philanthropy as a prime example of the conversion of economic resources into social and cultural capital.

Buying Respectability

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253002842
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Becoming Americans

Author : Cary Carson
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
ISBN 13 : 9780879351670
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Americans written by Cary Carson and published by Colonial Williamsburg. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Americans explains how diverse peoples, holding different and sometimes conflicting personal ambitions, evolved into a society that values both liberty and equality. "Taking Possession," "Enslaving Virginia," "Buying Respectability," "Redefining Family," "Choosing Revolution," and "Freeing Religion" explore the history behind the challenges that divide American society and the forces that unite it.

Beardmore

Author : Douglas Hunter
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077355534X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Beardmore written by Douglas Hunter and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the contents of a Viking grave that prospector Eddy Dodd said he had found on his mining claim east of Lake Nipigon. The relics remained on display for two decades, challenging understandings of when and where Europeans first reached the Americas. In 1956 the discovery was exposed as an unquestionable hoax, tarnishing the reputation of the museum director, Charles Trick Currelly, who had acquired the relics and insisted on their authenticity. Drawing on an array of archival sources, Douglas Hunter reconstructs the notorious hoax and its many players. Beardmore unfolds like a detective story as the author sifts through the voluminous evidence and follows the efforts of two unlikely debunkers, high-school teacher Teddy Elliott and government geologist T.L. Tanton, who find themselves up against Currelly and his scholarly allies. Along the way, the controversy draws in a who’s who of international figures in archaeology, Scandinavian studies, and the museum world, including anthropologist Edmund Carpenter, whose mid-1950s crusade against the find’s authenticity finally convinced scholars and curators that the grave was a fraud. Shedding light on museum practices and the state of the historical and archaeological professions in the mid-twentieth century, Beardmore offers an unparalleled view inside a major museum scandal to show how power can be exercised across professional networks and hamper efforts to arrive at the truth.

Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1785271679
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer written by Thomas Adam and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Approaches to the Study of Intercultural Transfer" presents a collection of compelling case studies in the areas of social reform, museums, philanthropy, football, nonviolent resistance and holiday rituals such as Christmas that demonstrate key mechanisms of intercultural transfers. Each chapter provides the application of the intercultural transfer studies paradigm to a specific and distinct historical phenomenon. The chapters not only illustrate the presence or even the depth and frequency of intercultural transfer, but also reveal specific aspects of the intercultural transfer of phenomena, the role of agents of intercultural transfer and the transformations of ideas transferred between cultures thereby contributing to our understanding of the mechanisms of intercultural transfers.

Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920

Author : Frank Q. Christianson
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253029880
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Philanthropic Discourse in Anglo-American Literature, 1850–1920 written by Frank Q. Christianson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Offers . . . a clearer insight into the scope and function of philanthropy in political and private life and the impacts that women writers and activists had.” —Edith Wharton Review From the mid-nineteenth century until the rise of the modern welfare state in the early twentieth century, Anglo-American philanthropic giving gained an unprecedented measure of cultural authority as it changed in kind and degree. Civil society took on the responsibility for confronting the adverse effects of industrialism, and transnational discussions of poverty, urbanization, and women’s work, and sympathy provided a means of understanding and debating social reform. While philanthropic institutions left a transactional record of money and materials, philanthropic discourse yielded a rich corpus of writing that represented, rationalized, and shaped these rapidly industrializing societies, drawing on and informing other modernizing discourses including religion, economics, and social science. Showing the fundamentally transatlantic nature of this discourse from 1850 to 1920, the authors gather a wide variety of literary sources that crossed national and colonial borders within the Anglo-American range of influence. Through manifestos, fundraising tracts, novels, letters, and pamphlets, they piece together the intellectual world where philanthropists reasoned through their efforts and redefined the public sector.

Transnational Philanthropy

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319291270
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Transnational Philanthropy written by Thomas Adam and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a collective biography of the Mond family and explores the philanthropic activities of Ludwig Mond and of his two sons Alfred and Robert in the field of art collecting, the fight against early childhood mortality, the advancement of research and of higher education, archaeological excavations in Egypt and Palestine, and for the founding of the State of Israel from the 1890s to the late 1930s. These activities resulted in the creation of the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome, the donation of Ludwig Mond’s art collection to the National Gallery in London, the funding of the excavation of the sacred Buchis Bulls at Armant in Egypt, the establishment of the Children’s Hospital in London, and the support of many natural science institutes and associations in England, France, Germany, and Italy.

Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000

Author : Thomas Adam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230356230
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World, 1800-2000 written by Thomas Adam and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For far too long, the history of the modern era has been written as a history of isolated nation states. This book which presents both interpretation and primary source documents challenges a nation-centred account, exploring the interconnected and interrelated nature of societies in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Responding to the burgeoning interest and number of courses in global and world history, Intercultural Transfers and the Making of the Modern World introduces both the methods and materials of transnational history. Case studies highlight transnational connections through the examples of cooperatives, housing reform, education, eugenics and non-violent resistance. By embracing the interconnected nature of human history across continents and oceans and by employing the concept of intercultural transfer, Adam explores the roots and global distribution of major transformations and their integration into local, regional, and national contexts. This is an invaluable resource for the study of global, world and transnational history.

A Serious Matter and True Joy

Author : Margaret Eleanor Menninger
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004507809
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book A Serious Matter and True Joy written by Margaret Eleanor Menninger and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-03-21 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We tend to accept that German cities and states run their own cultural institutions (concert halls, theatres, museums). This book shows how this now “self-evident” fact became a reality in the course of the long nineteenth century.

Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions

Author : Julia R. Lieberman
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498560865
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Download or read book Charity in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic Traditions written by Julia R. Lieberman and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection compares and contrasts the historical practice of charity among the three Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The international group of contributors analyzes such topics as virtue, poverty, wealth, and justifications for charity with an aim toward intercultural understanding.

Living It Up

Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743245067
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Living It Up written by James B. Twitchell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003-07-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Luxury isn't just for the rich, says James B. Twitchell. Today you don't need a six-figure income to wear pashmina, drink a limited-edition coffee at Starbucks, or drive a Mercedes home to collapse on the couch in front of a flat-screen plasma TV. In Living It Up, sharp-eyed consumer anthropologist Twitchell takes a witty and insightful look at luxury -- what it is, who defines it, and why we can't seem to get enough of it. In recent years, says Twitchell, luxury spending has grown much faster than overall spending -- and it continues to grow despite the economic recession. Luxury has become such a powerful marketing force that it cuts across every layer of society, spawning a magazine devoted to spas, cashmere bedspreads on sale at Kmart, and a dazzling array of bottled waters. Twitchell says that the democratization of luxury has had a unifying effect on culture. Luxury items tell a story that we want to identify with, and more people than ever aspire to the story of Ralph Lauren's Polo or Patek Philippe. Shopping itself is no longer a chore but a transcendent experience in which we shop not so much for goods as for an identity. Sharply observed and wickedly funny, Living It Up is a revealing and entertaining examination of why we are all part of the cult of luxury.

Stocking Up on Sin

Author : Caroline Waxler
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9780471465133
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book Stocking Up on Sin written by Caroline Waxler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2004-02-25 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-of-a-kind guide to investing in vice industries Although vices such as alcohol, tobacco, and gambling may be deemed socially irresponsible, in the investment world, these stocks continue to dramatically outperform the S&P 500 in this depressed market. Stocking Up on Sin shows readers how to get in on this hot investment trend and make the most out of publicly traded companies that deal with "vice" products such as coffee, weapons, alcohol, and tobacco. Caroline Waxler (New York, NY) is a New York-based financial journalist. She contributes regularly to Worth and Glamour magazines as well as the Financial Times. She was also the ghostwriter for Worth's Greatest Stock Picks of All Time.

Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast

Author : Alice Johnson
Publisher : Reappraisals in Irish History
ISBN 13 : 1789620317
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast written by Alice Johnson and published by Reappraisals in Irish History. This book was released on 2020-02-29 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book vividly reconstructs the social world of upper middle-class Belfast during the time of the city's greatest growth, between the 1830s and the 1880s. Using extensive primary material including personal correspondence, memoirs, diaries and newspapers, the author draws a rich portrait of Belfast society and explores both the public and inner lives of Victorian bourgeois families. Leading business families like the Corrys and the Workmans, alongside their professional counterparts, dominated Victorian Belfast's civic affairs, taking pride in their locale and investing their time and money in improving it. This social group displayed a strong work ethic, a business-oriented attitude and religious commitment, and its female members led active lives in the domains of family, church and philanthropy. While the Belfast bourgeoisie had parallels with other British urban elites, they inhabited a unique place and time: 'Linenopolis' was the only industrial city in Ireland, a city that was neither fully Irish nor fully British, and at the very time that its industry boomed, an unusually violent form of sectarianism emerged. Middle-Class Life in Victorian Belfast provides a fresh examination of familiar themes such as civic activism, working lives, philanthropy, associational culture, evangelicalism, recreation, marriage and family life, and represents a substantial and important contribution to Irish social history.

Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners

Author : Vicky Duckworth
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134089392
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners written by Vicky Duckworth and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-20 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learning Trajectories, Violence and Empowerment amongst Adult Basic Skills Learners offers deep insights into the lives of marginalised communities and the link between learning, literacy and violence, not previously carried out in-depth in a small scale study. It breaks the negative stereo-types of adults who struggle to read and write, who are often labelled and stigmatised by dominant discourses, and in doing so exposes why and how Basic Skills Learners often find themselves in marginal positions. The structural inequalities many face from childhood to adulthood across the private and public domains of their lives are revealed and probed, thus challenging neo-liberalism claims of an apparently egalitarian social field. The learners’ narratives expose the contradiction, complexities and ambivalences they experience in their daily lives, and how they try to make sense of them from their structural positioning as basic skills learners in a society based on inequality of opportunity and choice. Applying a feminist, qualitative, longitudinal, ethnographic and participatory approach, the book offers a critical perspective, drawing on Bourdieu’s work as the theoretical framework, as well as using a range of feminist, sociologists of education, literature on the ethics of care and critical literacy pedagogy, including the New Literacy Studies. The author’s personal position as an ’insider’ with ‘insider knowledge’ of marginalised communities is also woven throughout the chapters and offers insights into the struggles, conformity and resistance faced by the participants in the study. The book contributes to the debate on the impact of violence on learning and its link to class, gender and basic skills as well opening up a discussion on the power of a critical curriculum to empower people across the domains of their lives. It will be valuable reading for trainee teachers, teachers, education and sociology students, postgraduate students, as well as literacy specialists, researchers, academics, policy makers and managers of public services.

Revivals and Roller Rinks

Author : Lynne Sorrel Marks
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802078001
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Revivals and Roller Rinks written by Lynne Sorrel Marks and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based primarily on a study of the towns of Thorold, Campbellford, and Ingersoll this investigation seeks as well to determine the nature of commonalities and differences in patterns of participation in religious and leisure activities within both middle- and working-class families.

Dixie Emporium

Author : Anthony Joseph Stanonis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820331694
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Dixie Emporium written by Anthony Joseph Stanonis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ten essays in this collection focus on how southerners have marketed themselves to outsiders and identify spaces, services, and products that construct various Souths that exaggerate, refute, or self-consciously safeguard elements of southernness. Simultaneous.

Kill McAllister

Author : Matt Chisholm
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448207142
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Kill McAllister written by Matt Chisholm and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Grotton's boys bushwhacked the herd, they had one grim order: leave no witnesses alive. For justice was rough on the untamed plains of Kansas, and cattle-stealing was a hanging charge. But two men survived the massacre. Rem McAllister was one of them, and seeing his fellow cowpokes die had turned him into a ruthless killing-machine. So as soon as the rustlers realized he was alive and on the loose, another order went out: Kill McAllister - before he kills all of us!