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Book Synopsis Shocking Contrasts by : Ronald L. Rogowski
Download or read book Shocking Contrasts written by Ronald L. Rogowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do plagues, blockades, and world-changing innovations change social and political institutions in some, but not all, societies?
Book Synopsis Shocking Contrasts by : Ronald L. Rogowski
Download or read book Shocking Contrasts written by Ronald L. Rogowski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourteenth century, the Black Death killed as much as two thirds of Europe's population; in the fifteenth, the introduction of moveable-type printing rapidly expanded Europe's supply of human capital; between 1850 and 1914, Russia's population almost tripled; and in World War I, the British blockade starved some 800,000 Germans. Each of these, Shocking Contrasts argues, amounted to an unanticipated shock, positive or negative, to the supply of a crucial factor of production; and elicited one of four main responses: factor substitution; factor movement to a different sector or region; technological innovation; or political action, sometimes extending to coercion at home or conquest abroad. This book examines parsimonious models of factor returns, relative costs, and technological innovation. It offers a framework for understanding the role of supply shocks in major political conflicts and argues that its implications extend far beyond these specific cases to any period of human history.
Book Synopsis Shocking Representation by : Adam Lowenstein
Download or read book Shocking Representation written by Adam Lowenstein and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this imaginative new work, Adam Lowenstein explores the ways in which a group of groundbreaking horror films engaged the haunting social conflicts left in the wake of World War II, Hiroshima, and the Vietnam War. Lowenstein centers Shocking Representation around readings of films by Georges Franju, Michael Powell, Shindo Kaneto, Wes Craven, and David Cronenberg. He shows that through allegorical representations these directors' films confronted and challenged comforting historical narratives and notions of national identity intended to soothe public anxieties in the aftermath of national traumas. Borrowing elements from art cinema and the horror genre, these directors disrupted the boundaries between high and low cinema. Lowenstein contrasts their works, often dismissed by contemporary critics, with the films of acclaimed "New Wave" directors in France, England, Japan, and the United States. He argues that these "New Wave" films, which were embraced as both art and national cinema, often upheld conventional ideas of nation, history, gender, and class questioned by the horror films. By fusing film studies with the emerging field of trauma studies, and drawing on the work of Walter Benjamin, Adam Lowenstein offers a bold reassessment of the modern horror film and the idea of national cinema.
Book Synopsis Sensational Modernism by : Joseph B. Entin
Download or read book Sensational Modernism written by Joseph B. Entin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging the conventional wisdom that the 1930s were dominated by literary and photographic realism, Sensational Modernism uncovers a rich vein of experimental work by politically progressive artists. Examining images by photographers such as Weegee and Aaron Siskind and fiction by writers such as William Carlos Williams, Richard Wright, Tillie Olsen, and Pietro di Donato, Joseph Entin argues that these artists drew attention to the country's most vulnerable residents by using what he calls an "aesthetic of astonishment," focused on startling, graphic images of pain, injury, and prejudice. Traditional portrayals of the poor depicted stoic, passive figures of sentimental suffering or degraded but potentially threatening figures in need of supervision. Sensational modernists sought to shock middle-class audiences into new ways of seeing the nation's impoverished and outcast populations. The striking images these artists created, often taking the form of contorted or disfigured bodies drawn from the realm of the tabloids, pulp magazines, and cinema, represented a bold, experimental form of social aesthetics. Entin argues that these artists created a willfully unorthodox brand of vernacular modernism in which formal avant-garde innovations were used to delineate the conditions, contradictions, and pressures of life on the nation's fringes.
Book Synopsis Woman Under Socialism (Esprios Classics) by : August Bebel
Download or read book Woman Under Socialism (Esprios Classics) written by August Bebel and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinand August Bebel was a German socialist politician, writer, and orator. He is best remembered as one of the founders of the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Germany in 1869, which in 1875 merged with the General German Workers' Association into the Socialist Workers' Party of Germany.
Book Synopsis Woman Under Socialism by : August Bebel
Download or read book Woman Under Socialism written by August Bebel and published by New York : New York Labor News Company. This book was released on 1904 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Expositor and Current Anecdotes written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the 1st- Annual Meeting, 1855- by : New York State Horticultural Society
Download or read book Proceedings of the 1st- Annual Meeting, 1855- written by New York State Horticultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society for the Year ... by : New York State Agricultural Society
Download or read book Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society for the Year ... written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Arminius Vambery, His Life and Adventures by : Arminius VambŽry
Download or read book Arminius Vambery, His Life and Adventures written by Arminius VambŽry and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society by : New York State Agricultural Society
Download or read book Annual Report of the New York State Agricultural Society written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Proceedings by : New York State Horticultural Society
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Annual Meeting by : New York State Agricultural Society
Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Meeting written by New York State Agricultural Society and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York by : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Springtime written by Clare Solomon and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government’s savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the nature of education itself. Involving universities and schools, occupations, sit-ins and demonstrations, these protests spread with remarkable speed. Rather than a series of isolated incidents, they formed part of a growing movement that spans much of the Western world and is now spreading into North Africa. Ever since the Wall Street crash of 2008 there has been increasing social and political turbulence in the heartlands of capital. From the US to Europe, students have been in the vanguard of protest against their governments’ harsh austerity measures. Tracing these worldwide protests, this new book explores how the protests spread and how they were organized, through the unprecedented use of social networking media such as Facebook and Twitter. It looks, too, at events on the ground, the demonstrations, and the police tactics: kettling, cavalry charges and violent assault. From Athens to Rome, San Francisco to London and, most recently, Tunis, this new book looks at how the new student protests developed into a strong and challenging movement that demands another way to run the world. Consisting largely of the voices that participated in the struggle, Springtime will become an essential point of reference as the uprising continues.
Download or read book Soviet Americana written by Sergei Zhuk and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Americanist community played a vital role in the Cold War, as well as in large part directing the cultural consumption of Soviet society and shaping perceptions of the US. To shed light onto this important, yet under-studied, academic community, Sergei Zhuk here explores the personal histories of prominent Soviet Americanists, considering the myriad cultural influences - from John Wayne's bravado in the film Stagecoach to Miles Davis - that shaped their identities, careers and academic interests. Zhuk's compelling account draws on a wide range of understudied archival documents, periodicals, letters and diaries as well as more than 100 exclusive interviews with prominent Americanists to take the reader from the post-war origins of American studies, via the extremes of the Cold War, thaw and perestroika, to Putin's Russia. Soviet Americana is a comprehensive insight into shifting attitudes towards the US throughout the twentieth century and an essential resource for all Soviet and Cold War historians.
