Global Culture, Island Identity Author(s): Karen Fog Olwig (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: March 31, 2017 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 252 pages ISBN-10: 1138180688 ISBN-13: 9781138180680 Book Description Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural e...
Contemporary France: Politics and Society since 1945 Author(s): D. L. Hanley (Author), A. P. Kerr (Author), Miss A P Kerr (Author), N. H. Waites (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: September 20, 1984 Edition: 2nd Language: English Print length: 388 pages ISBN-10: 0415025222 ISBN-13: 9780415025225 Book Description Sets the working of the French political system in its historical, social and economic context. Editorial Reviews Review `A mine of information.’ – Peter Morris,...
After the Victorians: Private Conscience and Public Duty in Modern Britain Author(s): Peter Mandler (Editor), Susan Pedersen (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: January 6, 1994 Language: English Print length: 278 pages ISBN-10: 0415070562 ISBN-13: 9780415070560 Book Description Written by a team of eminent historians, these essays explore how ten twentieth-century intellectuals and social reformers sought to adapt such familiar Victorian values as `civilisation’, `domesticity&#...
Sheela-na-gigs: Unravelling an Enigma Author(s): Barbara Freitag (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: September 16, 2004 Language: English Print length: 230 pages ISBN-10: 0415345529 ISBN-13: 9780415345521 Book Description Here Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject since their discovery 160 years ago, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-gigs in their medieval social co...
Policing Gender, Class And Family In Britain, 1850-1940 Author(s): Linda Mahood (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: November 27, 1995 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 224 pages ISBN-10: 1857281888 ISBN-13: 9781857281880 Book Description This book is intended for undergraduate courses on modern British history, women’s history, courses on family, sexuality and childhood. Women’s studies, history of education, sociology. Editorial Reviews About the Author Mahood...
Religious Motivation and the Origins of Buddhism: A Social-Psychological Exploration of the Origins of a World Religion (Routledge Critical Studies in Buddhism) Author(s): Torkel Brekke (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: August 29, 2002 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 160 pages ISBN-10: 0700716831 ISBN-13: 9780700716838 Book Description Why did people in North India from the 5th century BC choose to leave the world and join the sect of the Buddha? This is the first book...
Urban Society In Roman Italy Author(s): Tim J. Cornell (Editor), Kathryn Lomas (Editor) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: February 23, 1995 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 240 pages ISBN-10: 1857280334 ISBN-13: 9781857280333 Book Description This collection of original essays focuses upon Roman Italy where, with over 400 cities, urbanization was at the very centre of Italian civilization. Informed by an awareness of the social and anthropological issues of recent research, thes...
Sex and the Second-Best City (Studies in Classics) Author(s): Kenneth Royce Moore (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: September 19, 2005 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 333 pages ISBN-10: 0415972736 ISBN-13: 9780415972734 Book Description Sex and the Second-Best City deals with the topics of sex and society in the Laws of Plato with recourse to historical context and modern critical theory. It examines reconstructions of ancient “sexuality” with a view to inc...
Williams, Glyndwr’s The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution annotated edition by Williams, Glyndwr published by Routledge [Hardcover] (1980) Author(s): Peter Marshall (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: June 5, 1980 Language: English ISBN-10: 0714631582 ISBN-13: 9780714631585 Book Description br br li This title available in eBook format. a href=”” Click here for more information /a . br li Visit our eBookstore a href=”” www.ebookstore...
Representations of Slave Women in Discourses on Slavery and Abolition, 1780–1838 (Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures) Author(s): Henrice Altink (Author) Publisher: Routledge Publication Date: June 11, 2007 Edition: 1st Language: English Print length: 272 pages ISBN-10: 0415350263 ISBN-13: 9780415350266 Book Description This book analyzes textual representations of Jamaican slave women in three contexts–motherhood, intimate relationships, and work–in both...
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