828 Ergebnisse für: modernity
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Barcelona and Modernity: Picasso, Gaudí, Miró, Dalí - William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, Carmen Belen Lord, Josefina Alix Trueba, Josefina Alix, Cleveland Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) - Google Books
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During the years after the September Revolution of 1868, Barcelona experienced tremendous industrial growth and emerged as the most politically and culturally progressive city in Spain. Barcelona and Modernity examines this remarkable seventy-one-year…
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Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000 - Google Books
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Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses…
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Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth-Century Germany - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=dT70m7p_mCYC&pg=PA165&dq=%22Karl+Flach%22+Koscher
The sheer intensity and violence of Germany’s twentieth century—through the end of an empire, two world wars, two democracies, and two dictatorships—provide a unique opportunity to assess the power and endurance of commercial imagery in the most extreme…
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Interwar Vienna: Culture Between Tradition and Modernity - Google Books
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Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere. Research on the period long saw the city as a mere shadow of its…
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Narrating the Self: Fictions of Japanese Modernity - Tomi Suzuki - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=JUIlTzPhItgC&pg=PA7&dq=1887+%22Kasai+Zenzo%22&hl=de#v=onepage&q=1887%20%22Kasai%20Zenzo%22&f=fal
Narrating the Self examines the historical formation of modern Japanese literature through a fundamental reassessment of its most characteristic form, the 'I-novel, ' an autobiographical narrative thought to recount the details of the writer's…
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What is Modernity?: Writings of Takeuchi Yoshimi - Yoshimi Takeuchi - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=96pmR3zpE0kC&pg=PA169&dq=1882+Ikuta-Ch%C5%8Dk%C5%8D+OR+Ikuta-Choko&hl=de&sa=X&ei=DImaT9yVN_Tc4QT
Regarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditional Japanese thought and radically reconfigured an understanding of the subject's relationship to the world. His works were also central in drawing…
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Conversion to Modernities: The Globalization of Christianity - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=_1crmzYQAcIC&pg=PA36&lpg=PA36&dq=Henri+Charles+Tremoille&source=web&ots=mFmi33Qs02&sig=7nU6wdWAL
Peter van der Veer has gathered together a groundbreaking collection of essays that suggests that conversion to forms of Christianity in the modern period is not only a conversion to modern forms of these religions, but also to religious forms of…
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Text and the City: Essays on Japanese Modernity - Ai Maeda - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=Ff4ucRG56IwC&pg=PA202&lpg=PA202&dq=1891+%22Kurata+Hyakuz%C5%8D%22&source=bl&ots=OnvfDlVqJ-&sig=t
Maeda Ai was a prominent literary critic and an influential public intellectual in late-twentieth-century Japan. Text and the City is the first book of his work to appear in English. A literary and cultural critic deeply engaged with European critical…
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German Encounters With Modernity: Novels of Imperial Berlin - Katherine Roper - Google Books
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The novels of Imperial Berlin comprise a body of material of immense historical richness. Their importance as a historical source lies in the intricate connections their authors make between the individual lives of characters, a modernizing city, and a…
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Out of Place: German Realism, Displacement and Modernity - John B. Lyon - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=c4LFAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA177&dq=B%C3%BCrgli#v=onepage
In late nineteenth-century Germany, the onset of modernity transformed how people experienced place. In response to increased industrialization and urbanization, the expansion of international capitalism, and the extension of railway and other travel…