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    Sowing Empire

    Sowing Empire

    Softcover in goede staat. Snedes 2 butsjes. Geillustreerd. Engelstalig.

    Planting and transplanting, seeding and reshaping--the landscaping practices that emerged in the eighteenth century--are inextricable from the contested terrain of empire within which they operated. From the plantations of the "nabobs" to the island gardens of narrative fiction, from William Beckford's estate at Fonthill to Marie Antoinette's ornamented farm, "Sowing Empire considers imperial relandscaping--its patriarchal organization, heterosexual reproduction, and slavery--and how it contributed to the construction of imperial power. At the same time, the book shows how these picturesque landscapes and sugar plantations contained within them the seeds of resistance--how, for instance, slave gardens and the Afro-Caribbean practice of vodou threatened authority and created new possibilities for once again transforming the landscape. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H. Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the "heartlands" of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system--as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities--Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as "European." Utilizing a wide range of both visual and written sources--maps, literature, and travel writing--this book is interdisciplinary in its methodology and in its scope. "Sowing Empire explores how postcolonial and queer studies can alter art history andvisual studies and, in turn, what close attention to the visual may offer to both postcolonial thcorizing and historically and materially based colonial cultural sudies.

    Jill H. Casid;

    € 15,00

    De eeuw van mijn vader

    De eeuw van mijn vader

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Lichte gebruikssporen.

    Wat verbindt ons met al diegenen die in de voorbije eeuw geleefd hebben? Is het niet hun menselijkheid, hun blindheid soms, meer nog dan hun grote en kleine heldendom? Geert Mak schreef een biografie van het Nederland van de twintigste eeuw in de vorm van een familiegeschiedenis. Aan de hand van interviews, oude krantenberichten en vele honderden bewaard gebleven brieven vertelt hij over het landelijke Nederland aan het begin van de eeuw, over de opkomst van de katholieke, protestantse en rode zuilen, over de crisis en het antisemitisme in de jaren dertig, de andere wereld van 'ons Indië', de oorlog in Europa en Azië, de mentaliteit van de wederopbouw, de dromerijen van de jaren zestig, de zakelijkheid daarna. Het is een geschiedenis door de achterdeur, verteld vanuit de keuken van een doorsnee Nederlandse familie - zijn eigen. Hoe ging men om met ziekte, seks en dood in 1910? Wat bezielde die merkwaardige emancipatiebeweging van de gereformeerde mannenbroeders? Hoe dachten de Nederlanders in hun tijd over grote historische gebeurtenissen als de Eerste Wereldoorlog, de machtsgreep van Hitler, de Duitse bezetting, de politionele acties? En hoe ging het daarna verder, met de rock-'n-roll, de televisie, de neergang van de zuilen, de auto, het geld? In De eeuw van mijn vader zijn ze voortdurend aanwezig, de gewone Nederlanders van deze eeuw, met hun eigen geschiedenis, hun beperktheden, hun wanhoop en geloof.

    Geert Mak;

    € 6,00

    Cities in Civilization

    Cities in Civilization

    Dikke softcover in redelijk goede staat. Rug wat scheef gelezen. Vouw in cover. Engelstalig.

    Ranging over 2,500 years, Cities in Civilization is a tribute to the city as the birthplace of Western civilization. Drawing on the contributions of economists and geographers, of cultural, technological, and social historians, Sir Peter Hall examines twenty-one cities at their greatest moments. Hall describes the achievements of these golden ages and outlines the precise combinations of forces -- both universal and local -- that led to each city's belle epoque.

    Hall identifies four distinct expressions of civic innovation: artistic growth, technological progress, the marriage of culture and technology, and solutions to evolving problems. Descriptions of Periclean Athens, Renaissance Florence, Elizabethan London, and nineteenth-century Vienna bring to life those seedbeds of artistic and intellectual creativity. Explorations of Manchester during the Industrial Revolution, of Henry Ford's Detroit, and of Palo Alto at the dawn of the computer age highlight centers of technological advances. Tales of the creation of Los Angeles' movie industry and the birth of the blues and rock 'n' roll in Memphis depict the marriage of culture and technology.

    Finally, Hall celebrates cities that have been forced to solve problems created by their very size. With Imperial Rome came the apartment block and aqueduct; nineteenth-century London introduced policing, prisons, and sewers; twentieth-century New York developed the skyscraper; and Los Angeles became the first city without a center, a city ruled instead by the car. And in a fascinating conclusion, Hall speculates on urban creativity in the twenty-first century.

    This penetrating study reveals not only the lives of cities but also the lives of the people who built them and created the civilizations within them. A decade in the making,Cities in Civilization is the definitive account of the culture of cities.

    Peter Hall;

    € 9,00

    Cassell's Dictionary...

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History

    Forse hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Naam op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Cassell's Dictionary of Modern American History is a guide to the people, events, movements and ideas that have shaped modern America. Taking as its starting point the period immediately preceding the American Revolution, the dictionary guides the reader through the birth of the United States and its 19th-century territorial expansion, examines the traumatic impact of the Civil War and America's rapid ascent to great-power status, and goes on to consider the economic consequences of the Great Depression, America's decisive role in two world wars and the many domestic upheavals of the 20th century, from the Civil Rights Movement to the Lewinsky Scandal.
    The dictionary contains over 1000 articles focusing not only on major political, diplomatic and military topics but also on economic, social and cultural matters. Extensive thematic articles on core subjects such as the Civil War and Reconstruction blend clear and readable narrative with trenchant analysis, whilst a wealth of briefer entries define essential terms from baby boom to bussing, provide biographical data on public figures as diverse as Eleanor Roosevelt and Sitting Bull, deliver key facts about battles, treaties and acts of Congress from the Banking Act to the Bay of Pigs, and explain the significance of crucial Supreme Court verdicts from Marbury vs. Madison to Roe vs. Wade.

    Peter Thompson;

    € 12,00

    Russia's Bitter Path...

    Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity

    Hardback met stofomslag in goede staat. Aantekening op schutblad. Verder netjes. Engelstalig.

    Will it follow the model of the Western capitalist democracies, as those who applied the economic shock therapy of the early 90s hoped, or will it chose its own distinct path of development? In this history of Russia from 1917 to the present, Alexander Chubarov teases out certain themes developed in his previous book on tsarist Russia (The Fragile Empire). One of the key factors to Russia's distinctiveness is its halfway location in the center of the Eurasian landmass. This lends an inevitability to the traditional cultural schism between Westernizing reformers and Slavophiles. Neither approach, says Chubarov, will work on its own. Chubarov offers "a balanced view, abstaining from narrow, ideologically biased assessments," and examines the triumphs (yes) and failures of Russia's Soviet development "within Russia's own cultural and historical context." Without ever minimizing the brutalities of the Soviet period-the state terror, the collectivizations, the labor camps, the deportations of whole peoples-Chubarov demonstrates much continuity between tsarist and Soviet Russia, with the latter often repeating the former's mistakes. Russia, says Chubarov, cannot turn its back on its Soviet experience. Far from being a blind alley or "aberrant phase," the Soviet period was an organic part of Russia history and "was largely successful in turning Russia and most of the other Soviet republics into modern states.

    Alexander Chubarov;

    € 35,00
    € 12,00

    The Closing of the...

    The Closing of the Western Mind

    Dikke paperback in goede staat. Rug verkleurd. Fotokartern. Engelstalig.

    The conversion of the emperor Constantine to Christianity in 368 AD brought a transformation to Christianity and to western civilization, the effects of which we still feel today. Previously, the Roman empire had absorbed and sustained the Greek intellectual tradition which, in the astronomy of Ptolemy, the medicine of Galen and the philosophy of Plotinus, reached new heights. Constantine turned Rome from the relatively open, tolerant and pluralistic civilisation of the Hellenistic world, towards a culture that was based on the rule of fixed authority. The century after Constantine's conversion saw the development of an alliance between church and state which stifled freedom of thought and the tradition of Greek rationalism which was intrinsic to it. The churches enjoyed enormous patronage and exemptions from tax, and in return allowed the emperors to take on the definition and enforcement of an increasingly narrow religious orthodoxy.

    This book explores how the European mind was closed by the revolution of the fourth century. It looks at the rise of the 'divine' monarch, the struggle as Christianity painfully separated itself from Judaism, the conflict between faith and reason, and the problems in finding any kind of rational basis for Christian theology. In these centuries, a turning-point for Western civilisation, we see the development of Christian anti-Semitism, the origins of the opposition of religion and science and the roots of Christianity's discomfort with sex, issues which haunt the Christian churches to this day.

    The Closing of the Western Mind is a major work of history. Wide-ranging and ambitious, its central theme is the relationship between the two wellsprings of our civilisation, the Judaeo-Christian and the Greco-Roman, and how the tensions between them have created the culture in which we continue to live, think and believe.

    Charles Freeman;

    € 8,50
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