Inventing Europe
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Author | : G. Delanty |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 1995-04-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0230379656 |
A critical analysis of the idea of Europe and the limits and possibilities of a European identity in the broader perspective of history. This book argues that the crucial issue is the articulation of a new identity that is based on post-national citizenship rather than ambivalent notions of unity.
Author | : Gerard Delanty |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Ethnicity |
ISBN | : 9780333622032 |
Author | : Larry Wolff |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780804727020 |
Wolff explores how Western thinkers contributed to defining and characterizing Eastern Europe as half-civilized and barbaric.
Author | : NA NA |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 1995-07-13 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780312125684 |
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Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2012 |
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Author | : Benjamin Schmidt |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2015-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812290348 |
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world. The shapes and meanings of the extraordinary global images that emerged from this process form the subject of this highly original and richly textured study of cultural geography. Inventing Exoticism draws on a vast range of sources from history, literature, science, and art to describe the energetic and sustained international engagements that gave birth to our modern conceptions of exoticism and globalism. Illustrated with more than two hundred images of engravings, paintings, ceramics, and more, Inventing Exoticism shows, in vivid example and persuasive detail, how Europeans came to see and understand the world at an especially critical juncture of imperial imagination. At the turn to the eighteenth century, European markets were flooded by books and artifacts that described or otherwise evoked non-European realms: histories and ethnographies of overseas kingdoms, travel narratives and decorative maps, lavishly produced tomes illustrating foreign flora and fauna, and numerous decorative objects in the styles of distant cultures. Inventing Exoticism meticulously analyzes these, while further identifying the particular role of the Dutch—"Carryers of the World," as Defoe famously called them—in the business of exotica. The form of early modern exoticism that sold so well, as this book shows, originated not with expansion-minded imperialists of London and Paris, but in the canny ateliers of Holland. By scrutinizing these materials from the perspectives of both producers and consumers—and paying close attention to processes of cultural mediation—Inventing Exoticism interrogates traditional postcolonial theories of knowledge and power. It proposes a wholly revisionist understanding of geography in a pivotal age of expansion and offers a crucial historical perspective on our own global culture as it engages in a media-saturated world.
Author | : James Laxer |
Publisher | : Lester Pub. |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Europe 1992 |
ISBN | : 9781895555004 |
Author | : Geraldine Heng |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 509 |
Release | : 2018-03-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108422780 |
This book challenges the common belief that race and racisms are phenomena that began only in the modern era.
Author | : Cris Shore |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1136283595 |
The development of the European Union has been one of the most profound advances in European politics and society this century. Yet the institutions of Europe and the 'Eurocrats' who work in them have constantly attracted negative publicity, culminating in the mass resignation of the European Commissioners in March 1999. In this revealing study, Cris Shore scrutinises the process of European integration using the techniques of anthropology, and drawing on thought from across the social sciences. Using the findings of numerous interviews with EU employees, he reveals that there is not just a subculture of corruption within the institutions of Europe, but that their problems are largely a result of the way the EU itself is constituted and run. He argues that European integration has largely failed in bringing about anything but an ever-closer integration of the technical, political and financial elites of Europe - at the expense of its ordinary citizens. This critical anthropology of European integration is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the culture and politics of the EU.
Author | : Nathanael Aschenbrenner |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Byzantine Empire |
ISBN | : 9780884024842 |
The Invention of Byzantium in Early Modern Europe offers a new approach to the history of Byzantine scholarship. By tracing Byzantium's impact on everything from politics to painting, this book shows that the empire and its legacy remained relevant to generations of Western writers, artists, statesmen, and intellectuals.