A Cultural History Of Work In The Age Of Enlightenment

Author : Anne Montenach,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078284

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Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of social respectability. This volume explores the cultural implications of the transition from older systems based on privilege, control and embedded practices to a more open society increasingly based on merit and ability. It examines how guild controls broke down and political and commercial systems loosened. It also considers the theoretical justifications that brought new binding ideas, such as the strengthening of ideology on home, domesticity for the female, and work and politics for the male. North America embodied the extremes of these transitions with free workers able to make their way in a society based on ability and initiative while solidifying the ravages of the slavery system. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : Deborah Simonton,Anne Montenach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1350078298

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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment by Deborah Simonton,Anne Montenach Pdf

Author : Deborah Simonton,Anne Montenach,Ephraim Lytle,Valerie Louise Garver,Bert De Munck,Thomas Max Safley,Victoria Elizabeth Thompson,Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Labor
ISBN : OCLC:1029568508

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A Cultural History of Work: A cultural history of work in the age of enlightenment by Deborah Simonton,Anne Montenach,Ephraim Lytle,Valerie Louise Garver,Bert De Munck,Thomas Max Safley,Victoria Elizabeth Thompson,Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Author : Anne Montenach,Deborah Simonton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078277

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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment by Anne Montenach,Deborah Simonton Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The Enlightenment led to revised ideas about work together with new social attitudes toward work and workers. Coupled with dynamism in the economy, and the rise of the middling orders, work was more frequently perceived positively, as a commodity and as a source of social respectability. This volume explores the cultural implications of the transition from older systems based on privilege, control and embedded practices to a more open society increasingly based on merit and ability. It examines how guild controls broke down and political and commercial systems loosened. It also considers the theoretical justifications that brought new binding ideas, such as the strengthening of ideology on home, domesticity for the female, and work and politics for the male. North America embodied the extremes of these transitions with free workers able to make their way in a society based on ability and initiative while solidifying the ravages of the slavery system. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Enlightenment presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : Susan J. Vincent,Mary Harlow,Sarah-Grace Heller,Peter McNeil,Elizabeth Currie (Fashion designer),Denise Amy Baxter,Alexandra Palmer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780857857613

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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Age of Enlightenment by Susan J. Vincent,Mary Harlow,Sarah-Grace Heller,Peter McNeil,Elizabeth Currie (Fashion designer),Denise Amy Baxter,Alexandra Palmer Pdf

A cultural history of dress and fashion' presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six volumes covers over 2,500 years of dress and fashion. Volume 1: Antiquity (500BCE-800AD), edited by Mary Harlow; Volume 2: The Medieval Age (800-1450), edited by Sarah-Grace Heller; Volume 3: The Renaissance (1450-1650), edited by Elizabeth Currie; Volume 4: The Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800), edited by Peter McNeil; Volume 5: The Age of Empire (1800-1920), edited by Denise Amy Baxter; Volume 6: The Modern Age (1920-2000+), edited by Alexandra Palmer. Each volume discusses the same key themes in its chapters: 1. Textiles 2. Production and Distribution 3. The Body 4. Belief 5. Gender and Sexuality 6. Status 7. Ethnicity 8. Visual Representations 9. Literary Representations. This structure means readers can either have a broad overview of a period by reading a volume or follow a theme through history by reading the relevant chapter in each volume. Superbly illustrated, the full six volume set combines to present the most authoritative and comprehensive survey available on dress and fashion through history.

Author : Jack R. Censer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Idea (Philosophy)
ISBN : 1474206492

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment by Jack R. Censer Pdf

Author : Daniel J. Walkowitz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078345

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A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age by Daniel J. Walkowitz Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities Changes in production and consumption fundamentally transformed the culture of work in the industrial world during the century after World War I. In the aftermath of the war, the drive to create new markets and rationalize work management engaged new strategies of advertising and scientific management, deploying new workforces increasingly tied to consumption rather than production. These changes affected both the culture of the workplace and the home, as the gendered family economy of the modern worker struggled with the vagaries of a changing gendered labour market and the inequalities that accompanied them. This volume draws on illustrative cases to highlight the uneven development of the modern culture of work over the course of the long 20th century. A Cultural History of Work in the Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : Hourly History
Publisher : Hourly History
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540742810

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Age of Enlightenment by Hourly History Pdf

From its beginnings as a loosely definable group of philosophical ideas to the culmination of its revolutionary effect on public life in Europe, the Age of Enlightenment is the defining intellectual and cultural movement of the modern world. Using reason as its core value, the Enlightenment believed that progress and the betterment of the human condition was inevitable. Inside you will read about… ✓ The Great Thinkers of the Enlightenment ✓ Engaging With Religion ✓ Morality in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Society in the Age of Enlightenment ✓ Science and Political Economy ✓ The Enlightenment and the Public ✓ Print Culture and the Press Philosophies of the Enlightenment gave birth to the disciplines of political science, economic theory, sociology and anthropology, the disciplines that still form the basis of how we understand life in the 21st century. A bold attack on the Church, the State and the Monarchy, the Age of Enlightenment was a direct challenge to the status quo that sought freedom for all.

Author : Victoria E. Thompson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078314

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A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire by Victoria E. Thompson Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities The period 1800–1920 was one in which work processes were dramatically transformed by mechanization, factory system, the abolition of the guilds, the integration of national markets and expansion into overseas colonies. While some continued to work in trades that were similar to those of their parents and grandparents, increasing numbers of workers found their workplace and work processes changed, often in ways that were beyond their control. Workers employed a variety of means to protest these changes, from machine-breaking to strikes to migration. This period saw the rise of the labor union and the working-class political party. It was also a time during which ideas about work changed dramatically. Work came to be seen as a source of pride, progress and even liberation, and workers garnered increased interest from writers and artists. This volume explores the multi-faceted experience of workers during the Age of Empire. A Cultural History of Work in the Age of Empire presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : Antoinette M. Burton,Carlos F. Noreña,Ian Coller,Matthew Gabriele,Ania Loomba,Kirsten McKenzie,Patricia M. E. Lorcin
Publisher : Cultural Histories
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474242622

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A Cultural History of Western Empires in the Age of Enlightenment by Antoinette M. Burton,Carlos F. Noreña,Ian Coller,Matthew Gabriele,Ania Loomba,Kirsten McKenzie,Patricia M. E. Lorcin Pdf

A Cultural History of Western Empires presents historians, and scholars and students of related fields, with the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of empire from ancient times to modernity. With six highly illustrated volumes covering 2500 years, this is the definitive reference work on the subject. This volume explores the cultural history of empire in the age of enlightenment, covering: War, Trade, Natural worlds, Labor, Mobility, Sexuality, Resistance and Race.

Author : Jerry Toner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474232982

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A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity by Jerry Toner Pdf

The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally significant in all aspects of ancient life, often in ways that were complex and interconnected. Antiquity was also a period where the senses were experienced vividly: cities stank, statues were brightly painted and literature made full use of sensory imagery to create its effects. In a steeply hierarchical world, with vast differences between the landed wealthy, the poor and the slaves, the senses played a key role in establishing and maintaining boundaries between social groups; but the use of the senses in the ancient world was not static. New religions, such as Christianity, developed their own way of using the senses, acquiring unique forms of sensory-related symbolism in processes which were slow and often contested. The aim of this volume is to provide an overview of these structures and developments and to show how their study can yield a more nuanced understanding of the ancient world. A Cultural History of the Senses in Antiquity presents essays on the following topics: the social life of the senses; urban sensations; the senses in the marketplace; the senses in religion; the senses in philosophy and science; medicine and the senses; the senses in literature; art and the senses; and sensory media.

Author : Daniel Tröhler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350035157

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A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment by Daniel Tröhler Pdf

A Cultural History of Education in the Age of Enlightenment presents essays that examine the following key themes of the period: church, religion and morality; knowledge, media and communications; children and childhood; family, community and sociability; learners and learning; teachers and teaching; literacies; and life histories.The Age of Enlightenment is characterized by a growing belief in the human capacity to change the world. This volume shows how the educational endeavors of the period contributed in their diversity to a thoroughly educationalized culture around 1800, the very foundation of the modern nation state, which then developed into the long 19th century.An essential resource for researchers, scholars, and students in history, literature, culture, and education.

Author : Egon Friedell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351535755

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A Cultural History of the Modern Age by Egon Friedell Pdf

This is the second volume of Friedell's monumental A Cultural History of the Modern Age. A key figure in the flowering of Viennese culture between the two world wars, this three volume work is considered his masterpiece. The centuries covered in this second volume mark the victory of the scientifi c mind: in nature-research, language-research, politics, economics, war, even morality, poetry, and religion. All systems of thought produced in this century, either begin with the scientifi c outlook as their foundation or regard it as their highest and fi nal goal. Friedell claims three main streams pervade the eighteenth century: Enlightenment, Revolution, and Classicism. In ordinary use, by "Enlightenment" we mean an extreme rationalistic tendency of which preliminary stages were noted in the seventeenth century. Th e term "Classicism", is well understood. Under the term "Revolution" Friedell includes all movements directed against what has been dominant and traditional. Th e aims of such movements were remodeling the state and society, banning all esthetic canons, and dethronement of reason by sentiment, all in the name of the "Return to Nature." Th e Enlightenment tendency might be seen as laying the ground for an age of revolution. Th is second volume continues Friedell's dramatic history of the driving forces of the twentieth century.

Author : Bert De Munck,Thomas Max Safley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350078246

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A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age by Bert De Munck,Thomas Max Safley Pdf

Winner of the 2020 PROSE Award for Multivolume Reference/Humanities In the early modern age technological innovations were unimportant relative to political and social transformations. The size of the workforce and the number of wage dependent people increased, due in large part to population growth, but also as a result of changes in the organization of work. The diversity of workplaces in many significant economic sectors was on the rise in the 16th-century: family farming, urban crafts and trades, and large enterprises in mining, printing and shipbuilding. Moreover, the increasing influence of global commerce, as accompanied by local and regional specialization, prompted an increased reliance on forms of under-compensated and non-compensated work which were integral to economic growth. Economic volatility swelled the ranks of the mobile poor, who moved along Europe's roads seeking sustenance, and the endemic warfare of the period prompted young men to sign on as soldiers and sailors. Colonists migrated to Europe's territories in the Americas, Africa, and Asia, while others were forced overseas as servants, convicts or slaves. The early modern age proved to be a “renaissance” in the political, social and cultural contexts of work which set the stage for the technological developments to come. A Cultural History of Work in the Early Modern Age presents an overview of the period with essays on economies, representations of work, workplaces, work cultures, technology, mobility, society, politics and leisure.

Author : Michael Mosher,Anna Plassart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1350042846

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A Cultural History of Democracy in the Age of Enlightenment by Michael Mosher,Anna Plassart Pdf

"How has the concept of democracy been understood, manifested, reimagined and represented through the ages? In a work that spans 2,500 years these fundamental questions are addressed by 66 experts, each contributing their overview of a theme applied to a period in history. With the help of a broad range of case material they illustrate the physical, social and cultural contexts of democracy in Western culture from antiquity to the present. Individual volume editors ensure the cohesion of the whole, and to make it as easy as possible to use, chapter themes are identical across each of the volumes. Superbly illustrated, the full six-volume set combines to present the most comprehensive and authoritative survey available on democracy throughout history. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (500 BCE-565 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (565-1450); 3 - Renaissance (1450-1650); 4 - Age of Enlightenment (1650-1800); 5 - Age of Empire (1800-1920); 6 Modern Age (1920-present) The ten themes are: Sovereignty; Liberty and the Rule of Law; The 'Common Good'; Economic and Social Democracy; Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation; Citizenship and Gender; Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism; Democratic Crises, Revolutions and Civil Resistance; International Relations; Beyond the Polis"--Abstract.