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Author : G. B. Norcliffe
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780802082053
An examination how the bicycle as a symbol of modernity and social status fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux.
Author : G. B. Norcliffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0802043984
An examination how the bicycle as a symbol of modernity and social status fits into the larger picture of change and progress in a period of dramatic economic, social, and technological flux.
Author : Carlos J. Alonso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 9780195118636
This book offers a provocative interpretation of cultural discourse in Spanish America. Alonso argues that Spanish American cultural production constituted itself through commitment to what he calls the "narrative of futurity," that is, the uncompromising adoption of modernity. This commitment fueled a rhetorical crisis that followed the embracing of discourses regarded as "modern" in historical and economic circumstance that are themselves the negation of modernity. Through fresh readings of texts by Sarmiento, Mansilla, Quiroga, Vargos Llosa, Garcia Marquez, and others, Alonso tracks this textual dynamic in works from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Mike Huggins,Mike O'Mahony
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781317965459
This comprehensive, novel and exciting interdisciplinary collection brings together leading international authorities from the history of sport, social history, art history, film history, design history, cultural studies and related fields to explore the ways in which visual culture has shaped, and continues to impact upon, our understanding of sport as an integral element within popular culture. Visual representations of sport have previously been little examined and under-exploited by historians, with little focused and rigorous scrutiny of these vital historical documents. This study seeks to redress this balance by engaging with a wide variety of cultural products, ranging from sports stadia and monuments in the public arena, to paintings, prints, photographs, posters, stamps, design artefacts, films and political cartoons. By examining the contexts of both the production and reception of this historical evidence, and highlighting the multiple meanings and social significance of this body of work, the collection provides original, powerful and stimulating insights into the ways in which visual material assists our knowledge and understanding of sport. This collection will facilitate researchers, publishers and others with an interest in sport to move beyond traditional text-based scholarship and appreciate the powerful imagery of sport in new ways. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.
Author : William H. Robinson,Jordi Falgàs,Carmen Belen Lord,Josefina Alix,Cleveland Museum of Art,Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300121063
Catalogus van een tentoonstelling van werk van Catalaanse kunstenaars.
Author : Robert Bud,Paul Greenhalgh,Frank James,Morag Shiach
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781787353930
In the early decades of the twentieth century, engagement with science was commonly used as an emblem of modernity. This phenomenon is now attracting increasing attention in different historical specialties. Being Modern builds on this recent scholarly interest to explore engagement with science across culture from the end of the nineteenth century to approximately 1940. Addressing the breadth of cultural forms in Britain and the western world from the architecture of Le Corbusier to working class British science fiction, Being Modern paints a rich picture. Seventeen distinguished contributors from a range of fields including the cultural study of science and technology, art and architecture, English culture and literature examine the issues involved. The book will be a valuable resource for students, and a spur to scholars to further examination of culture as an interconnected web of which science is a critical part, and to supersede such tired formulations as 'Science and culture'.
Author : Laurel Kendall
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824860813
Contributors to this volume explore the irony of modern things made in the image of a traditional "us." They describe the multifaceted ways "tradition" is produced and consumed within the frame of contemporary Korean life and how these processes are enabled by different apparatuses of modernity that Koreans first encountered in the early twentieth century. Commoditized goods and services first appeared in the colonial period in such spectacular and spectacularly foreign forms as department stores, restaurants, exhibitions, and staged performances. Today, these same forms have become the media through which many Koreans consume "tradition" in multiple forms. In the colonial period, commercial representations of Korea—tourist sites, postcard images, souvenir miniatures, and staged performances—were produced primarily for foreign consumption, often by non-Koreans. In late modernity, efficiencies of production, communication, and transportation combine with material wealth and new patterns of leisure activity and tourism to enable the localized consumption of Korean tradition in theme parks, at sites of alternative tourism, at cultural festivals and performances, as handicrafts, art, and cuisine, and in coffee table books, broadcast music, and works of popular folklore. Consuming Korean Tradition offers a unique insight into how and why different signifiers of "Korea" have come to be valued as tradition in the present tense, the distinctive histories and contemporary anxieties that undergird this process, and how Koreans today experience their sense of a common Korean past. It offers new insights into issues of national identity, heritage preservation, tourism, performance, the commodification of contemporary life, and the nature of "tradition" and "modernity" more generally. Consuming Korean Tradition will prove invaluable to Koreanists and those interested in various aspects of contemporary Korean society, including anthropology, film/cultural studies, and contemporary history. Contributors: Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Kyung-Koo Han, Keith Howard, Hyung Il Pai, Laurel Kendall, Okpyo Moon, Robert Oppenheim, Timothy R. Tangherlini, Judy Van Zile.
Author : M. Dawson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137003423
Influenced most notably by Émile Durkheim and Zygmunt Bauman, Dawson outlines how this long neglected stream of socialist theory can help us more fully understand, and possibly move beyond, the problems of neoliberalism and our conceptions of political individualism.
Author : Pete McDonald
Publisher : Pete McDonald
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Going Out for a Bike Ride describes some recreational mountain-biking undertaken in 2002–3 in the Dunedin area and in North and Central Otago. Here and there in the generally enthusiastic narrative lie several accounts of access difficulties. The second half forms a supplement to the diary, looking first at access matters local to Dunedin and Otago, and then at several national access issues of that time. Page size: A4 File format: PDF Number of pages: 84 About: Recreation, Cycling, Mountain-biking, Access, Land access, New Zealand, Maps.
Author : Peter Price
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487522186
Canadian Confederation has long been assessed as a political moment that created a new national entity. This book breaks new ground by arguing that Confederation was an imperial event that generated new questions and ideas about the future of global political order.
Author : Robert Squillace
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838753647
This book delineates the unique role of Arnold Bennett in the transformation of the British novel from the aesthetic, psychological, and sociopolitical assumptions of modernity to those of modernism. Early in his career, Bennett believed that the rejection of inherited traditions and authorities that was promulgated by such champions of modernity as Darwin, Marx, and even Herbert Spencer, would culminate in an assertion of personal autonomy. Bennett eventually assimilated the modernist critique of modernity, which discovered (with the help of Freud and the First World War) an intractable human irrationality that expressed itself in the most apparently reasonable schemes for human improvement.
Author : James Aaron Green
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031498343
Author : Dion Georgiou,Benjamin Litherland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315404691
This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives spans the bowling greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe, North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film. The collection takes into account the economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting competition. The collection will help both students and scholars conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those working in multiple fields. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in History.
Author : John Bramble
Publisher : Springer
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137465788
This study of modernism's high imperial, occult-exotic affiliations presents many well-known figures from the period 1880-1960 in a new light. Modernism and the Occult traces the history of modernist engagement with 'irregular', heterodox and imported knowledge.
Author : Massimo Moraglio
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785334504
On March 26th, 1923, in a formal ceremony, construction of the Milan–Alpine Lakes autostrada officially began, the preliminary step toward what would become the first European motorway. That Benito Mussolini himself participated in the festivities indicates just how important the project was to Italian Fascism. Driving Modernity recounts the twisting fortunes of the autostrada, which—alongside railways, aviation, and other forms of mobility—Italian authorities hoped would spread an ideology of technological nationalism. It explains how Italy ultimately failed to realize its mammoth infrastructural vision, addressing the political and social conditions that made a coherent plan of development impossible.