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Book SynopsisChina’s single women—are they the source of its future?Trade Review"Lake’s strong connection to Chinese culture and society jumps off the pages of Leftover in China, in which she playfully and compellingly offers a window into the female experience in modern China, explaining fascinating concepts that are unique to modern-day society." -- What’s On Weibo"What a fascinating book. Roseann Lake captures China’s tense sociopolitical climate today, as their ancient, deeply rooted traditions, values and beliefs about sex, romance and marriage clash with the powerful current trend toward individualism in this dedicated collectivist society. The aftershocks of the 'one-child' policy; Chinese women entering the market in droves; today’s antiquated Chinese courtship codes; this book depicts the profound global shift in human family life with elegance, clarity, insight, humor, and verve. It's a great read." -- Helen Fisher"Lake’s... book paints a vivid picture of how China’s young people, faced with a broadly conservative culture, are trying to cope." -- The Guardian

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Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestseller that reminded us what it means to be an American is more timely than ever in this updated and enlarged edition, including "Schlesinger's Syllabus," an annotated reading list of core books on the American experience.

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Book SynopsisRevised and updated with a special emphasis on innovations in social media, the second edition of Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks stands as the most popular and highly acclaimed anthology in the dynamic and multidisciplinary field of cultural studies. Features several new readings with a special emphasis on topics relating to new media, social networking, feminist media theory, and globalization Includes updated introductory editorials and enhanced treatment of social media such as Twitter and YouTube New contributors include Janice Radway, Patricia Hill-Collins, Leah A. Lievrouw, Danah M. Boyd, Nicole B. Ellison, and Gloria Anzaldúa Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition ix About the Editors xi Adventures in Media and Cultural Studies: Introducing the KeyWorks 1Douglas M. Kellner and Meenakshi Gigi Durham Part I: Culture, Ideology, and Hegemony Introduction to Part I 27 1 The Ruling Class and the Ruling Ideas 31Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels 2 (i) History of the Subaltern Classes; (ii) The Concept of “Ideology”; (iii) Cultural Themes: Ideological Material 34Antonio Gramsci 3 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 37Walter Benjamin 4 The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception 53Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno 5 The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article 75Jurgen Habermas 6 Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes Towards an Investigation) 80Louis Althusser Part II: Social Life and Cultural Studies Introduction to Part II 89 7 (i) Operation Margarine; (ii) Myth Today 95Roland Barthes 8 The Medium is the Message 100Marshall McLuhan 9 The Commodity as Spectacle 107Guy Debord 10 Introduction: Instructions on How to Become a General in the Disneyland Club 110Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart 11 Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory 115Raymond Williams 12 (i) From Culture to Hegemony; (ii) Subculture: The Unnatural Break 124Dick Hebdige 13 Encoding/Decoding 137Stuart Hall 14 On the Politics of Empirical Audience Research 145Ien Ang Part III: Political Economy Introduction to Part III 163 15 Contribution to a Political Economy of Mass-Communication 166Nicholas Garnham 16 On the Audience Commodity and its Work 185Dallas W. Smythe 17 A Propaganda Model 204Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky 18 Not Yet the Post-Imperialist Era 231Herbert I. Schiller 19 Gendering the Commodity Audience: Critical Media Research, Feminism, and Political Economy 242Eileen R. Meehan 20 (i) Introduction; (ii) The Aristocracy of Culture 249Pierre Bourdieu 21 On Television 253Pierre Bourdieu Part IV: The Politics of Representation Introduction to Part IV 263 22 Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema 267Laura Mulvey 23 Stereotyping 275Richard Dyer 24 The Readers and their Romances 283Janice Radway 25 Eating the Other: Desire and Resistance 308bell hooks 26 Booty Call: Sex, Violence, and Images of Black Masculinity 318Patricia Hill-Collins 27 British Cultural Studies and the Pitfalls of Identity 337Paul Gilroy 28 Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses 347Chandra Talpade Mohanty 29 Hybrid Cultures, Oblique Powers 365Nestor Garcıa Canclini Part V: The Postmodern Turn, New Media and Social Networking Introduction to Part V 383 30 The Precession of Simulacra 388Jean Baudrillard 31 Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism 407Fredric Jameson 32 Feminism, Postmodernism and the “Real Me” 433Angela McRobbie 33 Postmodern Virtualities 442Mark Poster 34 Quentin Tarantino’s Star Wars?: Digital Cinema, Media Convergence, and Participatory Culture 452Henry Jenkins 35 Alternative and Activist New Media: A Genre Framework 471Leah A. Lievrouw 36 Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship 491d. m. boyd and N. B. Ellison Part VI: Globalization and Social MovementsIntroduction to Part VI 507 37 Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy 511Arjun Appadurai 38 The Global and the Local in International Communications 524Annabelle Sreberny 39 The Homeland/Aztlan 539Gloria Anzaldua 40 The Processes: From Nationalisms to Transnationalisms 545Jesus Martın-Barbero 41 Globalization as Hybridization 567Jan Nederveen Pieterse 42 (Re)Asserting National Television and National Identity Against the Global, Regional, and Local Levels of World Television 582Joseph Straubhaar 43 Oppositional Politics and the Internet: A Critical/Reconstructive Approach 597Richard Kahn and Douglas M. Kellner Acknowledgments 615 Index 619

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Book SynopsisAn ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it.Table of Contents1. The History and Future of Ideas 1 2. Cultural Studies, Creative Industries, and Cultural Science 27 3. Journalism and Popular Culture 59 4. The Distribution of Public Thought 94 5. Television Goes Online 117 6. Silly Citizenship 133 7. The Probability Archive 155 8. Messaging as Identity 176 9. Paradigm Shifters: Tricksters and Cultural Science 199 References 215 Acknowledgments 236 Index 238

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Book SynopsisAn ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it.Table of Contents1. The History and Future of Ideas 1 2. Cultural Studies, Creative Industries, and Cultural Science 27 3. Journalism and Popular Culture 59 4. The Distribution of Public Thought 94 5. Television Goes Online 117 6. Silly Citizenship 133 7. The Probability Archive 155 8. Messaging as Identity 176 9. Paradigm Shifters: Tricksters and Cultural Science 199 References 215 Acknowledgments 236 Index 238

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Book SynopsisThis collection of thirteen essays and supporting primary documents explores how films have changed and been changed by American society. Each chapter covers a distinct period and contains an introduction, essay, discussion questions, primary documents, and suggestions for further reading and film screenings.Table of ContentsPreface ix Preface to the First Edition x Source Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Why Movies Matter 1 1 Going to the Movies: Early Audiences 14 Introduction to Article 14 “The Celluloid Stage: Nickelodeon Audiences” by Richard Butsch 15 Documents 32 Introduction to Documents 32 “The Nickel Madness” by Barton W. Carrie 32 Report of Censorship of Motion Pictures and of Investigation of Motion Picture Theatres of Cleveland 38 by Robert O. Bartholomew “House Fly Panics Pittsburgh Movie Audience” 40 Readings and Screenings 41 2 Heroes and Heroines of Their Own Entertainment: Progressive-Era Cinema 43 Introduction to Article 43 “Front Page Movies” by Kay Sloan 44 Documents 58 Introduction to Documents 58 “The Social Uses of the Moving Picture” by W. Stephen Bush 59 “Los Angeles Socialist Movie Theater” 62 Readings and Screenings 64 3 The Rise of Hollywood: Movies, Ideology, and Audiences in the Roaring Twenties 66 Introduction to Article 66 “Fantasy and Politics: Moviegoing and Movies in the 1920s” by Steven J. Ross 67 Documents 91 Introduction to Documents 91 “The Deluxe Picture Palace” by Lloyd Lewis 92 “Petting at the Movies” by E. J. Mitchell 94 “The Actor’s Part” by Milton Sills 95 Readings and Screenings 98 4 Who Controls What We See? Censorship and the Attack on Hollywood “Immorality” 100 Introduction to Article 100 “Hollywood Censored: The Production Code Administration and the Hollywood Film Industry, 1930–1940” by Gregory D. Black 101 Documents 123 Introduction to Documents 123 Quotes from Censorship of the Theater and Moving Pictures edited by Lamar T. Beman 123 Readings and Screenings 129 5 Confronting the Great Depression: Renewing Democracy in Hard Times 130 Introduction to Article 130 “The Recreation of America: Hybrid Moviemakers and the Multicultural Republic” by Lary May 131 Documents 160 Introduction to Documents 160 Responses to Edward G. Robinson’s “Declaration of Democratic Independence” 161 Readings and Screenings 163 6 Alternatives Cinemas: Movies on the Margins 165 Introduction to Article 165 “Others’ Movies” by Thomas Cripps 166 Documents 185 Introduction to Documents 185 “The Negro and the Photo-Play” by Oscar Micheaux 185 “‘The Symbol of the Unconquered,’ New Play” 187 “Some New American Documentaries: In Defense of Liberty” by John H. Winge 188 Readings and Screenings 191 7 Seeing Red: Cold War Hollywood 193 Introduction to Article 193 “Hollywood and the Cold War” by John Belton 194 Documents 214 Introduction to Documents 214 FBI Report, “Communist Political Influence and Activities in the Motion Picture Business in Hollywood, California” 215 “The Waldorf Statement,” Issued by the Association of Motion Picture Producers 219 Readings and Screenings 220 8 Eisenhower’s America: Prosperity and Problems in the 1950s 222 Introduction to Article 222 “The Fifties” by Leonard Quart and Albert Auster 223 Documents 242 Introduction to Documents 242 “Teen Idol: Hedda Hopper Interviews James Dean” 243 Reviews of Rebel Without a Cause 246 Readings and Screenings 249 9 Race, Violence, and Film: From the Blaxploitation Era of the 1960s to the “Hood-Homeboy” Movies of the 1990s 252 Introduction to Article 252 “Black Violence as Cinema: From Cheap Thrills to Historical Agonies” by Ed Guerrero 253 Documents 269 Introduction to Documents 269 Variety Reports Reactions to Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? 269 “Blaxploitation Movies: Cheap Thrills That Degrade Blacks” by Alvin F. Poussaint 271 Readings and Screenings 274 10 Vietnam and the Crisis of American Power: Movies, War, and Militarism 277 Introduction to Article 277 “Vietnam and the New Militarism” by Michael Ryan and Douglas Kellner 278 Documents 300 Introduction to Documents 300 Correspondence Regarding the Making of The Green Berets 300 “Platoon Marks ‘End of a Cycle’ for Oliver Stone” by Sean Mitchell 302 “Reunion: Men of a Real Platoon” by Jay Sharbutt 306 Readings and Screenings 308 11 Reagan’s America: The Backlash Against Women and Men 310 Introduction to Article 310 “Fatal and Fetal Visions: The Backlash in the Movies” by Susan Faludi 311 Documents 333 Introduction to Documents 333 Equal Rights Amendment, 1972 334 “A Backlash Manifesto” by Phyllis Schlafly 334 “A New Stereotype: The Crazy Career Woman” by Richard Cohen 338 Readings and Screenings 339 12 American Film in the Age of Terror: The Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 342 Introduction to Article 342 “Limited Engagement: The Iraq War on Film” by Susan L. Carruthers 343 Documents 358 Introduction to Documents 358 “Why Iraq War Films Fail” by Tom Streithorst 359 “Total Receipts and Production Costs for Films About Afghanistan and Iraq” by John Markert 362 Readings and Screenings 363 13 Hollywood Goes Global: The Internationalization of American Cinema 365 Introduction to Article 365 “Why Hollywood Rules the World, and Whether We Should Care” by Tyler Cowen 366 Documents 382 Introduction to Documents 382 Testimony Before Congressional Hearings on Television Broadcasting and the European Community 383 “Global Box Office Climb Continues in 2011” 385 Readings and Screenings 386 Index 389

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Book SynopsisIn Transcultural Communication, Andreas Hepp provides an accessible and engaging introduction to the exciting possibilities and inevitable challenges presented by the proliferation of transcultural communication in our mediatized world.Trade Review"...an engaging and well-balanced introduction to contemporary developments in global media communication from a transcultural perspective...a highly stimulating read for students and novice scholars alike." - Communications - The European Journal of Communication ResearchTable of Contents1 Introduction 1 2 Approaches to Transcultural Communication 10 2.1 Consequences of Globalization 13 2.2 Postcolonial Critique 18 2.3 Methodological Reflections 22 2.4 Integrative Analyses 28 3 The Regulation of Transcultural Communication 35 3.1 Global Commercialization and Communicative Infrastructure 39 3.2 State Regulation 51 3.3 From the Free Flow of Communication to the Regulation of Globalization 59 3.4 The Global Governance of Media 73 4 The Production of Media and their Transcultural Contexts 82 4.1 The Cultures of Production within Global Media Businesses 88 4.2 The Transculturality of Journalistic Practice 98 4.3 Alternative Forms of Media Production 104 4.4 Media Cities as Transcultural Locations 113 5 The Transculturality of Media Products 124 5.1 Hollywood, Bollywood, and Nollywood 128 5.2 The Import of Programs and the Adaptation of Formats 140 5.3 The Articulation of News 154 5.4 Media Events 168 6 The Appropriation of Media and Transculturation 179 6.1 The Appropriation of Media as Cultural Localization 181 6.2 Media Disjunctions in a Mediatized Everyday World 193 6.3 Communities and Communitization 205 6.4 Media Identity and Citizenship 216 7 Perspectives on Transcultural Communication 226 Acknowledgements 231 References 234 Index 270

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Book SynopsisThe reader reprints extracts of key historical texts - those of Daniel Bell on the post-industrial society and Jean-Francois Lyotard on the post-modern condition. The new cultural logic of contested pluralism is analysed in seminal papers by Andreas Hyssen and Jim Collins.Table of ContentsPreface Charles Jencks 8 Post-Modernism – The Ism that Returns Part 1 Defining the Post-Modern 12 Charles Jencks 14 What Then Is Post-Modernism? Jean-François Lyotard 38 Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? Andreas Huyssen 54 Mapping the Postmodern Margaret A Rose 65 Defining the Post-Modern Part 2 Literature and Architecture 82 John Barth 84 The Literature of Replenishment Umberto Eco 95 The Postscript to The Name of the Rose: Postmodernism, Irony, the Enjoyable Linda Hutcheon 98 Theorising the Postmodern: Towards a Poetics Ihab Hassan 114 From Postmodernism to Postmodernity: The Local/Global Context Felipe Fernández-Armesto 125 Pillars and Posts: Foundations and Future of Post-Modernism Jane Jacobs 138 The Kind of Problem a City Is Robert Venturi 151 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Charles Jencks 162 The Language of Post-Modern Architecture and the Complexity Paradigm Paolo Portoghesi 178 What Is the Postmodern? Part 3 Sociology, Economics, Feminism, Science 186 Zygmunt Bauman 188 Is There a Postmodern Sociology? David Harvey 199 The Condition of Postmodernity Robin Murray 220 Fordism and Post-Fordism Anatole Kaletsky 232 9/15 – The Birthpangs of Post-Modern Economics? Susan Rubin Suleiman 243 Feminism and Postmodernism: A Question of Politics Craig Owens 260 The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism Tito Arecchi 279 Chaos and Complexity John Gray 284 Evangelical Atheism, Secular Christianity David Ray Griffin 292 The Reenchantment of Science David Bohm 314 Postmodern Science and a Postmodern World Charles Birch 324 The Postmodern Challenge to Biology Edward Goldsmith 332 Gaia and Evolution Index 344

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Book SynopsisNow in paperback, this timeless treasure distills traditional wisdom for a new generation of black families. Joyce Ladner chronicles the roots and relevance of specific, African-American values and offers 100 practical recommendations for renewing their meaning in today's families, communities, and churches.Table of ContentsForeword by Dr. Dorothy I. Height. Acknowledgments. KEEPING THE PROMISE. Frank Talk About Black Values. The First Principle: Identity Determines Personal Power. The Second Principle: We Did Not Raise Ourselves Alone. The Third Principle: We Are Making the Future Together. The Fourth Principle: The Past Is Prologue. THE BLACK VALUE SYSTEM--TIMELESS TIES THAT BIND. The First Lesson: Remember Where You Came From. The Second Lesson: Trust in the Lord. The Third Lesson: Respect Is a Two-Way Street. The Fourth Lesson: Don't Make Excuses. The Fifth Lesson: Do an Honest Day's Work. The Sixth Lesson: Make a Way Out of No Way. The Seventh Lesson: Every Child Can Learn. The Eighth Lesson: Keep the Can-Do Spirit. The Ninth Lesson: Stand Tall. The Tenth Lesson: Your Word Is Your Bond. PERSONAL TRANSITIONS--THE POWER OF INTIMATE TIES. Saving Our Relationships. Loving Our Children. PASSING ON THE LEGACY. Timeless Treasures for the Family. Timeless Treasures for the School and the Community. Timeless Treasures for the Church. Timeless Treasures for the State and the Nation. Facing Tomorrow. Selected Bibliography. Resources. Index.

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Book SynopsisThe essence of this book is to assist educators to improve eduational practice in the constantly changing cultural contexts of school and society. Cross cultural dimensions such as diversity; uniformity; individualism, and collectivism emerge as key focus areas of discussion.Trade Review"This book has distilled a remarkable amount of information about a very broad ranging and complex area." (Debate, No.102 2002)Table of ContentsThe Role of Culture in Education and Schooling: An Introduction. The Cultural Dynamics of Learning Processes. The Cultural Dynamics of Teaching. Cultural Context and Educational Assessment. The Cultural Dynamics of School Organisation and Management. Building Cultural Bridges between Society and School. Teacher Development and Training for Cultural Diversity. References. Indexes.

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Book SynopsisThe past few years have seen the re-emergence of the Balkans as the cockpit of Europe. The break up of Yugoslavia, the regional conflict between ethnic groups, the creation of new states like Slovenia and the transformation of existing ones like Albania, have made the area of prime importance in geopolitical terms once again. Reconstructing the Balkans looks at the complex and rapidly changing human geography of the Balkans and considers the cultural, social and political geographies of the region and its neighbours. It provides both an examination of the history of the Balkans emphasising ethnicity and nationality issues and an evaluation of the historical and geographical roots of contemporary Balkan disputes from a range of national viewpoints. Written by acknowledged experts in the field, the book assesses some of the geographical consequences of the region s conflicts and analyses the post-socialist restructuring, reconstruction and reconfiguration regionwide and country by countrTable of ContentsPartial table of contents: THE BALKAN CONTEXT. The Balkans: Perceptions and Realities (D. Hall & D.Danta). Contemporary Balkan Questions: The Geographic and Historic Context(D. Danta & D. Hall). EMERGING FROM THE YUGOSLAV VORTEX. Place and Its Role in Serbian Identity (G. White). Destruction and Reconstruction: The Case of Dubrovnik (J.Oberreit). Macedonian Cultural and National Identity (T. Terkenli). NEIGHBOURS IN TRANSITION. Albania as a Gateway (D. Rugg). Thessaloniki and Balkan Realities (S. Kostopoulou). The Persistence of Collectivism: Responses to Land Restitution inRomania (M. Meurs). Hungary as a Place of Refuge (A. Dingsdale). THE BROADER CONTEXT. The Balkans: A European Challenge (A. Williams). Reconstructing the Balkans: The Economic Horizon (D. Hall & D.Danta). Index.

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Book SynopsisMany companies have culturally diverse workforces. This applies to medium-- and small--sized businesses as well as to multinational organisations. The existence of a multicultural workforce has important implications for human resource management policies.Table of ContentsHuman Resource Management and its Significance for InternationalFirms. Origins and Scope of National Culture. Relevance of National Culture for Organisations. Influences of National Culture on Organisations. DEALING AND COPING WITH DIFFERENT NATIONAL CULTURES. Management of Human Resources in a Single Multinational Firm: TheContext. Management of Human Resources in a Single Multinational Firm:Thinking Globally, Acting Locally. Management of Human Resources in International Alliances and JointVentures. Management of a Multi-Ethnic Workforce in the Same Site. Transferring Management Practices Across Cultures. Concluding Remarks. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis popular dream of "escaping into the countryside" has caused great change in the population structures of Western society in this century.Table of ContentsMigration, Rurality and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree & P. Boyle). Studying Counterurbanisation and the Rural Population Turnaround (T. Champion). Counterurbanisation and Social Class (T. Fielding). Contrasting the Counterurbanisation Experience in European Nations (T. Kontuly). Concentrated Immigration, Restructuring and the 'Selective' Deconcentration of the United States Population (W. Frey & K. Johnson). The Hypothesis of Welfare-Led Migration to Rural Areas: The Australian Case (G. Hugo & M. Bell). Inside Looking Out; Outside Looking in. Different Experiences of Cultural Competence in Rural Lifestyles (P. Cloke, et al.). Indigeneity, Identity and Locality: Perspectives on Swaledale (S. Fielding). Class, Colonisation and Lifestyle Strategies in Gower (P. Cloke, et al.). Middle Class Mobility, Rural Communities and the Politics of Exclusion (J. Murdoch & G. Day). Neo-Tribes, Migration and the Post-Productivist Countryside (K. Halfacree). Counterurbanisation, Fragmentation and the Paradox of the Rural Idyll (M. Gorton, et al.). Planning by Numbers: Migration and Statistical Governance (S. Abram, et al.). Neglected Gender Dimensions of Rural Social Restructuring (J. Agg & M. Phillips). Migration into Rural Communities: Questioning the Language of Counterurbanisation (J. Allen & E. Mooney). Migration into Rural Areas: A Collective Behaviour Framework? (P. Boyle and K. Halfacree). List of Illustrations. List of Tables. List of Contributors. Index.

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Book SynopsisExplores perceptions of disability and racial difference in Mexico’s early post-revolutionary period (1920s to 1940s). The book focuses in particular on the way disability is represented indirectly through factors that may have caused it in the past or may cause it in the future, or through perceptions and measurements that cannot fully capture it.Trade ReviewUndoubtedly groundbreaking research. Embodied Archive will reverberate beyond Antebi’s specific field of expertise, as issues of disability, race, and nation are presently of global relevance.""— Encarnación Juárez-Almendros, University of Notre Dame""Embodied Archive is the single most important book on Mexico and disability and should be required reading for cultural studies scholars in general.""— Robert McRuer, George Washington University

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Book SynopsisExamines the historical roots of clerical work and the role that class and gender played in determining professional status.Trade ReviewDrawing upon census data, trade periodicals devoted to stenography and court reporting, the writings of educational reformers, and fiction, Srole allows us to better understand the roles that gender and work played in the formation of middle-class identity. Clearly written and thoroughly researched, her book reminds us of the contradictions that both men and women faced as they navigated changes in the labor market and sought to realize a modern professional identity." — Thomas Augst, New York University"Srole has succeeded in combining large historiographical and sociological trends from a variety of scholarly literatures, including the stories of professionalization, urbanization, womens' move into the workplace and the anxiety of 19th century men, into a single narrative. ... So much work on the history of gender forgets that, despite the ideology of 'separate spheres,' men and women did interact for much of their lives. That interaction is at the heart of her story, and makes her book of interest to all scholars with an interest in gender history." — Gender Forum

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Book SynopsisUsing the border state of Missouri as a case study, this book argues that the historical development of urban black working-class communities, cultures, and institutions propelled the major African American social movements in the period between the Great Depression and the end of the Great Society.

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Book SynopsisInformed by contemporary theories of colonial photography and the history of US imperialism, Dean Worcester’s Fantasy Islands is narrative in its approach, tracing Worcester’s emergence both as a colonial administrator and a photographer and analysing the intersections between his personal desires and his political agenda as they shaped his photography in the Philippines.

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Book SynopsisExamines the ways contemporary American fiction develops digital cultures through the creative transposition of digital rhetorics and technological practices, incorporating devices such as the hyperlink, network, and recursive processing into print or in translating a classic print narrative into a digital hypertext fiction.

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Book SynopsisArgues that we must reject both America-writ-large views of the world and self-defeating mirror images that reject anything American or Western on the grounds of cultural incompatibility or even cultural superiority. The point of departure for internationalizing “international communication” must be precisely the opposite of parochialism - namely, a spirit of cosmopolitanism.

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Book SynopsisOffers a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’s synecdochical “nuclear”, Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings “nuclear criticism” into conversation with ecocriticism.Trade ReviewThis is an important book, one that will be of interest to students of contemporary literature and culture generally and to eco-criticism and eco-theory particularly. It is impressively steeped in eco-critical scholarship and theory, advances knowledge in the environmental humanities, and exposes readers to absorbing, intelligent discussions of a variety of texts.”—Fred Buell, Queen’s College, CUNY""Risk Criticism makes a significant, original contribution to ecocriticism in showing how we might learn from the juxtaposition and overlap of varied types and sites of risk, including climate change, plastics, and nuclear weapons. This book is valuable in its rich archive, which encompasses canonical and emerging literary works as well as visual art, film, and other materials, and is important for providing ways to engage the unknown in present, past, and future ecological upheaval.”—Teresa Shewry, University of California, Santa Barbara""With rare skill, Molly Wallace pulls together the imaginative, technological, ethical and political dimensions of environmental risk. Her book offers an impressive mix of conceptual innovation and grounded case studies. Risk Criticism exemplifies the environmental humanities at their eclectic best: consequential, worldly, and infused with an interdisciplinary vitality.”—Rob Nixon, Princeton University""Here we have a careful and astute reworking of nuclear criticism—brought thoughtfully together with contemporary ecocritical work and sociological theories of risk. The great achievement of this book is that Wallace invents and performs a kind of risk criticism appropriate to life in the twenty-first century; more than fabulously textual, this risk criticism is alive to the speculative, the fictive, the imaginative and the decidedly real predicaments of our second nuclear age.”—Peter van Wyck, Concordia University

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Book SynopsisAutism is widely understood in contemporary times as nothing more than a biomedical disorder in need of treatment and/or cure. War on Autism disrupts this singularity by examining autism as a historically specific and power-laden cultural phenomenon that has much to teach about the social organization of a neoliberal western modernity.Trade ReviewA comprehensive treatise on the social, political, and discursive constitution of the conceptual object called ‘autism’ which considers a broad range of arguments, artifacts, and events and does so in a series of lively and provocative challenges to accepted understandings of this relatively recent phenomenon.” — Shelley Tremain, author of Foucault and the Government of Disability “In many respects, autism is the condition du jour, and cultural fascination has long prevented both lay publics and scholars from engaging with the host of characters—or figures—that govern its very construction. McGuire’s multi-pronged, critical analysis of modern-day autism advocacy will profoundly impact the field of Disability Studies and uproot (unfortunately) dearly-held clinical and educational paradigms that dominate contemporary discourse on autism.” — Melanie Yergeau, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisThe visual culture of aso ebi fashion in Nigerian and West African societyTrade Review“There is not another book like it. The author presents a new look at aso ebi, a dress practice taken for granted and relatively ignored.”—Elisha Renne, University of Michigan “Nwafor's book fills a gap in the literature regarding the social dynamics of fashion and dress in Lagos, which is currently widely known for its high-end fashion designers, but not for how the fashion system works “‘on the ground”’ in Lagos for major social events such as aso ebi.”—Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota

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Book SynopsisProposes new visions of global cities and regions historically considered ‘secondary’ in the international context. The arguments are not only based on material progress, but also on the growing social difficulties experienced by these metropolises.Trade Review“. . . fills an important gap in the literature and offers a novel and comparative vision of a process that is currently in full development.”— Rafael Martín Rodríguez, Fudan UniversityTable of Contents Introduction by the editor PART I ASIA: CENTRE OF GROWTH AND GLOBALITY Chapter 1 Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition Raffaele Pernice Chapter 2 The Urban Geographies of a Small Island: A Dialectical Spatial Approach Gang Hong Chapter 3 The rise of Chongqing and Queretaro: the territorial dimension of the divergent trajectories of two emerging urban economies in China and Mexico Miguel Hidalgo Martinez Chapter 4 Migration, expatriation, and heterosexuality in a globalized city – Singapore Liangni Sally Liu Chapter 5 City-regions reconsidered Allen J. Scott PART II LATIN AMERICA: OPENING, GLOBALIZATION AND CRISIS Chapter 6 Global Cities in Peripheral Countries: Argentina in the New International Labor Division Ulises Girolimo, and Patricio Feldman Chapter 7 Regional Planning, Development, and Governance of Metropolitan Secondary City Clusters: Case Study of Santiago and Central Chile Region Brian Roberts, JosÉ TomÁs Videla, and Marcela AlluÉ Nualart Chapter 8 Change of the society consumption in Peru during the globalization process Nadia Nora Urriola Canchari Chapter 9 Urban Conflict and Transnational Crime in Latin American Cities John P. Sullivan Chapter 10 The emergence of a global urban region: The Urban Corridor automotive and aeronautical in the Central - BajÍo Region, Mexico AdriÁn Moreno Mata Chapter 11 Economy, Inequalities and Cities. Chinese influence in Latin America Pablo Baisotti Conclusion Contributors

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Book SynopsisExamines consumer culture and race in the United States from 1893-1933 as they were manifested in advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and the public events of the period. This book proves that - in America - advertising, publicity, and the development of the modern economy cannot be understood apart from the question of race.Trade ReviewA welcome addition to existing scholarship, Davis's study of the intersection of racial thinking and the emergence of consumer culture makes connections very few scholars have considered. - James Smethurst, University of Massachusetts

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Book SynopsisExamines how surveillance technologies, when placed within the frames of theatre and performance, can be used to critique and critically reimagine the politics of surveillance in everyday life. In this way, the rapid proliferation of surveillance technology can be repurposed through performance to become technologies of ethical witnessing, critique, and action.Trade Review“. . . a timely, valuable contribution to the ongoing discourse not only intheatre and performance studies, but more broadly in media and culturalstudies and in considerations of digital technology in culture.” - Sarah Bay-Cheng, Bowdoin College

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Book SynopsisThe Nigerian and West African practice of aso ebi fashion invokes notions of wealth and group dynamics in social gatherings. This book investigates the practice in the cosmopolitan urban setting of Lagos, and argues that the visual and consumerist hype typical of the late capitalist system feeds this unique fashion practice.Trade Review“There is not another book like it. The author presents a new look at aso ebi, a dress practice taken for granted and relatively ignored.”—Elisha Renne, University of Michigan “Nwafor's book fills a gap in the literature regarding the social dynamics of fashion and dress in Lagos, which is currently widely known for its high-end fashion designers, but not for how the fashion system works “‘on the ground”’ in Lagos for major social events such as aso ebi.”—Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsLaughter as superiority -- The elements of laughter -- The one necessary thing -- Objectives to the normative thesis -- Comic, virtues, and vices -- The social virtues -- Machine law -- Machine shcolarship -- Machine art and machine cities -- The battle of the norms -- Resistance to laughter -- The sociability thesis -- Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisExplores the production, preparation, and consumption of food and drink in Republican Italy to illuminate the nature of cultural change during this period. Laura Banducci tracks through time the foodways of three sites in Etruria from about the third century BCE to the first century CE: Populonia, Musarna, and Cetamura del Chianti.Trade ReviewFoodways in Roman Republican Italy presents a distinctive methodology for a more holistic analysis of ceramic data, drawing on attributes not routinely recorded or discussed in scholarship on Roman ceramics or foodways. The book justifies the need for a new approach to Roman foodways based primarily on ceramic evidence, and gives room to explore the implications of the findings in detail. This is a genuinely innovative analysis of original materials and data, sensibly conceived and producing thought-provoking results." — Martin Pitts, University of Exeter"The archaeological material here is entirely traditional: pots and bones. The methods and results are both innovative and significant. While use-wear study has grown in stature in recent years, this book puts that process into action in a sustained way over multiple sites. Statistical analyses of the ceramic and faunal assemblages draw readers’ attention to patterns in the archaeological data that are then contemplated in terms of broader historical issues." —Mark Lawall, University of Manitoba

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Book SynopsisOffers a comparative study of improvisation as it appears between music and everyday life. Drawing on work in musicology, cultural studies, and critical improvisation studies, as well as his own performing experience, Dan DiPiero argues that comparing improvisation across domains calls into question how improvisation is typically recognised.Table of Contents 1. Introduction: Improvisation as Contingency Part One: Contingent Music 2. Out to Lunch 3. Waves, Linens, and White Light 4. Gunweep | Elephant in the Room Part Two: Contingent Life 5. The Structure of Everyday Life 6. Everyday Practices 7. Perception, Situation, Orientation 8. Conclusion: On Aesthetics and Politics Epilogue: Improvisation, Cultural Analysis, and Collective Action References Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a configuration of the important elements to be found in contemporary Japanese social life, and attempts to shed new light on Japanese society. The author deals with his own society as a social anthropologist using some of the methods which he was accustomed to applying in examining any other society.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter One: Criteria of Group Formation 1. Attribute and Frame 2. Emotional Participation and One-to-One Relationships Chapter Two: The Internal Structure of the Group 1. The Development of Ranking 2. The Fundamental Structure of Vertical Organization 3. Qualification of the Leader and Interpersonal Relations in the Group 4. The Undifferentiated Role of the Group Member Chapter Three: The Overall Structure of the Society Chapter Four: Characteristics and Value Orientation of Japanese Man 1. From School to Employment 2. The Web of Comradeship 3. Localism and Tangibility Concluding Remarks Index

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Book SynopsisShows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform. This title examines how Vienna's coffeehouses, theaters, and concert halls stimulated creativity together with complacency. It explores the fin-de-siecle world view known as Viennese Impressionism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part I. Habsburg Bureacracy: Inertia versus Reform Part II. Aestheticism at Vienna Part III. Positivism and Impressionism: An Unlikely Symbiosis Part IV. Bohemian Reform Catholicism Part V. The Hungarian Cult of Illusion Part VI. Soothsayers of Modernity Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPresents a portrait of the glorious Greek warrior Achilles. This book establishes the moral or political significance attached to the hero as a response to shifting mores and contemporary issues.

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Book SynopsisThe act of translation is a political action. This title draws on Benjamin, Derrida, and de Man to show that translation has long been a site for perpetuating the unequal power relations among people, races, and languages.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations 1. Introduction: History in Translation 2. Representing Texts and Cultures: Translation Studies and Ethnography 3· Allegory and the Critique of Historicism: Reading Paul de Man 4· Politics and Poetics: De Man, Benjamin, and the Task of the Translator 5· Deconstructing Translation and History: Derrida on Benjamin 6. Translation as Disruption: Post-Structuralism and the Post-Colonial Context Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book on Latin American social and cultural developments, as well as politics and economics is revised and brought up to date with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for outstanding literary achievement.Table of ContentsPREFACE TO FOURTH EDITION PROLOGUE 1. The Mayas: "Greeks of the New World" 2. The Incas: Children of the Sun 3· The Toltec-Aztec Culture 4· The New World Meets the Old World's Cross and Sword 5· The Halls of Montezuma 6. Pizarro's Exploits in the "Empire of the Sun" 7· The Conquest of Chile 8. Colombia Yields to the "Knight of ElDorado" 9· Conquest of the River Plate 10. Brazil: Land of No Lure 11. Iberians and Indians 12. The Division of Lands and Labor 13. The Empire Consolidated 14. Trade Monopoly and Pirates 15. Flowering of the Missions 16. The Church as Inquisitor and Moral Censor 17. Gold and Silver in Foreign Coffers 18. The Brazilian Colossus Begins to Move Forward 19. Struggle over Possession of the Behemoth 20. After the Banner into the Sertao 21. The Feudal Pattern of Colonial Society 22. Life in the Colonial Towns 23. The Beginnings of Colonial Culture 24. Colonial Belles-Lettres 25. Architecture and the Fine Arts 26. Rebellion of the Beast Below 27. Chile Emerges behind the Araucanian Frontier 28. The Argentine Pampas: Cradle of a Great People 3 29. Brazilian Plantation Life Yields to the Lure of Gold 30. Abortive Rebellions in South America 31. Revolt of the Classes 32. Liberator of the North 33· Revolution in the South 34· Argentina Parts Company with Spain 35· San Martin: Protector of Peru 36. The Two Generals Meet at Guayaquil 37· The Cry from Dolores 38. Men of Destiny 39· Brazil Escapes the Chaos of Revolution 40. The Democratic Emperor of Brazil 41. Paraguay as a Symbol of Perpetual Despotism 42· The Spirit of Argentine Nationality I. THE CITY; RIVADAVIA II. THE PAMPAS; TilE GAUCHO 43· Juan Manuel de Rosas: Tyrant of the Argentine 44· Sarmiento: Civilian President 45· The Paraguayan War 46. Venezuela and Colombia under Caudillo Rule 47· The Andean Republics I. BOLMA: A SICK PEOPLE II. ECUADOR: A THEOCRACY III. PERU: SOCIETY OF SLAVE AND MASTER 48. Chile: Democracy of the Oligarchy 49· Santa Anna Loses Half of Mexico so. Benito Juarez: Indian President 51. Porfirio Diaz: Bread or the Club 52. Ariel and Caliban 53. The Twentieth Century: Deep Womb, Dark Flower 54. The Postwar Years MEXICO GUATEMALA EL SALVADOR COSTA RICA NICARAGUA HONDURAS PANAMA CUBA VENEZUELA COLOMBIA ECUADOR PERU BOLIVIA CHILE ARGENTINA PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY BRAZIL 55. The Contemporary Scene 56. Inter-American Relations Today REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX

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Book SynopsisDeals with two remarkable events - the worldwide transformations of the Jews in the modern age and the revival of the ancient Hebrew language. This is a book about social and cultural history addressed not only to the professional historian, and a book about Jews addressed not only to Jewish readers.Table of ContentsPREFACE PART I • THE MODERN JEWISH REVOLUTION An Essay on the History of Culture and Consciousness 1. Transformations: Extrinsic and Intrinsic 2. The Internal Response to History 3. A New Period in History 4. The Centrifugal Movement 5. The Force of Negation 6. The New Cultural Trends 7. The Secular Polysystem 8. Assimilation 9. A Jewish Century 10. The Continuous Rainbow 11. The Individual 12. Flashback: Collapse and Victory of the Enlightenment 13. Politics and Literature 14. Consolidation 15. Two Endings to One Revolution 16. The Age of Modernism PART II • THE REVIVAL OF THE HEBREW LANGUAGE Anatomy of a Social Revolution 17. The Miracle of the Revival of Hebrew 18. The Social Existence of Language 19. Theory of Twin Systems 20. Language as a Unifying Force 21. The Pitfalls of Scholarship 22. The Beginnings of the Language Revival 23. Three Factors in the Revival of the Language 24. The Life of "Dead" Hebrew 25. The Revival of Written Hebrew 26. New Cells of Society in a Social Desert 27. Ashkenazi or Sephardi Dialect? 28. Remarks on the Nature of Israeli Hebrew 29. Principles of the Revolution: A Retrospective Summary 30. Remarks Toward a Theory of Social Revolution PART III • SOURCES ON THE HEBREW LANGUAGE REVIVAL Translated from Hebrew by Barbara Harshav Rachel Katznelson: Language Insomnia (1918) Yitzhak Tabenkin: The Roots (1937) Berl Katznelson: On the Question of Languages (1919) Yosef Klauzner: Ancient Hebrew and Modem Hebrew (1929) Tsvi Shats: Exile of Our Classical Poetry (1919) REFERENCES INDEX

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Book SynopsisExamines the films of such key directors as Bunuel, Saura, Erice, and Almodovar, as well as works from the popular cinema and television, exploring how they manifest political and cultural tensions related to the production of Spanish national identity within a changing global context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Beyond the Boundaries of a National Cinema PART I. TRANSCULTURAL REINSCRIPTION I . The Ideological Reinscription of Neorealist and Hollywood Conventions in Spanish Cinema of the 1950s: Falangist Neorealism in Surcos 2. The Subversive Reinscription of Melodrama in Muerte de un ciclista 3. Breaking New Ground in Los golfos, El cochecito, and El esplritu de Ia colmena PART II. THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE SPANISH OEDIPAL NARRATIVE 4. Sacrifice and Massacre: On the Cultural Specificity of Violence 5. The Spanish Oedipal Narrative and Its Subversion PART III. EXILE AND DIASPORA 6. Exile and Ideological Reinscription: The Unique Case of Luis Bufiuel 7. The Economics of Exile: Borau On the Line of the National/International Interface PART IV. MICRO- AND MACROREGIONALISM 8. Micro- and Macroregionalism in Catalan Cinema, European Coproductions, and Global Television Epilogue: El Sol Also Rises Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe nations of Latin America came into being without a strong sense of national purpose and identity. This book offers a cultural history of one nation's efforts to determine its nature, its destiny, and its place among the nations of the world.Table of ContentsPreface 1. Prelude to Nationhood 2. Mariano Moreno 3· Populism, Federalism, and the Gauchesque 4· The Rivadavians 5· The Generation of 1837, Part One 6. The Generation of 1837, Part Two 7· Alberdi and Sarmiento: The Widening Breach 8. Bartolome Mitre and the Gallery of Argentine Celebrities 9. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part One 10. Roots of Argentine Nationalism, Part Two Epilogue Bibliography Index

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