Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture (Russo Alessandro)(Paperback)

Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture (Russo Alessandro)(Paperback)

In Cultural Revolution and Revolutionary Culture, Alessandro Russo presents a dramatic new reading of China's Cultural Revolution as a mass political experiment aimed at thoroughly reexamining the tenets of communism. Russo explores four critical phases of the Cultural Revolution, each with its own

Life in Revolutionary France (Harder Mette)(Paperback)

The French Revolution brought momentous political, social, and cultural change. Life in Revolutionary France asks how these changes affected everyday lives, in urban and rural areas, and on an international scale. An international cast of distinguished academics and emerging scholars present new

What Is Cultural Sociology? (Spillman Lyn)(Paperback)

Culture, cultural difference, and cultural conflict always surround us. It is the aim of cultural sociologists to understand their role across all aspects of social life by examining processes of meaning-making. In this crisp and accessible book, Lyn Spillman demonstrates many of the conceptual

Dance and Cultural Diversity (O'Cadiz Darlene)(Paperback)

Dance and Cultural Diversity examines the art of dance within the context of different cultures and demonstrates the connections between dance and academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy.The text shows that dance has the power to provoke intellectual

Crime, Media and Culture (Martin Greg)(Paperback)

Working broadly from the perspective of cultural criminology, Crime, Media and Culture engages with theories and debates about the nature of media-audience relations, examines representations of crime and justice in news media and fiction, and considers the growing significance of digital

Culture, Health and Illness (Helman Cecil G.)(Paperback)

Culture, Health and Illness is the leading international textbook on the role of cultural and social factors in health, illness, and medical care. Since first published in 1984, it has been used in over 40 countries within universities, medical schools and nursing colleges. This new edition meets

The Cultural Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Kraus Richard Curt)(Paperback)

China's decade-long Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution shook the politics of China and the world. Even as we approach its fiftieth anniversary, the movement remains so contentious that the Chinese Communist Party still forbids fully open investigation of its origins, development, and conclusion

Textbook of Cultural Psychiatry (Bhugra Dinesh)(Paperback)

Cultural psychiatry deals with the impact of culture on causation, perpetuation and treatment of patients suffering with mental illness. The role of culture in mental illness is increasingly being recognised and the misconceptions that can occur as a result of cultural differences can lead to

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 (Hawkins Joan)(Paperback)

Downtown Film and TV Culture 1975-2001 brings together essays by filmmakers, exhibitors, cultural critics and scholars from multiple generations of the New York Downtown scene to illuminate individual films and filmmakers and explore the creation of a Downtown Canon, the impact of AIDS on younger

Culture and Ptsd: Trauma in Global and Historical Perspective (Hinton Devon E.)(Paperback)

Culture and PTSD examines the applicability of PTSD to cultural contexts beyond Europe and North America and details local responses to trauma and how they vary from PTSD as defined by the American Psychiatric

Arts, Culture and Community Development (Premaratna Nilanjana)(Paperback)

How and why are arts and cultural practices meaningful to communities? Highlighting examples from Lebanon, Latin America, China, Ireland, India, Sri Lanka and beyond, this exciting book explores the relationship between the arts, culture and community development. Academics and practitioners from

Religion and Cultural Memory: Ten Studies (Assmann Jan)(Paperback)

In ten brilliant essays, Jan Assmann explores the connections between religion, culture, and memory. Building on Maurice Halbwachs's idea that memory, like language, is a social phenomenon as well as an individual one, he argues that memory has a cultural dimension too. He develops a persuasive

Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution (Saito Chiho)(Paperback)

Citizens - A Chronicle of The French Revolution (Schama Simon)(Paperback / softback)

Offers a social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution. This title provides an impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of

Tattoos and Popular Culture: Cultural Representations in Ink (Barron Lee)(Paperback)

The rise of tattoos into the mainstream has been a defining aspect of 21st century western culture. Tattoos and Popular Culture showcases how tattoos have been catapulted from 'deviant' and 'alternative' subculture, into a popular culture, becoming a potent signifier of 'difference' for the

Revolution in Development: Mexico and the Governance of the Global Economy (Thornton Christy)(Paperback)

Revolution in Development uncovers the surprising influence of post-revolutionary Mexico on the twentieth century's most important international economic institutions. Drawing on extensive archival research in Mexico, the United States, and Great Britain, Christy Thornton meticulously traces how

The Birth of Industrial Britain: 1750-1850 (Morgan Kenneth)(Paperback)

The Industrial Revolution had a profound and lasting effect on socioeconomic and cultural conditions in Britain.The Birth of Industrial Britain examines the impact of early industrialisation on British society in the century before 1850, coinciding with Britains transition from a late

Mourning Sickness: Hegel and the French Revolution (Comay Rebecca)(Paperback)

This book explores Hegel's response to the French Revolutionary Terror and its impact on Germany. Like many of his contemporaries, Hegel was struck by the seeming parallel between the political upheaval in France and the upheaval in German philosophy inaugurated by the Protestant Reformation and

Walter Benjamin - Or, Towards a Revolutionary Criticism (Eagleton Terry)(Paperback / softback)

From our finest radical literary analyst, a classic study of the great philosopher and cultural

Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture (Morales Ed)(Paperback)

The Latinx revolution in US culture, society, and politics'Latinx' (pronounced 'La-teen-ex') is the gender-neutral term that covers one of the largest and fastest growing minorities in the United States, accounting for 17 percent of the country. Over 58 million Americans belong to the category,

Italian Renaissance - Culture and Society in Italy (Burke Peter)(Paperback / softback)

In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian

Germany Since 1945: Politics, Culture, and Society (Caldwell Peter C.)(Paperback)

Peter C. Caldwell and Karrin Hanshew's Germany Since 1945 traces the social, political and cultural history of Germany from the end of the Second World War right up to the present day. The book provides a narrative that not only explores the histories of East and West Germany in their international

Cultural Revolution - A People's History, 1962-1976 (Dikoetter Frank)(Paperback / softback)

Questions of Cultural Identity (Hall Stuart)(Paperback)

Why and how do contemporary questions of culture so readily become highly charged questions of identity? The question of cultural identity lies at the heart of current debates in cultural studies and social theory. At issue is whether those identities which defined the social and cultural world of