A History of Modern Culture: The Enlightenment, 1687-1776
Author : Preserved Smith
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Preserved Smith
Publisher :
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 47,44 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Raymond F. Betts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 30,39 MB
Release : 2004-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1134598394
Surveying a range of topics, this lively and informative survey provides an up-to-date, thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War.
Author : Maurice Parmelee
Publisher :
Page : 1295 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Civilization
ISBN :
Author : Preserved Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 33,7 MB
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1108074650
Published 1930-4, this two-volume work considers the emergence of modern society in the wake of the Protestant reformation.
Author : Roger Scruton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1408193507
What do we mean by 'culture'? This word, purloined by journalists to denote every kind of collective habit, lies at the centre of contemporary debates about the past and future of society. In this thought-provoking book, Roger Scruton argues for the religious origin of culture in all its forms, and mounts a defence of the 'high culture' of our civilization against its radical and 'deconstructionist' critics. He offers a theory of pop culture, a panegyric to Baudelaire, a few reasons why Wagner is just as great as his critics fear him to be, and a raspberry to Cool Britannia. A must for all people who are fed up to their tightly clenched front teeth with Derrida, Foucault, Oasis and Richard Rogers.
Author : Preserved Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 17,38 MB
Release : 2019-07-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1351349554
The best excuse for writing the history of anything is the intrinsic interest of the subject. Most men of past generations have thought, and many men still think, of politics as the warp and woof of social life. History for a long time therefore treated chiefly politics. Then came the economists to arouse the interest of scholars and of the public in the production and distribution of wealth. Economic history rightly absorbs much attention, for it illumines, with its new searchlight, many a dark corner of the past, and explains many features of present-day society. But to many men today the most interesting thing about society is its culture; just as the most interesting thing about an individual is his thought. Indeed, it has begun to be suspected that even politics and economics, each sometimes worshipped as a First Cause, are but secondary effects of somthing still deeper, namely, of the progress of man's intellectual life. The present volume aims to exhibit, as a unified whole, thestate and progress of modern culture.
Author : Wilfred Cantwell Smith
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 10,44 MB
Release : 1997-07-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791433942
A distinguished historian of religion explores the contemporary culture of the Western world.
Author : Preserved Smith
Publisher :
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 45,69 MB
Release : 1934
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Author : Adam R. Nelson
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 20,25 MB
Release : 2010-05-26
Category : Education
ISBN : 0299236137
Vividly revealing the multiple layers on which print has been produced, consumed, regulated, and contested for the purpose of education since the mid-nineteenth century, the historical case studies in Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America deploy a view of education that extends far beyond the confines of traditional classrooms. The nine essays examine “how print educates” in settings as diverse as depression-era work camps, religious training, and broadcast television—all the while revealing the enduring tensions that exist among the controlling interests of print producers and consumers. This volume exposes what counts as education in American society and the many contexts in which education and print intersect. Offering perspectives from print culture history, library and information studies, literary studies, labor history, gender history, the history of race and ethnicity, the history of science and technology, religious studies, and the history of childhood and adolescence, Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America pioneers an investigation into the intersection of education and print culture.
Author : Lawrence Kramer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 12,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 0520251601
"Outstanding. Kramer's scholarship is as impeccable as his insights are at once original and consistently brilliant. The presentation is thorough, and the argument is well anchored in theory, history and musical detail. Kramer's discourse is crystalline and jargon free. The connections from one chapter to another are seamless. The story is, simply stated, a page-turner."—Richard Leppert, editor of Theodor W. Adorno's Essays on Music "Lawrence Kramer's Opera and Modern Culture is remarkable both for its imaginative exploration of important issues and for the rich array of the author's engagements with other thinkers. In particular, by decentering without dismissing the composer (who could dismiss Wagner?), he makes works of reception—productions of Salome on video, uses of the Lohengrin Prelude by Charlie Chaplin and W.E.B. Du Bois—central texts in the process of understanding the phenomenon of opera, rather than footnotes to an idea that he really does dismiss: 'the work itself.'"—James Parakilas, author of Piano Roles: 300 Years of Life with the Piano and Introduction to Opera (forthcoming)