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Madness in Cold War America

By: Alexander Dunst

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This book tells the story of how madness came to play a prominent part in America’s political and cultural debates. It argues that metaphors of madness rise to unprecedented popularity amidst the domestic struggles of the early Cold War and become a pre-eminent way of understanding the relationship between politics and culture in the United States. In linking the individual psyche to society, psychopathology contributes to issues central to post-World War II society: a dramatic extension of state power, the fate of the individual in bureaucratic society, the political function of emotions, and the limits to admissible dissent. Such vocabulary may accuse opponents of being crazy. Yet at stake is a fundamental error of judgment, for which madness provides welcome metaphors across US diplomacy and psychiatry, social movements and criticism, literature and film. In the process, major parties and whole historical eras, literary movements and social groups are declared insane. Reacting against violence at home and war abroad, countercultural authors oppose a sane madness to irrational reason—romanticizing the wisdom of the schizophrenic and paranoia’s superior insight. As the Sixties give way to a plurality of lifestyles an alternative vision arrives: of a madness now become so widespread and ordinary that it may, finally, escape pathology.

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185

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Taylor & Francis

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131736080X

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9781317360803

The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

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The Spiritual Rococo

Decor and Divinity from the Salons of Paris to the Missions of Patagonia

By: Professor Gauvin Alexander Bailey

Exploring for the very first time the global reach and spiritual dimension of Rococo décor, particularly in France, Central Europe, Portugal, Brazil, and Spanish South America, this study investigates the socio-religious motives for the importation of this style into an ecclesiastical setting and its commonalities with Enlightenment values, overturning the cliché of Rococo as a frivolous style and acknowledging its essential modernity.

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439

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409400638

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9781409400639

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars

By: Alexander D. Campbell

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The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Politics, Religion and Record-Keeping in the British Civil Wars

By: Alexander D. Campbell

First full study of the life and career of the Glaswegian minister Robert Baillie, establishing his significance and influence

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272

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783271841

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9781783271849

Autism and the Crisis of Meaning

By: Alexander Durig

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Autism and the Crisis of Meaning

By: Alexander Durig

Provides a comprehensive understanding of the informal logics of meaningful perception and autistic perception, which promises to pave the way for social scientists to begin addressing the subjective human experience in logical terms.

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332

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SUNY Press

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0791428141

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9780791428146

The Northern Isles

Orkney and Shetland

By: Alexander Fenton

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The Northern Isles

Orkney and Shetland

By: Alexander Fenton

The Northern Isles stand at a crossroads of North Atlantic Europe, subject to the competing influences of Scandinavia and Scotland. Sandy Fenton's detailed study of the material culture of Orkney and Shetland is combined with thorough linguistic analysis and is based on years of study and sifting of a mass of detail. Much of the material is new, based on extensive research by the author, on manuscript and other written sources and on knowledge freely imparted by many local inhabitants. It illuminates the complexity of numerous interlocking factors, draws a picture of a fascinating and varied existence and reveals the past not as a static tableau but a process of continuous change. This book recreates the physical environment in which the people lived, their crops and livestock, the harvest of the sea, their houses, the food they ate. These things dominated their lives and form the background which is the key to understanding the character of these fascinating islands. This major work has earned its place as a key contribution to European ethnology and won the Dag Stromback Award of the Royal Gustav Academy, Sweden.

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750

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Dundurn

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1862320586

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9781862320581

Tasmania's Convicts

How Felons Built a Free Society

By: Alison Alexander

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Tasmania's Convicts

How Felons Built a Free Society

By: Alison Alexander

To the convicts arriving in Van Diemen's Land' it must have felt as though they'd been sent to the very ends of the earth. In Tasmania's Convicts Alison Alexander tells the history of the men and women transported to what became one of Britain's most notorious convict colonies. Following the lives of dozens of convicts and their families' she uncovers stories of success' failure' and everything in between. While some suffered harsh conditions' most served their time and were freed' becoming ordinary and peaceful citizens. Yet over the decades' a terrible stigma became associated with the convicts' and they and the whole colony went to extraordinary lengths to hide it. The majority of Tasmanians today have convict ancestry' whether they know it or not. While the public stigma of its convict past has given way to a contemporary fascination with colonial history' Alison Alexander debates whether the convict past lingers deep in the psyche of white Tasmania.

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582

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459603907

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9781459603905

Museums in Motion

An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums

By: Edward P. Alexander,Mary Alexander,Juilee Decker

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Museums in Motion

An Introduction to the History and Functions of Museums

By: Edward P. Alexander,Mary Alexander,Juilee Decker

Here is a complete introduction to the history of museums, types of museums, and the key roles that museums play in the twenty-first century. Following an introductory chapter looking at what a museum is today, Part I looks at the history and types of museums: art and design museums natural history and anthropology museums science museums history museums, historic houses, interpretation centers, and heritage sites botanical gardens and zoos children’s museums The second part of the book explores the primary functions of museums and museum professionals: to collect to conserve to exhibit to interpret and to engage to serve and to act The final chapter looks at the museum profession and professional practices. Throughout, emphasis is on museums in the United States, although attention is paid to the historical framing of museums within the European context. The new edition includes discussions of technology, access, and inclusivity woven into each chapter, a list of challenges and opportunities in each chapter, and “Museums in Motion Today,” vignettes spread throughout the volume in which museum professionals provide their perspectives on where museums are now and where they are going. More than 140 images illustrate the volume.

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391

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442278811

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9781442278813

Book's by Alexander Laing

Madness in Cold War America

Madness in Cold War America

The Spiritual Rococo

The Spiritual Rococo

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

The Life and Works of Robert Baillie (1602-1662)

Autism and the Crisis of Meaning

Autism and the Crisis of Meaning

The Northern Isles

The Northern Isles

Tasmania's Convicts

Tasmania's Convicts

Museums in Motion

Museums in Motion

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