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The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940

Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

By: Francesca Orsini

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The Hindi Public Sphere 1920–1940

Language and Literature in the Age of Nationalism

By: Francesca Orsini

This book analyses how a language became the instrument with which the contours of a new nation were traced. Mapping the success of formalized Hindi in creating a regional public sphere in north India in the early twentieth century, the book explores the way many educated Indians, influenced by the British ideas and institutions, expressed interest in new concepts such as progress, unity, and a common cultural heritage. From the development of new codes and institutions to a language that helped to create space for argument and debate, the book gives an overview of the Hindi public sphere. Furthermore, it throws light on the work of Vasudha Dalmia about the nascent Hindi public sphere and brings to light how early-twentieth-century discourses on language, literature, gender, history, and politics form the core of the Hindi culture that exists today.

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Oxford University Press

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0199088802

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9780199088805

East of Delhi

Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature

By: Francesca Orsini

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East of Delhi

Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature

By: Francesca Orsini

This chapter sets out the located and multilingual approach to literary history employed in the book. It outlines the geographical and historical scope of the book and traces the changing political boundaries of Purab (East), the region east of Delhi in the Gangetic plain of northern India later better known as Awadh, from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries. The presence of many small towns (qasbas), which were administrative, economic, and cultural nodes, but no capital city until the eighteenth century marks the decentered character of the region. The chapter also makes a case that the multilingual approach 'from the ground up employed in this book can help produce a richer and more textured take on world literature"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197658296

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9780197658291

Social Harm at the Border

The Case of Lampedusa

By: Francesca Soliman

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Social Harm at the Border

The Case of Lampedusa

By: Francesca Soliman

This book offers a zemiological approach for understanding border control practices, state power, and their social impact. Drawing on an ethnographic study on the borderisation of the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, it explores border harms from the perspective of the non-migrant community. Social Harm at the Border examines a range of social harms associated with border control, and draws on themes of security, racialised humanitarianism, economic harms, environment, and culture. It explores the ways in which borderisation exercises control over both migrants and non-migrants, ensuring that border communities remain subordinated to the power of institutional actors, and it offers a novel framework with which to illuminate and explain border harms and their generative mechanisms. An accessible and compelling read, this book will appeal to students and scholars of criminology, zemiology, sociology, criminal justice, politics, geography, and those interested in the harms caused by border control practices.

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Taylor & Francis

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100380263X

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9781003802631

Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

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Staging 'Euridice'

Theatre, Sets, and Music in Late Renaissance Florence

By: Tim Carter,Francesca Fantappiè

Newly-discovered evidence underpins this comprehensive account of the creation and staging of the earliest surviving 'opera', Euridice.

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283

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Cambridge University Press

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1316515400

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9781316515402

The Marvel of Maps

Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

By: Francesca Fiorani

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The Marvel of Maps

Art, Cartography and Politics in Renaissance Italy

By: Francesca Fiorani

Among the most beautiful and compelling works of Renaissance art, painted maps adorned the halls and galleries of princely palaces. This book is the first to discuss in detail the three-dimensional display of these painted map cycles and their full meaning in Renaissance culture. Art historian Francesca Fiorani focuses on two of the most significant and marvelous surviving Italian map murals--the Guardaroba Nuova of the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, commissioned by Duke Cosimo de’ Medici, and the Gallery of Maps in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope Gregory XIII. Both cycles were not only pioneering cartographic enterprises but also powerful political and religious images. Presenting an original interpretation of the interaction between art, science, politics, and religion in Renaissance culture, the book also offers fresh insights into the Medici and papal courts.

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Yale University Press

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0300107277

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9780300107272

East of Delhi

Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature

By: Francesca Orsini

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East of Delhi

Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature

By: Francesca Orsini

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Oxford University Press

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0197658296

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National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943

By: Francesca Billiani

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National Cultures and Foreign Narratives in Italy, 1903–1943

By: Francesca Billiani

National Cultures and Foreign Narratives charts the pathways through which foreign literature in translation has arrived in Italy during the first half of the twentieth century. To show the contribution translations made to shaping an Italian national culture, it draws on a wealth of archival material made available in English for the first time.

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Springer Nature

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3030541509

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9783030541507

Delivering Policy

The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada

By: Francesca Scala

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Delivering Policy

The Contested Politics of Assisted Reproductive Technologies in Canada

By: Francesca Scala

Are assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) such as in vitro fertilization a medical issue or a matter of public policy, subject to restrictions? In Delivering Policy, Francesca Scala employs the concept of boundary work to explain the prolonged debates that ensued when the Canadian government appointed a royal commission in 1989 to draw up a blueprint for legislative action. From the birth of the first “test tube baby” in 1978 to the Assisted Human Reproduction Act of 2004, Scala reveals how policy makers, civil society actors, and members of the medical-scientific community attempted to define assisted reproductive technologies from within the realms of science or politics. They challenged, defended, or blurred the boundaries or divisions between the two fields of knowledge to secure their position as the authoritative voice on the issue. Delivering Policy delineates in vivid detail the people, institutions, and processes that influenced ARTs policy in Canada. This compelling account contributes to our understanding of the interaction between science and politics, the exercise of social control over science and technology, and the politics of expertise in policy making.

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253

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UBC Press

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077486012X

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9780774860123

The Vincentians: A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Volume 6 - The Eighteenth Century to 1789

By: Luigi Mezzadri CM,Francesca Onnis

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The Vincentians: A General History of the Congregation of the Mission

Volume 6 - The Eighteenth Century to 1789

By: Luigi Mezzadri CM,Francesca Onnis

This second volume begins with the dawn of the eighteenth century, and relates how the Congregation of the Mission, founded by St. Vincent de Paul, worked to remain faithful to his vision while adapting itself to the demands of ecclesiastical and political life in France, Italy, Poland, Spain, and Portugal, overseas missions in North Africa and the Mascarenes, as well as the missions taken up after the suppression of the Jesuits in the Middle East and China. Among other problems, the Missioners found themselves in the middle of fights over Jansenism, but tempered by the success of the canonization of Saint Vincent de Paul. This is an important, down-to-earth side of history not often told.

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400

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New City Press

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1565485424

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9781565485426

Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour

Men of the Home

By: Ester Gallo,Francesca Scrinzi

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Migration, Masculinities and Reproductive Labour

Men of the Home

By: Ester Gallo,Francesca Scrinzi

This innovative book analyses the role gender plays in the relationship between globalisation, migration and reproductive labour. Exploring the gendered experiences of migrant men and the social construction of racialised masculinities in the context of the 'international division of reproductive labour' (IDRL), it examines how new patterns of consumption and provision of paid domestic/care work lead to forms of inequality across racial, ethnic, gender and class lines. Based on an ethnographic analysis of the working and family lives of migrant men within the IDRL, it focuses on the practices and strategies of migrant men employed as domestic/care workers in Italy. The authors highlight how migrant men's experiences of reproductive labour and family are shaped by global forces and national public policies, and how they negotiate the changes and potential conflicts that their 'feminised' jobs entail. They draw on the voices of men and women of different nationalities to show how masculinities are constructed within the home through migrant men's interactions with male and female employers, women relations and their wider ethnic network. Bridging the divide between scholarship on international migration, care work and masculinity studies, this book will interest sociologists, anthropologists, economists, political scientists and social policy experts.

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Springer

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1137379782

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9781137379788

Mediterranean Enlightenment

Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform

By: Francesca Bregoli

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Mediterranean Enlightenment

Livornese Jews, Tuscan Culture, and Eighteenth-Century Reform

By: Francesca Bregoli

The Mediterranean port of Livorno was home to one of the most prominent and privileged Jewish enclaves of early modern Europe. Focusing on Livornese Jewry, this book offers an alternative perspective on Jewish acculturation during the eighteenth century, and reassesses common assumptions about the interactions of Jews with outside culture and the impact of state reforms on the corporate Jewish community. Working from a vast array of previously untapped archival and literary sources, Francesca Bregoli combines cultural analysis with a study of institutional developments to investigate Jewish responses to Enlightenment thought and politics, as well as non-Jewish perceptions of Jews, through an exploration of Jewish-Christian cultural exchange, sites of sociability, and reformist policies. Mediterranean Enlightenment shows that Livornese Jewish scholars engaged with Enlightenment ideals and aspired to contribute to society at large without weakening the boundaries of traditional Jewish life. By arguing that the privileged status of Livorno Jewry had conservative rather than liberalizing effects, it also challenges the notion that economic utility facilitates Jewish integration, nuancing received wisdom about processes of emancipation in Europe.

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Stanford University Press

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0804791597

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9780804791595

The Neuroscience of Addiction

By: Francesca Mapua Filbey

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The Neuroscience of Addiction

By: Francesca Mapua Filbey

Combines classic theories with current neuroscientific studies to explain the addiction cycle, focusing on neuroimaging studies and applications.

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Cambridge University Press

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110712798X

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9781107127982

Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

By: Francesca Sterlacci,Joanne Arbuckle

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Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry

By: Francesca Sterlacci,Joanne Arbuckle

From the first animal skin body coverings, to today’s high fashion collections, fashion has held an important role in the evolution of mankind. The fashion industry has, and continues to make, major contributions to our cultural and social environment. It is an industry that responds to our inherent longing for tribal belonging, our socio-economic needs, individual lifestyles, status stratification and profession apparel requirements. The fashion industry is fast-paced, complex and ever changing, in response to consumer needs. Throughout the world, vast numbers of people contribute to this industry, each with the shared goal of supplying an end product of a particular price point directed at a target consumer. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,400 cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the fashion industry.

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748

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442239093

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9781442239098

A Shadow of Dante

Being an Essay Towards Studying Himself, His World and His Pilgrimage

By: Maria Francesca Rossetti

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A Shadow of Dante

Being an Essay Towards Studying Himself, His World and His Pilgrimage

By: Maria Francesca Rossetti

First published in 1871, this essay is still one of the best introductions to Dante available today.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108060765

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9781108060769

The Appian Way

From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages

By: Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio,Francesca Ventre

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The Appian Way

From Its Foundation to the Middle Ages

By: Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio,Francesca Ventre

The Appian Way was the first great artery from Rome to southern Italy and the model for all roads originating in the ancient capital. Conceived by Appius Claudius in 312 B.C., the thoroughfare provided easy access to Capua, the most important junction in southern Italy, and facilitated Roman expansion into the southern peninsula. Paved in black basalt, the road was flanked by level pedestrian footpaths and bordered by tombs, villas, and pleasant rest and refreshment areas along its 365 miles, which could be walked in thirteen to fourteen days. The Ancient Appian Way provides an engaging account of the Appian Way's origins and historical context. The structure of this lavishly illustrated book mirrors the traveler's route south from Rome, making it an ideal guide to the legendary road for all those with an interest in exploring ancient Rome.

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Getty Publications

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0892367520

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9780892367528

Poussin and the Dance

By: Emily A. Beeny,Francesca Whitlum-Cooper

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Poussin and the Dance

By: Emily A. Beeny,Francesca Whitlum-Cooper

Richly illustrated and engagingly written, this publication examines how the pioneer of French classicism brought dance to bear on every aspect of his artistic production. Scenes of tripping maenads and skipping maidens, Nicolas Poussin’s dancing pictures, painted in the 1620s and 1630s, helped him formulate a new style. This style would make him the model for three centuries of artists in the French classical tradition, from Jacques-Louis David and Edgar Degas to Paul Cézanne and Pablo Picasso. Poussin and the Dance, the first published study devoted to this theme, situates the artist in seventeenth-century Rome, a city rich with the ancient sculptures and Renaissance paintings that informed his dancing pictures. Tracing the motif of dance through his early Roman production, this book examines how these works helped their maker confront the problem of arresting motion, explore the expressive potential of the body, and devise new methods of composition. The essays investigate how dance informed nearly every aspect of Poussin's artistic production, notably through his use of wax figurines to choreograph the compositions he drew and painted. This publication also considers Poussin’s dancing pictures within a broader context of seventeenth-century European culture, collecting, and patronage. This volume is published to accompany an exhibition on view at the National Gallery, London from October 9, 2021, to January 2, 2022 and at the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center from February 15 to May 8, 2022.

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Getty Publications

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1606066838

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9781606066836

1000 Years of World Architecture

An Illustrated Guide

By: Francesca Prina,Elena Demartini

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1000 Years of World Architecture

An Illustrated Guide

By: Francesca Prina,Elena Demartini

This volume is a guide to the main characteristics, movements and regional variants of a millennium of Western architecture, from the early Romanesque to the most recent contemporary trends.

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