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A Century in Crisis
Author | : Julia F. Andrews,Kuiyi Shen |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art, Chinese |
ISBN | : 0892072741 |
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Edited by Julia F. Andrews and Kuiyi Shen. Essays by Jonathan Spence, Xue Yongnian and Mayching Kao.
Global Crisis
Author | : Geoffrey Parker |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2013-03-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300189193 |
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The acclaimed historian demonstrates a link between climate change and social unrest across the globe during the mid-17th century. Revolutions, droughts, famines, invasions, wars, regicides, government collapses—the calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were unprecedented in both frequency and severity. The effects of what historians call the "General Crisis" extended from England to Japan and from the Russian Empire to sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas. In this meticulously researched volume, historian Geoffrey Parker presents the firsthand testimony of men and women who experienced the many political, economic, and social crises that occurred between 1618 to the late 1680s. He also incorporates the scientific evidence of climate change during this period into the narrative, offering a strikingly new understanding of the General Crisis. Changes in weather patterns, especially longer winters and cooler and wetter summers, disrupted growing seasons and destroyed harvests. This in turn brought hunger, malnutrition, and disease; and as material conditions worsened, wars, rebellions, and revolutions rocked the world.
Zombies in Western Culture
Author | : John Vervaeke,Christopher Mastropietro,Filip Miscevic |
Publsiher | : Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2017-06-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781783743315 |
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Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness and homelessness, and argue that these reflect the outlook of the contemporary West and its attendant zeitgeists of anxiety, alienation, disconnection and disenfranchisement. They trace the relationship between zombies and the theme of secular apocalypse, demonstrating that the zombie draws its power from being a perversion of the Christian mythos of death and resurrection. Symbolic of a lost Christian worldview, the zombie represents a world that can no longer explain itself, nor provide us with instructions for how to live within it. The concept of 'domicide' or the destruction of home is developed to describe the modern crisis of meaning that the zombie both represents and reflects. This is illustrated using case studies including the relocation of the Anishinaabe of the Grassy Narrows First Nation, and the upheaval of population displacement in the Hellenistic period. Finally, the authors invoke and reformulate symbols of the four horseman of the apocalypse as rhetorical analogues to frame those aspects of contemporary collapse that elucidate the horror of the zombie. Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis is required reading for anyone interested in the phenomenon of zombies in contemporary culture. It will also be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience including students and scholars of culture studies, semiotics, philosophy, religious studies, eschatology, anthropology, Jungian studies, and sociology.
State and Society in 21st Century China
Author | : Peter Hays Gries,Stanley Rosen |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134321261 |
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Written by a team of leading China scholars, this book explores the dynamics of state power and legitimation in twenty-first century China, and the implications of changing state-society relations for the future viability of the People's Republic. Key subjects covered include: the legitimacy of the Communist Party state-society relations ethnic and religious resistance rural and urban contention nationalism popular and youth culture prospects for democracy.
World in Crisis
Author | : Gabriel Kolko |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009-04-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080841136 |
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A survey of the major problems confronting the world today, ranging from the financial crisis to the US foreign policy dilemmas.
Baroque Seville
Author | : Amanda Wunder |
Publsiher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 499 |
Release | : 2017-03-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780271079417 |
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Baroque art flourished in seventeenth-century Seville during a tumultuous period of economic decline, social conflict, and natural disasters. This volume explores the patronage that fueled this frenzy of religious artistic and architectural activity and the lasting effects it had on the city and its citizens. Amanda Wunder investigates the great public projects of sacred artwork that were originally conceived as medios divinos—divine solutions to the problems that plagued Seville. These commissions included new polychromed wooden sculptures and richly embroidered clothing for venerable old images, gilded altarpieces and monumental paintings for church interiors, elaborate ephemeral decorations and festival books by which to remember them, and the gut renovation or rebuilding of major churches that had stood for hundreds of years. Meant to revive the city spiritually, these works also had a profound real-world impact. Participation in the production of sacred artworks elevated the social standing of the artists who made them and the devout benefactors who commissioned them, and encouraged laypeople to rally around pious causes. Using a diverse range of textual and visual sources, Wunder provides a compelling look at the complex visual world of seventeenth-century Seville and the artistic collaborations that involved all levels of society in the attempt at its revitalization. Vibrantly detailed and thoroughly researched, Baroque Seville is a fascinating account of Seville’s hard-won transformation into one of the foremost centers of Baroque art in Spain during a period of crisis.
Crisis and Transformation in Seventeenth century China
Author | : Chun-shu Chang,Shelley Hsueh-lun Chang |
Publsiher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 472 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 047208528X |
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Describes the social and cultural transformation of seventeenth-century China through the life and work of Li Yu
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Author | : Thomas N. Bisson |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 720 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781400874316 |
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Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors, nobles, and churchmen to infuse lordship with social purpose. Bisson traces the origins of European government to a crisis of lordship and its resolution. King John of England was only the latest and most conspicuous in a gallery of bad lords who dominated the populace instead of ruling it. Yet, it was not so much the oppressed people as their tormentors who were in crisis. The Crisis of the Twelfth Century suggests what these violent people—and the outcries they provoked—contributed to the making of governments in kingdoms, principalities, and towns.