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Portraits of the Nation
Portraits of the Nation offers a fascinating insight into the construction and development of national identity in two multilingual countries - Belgium and Switzerland. This book not only shows that multilingualism was no obstacle for the development of national identity - in both countries it was used as a positive means of collective identification - it also demonstrates that other means of identification were much more important. These were found on a national and supralinguistic level - in Belgium the Royal Family and in Switzerland the Alps - and on a local and sub-linguistic level - in Belgium mainly the provinces and in Switzerland the cantons. This study also shows that, contrary to ...
The Body of the Queen
"Inspired by existential thought, but using ethnographic methods, Michael Jackson explores a variety of contemporary topics, including 9/11, episodes from the war in Sierra Leone and its aftermath, the marginalization of indigenous Australians, the application of new technologies, mundane forms of ritualization, the magical use of language, the sociality of violence, the prose of suffering, and the discourse of human rights. Throughout this compelling work, Jackson demonstrates that existentialism, far from being a philosophy of individual being, enables us to explore issues of social existence and coexistence in new ways, and to theorise events as the sites of a dynamic interplay between the finite possibilities of the situations in which human beings find themselves and the capacities they possess for creating viable forms of social life."--BOOK JACKET.
Saving the World's Wildlife
The lavishly illustrated story of the World Wildlife Fund, the world's largest environmental organization.
Eine Frau zu sehen
Tijdens een wintersportvakantie in Sankt Moritz komt een jonge vrouw een andere vrouw tegen, die haar het hoofd op hol brengt.
Cotton in Context
- While cotton was a world-changing good in the early modern period, for producers, merchants, and consumers, it was but one of many different fabrics. This volume explores this dichotomy by contextualizing cotton within its contemporary culture of textiles. In doing, it focuses on a long, under-researched region: the German-speaking world, particularly Switzerland, which transformed into one of the most prolific European regions for the production of printed cottons in the eighteenth century. Sixteen contributions investigate the (globally entangled) history of Indiennes, silk, wool, and embroideries, giving new insights into the manufacturing, marketing, and consumption of textiles between 1500 and 1900.
The Laboratory of Progress
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century. That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the rest of the world; that a country that had never seen a cotton plant should become the world’s second-largest textile producer; that a country with hardly any level terrain should come to boast the world’s most highly developed railway network; and that a country whose main export was impove...
Unclassified
From his earliest boyhood snapshots to the seldom-seen color Polaroids made in the year before his death, "Unclassified" is published on the occasion of Walker Evans' first retrospective exhibition in three decades. Selections were drawn from the Archive at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and will travel to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Houston Museum of fine Arts. 200 photos.
"Maman, tu dois lire mon livre"
Alexis Schwarzenbach, le petit-neveu de la mythique Annemarie Schwarzenbach, historien de formation, s'est penché sur l'histoire de ses ancêtres, l'illustre famille zurichoise qui possédait au début du XXe siècle la plus grosse industrie de la soie au monde. Dans ce roman familial, les femmes occupent une place dominante. Renée Schwarzenbach-Wille (1883-1959), arrière-grand-mère de l'auteur, était la fille cadette d'Ulrich Wille, le général en chef de l'armée suisse pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. En 1904, elle épousa Alfred Schwarzenbach, héritier des usines de soie. Cette femme de passion vécut sans compromis pendant plus de quarante ans entre son amour pour son mari e...
