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Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the Balkans On the Very Edge brings together fourteen empirical and comparative essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and literature of interwar Serbia (1918–1941). The contributions highlight some idiosyncratic features of modernist processes in this complex period in Serbian arts and society, which emerged ‘on the very edge’ between territorial and cultural, new and old, modern and traditional identities. With an open methodological framework this book reveals a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene, which, albeit prematurely, announced interests in plu...
The first critical survey of the largely unknown avant-garde movements of the former Yugoslavia.
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THE DEFINITIVE, CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED BOOK ABOUT FOOTBALL 'Football conquered the world with its capacity to astonish, and this is its definitive history' The Independent There may be no cultural practice more global than soccer. Rites of birth and marriage are infinitely diverse, but the rules of soccer are universal. No world religion can match its geographical scope. The single greatest simultaneous human collective experience is the World Cup final. In this extraordinary tour de force, David Goldblatt tells the full story of football's rise from chaotic folk ritual to the world's most popular sport. The Ball Is Round illuminates football's role in the political and social histories of mod...
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El presente diccionario constituye una útil herramienta para el aprendizaje del devenir histórico así como un valioso banco de datos de fácil consulta de términos históricos, económicos, sociales, culturales e institucionales de la historia universal, en el que se concede una especial importancia a la historia de España y de Latinoamérica. La utilización de una perspectiva global en las explicaciones permite perfilar conceptos y aclarar dudas y dificultades que se plantean en muchas ocasiones en las Ciencias Sociales, algunas de las cuales los manuales de historia no logran en ocasiones despejar. Una obra de referencia indispensable para estudiantes, profesores y todos aquellos que deseen mejorar su conocimiento de una materia tan apasionante como es la historia.