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Royalism, War and Popular Politics in the Age of Revolutions, 1780s-1870s
This book offers a ground-breaking approach to royalism and popular politics in Europe and the Americas during the Age of Revolutions. It shows how royalist and counterrevolutionary movements did not propose a mere return to the past, but rather introduced an innovative way of addressing the demands and expectations of various social groups. Ordinary people were involved in the war and adapted the traditional imaginary of the monarchy to craft new models of political participation. This edited collection brings together scholars from France, Spain, Norway, and Mexico, to provide a transatlantic comparative perspective. It is a must-read for scholars and students looking to discover the lesser-known side of the Age of Revolutions, and the motivations of those who fought in the name of the king.
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Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt
This publication presents fascinating new findings on ancient Romano-Egyptian funerary portraits preserved in international collections. Once interred with mummified remains, nearly a thousand funerary portraits from Roman Egypt survive today in museums around the world, bringing viewers face-to-face with people who lived two thousand years ago. Until recently, few of these paintings had undergone in-depth study to determine by whom they were made and how. An international collaboration known as APPEAR (Ancient Panel Paintings: Examination, Analysis, and Research) was launched in 2013 to promote the study of these objects and to gather scientific and historical findings into a shared databas...
Future Feminisms
Future Feminisms is an interdisciplinary exploration of the contemporary experiences of women within the private, public, and online spheres. Chapters explore women’s experiences of insecurity, instability and change, migration, and diaspora as experienced in both physical and digital communication environments.
Chicana Art
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Ancient Herbs in the J. Paul Getty Museum Gardens
The Getty Museum building recreates an ancient Roman villa on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, where guests can feel that they are visiting the Villa dei Papiri before it was buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The climate of southern California has made it possible to plant the gardens with dozens of herbs, flowers, and fruit trees known to the Greeks and Romans. In classical times they were practical as well as beautiful, providing color, perfume, home medicines, and flavorings for food and drink. Martha Breen Bredemeyer, a San Francisco Bay area artist, was inspired to paint two dozen of the garden's herbs. Her watercolor gouaches combine vibrant color with the fragile delicacy of these short-lived plants while her pen-and-ink drawings share their wiry grace. Jeanne D'Andrea discusses twenty-one of the herbs in detail after presenting their place in myth, medicine, and home in the introduction.
Women and Culture
This issue examines the implications of culture on gender and development work. The power of culture is of profound importance in understanding ourselves, others, gender relations and development. The twelve essays address some aspects of gender relations and the power structure of society. Chapters include: (1) "Editorial" (Caroline Sweetman); (2) "Thinking about 'Culture': Some Program Pointers" (Seble Dawit; Abena Busia); (3) "Gender Relations, Development, and Culture" (Maitrayee Mukhopadhayay); (4) "NGOs, Gender, Culture and Multiculturalism: A Zimbabwean View" (Colleta Chitsike); (5) "Challenging Cultural Constraints: A Personal Testimony" (Rehana Khatun Adeer talks to Liz Clayton); (6...
Fiesta, memoria y nación. Ritos, símbolos y discursos, 1573-1830
El presente libro comprende siete artículos. El hilo conductor es el problema de las estas y el papel que éstas desempeñaron en la construcción de la sociedad colonial y republicana. Los artículos proveen un cúmulo de información y un bagaje interpretativo lo su - cientemente amplio como para que el lector pueda derivar un conocimiento extenso y actualizado de algunos de los principales problemas del estudio de las celebraciones. Además, por tratarse de un libro resultado de una investi - gación, muchas las concepciones sobre la esta religiosa y civil han sido revestidas de interpretaciones novedosas y de una exhaustiva consulta de fuentes manuscritas y bibliográ cas.
Monuments, Empires, and Resistance
From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations. His study combines developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this book is a fascinating account of the only indigenous ethnic group to successfully resist outsiders for more than three centuries and to flourish under these conditions.
