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In Western Ways, for the first time, the "foreign schools" in Rome and Athens, institutions dealing primarily with classical archaeology and art history, are discussed in historical terms as vehicles and figureheads of national scholarship. By emphasising the agency and role of individuals in relation to structures and tradition, the book shows how much may be gained by examining science and politics as two sides of the same coin. It sheds light on the scholarly organisation of foreign schools, and through them, on the organisation of classical archaeology and classical studies around the Mediterranean. With its breadth and depth of archival resources, Western Ways offers new perspectives on funding, national prestige and international collaboration in the world of scholarship, and places the foreign schools in a framework of nineteenth and twentieth century Italian and Greek history.
An examination of the story of Hagar and Ishmael through the eyes of seventeenth-century Dutch painters. >
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The Swedish Institute of Classical Studies in Rome was founded in 1925 as a research and educational institution devoted to classical studies with emphasis on archaeology. The Institute is the last in the series of foreign academies and institutes, at present some 30, in the eternal city. The institute started in a modesty way in 1925. One of the most famous and representative Swedish architects, Ivar Tengbom, was responsible for the plans as well as for the realization of the construction itself. Tengbom represented a classicistic direction in Swedish architecture. The prominent designers Carl Malmsten, Märta Måås-Fjetterström, Maja Sjöström and Elsa Gullberg provided for the interior decoration.
This anthology is based on a symposium which had as its key issue a critical discussion of different theories of modernisation from the perspective of people's activities in local manorial societies. Modernisation can be studied in terms of changing values, norms and social relationships. From a theoretical point of view the book makes use of the possibility to change main macro-conceptions of the modernisation process, using dichotomies such as feudal/capitalist and individual/collective, and it also tries to integrate tradition and continuity perspective.
Esta obra propõe-se a estabelecer um importante registro e reflexão dos diversos temas atinentes à relação meio ambiente, impactos sociais e medidas de governança, que vai desde a conceituação da sustentabilidade em sua acepção mais honesta, perpassa pelos caminhos que devemos adotar para conter as crises climática, social, de biodiversidade etc.; pelos inúmeros tratados e acordos internacionais; pelos Objetivos de Desenvolvimento Sustentável firmados na Agenda 2030 da ONU; pela utilização de energias renováveis ao redor do mundo até a análise das variadas dimensões da sustentabilidade aplicáveis aos mais diversos assuntos. Portanto, esta obra representa uma importante reflexão para o Brasil do futuro, pois fato central é que a sustentabilidade é requisito essencial para um desenvolvimento progressivo e que possa se sustentar a longo prazo.