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Early Modern Cartesianisms
Dutch and French Constructions
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
There is a general sense that the philosophy of Descartes was a dominant force in early modern thought. Since the work in the nineteenth century of French historians of Cartesian philosophy, however, there has been no fully contextualized comparative examination of the various receptions of Descartes...
Magic in the Modern World
Strategies of Repression and Legitimization
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This collection of essays considers the place of magic in the modern world, first by exploring the ways in which modernity has been defined in explicit opposition to magic and superstition, and then by illuminating how modern proponents of magic have worked to legitimize their practices through an...
Challenging the Modern Synthesis
Adaptation, Development, and Inheritance
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
Since its origin in the early 20th century, the Modern Synthesis theory of evolution has grown to become the orthodox view on the process of organic evolution. Its central defining feature is the prominence it accords to genes in the explanation of evolutionary dynamics. Since the advent of the 21st...
Beyond the Modern Age
An Archaeology of Contemporary Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
The modern age has produced global crises that modernity itself seems incapable of resolving—deregulated capitalism, consumerism, economic inequality, militarization, overworked laborers, environmental destruction, insufficient health care, and many other problems. The future of our world depends...
The Modern Girl Around the World
Consumption, Modernity, and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2008
During the 1920s and 1930s, in cities from Beijing to Bombay, Tokyo to Berlin, Johannesburg to New York, the Modern Girl made her sometimes flashy, always fashionable appearance in city streets and cafes, in films, advertisements, and illustrated magazines. Modern Girls wore sexy clothes and high...
by Anna French
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2016
The spiritual status of the early modern child was often confused and uncertain, and yet in the wake of the English Reformation became an issue of urgent interest. This book explores questions surrounding early modern childhood, focusing especially on some of the extreme religious experiences in which...
Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture
New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern" sports, which...
by Paul R. Katz, Meir Shahar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Paul R. Katz has composed a fascinating account of the fate of Chinese religions during the modern era by assessing mutations of communal religious life, innovative forms of religious publishing, and the religious practices of modern Chinese elites traditionally considered models of secular modernity....
Modern Bodies
Dance and American Modernism from Martha Graham to Alvin Ailey
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2003
In 1930, dancer and choreographer Martha Graham proclaimed the arrival of "dance as an art of and from America." Dancers such as Doris Humphrey, Ted Shawn, Katherine Dunham, and Helen Tamiris joined Graham in creating a new form of dance, and, like other modernists, they experimented with and argued...
Plague in the Early Modern World
A Documentary History
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Plague in the Early Modern World presents a broad range of primary source materials from Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, China, India, and North America that explore the nature and impact of plague and disease in the early modern world.
During the early modern period frequent and recurring...
Early Modern Emotions
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Early Modern Emotions is a student-friendly introduction to the concepts, approaches and sources used to study emotions in early modern Europe, and to the perspectives that analysis of the history of emotions can offer early modern studies more broadly.
The volume is divided into four sections...
The Modern Girl
Feminine Modernities, the Body, and Commodities in the 1920s
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
With her short skirt, bobbed hair, and penchant for smoking, drinking, dancing, and jazz, the “Modern Girl” was a fixture of 1920s Canadian consumer culture. She appeared in art, film, fashion, and advertising, as well as on the streets of towns from coast to coast. In The Modern Girl, Jane Nicholas...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2015
Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies...
Matter and Method in the Long Chemical Revolution
Laws of Another Order
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
The seventeenth-century scientific revolution and the eighteenth-century chemical revolution are rarely considered together, either in general histories of science or in more specific surveys of early modern science or chemistry. This tendency arises from the long-held view that the rise of modern...