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Sirens of Modernity

Author:Sunya Samhit
Publisher:University of California Press
Abstract: By the 1960s, Hindi-language films from Bombay were in high demand, not only for domestic and diasp…

Transnational Modern Languages

Author:Burns Jennifer , Duncan Derek
Publisher:Liverpool University Press
Abstract: In a world increasingly defined by the transnational and translingual, and by the pressures of glob…

The Humanities and the Modern Politics of Knowledge

Author:Ekström Anders , Östh Gustafsson Hampus
Publisher:Amsterdam University Press
Abstract: This book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning tw…

Utopia and Modernity in China

Author:Margolies David, Cao Qing
Publisher:Pluto Press
Abstract: The contradictions of modernisation run through the whole of modern Chinese history. The abundance …

Surgery and Selfhood in Early Modern England

Author:Skuse Alanna
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Abstract: Offering an innovative perspective on debates concerning embodiment ~in the early modern period, Al…

Chapter The virus of fashion. Democratization of luxury and new commercial strategies in early modern Valencia

Author:Muñoz Navarro Daniel
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: This work intends to analyze how the influence of fashion in eighteenth-century Spain transformed t…

Chapter 幻の春の声. 近現代日本文学における「亀鳴く」/ The illusory voice of the spring: the motif of ‘crying turtle’ in modern and contemporary Japanese literarure

Author:Cucinelli Diego
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: The turtle (kame) is of great importance in East Asian culture and it is seen as a supernatural cre…

Chapter 12 The Genesis of Behaviorally Modern Homo sapiens

Author:Theroux Steven J
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Abstract: This book is a “big history” of the evidence regarding how we came to be. It briefly explores phil…

Chapter Keeping up appearances in early modern Castile

Author:García Fernández Máximo
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: Social emulation stimulated the demand for clothing with the rapid generalisation of certain types …

Chapter Inequality in Early Modern Spain: New evidence from the Ensenada Cadastre in Castile, c. 1750

Author:Nicolini Esteban , Ramos-Palencia Fernando
Publisher:Firenze University Press
Abstract: This chapter addresses income inequality by offering new evidence based on the Ensenada Cadastre, a…
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