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The 1970s are of particular relevance for understanding the
socio-economic changes still shaping Western societies today. The
collapse of traditional manufacturing industries like coal and
steel, shipbuilding, and printing, as well as the rise of the
service sector, contributed to a notable sense of decline and
radical transformation. Building on the seminal work of Lutz
Raphael and Anselm Doering-Manteuffel, Nach dem Boom, which
identified a "social transformation of revolutionary quality" that
ushered in "digital financial capitalism," this volume features a
series of essays that reconsider the idea of a structural break in
the 1970s. Contributors draw on case studies from France, the
Netherlands, the UK, the US, and Germany to examine the validity of
the "after the boom" hypothesis. Since the Boom attempts to bridge
the gap between the English and highly productive German debates on
the 1970s.
In Describing the City, Describing the State Sandra Toffolo
presents a comprehensive analysis of descriptions of the city of
Venice and the Venetian Terraferma in the Renaissance, when the
Venetian mainland state was being created. Working with an
extensive variety of descriptions, the book demonstrates that no
one narrative of Venice prevailed in the early modern European
imagination, and that authors continuously adapted geographical
descriptions to changing political circumstances. This in turn
illustrates the importance of studying geographical representation
and early modern state formation together. Moreover, it challenges
the long-standing concept of the myth of Venice, by showing that
Renaissance observers never saw the city of Venice and the Venetian
Terraferma in a monolithic way.
The open access publication of this book has been published with
the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In Staging
Holiness: The Case of Hospitaller Rhodes (ca. 1309-1522) Sofia
Zoitou offers a study of the history of relic collections,
devotional rituals, and sites invested with special meaning on
Rhodes, during a time when the island became one of the most
frequented ports of call for ships carrying pilgrims from Venice to
the Holy Land. Scrutinizing late medieval travel reports by
pilgrims from all over Europe along with extant historical,
archaeological, visual, and material evidence, Sofia Zoitou traces
the various forms of the Rhodian cultic sites' evolution and
perception, ultimately considered as an overall artistic strategy
for the staging of the sacred.
Bestselling author Giles Tremlett traverses the rich and varied
history of Spain, from prehistoric times to today, in a brief,
accessible primer for visitors, curious readers and hispanophiles.
'Tremlett is a fascinating socio-cultural guide, as happy to
discuss Spain's World Cup win as its Moorish rule' Guardian
'Negotiates Spain's chaotic history with admirable clarity and
style' The Times Spain's position on Europe's south-western corner
has exposed it to cultural, political and actual winds blowing from
all quadrants. Africa lies a mere nine miles to the south. The
Mediterranean connects it to the civilizational currents of
Phoenicians, Romans, Carthaginians, and Byzantines as well as the
Arabic lands of the near east. Bronze Age migrants from the Russian
steppe were amongst the first to arrive. They would be followed by
Visigoths, Arabs, Napoleonic armies and many more invaders and
immigrants. Circular winds and currents linked it to the American
continent, allowing Spain to conquer and colonize much of it. As a
result, Spain has developed a sort of hybrid vigour. Whenever it
has tried to deny this inevitable heterogeneity, it has required
superhuman effort to fashion a 'pure' national identity - which has
proved impossible to maintain. In Espana, Giles Tremlett argues
that, in fact, that lack of a homogenous identity is Spain's
defining trait.
This volume addresses the interdependencies between visual
technologies and epistemology with regard to our perception of the
medical body. It explores the relationships between the
imagination, the body, and concrete forms of visual
representations: Ranging from the Renaissance paradigm of anatomy,
to Foucault's "birth of the clinic" and the institutionalised
construction of a "medical gaze"; from "visual" archives of
madness, psychiatric art collections, the politicisation and
economisation of the body, to the post-human in mass media
representations. Contributions to this volume investigate medical
bodies as historical, technological, and political constructs,
constituted where knowledge formation and visual cultures
intersect. Contributors are: Axel Fliethmann, Michael Hau, Birgit
Lang, Carolyn Lau, Heikki Lempa, stef lenk, Joanna Madloch, Barry
Murnane, Jill Redner, Claudia Stein, Elizabeth Stephens, Corinna
Wagner, and Christiane Weller.
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