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aEverybody knows that TV is crucial to globalization. Now,
thanks to Lisa Parks and Shanti Kumar, we know why and how
television matters globally. With TV studies moving out of the
classroom and onto the world stage, this volume is an indispensable
passport.a
--Toby Miller, editor of "Television & New Media"
From the 1967 live satellite program "Our World" to MTV music
videos in Indonesia, from French television in Senegal to the
global syndication of African American sitcoms, and from
representations of terrorism on German television to the
international Teletubbies phenomenon, TV lies at the nexus of
globalization and transnational culture.
Planet TV provides an overview of the rapidly changing landscape
of global television, combining previously published essays by
pioneers of the study of television with new work by cutting-edge
television scholars who refine and extend intellectual debates in
the field. Organized thematically, the volume explores such issues
as cultural imperialism, nationalism, postcolonialism,
transnationalism, ethnicity and cultural hybridity. These themes
are illuminated by concrete examples and case studies derived from
empirical work on global television industries, programs, and
audiences in diverse social, historical, and cultural contexts.
Developing a new critical framework for exploring the political,
economic, sociological and technological dimensions of television
cultures, and countering the assumption that global television is
merely a result of the current dominance of the West in world
affairs, Planet TV demonstrates that the global dimensions of
television were imagined intoexistence very early on in its
contentious history. Parks and Kumar have assembled the critical
moments in television's past in order to understand its present and
future.
Contributors include Ien Ang, Arjun Appadurai, Jose B. Capino,
Michael Curtin, Jo Ellen Fair, John Fiske, Faye Ginsburg, R.
Harindranath, Timothy Havens, Edward S. Herman, Michele Hilmes,
Olaf Hoerschelmann, Shanti Kumar, Moya Luckett, Robert McChesney,
Divya C. McMillin, Nicholas Mirzoeff, David Morley, Hamid Naficy,
Lisa Parks, James Schwoch, John Sinclair, R. Anderson Sutton, Serra
Tinic, John Tomlinson, and Mimi White.
From the early forms of loans to farmers to present day credit
cards, consumer credit has always been part of human life and
economics. However, ever since the Bible, controversy has reigned
as to its legitimacy. It is the history of this controversy that is
presented here by the authors. Outlining significant developments
in different aspects of consumer credit from the Hammurabi Code
through to current questions such as household overindebtedness,
they shed some historical light on modern debates.
The first comprehensive history of the Chrysler Corporation, this
book is intended for readers interested in the history of
automobiles and of American business, and for fans and critics of
Chrysler's products. From the Chrysler Six of 1924, to the
front-wheel-drive vehicles of the 70s and 80s, to the minivan,
Chrysler boasts an impressive list of technological "firsts." But
even though the company has catered well to a variety of consumers,
it has come to the brink of financial ruin more than once in its
seventy-five-year history. How Chrysler achieved monumental success
and then managed colossal failure and sharp recovery is explained
in Riding the Roller Coaster, a lively, unprecedented look at a
major force in the American automobile industry since 1925. Charles
Hyde tells the intriguing story behind Chrysler--its products,
people, and performance over time--with particular focus on the
company's management. He offers a lens through which the reader can
view the U.S. auto industry from the perspective of the smallest of
the automakers who, along with Ford and General Motors, make up the
"Big Three." The book covers Walter P. Chrysler's life and
automotive career before 1925, when he founded the Chrysler
Corporation, and traces the company's history to 1998, when it
merged with Daimler-Benz. Chrysler made a late entrance into the
industry in 1925 when it emerged from Chalmers and Maxwell, and
further grew when it absorbed Dodge Brothers and American Motors
Corporation. The author follows this journey, explaining the
company's leadership in automotive engineering, its styling
successes and failures, its changing management, and its activities
from auto racing to defense production toreal estate. Throughout,
the colorful personalities of its leaders--including Chrysler
himself and Lee lacocca--emerge as strong forces in the company's
development, imparting a risk-taking mentality that gave the
company its verve.
Napoleon's youngest brother, Jerome, has over the centuries been
portrayed as a military commander who was completely incompetent
and unimportant to his famous sibling. This first biography of
Jerome by an American author utilizes many firsthand accounts
ofJerome's abilities that have never before been available to
readers in English, as well as archival material that has never
been published in any language, to challenge this view. Focussing
on the lesser-known theaters of operation from 1800 to the Russian
campaign in 1812, this study completes the gaps in the military
history of the Napoleonic Wars. As Lamar demonstrates, Jerome was
not responsible for the failure of Napoleon's early maneuvers
during the invasion of Russia, nor did he lose the Battle of
Waterloo in 1815.
Jerome's relationship with Napoleon was affected by his position
as the youngest member of the Bonaparte family. Much of Emperor
Napoleon I's true nature can be seen through his dealings with
Jerome and his naval career. After discussing Jerome's experiences
as the only Bonaparte to serve in the navy, Lamar detailsJerome's
involvement in land campaigns, in such varied places as Silesia,
Russia, and Waterloo. Another important aspect of Jerome's career
was his leadership role as King of Westphalia. This objective
account sheds new light on the life and accomplishments of one of
the most maligned figures of the Napoleonic era.
Camillo Agrippa's widely influential "Treatise on the Science of
Arms" was a turning point in the history of fencing. The author -
an engineer by trade and not a professional master of arms - was
able to radically re-imagine teaching the art of fencing. Agrippa's
treatise is the fundamental text of Western swordsmanship. Just as
earlier swordsmanship can be better understood from Agrippa's
critiques, so too was his book the starting point for the rapier
era. Every other treatise of the early-modern period had to deal
explicitly or implicitly with Agrippa's startling transformation of
the art and science of self-defense with the sword. Likewise, all
of the fundamental ideas that are still used today - distance,
time, line, blade opposition, counterattacks and countertime - are
expressed in this paradigm-shifting treatise. This is a work that
should be on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history,
practice or teaching of fencing. His treatise was also a microcosm
of sixteenth-century thought. It examines the art, reduces it to
its very principles, and reconstructs it according to a way of
thinking that incorporated new concepts of art, science and
philosophy. Contained within this handy volume are concrete
examples of a new questioning of received wisdom and a turn toward
empirical proofs, hallmarks of the Enlightenment. The treatise also
presents evidence for a redefinition of elite masculinity in the
wake of the military revolution of the sixteenth century. At the
same time, is offers suggestive clues to the place of the hermetic
tradition in the early-modern intellectual life and its
implications for the origins of modern science. Camillo Agrippa's
"Treatise on the Science of Arms" was first published in Rome in
1553 by the papal printer Antonio Blado. The original treatise was
illustrated with 67 engravings that belong to the peak of
Renaissance design. They are reproduced here in full. "Mondschein
has at last made available to English-speaking readers one of the
most important texts in the history of European martial arts.
Agrippa marks a turning point in the intellectual history of these
arts.... Mondschein's introduction to his work helps the reader
understand Agrippa - and the martial practices themselves - as
pivotal agents in the evolving cultural and intellectual systems of
the sixteenth century. Above all, Mondschein's translation is
refreshingly clean and idiomatic, rendering the systematic clarity
of the Italian original into equally clear modern English -
evidence of the author's familiarity with modern fencing and
understanding of the physical realities that his author is trying
to express. Mondschein's contextualization of his topic points the
way for future scholarly exploration, and his translation will
doubtless be valued by both students of cultural history and
practitioners of modern sword arts." - Dr. Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Paul
S. Morgan Curator -Higgins Armory Museum, Adj. Assoc. Prof. of
Humanities, Worcester Polytechnic Institute First English
translation. Hardcover, 234 pages, 67 illustrations, introduction,
bibliography, glossary, appendix, index."
"One of America's most courageous young journalists" and the author
of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir Brain on Fire
investigates the shocking mystery behind the dramatic experiment
that revolutionized modern medicine (NPR). Doctors have struggled
for centuries to define insanity--how do you diagnose it, how do
you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an
answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan
and seven other people--sane, healthy, well-adjusted members of
society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the
legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until
they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming
diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment.
Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry,
closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis
forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows in this
real-life detective story, very little in this saga is exactly as
it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors?
Time, the City, and the Literary Imagination explores the
relationship between the constructions and representations of the
relationship between time and the city in literature published
between the late eighteenth century and the present. This
collection offers a new way of reading the literary city by tracing
the ways in which the relationship between time and urban space can
shape literary narratives and forms. The essays consider the
representation of a range of literary cities from across the world
and consider how an understanding of time, and time passing, can
impact on our understanding of the primary texts. Literature
necessarily deals with time, both as a function of storytelling and
as an experience of reading. In this volume, the contributions
demonstrate how literature about cities brings to the forefront the
relationship between individual and communal experience and time.
This book considers the diffusion and transfer of educational ideas
through local and transcontinental networks within and across five
socio-political spaces. The authors examine the social, political,
and historical preconditions for the transfer of "new education"
theory and practices in each period, place, and school, along with
the networks of ideas and experts that supported this. The authors
use historical methods to examine the schools and to pursue the
story of the circulation of new ideas in education. In particular,
chapters investigate how educational ideas develop within contexts,
travel across boundaries, and are adapted in new contexts.
This book examines the formative relationship between nineteenth
century American school architecture and curriculum. While other
studies have queried the intersections of school architecture and
curriculum, they approach them without consideration for the ways
in which their relationships are culturally formative-or how they
reproduce or resist extant inequities in the United States. Da
Silva addresses this gap in the school design archive with a
cross-disciplinary approach, taking to task the cultural
consequences of the relationship between these two primary elements
of teaching and learning in a 'hotspot' of American education-the
nineteenth century. Providing a historical and theoretical
framework for practitioners and scholars in evaluating the politics
of modern American school design, the book holds a mirror to the
oft-criticized state of American education today.
How do educators and activists in today's struggles for change use
historical materials from earlier periods of organizing for
political education? How do they create and engage with independent
and often informal archives and debates? How do they ultimately
connect this historical knowledge with contemporary struggles?
History's Schools aims to advance the understanding of
relationships between learning, knowledge production, history and
social change. This unique collection explores engagement with
activist/movement archives; learning and teaching militant
histories; lessons from liberatory and anti-imperialist struggles;
and learning from student, youth and education struggles. Six
chapters foreground insights from the breadth and diversity of
South Africa's rich progressive social movements; while others
explore connections between ideas and practices of historical and
contemporary struggles in other parts of the world including
Argentina, Iran, Britain, Palestine, and the US. Besides its great
relevance to scholars and students of Education, Sociology, and
History, this innovative title will be of particular interest to
adult educators, labour educators, archivists, community workers
and others concerned with education for social change.
The leading case of The Mayor, Alderman and Burgesses of the Borough of Bradford v Pickles was the first to establish that it is not unlawful for a property owner to exercise his or her property rights maliciously and to the detriment of others, or the public interest. Though controversial at the time, today it is often invisible and taken for granted. This book explores why the common law, in contrast to civil law systems, developed in this way.
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