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Despite its international significance, Madrid has been almost
entirely ignored by urban, literary and cultural studies published
in English. A Cultural History of Madrid: Modernism and the Urban
Spectacle corrects that oversight by presenting an urban and
cultural history of the city from the turn of the century to the
early 1930s.Between 1900 and 1930, Madrid's population doubled to
almost one million, with less than half the population being
indigenous to the city itself. Far from the 'Castilian' capital it
was made out to be, Madrid was fast becoming a socially magnetic,
increasingly secular and cosmopolitan metropolis. Parsons explores
the interface between elite, mass and popular culture in Madrid
while considering the construction of a modern madrileno identity
that developed alongside urban and social modernization. She
emphasizes the interconnection of art and popular culture in the
creation of a metropolitan personality and temperament.The book
draws on literary, theatrical, cinematic and photographic texts,
including the work of such figures as Ramon Mesonero Romanos,
Benito Perez Galdos, Pio Baroja, Ramon Gomez de la Serna, Ramon
Valle-Inclan and Maruja Mallo. In addition, the author examines the
development of new urban-based art forms and entertainments such as
the zarzuela, music halls and cinema, and considers their
interaction with more traditional cultural identities and
activities. In arguing that traditional aspects of culture were
incorporated into the everyday life of urban modernity, Parsons
shows how the boundaries between 'high' and 'low' culture became
increasingly blurred as a new identity influenced by modern
consumerism emerged. She investigates theinteraction of the
geographical landscape of the city with its expression in both the
popular imagination and in aesthetic representations, detailing and
interrogating the new freedoms, desires and perspectives of the
Madrid modernista.
"Globalizing Ideal Beauty" is the forgotten story of a group of
women copywriters whose successful ad campaigns went international
in the 1920s and spread an American notion of feminine appeal from
Bangor to Bangkok. Sutton's approach has all the complexity of the
real world and is grounded in a huge body of original archival
research that has so far remained largely untapped.
The earliest forms of ice hockey developed over the centuries in
numerous cold weather countries. In the 17th century, a game
similar to hockey was played in Holland known as kolven. But the
modern sport of ice hockey arose from the efforts of college
students and British soldiers in eastern Canada in the mid-19th
century. Since then, ice hockey has moved from neighborhood lakes
and ponds to international competitions, such as the Summit Series
and the Winter Olympics. Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey traces
the history and evolution of hockey in general, as well as
individual topics, from their beginnings to the present, through a
chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive
bibliography. The dictionary has more than 600 cross-referenced
entries on the players, general managers, managers, coaches, and
referees, as well as entries for teams, leagues, rules, and
statistical categories. This book is an excellent access point for
students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about ice
hockey.
Engage with key historical and conceptual issues in psychology
Historical and Conceptual Issues in Psychology, 3rd Edition, by
Brysbaert & Rastle offers a unique and engaging introduction to
key historical and conceptual issues in psychology. The text draws
on a broad range of issues and themes, both contemporary and
historical, helping you understand the philosophical context from
which psychology has emerged as a discipline. Every chapter
reflects the newest findings and insights in the field, with
particular attention drawn to those findings that have not stood up
to replication tests. The 3rd edition also includes a new chapter
on the replication crisis, including the importance of open science
practices in scientific research. Excerpts from original texts,
profiles of key figures and fascinating examples drawn from across
the world take you from ancient Greece to modern day debates,
stopping off at important developments in psychology, philosophy
and science along the way. Myth busting boxes and discussion
questions in every chapter encourage you to reflect and think
critically about the issues raised. This best-selling text is
essential reading for undergraduate psychology students and those
interested in how the discipline has developed from ancient origins
to reach its current standing today.
With the publication of the present volume, the Handbook of the
History of Logic turns its attention to the rise of modern logic.
The period covered is 1685-1900, with this volume carving out the
territory from Leibniz to Frege. What is striking about this period
is the earliness and persistence of what could be called 'the
mathematical turn in logic'. Virtually every working logician is
aware that, after a centuries-long run, the logic that originated
in antiquity came to be displaced by a new approach with a
dominantly mathematical character. It is, however, a substantial
error to suppose that the mathematization of logic was, in all
essentials, Frege's accomplishment or, if not his alone, a
development ensuing from the second half of the nineteenth century.
The mathematical turn in logic, although given considerable torque
by events of the nineteenth century, can with assurance be dated
from the final quarter of the seventeenth century in the
impressively prescient work of Leibniz. It is true that, in the
three hundred year run-up to the Begriffsschrift, one does not see
a smoothly continuous evolution of the mathematical turn, but the
idea that logic is mathematics, albeit perhaps only the most
general part of mathematics, is one that attracted some degree of
support throughout the entire period in question. Still, as Alfred
North Whitehead once noted, the relationship between mathematics
and symbolic logic has been an "uneasy" one, as is the present-day
association of mathematics with computing. Some of this unease has
a philosophical texture. For example, those who equate mathematics
and logic sometimes disagree about the directionality of the
purported identity. Frege and Russell made themselves famous by
insisting (though for different reasons) that logic was the senior
partner. Indeed logicism is the view that mathematics can be
re-expressed without relevant loss in a suitably framed symbolic
logic. But for a number of thinkers who took an algebraic approach
to logic, the dependency relation was reversed, with mathematics in
some form emerging as the senior partner. This was the precursor of
the modern view that, in its four main precincts (set theory, proof
theory, model theory and recursion theory), logic is indeed a
branch of pure mathematics. It would be a mistake to leave the
impression that the mathematization of logic (or the logicization
of mathematics) was the sole concern of the history of logic
between 1665 and 1900. There are, in this long interval, aspects of
the modern unfolding of logic that bear no stamp of the imperial
designs of mathematicians, as the chapters on Kant and Hegcl make
clear. Of the two, Hcgel's influence on logic is arguably the
greater, serving as a spur to the unfolding of an idealist
tradition in logic - a development that will be covered in a
further volume, British Logic in the Nineteenth Century.
This collection uses a series of case studies to assess the impact
of heretical military leaders who developed policy and strategy
during war and peace in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The
issue for each contributor is not necessarily to show whether the
endeavors of individuals and their unorthodoxy were successful or
unsuccessful--though this important consideration is not ignored.
Rather, each chapter offers differing points of view on
accomplishments and failure because, as is so often the experience
in historical study, the record is mixed; and this is especially so
in terms of the application of military power in the period since
the Napoleonic wars. Technological and scientific innovation, the
rise of mass armies, the advent of total war, and the need to
develop effective armed forces in a period of rapid change prompted
new approaches in policy and strategy. In this period, it is clear
that a dialectic in military thinking existed between those who
followed what can be thought of as orthodox ideas, based generally
on the lessons of preceding wars, and heretics who advocate new
policies and strategies.
Lutheran churches in the United States have included multiple
ethnic cultures since the colonial era and continue to wrestle with
increasing internal variety as one component of their identity. By
combining the concerns of social history with an awareness for
theological themes, this volume explores the history of this family
of Lutheran churches and traces the development from the colonial
era through the formation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America in 1988. An introduction details the origins of Lutheranism
in the European Reformation and the practices significant to the
group's life in the United States. Organized chronologically,
subsequent chapters follow the churches' maturation as they form
institutions, provide themselves with leaders, and expand their
membership and geographic range. Attention is given throughout to
the contributions of the laity and women within the context of the
Lutherans' continued individual and corporate effort to be both
authentically Lutheran and genuinely American. Offering a rich
portrayal of the Lutherans' lives and their churches, the social
historical approach of this study brings the Lutheran people to the
foreground. The dynamic relationship between pietist, orthodox, and
critical expressions of the tradition has remained among Lutherans
even though they have divided themselves by several factors
including ethnicity and confessional stance. Of interest to
scholars and researchers of Lutheran history and religion in
America, this engaging, multifaceted work balances narrative
history with brief biographical essays. A chronological listing of
important dates in the development of the Lutheran church is
especially helpful.
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SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS
'Beautifully written and immaculately researched. Jonathan Wilson
is the finest sports writer of his generation' Peter Frankopan,
author of The Silk Roads In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England
6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history of
football. A year earlier, this Hungarian team had won Olympic gold.
A year later, they lost agonisingly in the final of a World Cup
that they dominated. This is the beginning, middle and end of
Hungarian football in the popular imagination. Only, how come the
ideas from this team spread around the world? Why do Hungarian
managers spring up in Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay,
across Europe and the Americas, bringing their secrets with them?
And what are the incredible stories they have to tell, of escaping
the Nazis and the Soviet communists? How did the history of modern
football come to be born in the Budapest coffeehouses of the early
twentieth century? Fifteen years in the making, this new book from
bestselling football historian Jonathan Wilson is the missing piece
of the jigsaw; the forgotten story in football's history, lost in
war, in revolution, in death and tragedy.
This is an analysis of the conditions which overseas students
(particularly Africans) meet during their studies in the United
Kingdom.
A historical overview of research on education in Africa, the
Caribbean and the Middle East. Topics covered include: the
challenges and assistance of beginning teaching in Jamaica;
learning cognitive skills in Israel; and a feminist analysis of
sexual harassment among high school girls in Kenya.
This book traces national policies behind the efforts of
integrating education systems in Europe. In some regions of Europe,
such as the Nordic countries, a high level of social integration
was achieved by introducing radical comprehensive education
systems. By contrast, in countries such as Germany and England,
comprehensive education either failed almost completely, or was
only partially implemented. Based on a wide-ranging historical
analysis, this book offers the first fully comparative explanation
of the divergent development of comprehensive education in
Europe.
Using extensive background research as well as interviews with the
principal characters, Fixed provides the first in-depth
reconstruction of the point-shaving scandal involving the 1978-1979
Boston College basketball team, from the genesis of the plot in the
summer of 1978, through the uncovering of the scheme during an
unrelated investigation in 1980, to the trial that captivated the
sports world in the fall of 1981 and its aftermath. This
multi-layered story of greed and betrayal combines sports,
gambling, and the Mafia into an irresistible morality tale with a
modern edge.
"Architectures: Modernism and After "surveys the history of the
building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural
imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings
together international art and architectural historians to consider
a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and
aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time,
showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded in the
cultural process and the ethics of production.
This volume presents crucial "moments" in the history of the
field when the architecture of the past is made to respond to new
and changing cultural circumstances. In doing so, "Architectures:
Modernism and After" provides a view of architectural history as
part of a continuing dialogue between aesthetic criteria and social
and cultural imperatives.
From the 1950s to the 1980s the Children's Film Foundation made
films for Saturday morning cinema clubs across the UK -
entertaining and educating generations of British children. This
first history of this much-loved organisation provides an overview
of the CFF's films, interviews with key backstage personnel, and
memories of audience members.
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