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Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to
Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the
French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and
literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.
Romanticism and the Museum argues that museums were integral to
Britain's understanding of itself as a nation in the wake of the
French Revolution. It features Wordsworth, Scott, Edgeworth, and
literary periodicals featuring Byron and Horace Smith.
In studies on social stratification, ususally the influence of the
mothers' educational and occupational statuses on children's status
attainment is ignored. The father's socioeconomic status is assumed
to hold the dominant position in the household. Today, this
assumption no longer holds. In this book the question is answered
how the mother's education and her occupational status influences
the education and job status of her children. The author shows that
the socioeconomic background of the mother is heavily related to
the educational outcomes of sons and daughters. Regarding the
reproduction of job status, the mother's status resources are
important only for the daughter. Her resources always have been and
still are very important as a source 'advantage' transfers from one
generation to the next. Over time, the influence of both parents
decreases in essentially the same way. The contents of this book
support the assessment of educational and occupational trends in
modern society. This valuable study aids students, researchers and
policy makers concerned with outcomes of social justice, reviewing
key concepts for historical and internationally comparative studies
on social stratification.
In the 1950s and 1960s, images of children appeared everywhere,
from movies to milk cartons, their smiling faces used to sell
everything, including war. In this provocative book, Margaret
Peacock offers an original account of how Soviet and American
leaders used emotionally charged images of children in an attempt
to create popular support for their policies at home and abroad.
Groups on either side of the Iron Curtain pushed visions of
endangered, abandoned, and segregated children to indict the
enemy's state and its policies. Though the Cold War is often
characterized as an ideological divide between the capitalist West
and the communist East, Peacock demonstrates a deep symmetry in how
Soviet and American propagandists mobilized similar images to
similar ends, despite their differences. Based on extensive
research spanning fourteen archives and three countries, Peacock
tells a new story of the Cold War, seeing the conflict not simply
as a divide between East and West, but as a struggle between the
producers of culture and their target audiences.
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