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Reading the New Global Order - Textual Transformations of 1989 (Hardcover): Kirrily Freeman, John Munro Reading the New Global Order - Textual Transformations of 1989 (Hardcover)
Kirrily Freeman, John Munro
R3,213 Discovery Miles 32 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

1989 bore witness to a number of seismic events; The fall of the Berlin Wall, protests at Tiananmen Square, the US invasion of Panama, and many more. These notable moments inspired an array of visual, sonic and literary texts that can tell us much about this watershed moment. This edited collection examines these products of 1989 to explore the sense of transformative immediacy, which defined this memorable year, and show how the events of 1989 set the path for the 21st century. Gathering together scholars across a range of disciplines, Reading the New Global Order examines specific texts to reveal key transnational issues of that year, and to highlight fundamental questions about the nature and significance of 1989 as a global moment. From speeches, manifestos and novellas, to a pop album, this book raises questions about what constitutes a 'text' in the study of history and what they can reveal about their point in time. Taken together, these chapters highlight 1989 as a cultural, intellectual and political landmark of the 20th century through the global events it saw and the texts it produced.

The Town of Vichy and the Politics of Identity - Stigma, Victimhood and Decline (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022): Kirrily Freeman The Town of Vichy and the Politics of Identity - Stigma, Victimhood and Decline (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Kirrily Freeman
R1,479 Discovery Miles 14 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book explores the contours of civic identity in the town of Vichy, France. Over the course of its history, Vichy has been known for three things: its thermal spa resort; its products (especially Vichy water and Vichy cosmetics); and its role in hosting the Etat Francais, France's collaborationist government in the Second World War. This last association has become an obsession for the residents of Vichy, who feel stigmatized and victimized by the widespread habit of referring to France's wartime government as the 'Vichy regime'. This book argues that the stigma, victimhood, and decline suffered by Vichyssois are best understood by placing Vichy's politics of identity in a broader historical context that considers corporate, as well as social and cultural, history.

Reading the Postwar Future - Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Hardcover): Kirrily Freeman, John Munro Reading the Postwar Future - Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Hardcover)
Kirrily Freeman, John Munro
R3,897 Discovery Miles 38 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged. The questions posed at that moment, about capitalism, race, empire, nation and cultural modernity gave rise to debates that defined the global politics of their era and continue to delineate our own. Highlighting the goals, agendas and priorities that emerged for artists, intellectuals and politicians in 1944, Reading the Postwar Future rethinks the intellectual history of the 20th century and the way 1944's texts shaped the contours of the postwar world. This is essential reading for any student or scholar of the intellectual, political, economic and cultural history of the postwar era.

Bronzes to Bullets - Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941-1944 (Hardcover): Kirrily Freeman Bronzes to Bullets - Vichy and the Destruction of French Public Statuary, 1941-1944 (Hardcover)
Kirrily Freeman
R1,636 Discovery Miles 16 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Bronzes to Bullets" tells the story of French statues and monuments that were melted down and shipped to Nazi munitions factories during the Second World War. Beginning with the economic context that led to the destruction of public art, the book goes on to detail the process by which monuments were removed and destroyed and the metal sent to Germany for Hitler's war machine. The most remarkable part of the story is the reaction of the French public to the loss of its artwork. People protested all over France, and many communities took extraordinary measures to save their statues. This protest, and the way the collaborationist Vichy government handled it, sheds light on the complexities of life in wartime France.

Reading the New Global Order - Textual Transformations of 1989: Kirrily Freeman, John Munro Reading the New Global Order - Textual Transformations of 1989
Kirrily Freeman, John Munro
R1,261 Discovery Miles 12 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reading the Postwar Future - Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Paperback): Kirrily Freeman, John Munro Reading the Postwar Future - Textual Turning Points from 1944 (Paperback)
Kirrily Freeman, John Munro
R1,327 Discovery Miles 13 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This original collection explores a number of significant texts produced in 1944 that define that year as a textual turning point when overlapping and diverging visions of a new world emerged. The questions posed at that moment, about capitalism, race, empire, nation and cultural modernity gave rise to debates that defined the global politics of their era and continue to delineate our own. Highlighting the goals, agendas and priorities that emerged for artists, intellectuals and politicians in 1944, Reading the Postwar Future rethinks the intellectual history of the 20th century and the way 1944’s texts shaped the contours of the postwar world. This is essential reading for any student or scholar of the intellectual, political, economic and cultural history of the postwar era.

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