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Winter Park in the 1960s
Gary White, Nicholas White
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Two hundred years after Singapore's foundation by Stamford Raffles
in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the
city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It
discusses Singapore's emergence as a regional economic hub,
explores its strategic importance and considers its place in the
development of the British Empire. Subjects covered include the
city's initial role as a strategic centre to limit the resurgence
of Dutch power in Southeast Asia after the Napoleonic Wars, the
impact of the Japanese occupation, and the reasons for Singapore's
exit from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. The book concludes by
examining how Singapore's history is commemorated at present,
reinforcing the image of the city as prosperous, peaceful and
forward looking, and draws out the lessons which history can
provide concerning the city's likely future development.
Two hundred years after Singapore's foundation by Stamford Raffles
in 1819, this book reflects on the historical development of the
city, putting forward much new research and new thinking. It
discusses Singapore's emergence as a regional economic hub,
explores its strategic importance and considers its place in the
development of the British Empire. Subjects covered include the
city's initial role as a strategic centre to limit the resurgence
of Dutch power in Southeast Asia after the Napoleonic Wars, the
impact of the Japanese occupation, and the reasons for Singapore's
exit from the Malaysian Federation in 1965. The book concludes by
examining how Singapore's history is commemorated at present,
reinforcing the image of the city as prosperous, peaceful and
forward looking, and draws out the lessons which history can
provide concerning the city's likely future development.
Divorce is a conspicuous character trait of modernity, commonly
portrayed in texts and on screen, with its moral and social
rationalisation firmly rooted in Enlightenment and Romantic
thought. The aim of this volume is to bring into focus this
contemporary cultural fascination by assembling the variety of
academic responses it has started to create. Bringing together the
reflections of scholars from the UK and North America who have
worked in this domain, this study offers for the first time a
genuinely wide-ranging account of the depiction of divorce across
the northern hemisphere in a number of media (fiction, journalism,
film and television). It reaches historically from the intellectual
and legal aftermath of the Enlightenment right up to the present
day. As such, the collection shows both the roots of this
apparently contemporary phenomenon in nineteenth-century literary
practice and the very particular ways in which divorce
characterises the different narrative media of modernity.
The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given
at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviemistes
(2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and
literary currencies in nineteenth-century France, Essays focus on
the sometimes surprising treatment of capitalism and commodity
culture in the works of Mallarme, Zola and Huysmans; the transfer
and borrowing of economic and literary commodities, names, and
concepts in nineteenth-century culture, from Flora Tristan's July
Monarchy to Schwob's fin-de-siecle moment; and the interplay
between wealth and identity, and commerce and globalisation, in the
writings of Hugo, Janin, and Balzac. While it is widely
acknowledged that the theme of money is central to
nineteenth-century literature, this volume is innovative in tracing
the variation, breadth and ubiquity of the idea of currencies in
the cultural imaginary of the epoch.
One of the primary social changes ushered in by the French
Revolution was the legalization of divorce in 1792. This book
tracks the part played by novels in this conflict between the
secular rights of individual citizens and the sanctity of the
traditional family.
This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of
British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been
one of the central features of post-war international history. At
the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe
and yet by the mid-1960s most of Britain's major dependencies had
achieved independence. Concisely and accessibly, the book
introduces students to this often dramatic story of colonial wars
and emergencies, and fraught international relations. Although a
relatively recent phenomenon, the end of the British Empire
continues to spawn a lively and voluminous historical debate. Dr.
White provides a synthesis of recent approaches, specially updated
and expanded for this edition, by looking at the demise of British
imperial power from three main perspectives the shifting emphases
of British overseas policy the rise of populist, anti-colonial
nationalism the international political, strategic, and economic
environment dominated by the USA and the USSR. The book also
examines the British experience within the context of European
decolonisation as a whole. Supporting the text are a range of
useful tools, including maps, a chronology of independence, a guide
to the main characters involved, and an extensive bibliography
(specially expanded for the new edition. Decolonisation: the
British Experience since 1945 is ideal for students and interested
readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources
and the tools to unlock them.
"A complete and unified account of Plato's epistemology . . .
scholarly, historically sensitive, and philosophically
sophisticated. Above all it is sensible. . . . White's strength is
that he places Plato's preoccupation in careful historical
perspective, without belittling the intrinsic difficulties of the
problems he tackled. . . . White's project is to find a continuous
argument running through Plato's various attacks on epistemological
problems. No summary can do justice to his remarkable success."
--Ronald B. De Sousa, University of Toronto, in Phoenix
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction,
first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the
construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas
White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget
and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide
cultural field, including legal, popular and academic discourses on
the family and its discontents. His account encourages a close
rereading of canonical as well as overlooked texts from fin de
siecle France. What emerges between the death of Flaubert in 1880
and the publication of Bourget's Un divorce in 1904 is a series of
Naturalist and post-Naturalist representations of transgressive
behaviour in which tales of adultery, illegitimacy, consanguinity,
incest and divorce serve to exemplify and to offer a range of
nuances on the Third Republic's crisis in what might now be termed
'family values'.
The Family in Crisis in Late Nineteenth-Century French Fiction,
first published in 1999, focuses on a key moment in the
construction of the modern view of the family in France. Nicholas
White's analysis of novels by Zola, Maupassant, Hennique, Bourget
and Armand Charpentier is fashioned by perspectives on a wide
cultural field, including legal, popular and academic discourses on
the family and its discontents. His account encourages a close
rereading of canonical as well as overlooked texts from fin de
siecle France. What emerges between the death of Flaubert in 1880
and the publication of Bourget's Un divorce in 1904 is a series of
Naturalist and post-Naturalist representations of transgressive
behaviour in which tales of adultery, illegitimacy, consanguinity,
incest and divorce serve to exemplify and to offer a range of
nuances on the Third Republic's crisis in what might now be termed
'family values'.
Scarlet Letters explores the fascination exerted by adultery
throughout the long history of western cultures. Critics from the
UK, USA and Australia, working in a variety of specialisms, have
contributed to this substantial new collection of close readings
and wider contextualisations. As well as focusing on the bourgeois
nineteenth century as the high age of representations of adultery,
the book offers historicist and psychoanalytic analyses of texts
ranging from the Amphitryon myth to Fatal Attraction and The Piano
.
This updated Seminar Study provides an overview of the process of
British decolonisation. The eclipse of the British Empire has been
one of the central features of post-war international history. At
the end of the Second World War the empire still spanned the globe
and yet by the mid-1960s most of Britain's major dependencies had
achieved independence. Concisely and accessibly, the book
introduces students to this often dramatic story of colonial wars
and emergencies, and fraught international relations. Although a
relatively recent phenomenon, the end of the British Empire
continues to spawn a lively and voluminous historical debate. Dr.
White provides a synthesis of recent approaches, specially updated
and expanded for this edition, by looking at the demise of British
imperial power from three main perspectives the shifting emphases
of British overseas policy the rise of populist, anti-colonial
nationalism the international political, strategic, and economic
environment dominated by the USA and the USSR. The book also
examines the British experience within the context of European
decolonisation as a whole. Supporting the text are a range of
useful tools, including maps, a chronology of independence, a guide
to the main characters involved, and an extensive bibliography
(specially expanded for the new edition. Decolonisation: the
British Experience since 1945 is ideal for students and interested
readers at all levels, providing a diverse range of primary sources
and the tools to unlock them.
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Against Nature (Paperback)
Joris-Karl Huysmans; Translated by Margaret Mauldon; Edited by Nicholas White
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R297
R241
Discovery Miles 2 410
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`It will be the biggest fiasco of the year - but I don't care a
damn! It will be something nobody has ever done before, and I shall
have said what I had to say.' As Joris -Karl Huysmans announced in
1884, Against Nature was fated to be a novel like no other.
Resisting the models of classic nineteenth-century fiction, it
focuses on the attempts of its anti-hero, the hypersensitive
neurotic and aesthete, Des Esseintes, to escape Paris and the
vulgarity of modern life. Holed up in his private museum of high
taste, he offers Huysmans's readers a treasure trove of cultural
delights which anticipates many of the strains of modernism in its
appreciation of Baudelaire, Moreau, Redon, Mallarme and Poe. This
new translation is supplemented by indispensable notes which
enhance the understanding of a highly allusive work. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek
ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views,
especially those prevalent since Kant. Since the eighteenth
century, and indeed since before Hegel, moral philosophers wishing
to oppose the dualism of rationality-cum-morality vs. inclination,
especially as it is manifested in Kant, have looked to Greek
thought for an alternative conception of ethical norms and the good
life. As a result, Greek ethics, particularly in the so-called
Classical period of the fourth century BCE, has for more than two
centuries been standardly thought to be fundamentally eudaimonist,
and to have the character of what is nowadays normally called the
ethics of virtue. White argues that although this picture of Greek
ethics is not without an element of truth, it nevertheless
seriously distorts the facts. In the first place, Greek thought is
far more variegated than the picture suggests. Secondly, it
contains many elements - even in the Classical thinkers Plato and
Aristotle - that are not eudaimonist and also not suitable for an
ethics of virtue. Greek thinkers were not as a group convinced of
the possibility of a harmony of one's happiness with full regard
for the happiness of others and with conformity to ethical norms.
On the contrary, Greek thinkers were well aware of,and took
seriously, the idea that ethical norms can possess a force that
does not derive from conduciveness to one's own happiness. Indeed,
even Plato and Aristotle took it that under certain circumstances
there can even be a clash between ethical standards and one's own
well-being. The project of completely eliminating the possibility
of such a clash came to full development not in the Classical
period but rather in the ethics of the Stoics in the third century.
Individual and Conflict in Greek Ethics argues that throughout
Greek thought the concept of ethics as a source of obligations and
imperatives can, in unfavorable circumstances, run counter to one's
own happiness. In this sense Greek ethics has a shape similar to
that of modern Kantian and post-Kantian thinking, and should not be
seen as opposed to it.
From the early Christian era in Europe, Southeast Asia was known as
the "Land of Gold." It is a region blessed with a rich diversity of
cultures, peoples, and scenery. A Traveller's History of Southeast
Asia is a lucid and concise introduction to the histories of the
modern states of Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos,
Thailand, Singapore, Brunei, and East Timor, providing an essential
guide for both tourists and the general reader. It spans the
history of the region from "Java Man" some one million years ago,
to the development of the high-tech, skyscraper cities of the new
millennium, all the way to the present time. Following chapters on
the physical environment and the earliest human history of
Southeast Asia, the authors carry the reader through the classical
kingdoms that produced such architectural marvels as Borobudur in
Java and Angkor Wat in Cambodia. The book further explores
Southeast Asia's growing trade with the outside world from 1500
culminating in colonization by the European imperial powers in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The struggles for independence
in the last century--which made the modern nations of the
region--are discussed in detail, as are the dramatic and tragic
events of the post-independence era such as the Vietnam War and the
Cambodia genocide. The remarkable successes and failings of the
region's recent economic development are highlighted in the final
chapter. Above all, A Traveller's History of Southeast Asia shows
how the region's soul has been preserved against tremendous
external pressures.
Nicholas White opposes the long-standard view that ancient Greek ethics is fundamentally different from modern ethical views, especially those prevalent since Kant. White examines the ways in which Greek ethics has been interpreted since the eighteenth century, and traces the history, in Greek ethical thought, of the idea of conflict among human aims, in particular the conflict between conformity to ethical standards and one's own happiness. White's fresh, challenging perspective will demand the attention of anyone working on the history of ethics.
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Wooden Pallets Project Box Set 3 In 1 60 Amazing, Functional And Affordable Idea - DIY Household Hacks, Wood Pallets, Wood Pallet Projects, Diy Decoration And Design, Interior Design, DIY Hacks, Diy Pallet Furniture, DIY Palette Projects (Paperback)
Nicholas White, Tahir Kendal, David Blursby
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The thirteen essays in this volume, based on selected papers given
at the Second Annual Conference of the Society of Dix-Neuviemistes
(2003), explore the relationships between symbolic, monetary and
literary currencies in nineteenth-century France, Essays focus on
the sometimes surprising treatment of capitalism and commodity
culture in the works of Mallarme, Zola and Huysmans; the transfer
and borrowing of economic and literary commodities, names, and
concepts in nineteenth-century culture, from Flora Tristan's July
Monarchy to Schwob's fin-de-siecle moment; and the interplay
between wealth and identity, and commerce and globalisation, in the
writings of Hugo, Janin, and Balzac. While it is widely
acknowledged that the theme of money is central to
nineteenth-century literature, this volume is innovative in tracing
the variation, breadth and ubiquity of the idea of currencies in
the cultural imaginary of the epoch.
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