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Locating Classed Subjectivities explores representations of social
class in British fiction through the lens of spatial theory and
analysis. By analyzing a range of class-conscious texts from the
nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first centuries, the collection
provides an overview of the way British writers mobilized spatial
aesthetics as a means to comment on the intricacies of social
class. In doing so, the collection delineates aesthetic strategies
of representation in British writing, tracing the development of
literary forms while considering how authors mobilized innovative
spatial metaphors to better express contingent social and economic
realities. Ranging in coverage from early-nineteenth-century
narratives of disease to contemporary writing on the working-class
millennial, Locating Classed Subjectivities offers new perspectives
on literary techniques and political intentions, exploring the way
class is parsed and critiqued through British writing across three
centuries. As such, the project responds to Nigel Thrift and Peter
Williams's claim that literary and cultural production serves as a
particularly rich yet unexamined access point by which to
comprehend the way space and social class intersect.
The Politics of Social Policy in Europe analyses and critically
assesses tensions and uncertainties which are haunting social
policy provision throughout Europe in the 1990s. The expansion in
social expenditures associated with the 1950s and 1970s has been
replaced by retrenchment and pessimism in the 1990s. Disillusion
prevails throughout the community due to growing disparity between
the objectives of policy statements and the real life experience of
EU citizens. This important book explores the relationships between
political choices and constraints, and how governments in different
countries are interpreting the challenges to the welfare state.
Additionally it critically assesses their policy options in the
1990s and beyond. Special attention is paid to the relationship
between social policy and the wider arguments of public finance,
employment, citizenship, competitiveness and the economy.
Complementing this discussion are country case studies to show how
Germany, Sweden, Britain, Denmark, France and Ireland are planning
to deal with these problems. This definitive guide will prove to be
an invaluable resource to academics and especially policymakers
involved in decision making on social welfare throughout Europe.
The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon
Brown's Labour administration through identifying continuities and
discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997. By focusing
on key ideas and areas of public policy it presents an analysis of
the first 18 months of Brown's government. This book is notable for
its topicality particularly for the discussions of the credit
crunch, the British banking crises and the interconnectedness of
these events with the global economic downturn. A study of Brown's
handling of these crises in the economy is important as it is
arguable that the present recession and credit crunch will reach
unprecedented proportions and therefore define the character and
content of British politics in the coming years. By conducting an
examination of the Brown Government's public policy priorities one
can begin to decipher its aims and values and, by so doing, begin
to understand the next phase of the New Labour project. In this
sense the book is a contribution to the ongoing study of
contemporary British social democracy. This book was published as a
special issue of Policy Studies.
The Brown Government provides an interim evaluation of Gordon
Brown s Labour administration through identifying continuities and
discontinuities with the Blair governments from 1997. By focusing
on key ideas and areas of public policy it presents an analysis of
the first 18 months of Brown s government. This book is notable for
its topicality particularly for the discussions of the credit
crunch, the British banking crises and the interconnectedness of
these events with the global economic downturn.
A study of Brown s handling of these crises in the economy is
important as it is arguable that the present recession and credit
crunch will reach unprecedented proportions and therefore define
the character and content of British politics in the coming years.
By conducting an examination of the Brown Government s public
policy priorities one can begin to decipher its aims and values
and, by so doing, begin to understand the next phase of the New
Labour project. In this sense the book is a contribution to the
ongoing study of contemporary British social democracy.
This book was published as a special issue of Policy
Studies.
The Political Economy of Modern Britain provides an original
discussion of Britain's relative economic decline since World War
Two and offers approaches to overcome this poor economic
performance.Detailed and comprehensive, this book has three basic
objectives. First, it describes the key political and economic
decisions or events which have shaped Britain's economic
performance in the post-war period. Secondly, the authors
critically discuss the range of explanations which have been
offered by those seeking to understand Britain's relative economic
decline. Finally, it offers an alternative approach to improving
Britain's economic performance known as 'the strategic alignment of
national and corporate competitiveness'. In this approach the
authors attempt to escape from the traditional left-right debate
concerning the degree to which the state should replace the market
in owning and controlling key sectors of the economy, and instead
they focus on the state as a facilitator in the provision of assets
required by firms competing in the international arena. This book
will be welcomed by government and management striving to improve
corporate and national competitiveness. Additionally academics and
students interested in the fields of British politics, British
political economy, British economic and social history,
international political economy and European political economy will
also find this a highly valuable source of information.
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This book explores the relationship between neo-liberalism,
state power and global governance, exploring national differences
in the exercise of state power in a variety of industrialized and
developing economies. Among the strengths of this volume are its
detailed global scope, its range of case studies in diverse policy
areas, its analysis and critique of neo-liberalism, in theory and
practice, and its impact upon state power and global
governance.
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Delacroix (Paperback)
Simon Lee
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R583
R484
Discovery Miles 4 840
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In this new monograph, part of Phaidon's Art and Ideas series,
Simon Lee, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art the University of
Reading, examines the work of Delacroix within the framework of his
turbulent times, as France experienced the upheavals of the
Napoleonic era. Written in a lively and accessible style, and
incorporating the latest scholarship on the artist, Lee provides
fresh analyses into the life and times of Delacroix and uncovers
the creative process behind his most famous works.
The volume explores the relationship between neo-liberalism, state
power and global governance. It seeks to show how neo-liberalism
has failed to deliver a framework for state power and global
governance capable of delivering stability and enduring prosperity.
It also contends that the role of politics in general, and the
state and global governance in particular, should be defined more
broadly than the simple neo-liberal construction of institutions
for the market.
Centering on the British kitchen sink realism movement of the late
1950s and early 1960s, specifically its documentation of the built
environment's influence on class consciousness, this book
highlights the settings of a variety of novels, plays, and films,
turning to archival research to offer new ways of thinking about
how spatial representation in cultural production sustains or
intervenes in the process of social stratification. As a movement
that used gritty, documentary-style depictions of space to
highlight the complexities of working-class life, the period's
texts chronicled shifts in the social and topographic landscape
while advancing new articulations of citizenship in response to the
failures of post-war reconstruction. By exploring the impact of
space on class, this book addresses the contention that critical
discourse has overlooked the way the built environment informs
class identity.
What if, instead of calling you to leave your job, God called you
to donate a percentage of your business proceeds to support His
ministries? What if obeying that call required you to walk away
from employment with an established, successful business to begin
again as an entrepreneur? What if answering that call meant you
might go without a salary for four years? In 2004, Simon Lee did
receive this call from God. His ten-year journey with Christ
leading the company has been amazing. He has not only met God's
call to donate 50 percent of his company profits to Christian
ministries, but EIS Office Solutions, Inc., has grown from a
start-up company into a strong, competitive business. One Company
Under God was written to showcase God's faithfulness to our
obedience and to invite your company to support God's ministries at
home and abroad.
"Okay Tom, you get to choose. What is your favourite period of
history?" Thomas looked a bit bewildered at the bizarre twist the
conversation was taking but answered without really having to think
about it. "The dinosaurs," he said. The Professor let out a huge
groan and Rebecca beamed with delight at the answer. "Dinosaurs? Oh
very good Tom, excellent choice. Right, is everybody ready?" She
stared ahead for a second as if trying to see something in the
distance and then stepped forward, pulling the children with her.
The three of them disappeared... Thomas and Emily Fletcher are
quite normal children; normal in that their uncle mysteriously
disappeared and now a medieval knight is trying to kill them. The
only way to find out why somebody wants them dead would be to go
back in time and ask their uncle, and the only people that can help
are the teachers at the Tempus Viator School of Excellence. So it's
very lucky that their new friends are time travellers...
These eight stories by leading 20th century French writers offer
fascinating insights into French life and literature and are
accompanied by a parallel English text, making them valuable for
both French and English language students. Among the diverse and
entertaining stories in the collection are the wistful masterpiece
'Green Tobacco' by Clair Sainte-Soline; the exuberant tale of 'The
Ants' by the post-war king of cafe society, Boris Vian, and a
suspense in the nineteenth-century erotic tradition from Andre de
Mandiargues.
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David (Paperback)
Francoise Guiramand; Simon Lee
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R1,252
Discovery Miles 12 520
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More than any other artist, Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) is
identified with the dramatic upheaval of the French Revolution. As
a liberal politician, he welcomed the promise of social change; as
an artist he used his brush to glorify the Revolution's heroes and
martyrs. When the political tide changed, David became Napoleon's
chief painter, capturing the imperial pomp and contributing to the
cult of military heroism.
In this engrossing account Simon Lee argues that David was the
single most important European painter of the age, perfecting a
style of dramatic and noble painting that matched exactly the
contemporary desire for morally elevating images. A leading
exponent of what was to be termed Neoclassicism, he was, however,
capable of departing considerably from its ideals of understatement
and restraint. Lee's account is the first to trace all aspects of
David's career, from his intellectual interests to his
entrepreneurial skills and his relationships with patrons. Drawing
on the most recent research, he analyses David's stylistic
innovations, his political engagement, his search for new
audiences, and his changing attitudes to the depiction of virtue
and patriotism.
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