The representations of rebetiko among the intellectual elites of the left between the civil war and the dictatorship are ambivalent. Although certain minority voices highlighted the musical interest of the genre, the majority of leftist intellectuals ...
Christina Alexopoulos
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Modernizing peasants and 'master farmers': all-India crop competitions and the politics of progressive agriculture in early independent India [PDF]
In the years following independence, looking toward agricultural self-sufficiency, India's national leadership sought to identify cultivators endowed with the daring, grit, and experimental character needed to actualize the promise of plenty.
Siegel, Benjamin
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Contribution à l'histoire des mentalités : une méthode de recherche
How to penetrate the intimate sphere of members of traditional peasant society? The ethnotextual approach via semi-structured interviews aims to gain an in-depth understanding of the perceptions of a specific social group about the world around them. The
Jean Ropars
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Die roman maak geskiedenis: Jozef Simons se Eer Vlaanderen vergaat
Nineteenth-century Romanticism gave birth to both the historical novel and the modern science of history. History and the historical novel continue to be consideredincompatible in the most recent articles and theme issues on the subject.
Naòmi Morgan
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Speculative Machines and Technical Mentalities. A philosophical approach to designing the future [PDF]
‘Beyond their instrumental functions,’ writes Rivka Oxman in an article about design, creativity and innovation (2013), ‘advanced digital and computational environments are also becoming tools for thinking design’.
Brassett, Jamie
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Saisir le « non-lieu » : usages utopiques de l’île dans la littérature européenne d’après-guerre
Considering island novels as a fictional laboratory for society, this paper seeks to interrelate post-war utopian literature and European history. Our case studies are Lord of the Flies (1954) by William Golding and Island (1962) by Aldous Huxley.
Ioana Andreescu
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Beyond consumerism: new historical perspectives on consumption [PDF]
If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen
Trentmann, Frank
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Cantata Ode to Soča and the Recluse Trapped in the Ruins of His World
Article is a reflection upon f. Hugolin Sattner’s cantata “Ode to Soča”, which was created in the time of First World War and great battles of Isonzo. It outlines composer’s ideological, political and aesthetic outlook as a basis for his creativity thus ...
Aleš Nagode
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Branding and strategic maneuvering in the Romanian presidential election of 2004: A critical discourse-analytical and pragma-dialectical perspective [PDF]
In this paper I analyse differences in the legitimation strategies used by and on behalf of the two presidential candidates in the elections of December 2004 in Romania, using a combination of Critical Discourse Analysis and pragma-dialectics.
Ietcu-Fairclough, Isabela
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Meandre printre interioare și stiluri [PDF]
Our point of view, for this comment, is the Ion Negoițescu’s biographical book, Straja dragonilor (The Guard of Dragons). We are interested to emphasize the presence of different styles inside the dwellings and theirs significance at the level of a ...
Alunița Cofan
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