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Weimar Jewish Chic: Jewish Women and Fashion in 1920s Germany

open access: yes, 2013
This volume presents papers delivered at the 24th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, held at Creighton University in October 2011. The contributors look at all aspects of the intimate relationship between Jews and clothing, through case studies from ...
Wallach, Kerry
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オスカー・ワイルドの初・中期詩における音楽の表象 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), an Anglo-Irish author of the nineteenth century, is known to have embraced music both as culture and as an idea. In examining his appreciation of music, musical representations in his earlier poetry should not be overlooked.
中村 仁美
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Male bonds in nineteenth-century art

open access: yesCalenda, 2017
Male Bonds is a two-day international conference that aims to explore the place of male bonds in nineteenth-century artistic practice and visual arts. The conference invites participants to reflect on the ways in which changing notions of masculinity and male sexuality impacted forms of sociability between men in the artistic scene of the long ...
openaire   +1 more source

The Methods and Careers of Leading American Painters in the late Nineteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes
Although American painters of the late nineteenth century were much less influential than their European counterparts, the methods and careers of the leading American artists of the period reflect the same division between visual and conceptual ...
David W. Galenson
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Literature in Transition : European aesthetics and the early American novel [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper seeks to account for the strangely double nature of the early American novel. For twenty-first-century readers, novels such as Hugh Henry Brackenridge's Modem Chivalry, Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple or Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland seem
Schweighauser, Philipp
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Description, Articulation and Limitations in the Social Theory of Insurance

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There have been surprisingly few sustained efforts to explain or theorise the role insurance plays in society. Even the most theoretically inflected insurance scholarship, emanating from governmentality and Actor Network Theory scholarship, tends to be grounded in empirical cases, set in particular periods and places, and it is often ...
Liz McFall
wiley   +1 more source

National treasure or a redundant relic: the roles of the vernacular in Czech art

open access: yesRIHA Journal, 2013
The article examines the reception of folk art in the visual culture of Bohemia and Czechoslovakia and focuses on the shift in the meaning of folk art in the period of early twentieth-century modernism.
Filipová, Marta
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Ângelo Agostini and the Cartoons at the Imperial Twilight - Preliminary Notes on the Abolition in Brazil

open access: yesAlmanack
This paper aims at pointing out relevant questions on the analysis of the work of nineteenth-century cartoonist Ângelo Agostini, as well as to present pertinent arguments on the analysis of images in the historiographical field.
Vinícius Liebel
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