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Print, publicity, and popular radicalism in the 1790s : the laurel of liberty
Jon Mee explores the popular democratic movement that emerged in the London of the 1790s in response to the French Revolution. Central to the movement's achievement was the creation of an idea of 'the people' brought into being through print and publicity. Radical clubs rose and fell in the face of the hostile attentions of government. They were sustained by a faith in the press as a form of 'p…
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- 9781316459935
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- xiii, 272p. : ill.
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- 302.232094109033 MEE p
Locating imagination in popular culture : place, tourism and belonging
Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are beco…
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- 9781000223835
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- XIV, 319 p.
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- Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies,
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- 306 LOC l
Popular music and public diplomacy : transnational and transdisciplinary pers…
In the early years of the Cold War, Western nations increasingly adopted strategies of public diplomacy involving popular music. While the diplomatic use of popular music was initially limited to such genres as jazz, the second half of the 20th century saw a growing presence of various popular genres in diplomatic contexts, including rock, punk, reggae, and hip-hop. This volume illuminates the…
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- 9783839443583
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- 328 p.
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- 306.4842 POP p
The innovation revolution in agriculture : a roadmap to value creation
This open access book is an important reframing of the role of innovation in agriculture. Dr. Campos and his distinguished coauthors address the need for agriculture to feed a growing global population with a reduced environmental footprint while adapting to and mitigating the effects of changing climate. The authors expand the customary discussion of innovation in terms of supply driven R&D to…
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- 9783030509910
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- xix, 234p. : ill.
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- 338.16 HUG t
Reformist muslims in a Yogyakarta Village : the Islamic transformation of con…
This study examines the religious life of reformist Muslims in a Yogyakarta village. The foci of this discussion are on Muslim villagers’ construction, with the help of the reformist paradigm, of the image of the ‘good Muslim’ and ‘Muslim-ness’, on their efforts to incorporate an (reformist) Islamic framework to question taken-for-granted practices and ideas, on the position of tradit…
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- 9781920942359
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- XVIII, 295 p.
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- 297.448 KIM r
Imagining Earth: concepts of wholeness in cultural constructions of our home …
Solvejg Nitzke, Nicolas Pethes (editions.).
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- 9783839439562
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- 1 electronic resource (172 pages )
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- 306.01 NIT p
Things in culture, culture in things
This volume addresses the dynamics of materiality over time and space. In cross-cultural, multi-temporal and interdisciplinary studies the authors examine how things gain meaning and status, generate a multitude of emotions, and feed into the propagation of myths, narratives and discourses. The book is divided according to four themes: soft objects, stoic stories, consuming and the collectable,…
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- 9789949323944
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- 306.46 KAN t
Written Culture in a Colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500-1900
There is very little in the modern literature on the history of written culture that describes the specific practices related to writing that were anchored in colonial contexts. It was not just ships, soldiers, missionaries and settlers that drove the process of European expansion from the 16th to the 19th centuries. The circulation of images, manuscripts and books between different continents …
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- 9781919895260
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- 302.224409 DEL w
Lineages and advancements in material culture studies. Perspectives from UCL …
This volume comprises a curated conversation between members of the Material Culture Section of University College London Anthropology. In laying out the state of play in the field, it challenges how the anthropology of material culture is being done and argues for new directions of enquiry and new methods of investigation. The contributors consider the ramifications of specific research method…
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- 9781003085867
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- XVIII, 282 p.
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- 306.0721 LIN l
The role of smallholder farms in food and nutrition security
This open access book discusses the current role of smallholders in connection with food security and poverty reduction in developing countries. It addresses the opportunities they enjoy, and the constraints they face, by analysing the availability, access to and utilization of production factors. Due to the relevance of smallholder farms, enhancing their production capacities and economic and…
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- 9783030421489
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- xi, 251p. : ill.
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- 338.1 ROL r
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