“…Drawing from original translations of key source documents, the book sheds new light on some of the most prominent and elite divorce proceedings in Western history, including Henry VIII's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. …”

“…Telling perhaps the most important forgotten story in American history, eminent historian Nell Irvin Painter guides us through more than two thousand years of Western civilization, illuminating not only the invention of race but also the frequent praise of "whiteness" for economic, scientific, and political ends. …”

“…The contributions draw on history, politics, geography, cultural studies and sociology to interrogate the continuities and tensions that have shaped national commemoration and the social and political forces that condition this unique international event. New studies of Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific address the relationship between increasingly fractured grand narratives of history and the renewed role of the state in mediating between individual and collective memories. …”

“…In this light, fashion has represented an important piece of material culture in modern industrial urban societies and in postcolonial and non-western contexts. Today, we are witnessing a turn in this imaginary as issues related to social, environmental and cultural sustainability come to predominate in many areas of human activity. …”

“…The most important aspect of the study is the use of Japanese-language sources which have not always been adequately used in Western historical studies of the period. The argument which emerges is that the historiography and cultural memory of the era in Japan has been distorted by English-language, mostly U.S., scholarship. …”

“…An additional unique feature is the global expansion of Western Europe's languages and characteristic literary forms, especially the novel, beginning in the Renaissance. …”

“…The cases focus on companies from across Europe, including Poland, Hungary and Yugoslavia in addition to the dominant Western European economies. Most have a significant international dimension and address current issues such as global competition and European integration. …”

“…Starting with an overview of Husserl's life and works, and his place in Twentieth century philosophy and in Western philosophy as a whole, David Woodruff Smith introduces Husserl's concept of phenomenology, explaining his influential theories of intentionality, objectivity and subjectivity. …”

“…"Constructivism dominates over other theories of knowledge in much of western academia, especially the humanities and social sciences. …”

“…Erika Goble first traces the concept’s origin and development in Western philosophy, revealing how efforts to theorize aesthetic quality in axiomatic or objective frameworks fail to account for the variety of experiential paradoxes that can be evoked by a single image. …”

“…Centrándose en las armas utilizadas y su desarrollo, en algunos personajes históricos notables que hicieron uso de ellas, en los hechos y en los mitos creados principalmente por la cinematografía, el autor nos devela no solo la historia, sino también la negra intrahistoria de los Estados Unidos, del Far-West, que ha quedado blanqueada posteriormente a través del wéstern" -- Contracubierta…”

“…Authoritative and wide-ranging, this book examines the history of western linguistics over a 2000-year timespan, from its origins in ancient Greece up to the crucial moment of change in the Renaissance that laid the foundations of modern linguistics. …”
Sumario

“…Understanding the barbarian challenge, and strategies employed to confront it, offers new insights into the contemporary security threats facing the Western world…”

“…By focusing on cultural aspects of the sea-borne empires of Western Europe and their explorationand settlement of the New World, the book contributes to the important debate of colonial and postcolonial studies and makes a distinct contribution by arguing for the necessity of the study of history in this debate--that is seeing the colonial in the postcolonial…”

“…Beginning in the 1580s and ending as late as 1750 in some Northern European regions, the Baroque artistic era began as an artistic recoil to the stylizations of Mannerist art and as a means of implementation of the demands of the Counter-Reformation Church that sought to restore its religious preeminence in the Western world in the face of the Protestant threat. …”

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Acceso restringido, con credenciales UPSA

Acceso restringido, con credenciales UPSA

Acceso restringido, con credenciales UPSA