Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Library has Vol. 1-5.
A History of Private Life: Passions of the Renaissance
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Library has Vol. 1-5.
A History of Private Life
Author: Philippe ArièsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674400047
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Library has Vol. 1-5.
A history of private life IV
Author: M. PerrotA HISTORY OF PRIVATE LIFE-4 VOLUMES.
Author: Pompeii
Author: Paul ZankerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674257618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Pompeii's tragedy is our windfall: an ancient city fully preserved, its urban design and domestic styles speaking across the ages. This richly illustrated book conducts us through the captured wonders of Pompeii, evoking at every turn the life of the city as it was 2,000 years ago. When Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D. its lava preserved not only the Pompeii of that time but a palimpsest of the city's history, visible traces of the different societies of Pompeii's past. Paul Zanker, a noted authority on Roman art and architecture, disentangles these tantalizing traces to show us the urban images that marked Pompeii's development from country town to Roman imperial city. Exploring Pompeii's public buildings, its streets and gathering places, we witness the impact of religious changes, the renovation of theaters and expansion of athletic facilities, and the influence of elite families on the city's appearance. Through these stages, Zanker adeptly conjures a sense of the political and social meanings in urban planning and public architecture. The private houses of Pompeii prove equally eloquent, their layout, decor, and architectural detail speaking volumes about the life, taste, and desires of their owners. At home or in public, at work or at ease, these Pompeians and their world come alive in Zanker's masterly rendering. A provocative and original reading of material culture, his work is an incomparable introduction to urban life in antiquity.
The Private Life of the Rabbit
Author: Ronald Mathias LockleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
A History of Private Life
Author: Philippe ArièsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674400030
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Library has Vol. 1-5.
Private History in Public
Author: Tammy S. GordonPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 0759119368
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
In small community museums, truck stops, restaurants, bars, barbershops, schools, and churches, people create displays to tell the histories that matter to them. Much of this history is personal: family history, community history, history of a trade, or the history of something considered less than genteel. It is often history based on the historical record, but also based on feelings, beliefs, and memory. It is neglected history. Private History in Public is about those history exhibits that complicate the public/private dichotomy, exhibits that serve to explain communities, families, and individuals to outsiders and tie insiders together through a shared narrative of historical experience. Tammy S. Gordon looks beyond the large professionalized museum exhibits that have dominated scholarship in museum studies and public history and offers a new way of understanding the broad spectrum of exhibition types in the United States.
The Whisperers
Author: Orlando FigesPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014180887X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Drawing on a huge range of sources - letters, memoirs, conversations - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them.
The Invention of Private Life
Author: Sudipta KavirajPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231539541
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
The essays in this volume, which lie at the intersection of the study of literature, social theory, and intellectual history, locate serious reflections on modernity's complexities in the vibrant currents of modern Indian literature, particularly in the realms of fiction, poetry, and autobiography. Sudipta Kaviraj shows that Indian writers did more than adopt new literary trends in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They deployed these innovations to interrogate fundamental philosophical questions of modernity. Issues central to modern European social theory grew into significant themes within Indian literary reflection, such as the influence of modernity on the nature of the self, the nature of historicity, the problem of evil, the character of power under the conditions of modern history, and the experience of power as felt by an individual subject of the modern state. How does modern politics affect the personality of a sensitive individual? Is love possible between intensely self-conscious people, and how do individuals cope with the transience of affections or the fragility of social ties? Kaviraj argues that these inquiries inform the heart of modern Indian literary tradition and that writers, such as Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay, Rabindranath Tagore, and Sibnath Sastri, performed immeasurably important work helping readers to think through the predicament of modern times.