Author: Benjamin O'Fallon
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 54

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Author: Jarrett Rudy
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773572953
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 247

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In the late Victorian era, smoking was a male habit and tobacco was consumed mostly in pipes and cigars. By the mid-twentieth century, advertising and movies had not only made it acceptable for women to smoke but smoking had become a potent symbol of their emancipation. From mass cigarette production in 1888 to the first studies linking cigarettes to lung cancer in 1950, The Freedom to Smoke explores gender and other key issues related to smoking in Montreal, including the arrival of "big tobacco," first attempts to ban the cigarette, wartime tobacco funds, French Canadian smoking habits, rituals of manliness, and the growing respectability of women smokers - none of which have been examined by historians. Jarrett Rudy argues that while people smoked for highly personal reasons, their smoking rituals were embedded in social relations and shaped by dominant norms of taste and etiquette. The Freedom to Smoke examines the role of the tobacco industry, health experts, churches, farmers, newspapers, the military, the state, and smokers themselves. A pioneering city-based study, it weaves Western understandings of respectable smoking through Montreal's diverse social and cultural fabric. Rudy argues that etiquette gave smoking a political role, reflecting and serving to legitimize beliefs about inclusion, exclusion, and hierarchy that were at the core of a transforming liberal order.

Author: Adolf Deissmann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 698

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Author: Margaret Alice Murray
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780195012705
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This celebrated study of witchcraft in Europe traces the worship of the pre-Christian and prehistoric Horned God from paleolithic times to the medieval period. Murray, the first to turn a scholarly eye on the mysteries of witchcraft, enables us to see its existence in the Middle Ages not as an isolated and terrifying phenomenon, but as the survival of a religion nearly as old as humankind itself, whose devotees held passionately to a view of life threatened by an alien creed. The findings she sets forth, once thought of as provocative and implausible, are now regarded as irrefutable by folklorists and scholars in related fields. Exploring the rites and ceremonies associated with witchcraft, Murray establishes the concept of the "dying god"--the priest-king who was ritually killed to ensure the country and its people a continuity of fertility and strength. In this light, she considers such figures as Thomas a Becket, Joan of Arc, and Gilles de Rais as spiritual leaders whose deaths were ritually imposed. Truly a classic work of anthropology, and written in a clear, accessible style that anyone can enjoy, The God of the Witches forces us to reevaluate our thoughts about an ancient and vital religion.

Author: Glendon O'connor
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781548376888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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A story connecting the Rees, Deslandes, Jardine and Nelson families and their emigration to Australia in the 1850s. It includes information on the families of George Rees, Susannah Deslandes, William Hussey, Peter Skulander, Peter Olsen, Kezia Deslandes, Herbert Frost, Albert Buglar, Janet Nelson, Joseph Hely, George Peek, Leslie Forrester, Allan Albert, Harrie Sykes, Harry Murray, Thomas Robson, William Rhind, William Gillies, Herbert Gosnell, Elizabeth Meredith, Ann Hewitt, Thomas Folster, Charles McIntyre, George Barnes, Benjamin Logan, William Bruce, Stewart Currie, Frederick Farquharson, Jessie Smith, David Olsen, Jacob Johnson, John Bishop, Neville Higgins.

Author: Stuart Wheeler
Publisher: Quiller Publishing
ISBN: 9781846892950
Category : Businessmen
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Winning Against the Odds tells the captivating story of one of England's most fascinating and eccentric men.

Author: Virginia Woolf
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 014197124X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.' 'If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.' Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and creating a new language of sensation and thought. Sometimes impressionistic, sometimes experimental, sometimes brutally cruel, sometimes surprisingly warm and funny, these five stories describe love lost, friendships formed and lives questioned. This book includes The Lady in the Looking Glass, A Society, The Mark on the Wall, Solid Objects and Lappin and Lapinova.

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Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Includes : The semi-centennial celebration by John Clark Jordan ; The alumni and the semi-centennial celebration ; Address of Welcome by John Clinton Futrall ; Address of welcome by Thomas Chipmon McRae ; The debt of Arkansas to its university by John James Tigert ; The new pioneers by Ernest Hiram Lindley ; Old wine by Marcus Lafayette Belle ; Storm signs on the horizon of international politics by Joseph Taylor Robinson.

Author: Mark Wollaeger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199324700
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 751

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The Oxford Handbook of Global Modernisms expands the scope of modernism beyond its traditional focus on English and Irish literature to explore the contributions of artists from countries and regions like the US, Cuba, Spain, the Balkans, China, Japan, India, Vietnam, and Nigeria.

Author: Jerome Bazin
Publisher: Central European University Press
ISBN: 9633860830
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 531

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This book presents and analyzes artistic interactions both within the Soviet bloc and with the West between 1945 and 1989. During the Cold War the exchange of artistic ideas and products united Europe?s avant-garde in a most remarkable way. Despite the Iron Curtain and national and political borders there existed a constant flow of artists, artworks, artistic ideas and practices. The geographic borders of these exchanges have yet to be clearly defined. How were networks, centers, peripheries (local, national and international), scales, and distances constructed? How did (neo)avant-garde tendencies relate with officially sanctioned socialist realism? The literature on the art of Eastern Europe provides a great deal of factual knowledge about a vast cultural space, but mostly through the prism of stereotypes and national preoccupations. By discussing artworks, studying the writings on art, observing artistic evolution and artists? strategies, as well as the influence of political authorities, art dealers and art critics, the essays in Art beyond Borders compose a transnational history of arts in the Soviet satellite countries in the post war period. ÿ