Search Results - "Fashion"

From fashion to politics Hadassah and Jewish American women in the post World War II era / by Brautbar, Shirli

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Rhinestones, religion, and the republic : fashioning Jewishness in France / by Arkin, Kimberly A.

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Writing history at the Ottoman court editing the past, fashioning the future /

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Rogue flows trans-Asian cultural traffic /

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Culture and customs of Serbia and Montenegro by Deliso, Christopher, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Land, people, and history -- Religion and thought -- Marriage, gender, family, and education -- Holidays, customs, and leisure activities -- Cuisine and fashion -- Literature -- Media and cinema -- Performing arts -- Art and architecture.…”
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Material London, ca. 1600

Table of Contents: “…Consumer culture : domesticating foreign fashion -- part III. Subjects of the city -- part IV. …”
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Everyday life & consumer culture in 18th-century Damascus by Grehan, James

Table of Contents: “…City & environment -- Bread & survival -- Luxury & variety : everyday food -- Luxury & variety : everyday drink -- Domestic space -- Fashion & deportment -- Conclusion -- Appendix A. …”
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Black France colonialism, immigration, and transnationalism / by Thomas, Dominic Richard David

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Black France in transcolonial contexts -- Francocentrism and the acquisition of cultural capital -- Textual ownership and the global mediation of blackness -- Rhetorical mediations of slavery -- Afro-parisianism and African feminisms -- Fashion matters : La sape and vestimentary codes in transnational contexts and urban diasporas -- African youth in the global economy.…”
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Catharine Macaulay and Mercy Otis Warren the revolutionary Atlantic and the politics of gender / by Davies, Kate, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Catharine Macaulay, Thomas Hollis, and the London opposition -- Out Cornelia-izing Cornelia : portraits, profession, and the gendered character of learning -- Belle sauvage : Catharine Macaulay and the American war in Britain -- Mercy Otis Warren's revolutionary letters -- Free and easy : Boston's fashionable dilemma -- Mercy Otis Warren's independence.…”
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China's last imperial frontier late Qing expansion in Sichuan's Tibetan borderlands / by Wang, Xiuyu, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Qing Discourse and Capability in Eastern Tibet -- Frontier Society and Power -- Lu Chuanlin's "Great Game" in Nyarong -- Frontier Incident and War Making -- State Violence and Local Resistance : the Kham War -- "Regularization" Reconsidered : Variants of Gaitu Guiliu in Northern Kham -- Fashioning an "Inner Region beyond the Pass" -- Developing the West : Opening Kham Lands, Mines and Young Minds -- Character List.…”
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Public passions the trial of Shi Jianqiao and the rise of popular sympathy in Republican China / by Lean, Eugenia, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…The assassin and her revenge: a tale of moral heroism and female self-fashioning in an age of mass communication -- Media sensation: public justice and the sympathy of an urban audience -- Highbrow ambivalence: fear of the masses and feminized sentiment -- The trial: courtroom spectacle and ethical sentiment in the rule of law -- A state pardon: sanctioned violence under Nationalist rule -- Beyond the 1930s: from wartime patriotism to counter-revolutionary sentiment.…”
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Peace first a new model to end war / by Savir, Uri

Table of Contents: “…Old-fashioned peacemaking -- The Oslo roller coaster : a mixed model -- Participatory peace and glocalization -- Peace ecology -- Peacebuilding -- Creative diplomacy -- The peace barometer -- Peacemakers -- Planning -- Negotiation -- The peace treaty -- Implementation -- International roles and reforms -- Peace in the Mediterranean basin : what will it take? …”
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The uses of humanism Johannes Sambucus (1531-1584), Andreas Dudith (1533-1589), and the republic of letters in East Central Europe / by Almási, Gábor

Table of Contents: “…-- The multiple identities of the humanist : "vates, medicus bonus, historicusque" -- The case of Andreas Dudith -- The curious career of a heterodox humanist -- The making of the humanist : self-fashioning through letters and treatises -- Epilogue: Sambucus and Dudith encounter confessionalisation.…”
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Remembering the crusades myth, image, and identity /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : crusading and the work of memory, past and present / Nicholas Paul and Suzanne Yeager -- Cities of memory in the travels of Ibn Jubayr and Ibn Battuta / Christine Chism -- Constructing memories of martyrdom : contrasting portrayals of martyrdom in the Hebrew narratives of the first and second crusade / Chaviva Levin -- Lambert of Saint-Omer and the apocalyptic first crusade / Jay Rubenstein -- Remembering the crusades in the fabric of buildings : preliminary thoughts about alternating voussoirs / Jerrilynn Dodds -- Picturing the first crusade and commemorating the fall of Jerusalem / Jaroslav Folda -- Erasing the body : history and memory in medieval siege poetry / Suzanne Conklin Akbari -- The servile mother : Jerusalem as woman in the era of the crusades / David Morris -- Saladin in the Sunni and Shi'a memories / Mohamed El-Moctar -- Paul the Martyr and Venetian memories of the fourth crusade / David Perry -- Aspects of hospitaller and templar memory / Jonathan Riley-Smith -- Visual self-fashioning and the seals of the knights hospitaller in England / Laura Whatley.…”
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Views from the margins creating identities in modern France /

Table of Contents: “…Callahan -- Sex and the citizen : reproductive manuals and fashionable readers in Napoleonic France, 1799-1808 / Sean M. …”
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Cool Britannia and multi-ethnic Britain : uncorking the champagne supernova / by Arday, Jason

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Judah and the Judeans in the neo-Babylonian period

Table of Contents: “…Knoppers -- Epoch and genre / Yairah Amit -- Gibeon and the Gibeonites revisited / Diana Edelman -- The fasts in the book of Zechariah and the fashioning of national remembrance / Yair Hoffman -- Nebuchadnezzar II and the Old Testament / Ronald H. …”
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