Search Results - "world war"

Disability histories

Table of Contents: “…Nielsen -- "Salvaging the Negro" : race, rehabilitation, and the body politic in World War I America, 1917-1924 / Paul R.D. Lawrie -- Engendering and regendering disability : gender and disability activism in postwar America / Audra Jennings -- Self-advocacy and blind activists : the origins of the disability rights movement in twentieth-century India / Jagdish Chander.…”
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This Time We Knew : Western Responses to Genocide in Bosnia. by Cushman, Thomas

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Restaging the past : historical pageants, culture and society in modern Britain

Table of Contents: “…Historical Pageants in Yorkshire before the First World War -- 3. A National Church Tells its Story: The English Church Pageant of 1909 -- 4. …”
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The return of the epic film : genre, aesthetics and history in the twenty-first century

Table of Contents: “…Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I Epics and Ancient History; 2 Sir Ridley Scott and the Rebirth of the Historical Epic; 3 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and America since the Second World War: Some Cinematic Parallels; 4 'There's Nothing So Wrong with a Hollywood Script That a Bunch of Giant CGI Scorpions Can't Solve': Politics, Computer Generated Images and Camp in the Critical Reception of the Post-Gladiator Historical Epics; 5 Popcorn and Circus: An Audience Expects; Part II Epic Aesthetics and Genre.…”
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Politics, development and security in Oceania

Table of Contents: “…The Political Roles of the Fiji Military: A Brief History of the Chiefs' Warriors, Heroes of the World Wars, Peacekeepers and Dictators; 5. One Party State: The Samoan Experience.…”
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Masterpieces of glass from the collection of the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, 2014-2015

Table of Contents: “…Cut and engraved glass of the Baroque period ; Painted and double-walled glass of the Baroque and Rococo periods -- Glass of the first half of the 19th century (neoclassicism, Empire style, Biedermeier, Rococo revival) -- Glass of the second half of the 19th century (historical style) -- Glass of the art nouveau period -- Glass between the two world wars -- Overview of the technical developments in glass production.…”

Defining Russian graphic arts : from Diaghilev to Stalin, 1898-1934

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Phillip Dennis Cate -- The Search for National Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Russian Graphic Design / Alla Rosenfeld -- The Graphic Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts: A Brief History, 1895-1935 / Ekaterina Grishina -- Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Cover Designs from the Collection of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts / Elena Litovchenko -- Book and Costume Designs from the Collection of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, 1900-1930 / Elena Pliusnina -- The World of Art and Other Turn-of-the-Century Russian Art Journals, 1898-1910 / Janet Kennedy -- The World of Art Group: Book and Poster Design / Alla Rosenfeld -- A New Aesthetic: World and Image in Russian Futurist Books / Nina Gurianova -- The World Turned Upside Down: Russian Posters of the First World War, the Bolshevik Revolution, and the Civil War / Alla Rosenfeld -- "Modern Icon," or "Tool for Mass Propaganda"? …”

A people's history of modern Europe by Pelz, William A.

Table of Contents: “…Protest and mutiny confront mass slaughter: Europeans and World War I -- 9. War leads to revolution: Russia (1917), Central Europe (1918-19) -- 10. …”
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Security/mobility : politics of movement

Table of Contents: “…A discourse view on the European Community and the abolition of border controls in the second half of the 1980s -- Part III: Circumscribing movement -- 9 Gender (in)securities: surveillance and transgender bodies in a post- 9/11 era of neoliberalism -- 10 One thing left on the checklist: ontological coordination and the assessment of consistency in asylum requests -- 11 Modelling the self, creating the other: French denaturalisation law on the brink of World War II -- Epilogue -- 12 Unpacking the new mobilities paradigm: lessons for critical security studies?…”
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The cutting edge : a half century of U.S. fighter aircraft R & D by Lorell, Mark A., 1947-

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Italian Futurism 1909-1944 : reconstructing the universe

Table of Contents: “…The reign of the man whose roots are cut: dehumanism and anti-Christianity in the futurist revolution / Emilio Gentile -- Futurism and Italian intervention in World War I / Walter L. Adamson -- Rosa Rosà and the question of gender in wartime futurism / Lucia Re -- Gilbert Clavel, Fortunato Depero, and Balli Plastici: Rome and Capri, 1917-1918 / Gabriella Belli -- The Opera d'Arte Totale / Vivien Greene -- Capri as the epicenter of "slow" futurism / Michelangelo Sabatino -- Futurism and dance / Patrizia Veroli -- Ivo Pannaggi: Meccano-Futurista, constructivist, proletarian / Christine Poggi -- Futurism, fascism, and Mino Somenzi's journals of the 1930s: Futurismo, Sant'Elia, and Artecrazia / Susan Thompson -- Gerardo Dottori, the umbrian futurists, and regional futurism / Massimo Duranti -- Shock and awe: futurist Aeropittura and the theories of Giulio Douhet / Emily Braun -- Futurist ceramics / Silvia Barisone -- Futurist photography: Tato and the 1930s / Maria Antonella Pelizzari --…”

The Lost Promise of Progressivism by Eisenach, Eldon J

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Georgette Heyer, history, and historical fiction

Table of Contents: “…Georgette Heyer, Wellington's Army and the First World War / Vanda Wilcox -- 10. Georgette Heyer and the language of the historical novel / Tom Zille -- Part 4: Circulation and Reception -- 11.A reluctant movie? …”
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The horror film

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The collected works of Paul Valéry. Volume 1, Poems by Valéry, Paul, 1871-1945

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Power of freedom : Hu Shih's political writings by Hu, Shi, 1891-1962

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Poetry, history, memory : Wang Jingwei and China in dark times. by YANG, ZHIYI

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The many lives of a Jesuit, Freemason, and philanthropist : the story of Töhötöm Nagy by Petrás, Éva

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Growth, Poverty and Inequality Dynamics Four Empirical Essays at the Macro and Micro Level by Weisbrod, Julian

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Australian wage policy : infancy and adolescence by Hancock, Keith, 1935-

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