... and collective memory, the chapter looks at the design and purpose of several websites created by both institutions and individuals. cultures of remembrance German culture of remembrance German Historical Museum internet The World War 1914–1918 Event and Remembrance museum exhibit collective memory...

... of its creation and the subsequent debate around it serves as a classic example of the cultural imagination surrounding life in the New World as well as the wider social impact of political ideas in nineteenth-century Italy. The chapter first considers Un ballo's close connection...

...This book continues the reiteration and reformulation of love stories by bringing together philosophy, cultural analysis and gender theory supplementing the proliferation of tales of love. Love as narrative, love's troubles and paradoxes, and an ethics and politics of erotics are detailed through...

...This chapter illustrates how new whole-animal butcher shops have emerged alongside the rise of the “foodie” movement. In today's age of cultural omnivorousness, when the boundaries surrounding high and low culture have become blurred, savvy consumers look deeper into a food item's provenance...

... would provide a systematic assessment and characterization of Big Science, and advise governments accordingly. Big science Congress for Cultural Freedom Governmentalization Minerva debate Politics Scientific Technological Revolution Shils Edward de Solla Price Derek Oak Ridge National Laboratory...

...Chapter one examines the geography, religious milieu, prior history, educational developments, and various cultural bonds of the Nile Valley, essentially those characteristics which Egyptians believed argued for the existence of a single nation. These attributes of the Nile Valley did favor...

... and assessing experience-based learning programs. It also describes the essential elements in designing a cross-cultural service-learning program and tests a methodology for documenting learning outcomes that informs their effectiveness. Lingnan University in Hong Kong LUHK Permaul Jane Szutu W T Chan...

...There have been claims that the Marxist approaches to the history are no longer tenable. This idea that Marx has lost such relevance to historiography is due to the failure of his prophesies, including the three particular assumptions: the anti-universalism, the neglect of cultural representation...

... of the motivation and educational attainment of newcomers compared to Irish children. The studies addressed English-language acquisition and academic standards, cultural capital, racism, and social class. children Church of Ireland Churches Dublin 15 educational disadvantage Martin Archbishop D Mills C W...

... the Tube that can be found in cultural deposits. It also argues that underground writing and reading has made the Tube a ‘knowable community’ because every generation of Tube users is materially rooted in certain locations whether they be stations or lines and came to identify with them in certain ways...

...This chapter examines the works of George Gissing with respect to the London Tube. It explains that Gissing made key cultural references to the underground railway in the 1880s with novels such as Demos and Thyrza and he shifted to depicting the real underground...

...This chapter offers a literary criticism of David Conway's horror novel Metal Sushi. It discusses the corruption in the genre of Gothic science fiction and examines the cultural allusion, story and intertextual references in form of detective narratives and the New Weird...

... by members of an “impoverished and subjugated rural underclass” after yellow fever epidemics, created the “global popular music of the mid-twentieth century.” A unique combination of place-specific cultural resources, technological innovation in recording, the rise of independent radio, and entrepreneurial...

...The Western Apache live in Arizona and, like the Navajo, speak a southern Athabaskan language. They share many social and cultural features with the Navajo, including a respect for place. They are a laconic people who prefer to be silent when they find themselves in ambiguous or unpredictable...

... and the facilitation of cultural expression....

...This chapter considers the relation between the projects of analyzing the dys-/disarticulate, which this text undertakes, and the various studies about literary and cultural disability. Clearly, there are important overlaps between them. Not only are disabled characters at the centers...

... notably sparse to date, now almost a decade later. This book seeks to rectify that neglect on both counts, by arguing that the episode was significant not only as an instance of popular struggles over cultural politics, but that it also reveals certain basic lacunae in the theory and methods of Asian...

...This chapter contrasts articulations of difference in Asian American cultural studies with Pierre Bourdieu's model of relational analysis between field and capital. Although both of these concepts consider social relations as a dynamic system of negative differences, they vary extremely regarding...

....-dominated global system. The end of World War II was a period of desperate, existential struggle for the Soviet Union. Artistic production and cultural exchange were integral parts of that struggle. But after its conclusion, Joseph Stalin launched a series of overlapping campaigns—Zhdanovshchina...

...In the 1940s and 1950s, Soviet musicians and ensembles were acclaimed across the globe. They toured the world, wowing critics and audiences, projecting an image of the USSR as a sophisticated promoter of cultural and artistic excellence. This book focuses on music and the Soviet Union's star...