Search Results for Victorian Britain

... the past forty years, the alterity of the past, and her current project on the history of feminism and urban space in 1970s and 1980s London. 2015 cosmopolitanism feminist historiography sexual labor public health Victorian Britain Sharon Marcus (SM): Where and when did you grow up...

...-dollarextravaganza meant to show the Solomons off as a struggling but successful new nation. People from all over the Solomons, from Choiseul in the west to far eastern outliers like Tikopia, converged on Honiara to witness the rituals. Dignitaries from Britain, Japan, the United States, and all...

... Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Books Received Abravanel, Genevieve. 2012. Americanizing Britain: The Rise of Modernism in the Age of the Entertainment Empire. New York: Oxford University Press. Abu El-­Haj, Nadia. 2012. The Genealogical Science...

... a reason to seek exile in exotically located sanatoriums or to set aside Victorian values of religious restraint and purchase medical commodities for the home. Today the architectural legacy of sanatoriums can be seen in health spas, conference centers, and ski resorts around the world. The former role...

...Jeremy Tambling Copyright © 1997 by © 1997 by the University of Chicago 1997 The History Man: The Last Governor of Hong Kong Jeremy Tambling At midnight on 30 June 1997, Hong Kong island, ceded to Britain...

...: The Russo-Japanese war as transnational media event. European Review of History — Revue Europeenne d'histoire 15 : 629 – 42. Gilmour, David. 2005 . The ruling caste: Imperial lives in the Victorian Raj . London: John Murray. Heehs, Peter. 2000 . Nationalism, terrorism, communalism: Essays...

... Culture: Explorations in the Dramaturgy of Power in a Modern African Culture . Berkeley: University of California Press. Cohn , Bernard . 1983 . “Representing Authority in Victorian India.” In E. Hobsbawm and T. Ranger, eds., The Invention of Tradition . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press...

... Independent Group: Modernism and Mass Culture in Britain, 1945-59. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1995. Mavor, Carol. Pleasures Taken: Performances of Sexuality and Loss in Victorian Photography. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995. McClintock, Anne. Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality...

..., Smuts was the leading politician of the new South African Union, and a decade later he would become one of the most influential figures in Britain and the empire. As Mark Mazower’s recent study of the United Nations shows, Smuts dragged the conflict with Gandhi with him into the new imperial...

... in the United States than in Britain and, more significantly, that this reaction can serve to forge a new unity among such diverse individuals as Tala1 Asad, Marjorie Levinson, Peter van der Veer, and Partha Chatterjee. After all, part of the argument was that the configuration I had identified...

.... Sin Ch'ae-ho. 1995 . Toksa sillon [A new reading of history]. In Sin Ch'ae-ho yŏksa nonsulchip [Collection of Sin Ch'ae-ho's historical works],edited by Chŏng Hae-ryŏm. Seoul:Hyŏnydae sirhaksa. Stocking, George W. Jr. 1987 . Victorian anthropology . New York: Free Press. Tang, Xiaobing...

... not merely a Biblical imprimatur, but also the two most familiar redactions of “morality” allotted to Western womanhood in South Asia. The export of imperial womanhood from Britain in helpmeets of all stripes, over several centuries, meant that female personages had long conveyed Victorian mores far...

... to something in the world. But, as Katharine Anderson (2005 : 90) writes in Predicting the Weather: Victorians and the Science of Meteorology , “Birt was increasingly, and uncomfortably, aware that . . . the term ‘wave’ in his promising empirical analysis merely described the curve traced on a graph, rather...

... Hall, Family Fortunes: Men and Women of the English Middle Class, 1780 – 1850 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987); and Dror Wahrman, Imagining the Middle Class: The Political Representa- tion of Class in Britain, 1780 – 1840 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). 2. I need...

... perfectly British colonial power. Most of these British edifices on the Bund were built or rebuilt in the neoclassi- cal style prevalent in England beginning in the late-nineteenth century, which replaced the earlier Victorian Gothic and “free style” arts and crafts building and was essentially the same...

... Policy in Victorian Sydney (St. Lucia: Uni- versity of Queensland Press, 1982); N. Thomas, “Sanitation and Seeing: The Creation of State Power in Early Colonial Fiji,” Comparative Studies in Society and History 32 (1990): 149–170. 4. W. W. Rostow, The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist...

... they are able to imitate the voice quality, singing style, and dance movements of well-known singers from Britain and the United States. In other words, these Filipinos are “unoriginal” in their singing in order to sound like the “original.” Hotels advertise their cover bands with such statements as “great...

... . Martens Britta . 2007 . “ Death as Spectacle: The Paris Morgue in Dickens and Browning .” Dickens Studies Annual 39 : 223 – 48 . McCauley Alexander . 2020 . “ Victorian Atlantis: Drowning, Population, and Property in the Nineteenth-Century Novel .” PhD diss., University of Washington...

... (such as Britain, France, and Spain), in territories with a similar cul- tural history but without a contemporary unified state (such as the German- and Italian-speaking lands), or in culturally marginalized and politically subordinated areas (such as the various potential nations within the Hapsburg empire...

...,” Town Planning Review 65, no. 4 (1994): 355–74. 27. Akihiro Kinda, “The Concept of ‘Townships’ in Britain and the British Colonies in the Seven- teenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” Journal of Historical Geography 27, no. 2 (2001): 137–52. For a summary of the literature on the “township...