Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars

Monarchy and Modernity in Egypt: Politics, Islam and Neo-Colonialism between the Wars 9780755611300, 9781848857063

The creation of the Egyptian monarchy in 1922, under King Fuad II, opened contests and debates over fundamental cultural

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Modern Women in China and Japan: Gender, Feminism and Global Modernity Between the Wars 9780755619702, 9781848859395

At the dawn of the 1930s a new empowered and liberated image of the female was taking root in popular culture in the Wes

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Politics of Nostalgia in the Arabic Novel: Nation-State, Modernity and Tradition 9780748655700

Uncovers the politics of nostalgia and madness inherent in the Arabic novel The Arabic novel has taken shape in the int

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Staging France Between the World Wars : Performance, Politics, and the Transformation of the Theatrical Canon 9781498522793, 9781498522786

Staging Francebetween the World Wars aims to establish the nature and significance of the modernist transformation of Fr

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Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars 9781558493735, 2002013897, 1558493735

In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives.

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The Sources of Military Doctrine: France, Britain, and Germany Between the World Wars 9780801468582

Barry R. Posen explores how military doctrine takes shape and the role it plays in grand strategy—that collection of mil

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Art and the Politics of Visibility: Contesting the Global, Local and the In-Between 9781350985407, 9781786732941

How does cultural context affect the interpretation of art? What makes artists' work transnational or national in c

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Art and Politics: Between Purity and Propaganda 9789048531516

This book explores the position of art and artists under a number of different political regimes of the twentieth and tw

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Daoism in the Twentieth Century: Between Eternity and Modernity 9780984590933

"An interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the social history and anthropology of Daoism from the late ninete

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Woman and Chinese modernity: the politics of reading between West and East 9780816618705, 9780816683482, 9780816618712

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