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Viewpoints eBook Series

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  • Arts of Independence

    by Alexander Moffat ...
    Series Book 13 - Viewpoints
    There is only one argument for Scottish independence: the cultural argument. It was there long before North Sea oil had been discovered, and it will be here long after the oil has run out. How have perceptions of Scottish culture been shaped by its role within Britain? What would be different about culture in an Independent Scotland? Why is culture the key to the independence debate? ALEXANDER ... Read more

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  • An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations - The Original Classic Edition

    by Smith Adam ...
    Addressing the nature and causes of the wealth of nations, Adam Smith made one of the most potent contributions to subsequent ideological history. In the West since the early-19th century he has been the patron saint of homo economicus. More recently, successive British governments have invoked his policy recommendations of free trade and laissez-faire to aid their extension of privatization and ... Read more

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  • On Liberty

    by John Stuart Mill ...
    On Liberty is a philosophical work by the English philosopher John Stuart Mill, originally intended as a short essay. The work, published in 1859, applies Mill's ethical system of utilitarianism to society and the state. Mill attempts to establish standards for the relationship between authority and liberty. He emphasizes the importance of individuality, which he conceived as a prerequisite to the ... Read more

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  • The Politics of the Veil

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series The Public Square
    In 2004, the French government instituted a ban on the wearing of "conspicuous signs" of religious affiliation in public schools. Though the ban applies to everyone, it is aimed at Muslim girls wearing headscarves. Proponents of the law insist it upholds France's values of secular liberalism and regard the headscarf as symbolic of Islam's resistance to modernity. The Politics of the Veil is an ... Read more

    R474,02

  • Georges Woke Up Laughing

    Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home

    by Nina Glick Schiller, Gilbert M. Joseph, Emily S. Rosenberg, Georges Eugene Fouron ...
    Series series American Encounters/Global Interactions
    Combining history, autobiography, and ethnography, Georges Woke Up Laughing provides a portrait of the Haitian experience of migration to the United States that illuminates the phenomenon of long-distance nationalism, the voicelessness of certain citizens, and the impotency of government in an increasingly globalized world. By presenting lively ruminations on his life as a Haitian immigrant, ... Read more

    R610,87

  • Advancing a Different Modernism

    by S.A. Mansbach ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
    Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that helped shape modernism’s history and purpose. This study thus ... Read more

    R666,80

  • Nature and the Nation in Fin-de-Siècle France

    The Art of Emile Gallé and the Ecole de Nancy

    by Jessica M. Dandona ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    By the time of his death in 1904, critics, arts reformers, and government officials were near universal in their praise of Art Nouveau designer Emile Gallé (1846–1904), whose works they described as the essence of French design. Many even went so far as to argue that the artist’s creations could reinvigorate France’s fading arts industries and help restore its economic prosperity by defining a ... Read more

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  • Conceiving a Nation

    The Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible

    by Mira Morgenstern ...
    Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a fluid and ongoing process of negotiation open to a range of livable solutions—is actually rooted in the Bible ... Read more

    R449,18

  • Art Museums of Latin America

    Structuring Representation

    Edited by Michele Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ... Read more

    R1 231,24

  • National Identity and Nineteenth-Century Franco-Belgian Sculpture

    by Jana Wijnsouw ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This book elaborates on the social and cultural phenomenon of national schools during the nineteenth century, via the less studied field of sculpture and using Belgium as a case study. The role, importance of, and emphasis on certain aspects of national identity evolved throughout the century, while a diverse array of criteria were indicated by commissioners, art critics, or artists that ... Read more

    R1 231,24

  • Sharing Archaeology

    Academe, Practice and the Public

    Edited by Peter Stone, Zhao Hui ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Archaeology
    As a discipline, Archaeology has developed rapidly over the last half-century. The increase in so-called ‘public archaeology,’ with its wide range of television programming, community projects, newspaper articles, and enhanced site-based interpretation has taken archaeology from a closed academic discipline of interest to a tiny minority to a topic of increasing interest to the general public. ... Read more

    R1 231,24

  • The Power of Populism

    Geert Wilders and the Party for Freedom in the Netherlands

    by Koen Vossen ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Extremism and Democracy
    This book discusses the Party for Freedom (PVV), a political party in the Netherlands, founded and led by Geert Wilders. Attaining between 10 and 18% of the votes, the PVV has become one of the largest parties in the Netherlands and is the only political party worldwide without members. Between 2010 and 2012 the party supported a minority coalition of liberals and christian-democrats in exchange ... Read more

    R1 308,21