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Author : Temma Kaplan
Release : 1992
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 403/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Red City, Blue Period by : Temma Kaplan
Download or read book Red City, Blue Period written by Temma Kaplan. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is not just another book: it is a major achievement."—Eric R. Wolf, author of Europe and the People Without History
Author : William H. Robinson
Release : 2006-01-01
Genre : Art
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Book Rating : 067/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Barcelona and Modernity by : William H. Robinson
Download or read book Barcelona and Modernity written by William H. Robinson. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogus van een tentoonstelling van werk van Catalaanse kunstenaars.
Author : Bryan D. Palmer
Release : 2019-02-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 182/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Cultures of Darkness by : Bryan D. Palmer
Download or read book Cultures of Darkness written by Bryan D. Palmer. This book was released on 2019-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peasants, religious heretics, witches, pirates, runaway slaves, prostitutes and pornographers, frequenters of taverns and fraternal society lodge rooms, revolutionaries, blues and jazz musicians, beats, and contemporary youth gangs--those who defied authority, choosing to live outside the defining cultural dominions of early insurgent and, later, dominant capitalism are what Bryan D. Palmer calls people of the night. These lives of opposition, or otherness, were seen by the powerful as deviant, rejecting authority, and consequently threatening to the established order. Constructing a rich historical tapestry of example and experience spanning eight centuries, Palmer details lives of exclusion and challenge, as the "night travels" of the transgressors clash repeatedly with the powerful conventions of their times. Nights of liberation and exhilarating desire--sexual and social--are at the heart of this study. But so too are the dangers of darkness, as marginality is coerced into corners of pressured confinement, or the night is used as a cover for brutalizing terror, as was the case in Nazi Germany or the lynching of African Americans. Making extensive use of the interdisciplinary literature of marginality found in scholarly work in history, sociology, cultural studies, literature, anthropology, and politics, Palmer takes an unflinching look at the rise and transformation of capitalism as it was lived by the dispossessed and those stamped with the mark of otherness.
Author : Francisco Ferrer
Release : 2018-12-15
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 332/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Anarchist Education and the Modern School by : Francisco Ferrer
Download or read book Anarchist Education and the Modern School written by Francisco Ferrer. This book was released on 2018-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 13, 1909, Francisco Ferrer, the notorious Catalan anarchist educator and founder of the Modern School, was executed by firing squad. The Spanish government accused him of masterminding the Tragic Week rebellion, while the transnational movement that emerged in his defense argued that he was simply the founder of the groundbreaking Modern School of Barcelona. Was Ferrer a ferocious revolutionary, an ardently nonviolent pedagogue, or something else entirely? Anarchist Education and the Modern School is the first historical reader to gather together Ferrer’s writings on rationalist education, revolutionary violence, and the general strike (most translated into English for the first time) and put them into conversation with the letters, speeches, and articles of his comrades, collaborators, and critics to show that the truth about the founder of the Modern School was far more complex than most of his friends or enemies realized. Francisco Ferrer navigated a tempestuous world of anarchist assassins, radical republican conspirators, anticlerical rioters, and freethinking educators to establish the legendary Escuela Moderna and the Modern School movement that his martyrdom propelled around the globe.
Author : Montserrat Miller
Release : 2015-01-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 485/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975 by : Montserrat Miller
Download or read book Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975 written by Montserrat Miller. This book was released on 2015-01-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The food markets of Barcelona host thousands of customers daily, from tourists eager to sample fresh fruits and grilled seafood to neighborhood cooks in search of high-quality ingredients. While other countries experienced major shifts away from the public-market model in the twentieth century, Barcelona's food markets remained fundamental to the city's identity, economy, and culture. Montserrat Miller's Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975 examines the causes behind the extraordinary vibrancy and tenacity of the Barcelonan market system. Miller argues that recurrent revolutionary uprisings in Barcelona, beginning in the mid-eighteenth century, forced ongoing collaboration between the public and private sectors to ensure adequate and effective food distribution. Municipal support permitted small-scale food sellers in Barcelona to survive in a period more commonly characterized by increasing capitalization in food retail, while the importance of food markets to Barcelona's social networks enhanced vendors' ability to recognize and adapt to changing customer demands. In addition, a high number of stalls owned by women contributed both to the financial well-being of vendor families and to the sociability patterns that placed neighborhood food markets at the center of daily life in the city. The shared commitment of vendors, shoppers, and government officials to a market model of food sales created the lasting and unique market system that persists in Barcelona to this day. Drawing from extensive archival research and numerous interviews with individuals at all levels of the market system, Feeding Barcelona, 1714-1975 is the first detailed history of the historical and social influences that create urban food markets.
