Bøger i Polygons: Cultural Diversities & Intersections serien
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- Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World
398,95 kr. Showing how in North America, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia and the South Pacific, radio provides distinctive forms of content for the individual listener, this volume also shows how it enables ethnic and cultural groups to maintain their sense of identity. It suggests that the benefits and gratifications which radio confers remain unique.
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- 398,95 kr.
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- Women and Feminism in French Society and Culture 1890-1914
402,95 kr. The Third Republic, known as the 'belle epoque', was a period of lively, articulate and surprisingly radical feminist activity in France. This book explores almost all these facets of the period, weaving them into a multi-stranded argument about the importance of this rich period of French women's history.
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- 402,95 kr.
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392,95 kr. In Greek mythology the beautiful Narcissus glimpsed his own reflection in the waters of a spring and fell in love. But his was an impossible passion and, filled with despair, he pined away. Over the years the myth has inspired painters, writers, and film directors, as well as philosophers and psychoanalysts.
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- 392,95 kr.
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- Rethinking Culture
393,95 kr. In this highly original approach to the study of the construction of culture, this collection of previously unpublished essays explore the topography of the secret and the forbidden, focusing on specific moments in recent cultural and political history.
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- 393,95 kr.
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- Beyond Slavery and Emancipation in the French Caribbean
385,95 - 1.412,95 kr. Why do the people of the French Caribbean still continue to be haunted by the memory of their slave past more than one hundred and fifty years after the abolition of slavery? What process led to the divorce of their collective memory of slavery and emancipation from France's portrayal of these historical phenomena?
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- 385,95 kr.
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- The European Bande DessinA (c)e in Context
399,95 - 1.525,95 kr. Whereas in English-speaking countries comics are for children or adults who should know better,A" in France and Belgium the form is recognized as the ninth artA" and follows in the path of poetry, architecture, painting, and cinema. The bande dessinee [comic strip] has its own national institutions and regularly obtains front-page coverage.
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- 399,95 kr.
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- Reviewing Suburban Narratives
385,95 kr. During the last few decades suburbia has grown enormously and become a phenomenon attracting the attention of scholars as well as practitioners by whom it is seen as an increasingly significant and complex area of modern life.
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- 385,95 kr.
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- From the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic Code
392,95 - 1.417,95 kr. What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man...
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- 392,95 kr.