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Waley-Cohen reviews 'Cultural Realism: Strategic Culture and Grand Strategy in Chinese History' by Alastair Iain Johnston.

Tracking Cuban history from 1492 to the present, The Cuba Reader includes more than one hundred selections that present myriad perspectives on Cuba's history, culture, and politics. The volume foregrounds the experience of Cubans from all walks of life, including slaves, prostitutes, doctors, activists, and historians. Combining songs, poetry, fiction, journalism, political speeches, and many other types of documents, this revised and updated second edition of The Cuba Reader contains over twenty new selections that explore the changes and continuities in Cuba since Fidel Castro stepped down from power in 2006. For students, travelers, and all those who want to know more about the island nation just ninety miles south of Florida, The Cuba Reader is an invaluable introduction

"Features ideas and suggested best practices for the staff and board of museums that care for collections of Native material culture, and who work with Native American culture, history, and communities"--Provided by publisher

The foundation of human speech / León Cadogan -- Contact, servitude and resistance / Branislava Susnik -- Spanish-Guaraní relations in early colonial Paraguay / Elman R. Service -- The land-without-evil / Hélène Clastres -- The Republic of Plato and the Guaraní / José Manuel Peramás -- A vanished Arcadia / R.B. Cunninghame Graham -- The revolt of the Comuneros / Adalberto López -- A report on Paraguay in the London press of 1824 / Anonymous -- A nation held hostage / Justo Prieto -- In defense of Doctor Francia / Richard Alan White -- Autonomy, authoritarianism and development / Thomas Whigham -- The Treaty of the Triple Alliance : "I Die with my Country!" / Thomas Whigham -- A chronicle of war / Leandro Pineda -- The Lomas Valentinas note / Francisco Solano López -- Memoirs of the Paraguayan war / Gaspar Centurión -- The women of Piribebuy / Juan O'Leary -- The death of López at Cerro Corá / Silvestre Aveiro -- Sufferings of a French lady in Paraguay / Dorotea Duprat de Lasserre -- Declaration and protest / Eliza Lynch -- The psychology of López / William Stewart -- Paraguayan society in the post-war decade / Harris Gaylord Warren -- The "Lincolnshire Farmers" in Paraguay / Annie Elizabeth Kennett -- My pilgrimage to Caacupé / Norman O. Brown -- What it's like to work in the yerba plantations / Rafael Barrett -- The treatment of tree-fellers and timber workers / Reinaldo López Fretes -- The golden age (without a nickel) / Helio Vera -- The causes of poverty in Paraguay / Teodosio González -- The Mennonites arrive in the Chaco / Walter Quiring -- The Paraguatan character / Juan Sinforiano Bogarín -- The Paraguatan people and their natural tendencies / Natalicio González -- Cultural exile / Agustín Barrios -- Profession of faith / Agustín Barrios -- A new national ideology / Oscar Creydt ... [et.al.] -- Capturing volunteers / Carlos Reyes -- The Battle of Boquerón / Alfredo Seiferheld -- Memoirs of a man from Concepción / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi -- A visit to Villa Hayes Military Hospital number 16 / Reginald Thompson -- Scenes of thirst / Hugo Rodríguez Alcalá -- A handful of earth / Herib Campos Cervera -- Proclamation of the Febrerista Revolution / F.W. Smith and Camilo Recalde -- How beautiful your voice : accounts of the history of the Enlhet of Ya'alve-Saanga / Ernesto Unruh and Hannes Kalisch -- The Revolution of 1947 / Carlos María Sienra Bonzi as told to Roberto Sienra Zavala -- A half hour in my childhood / Eva Bichsel -- Toward a Weberian characterization of the Stroessner regime / Marcial Riquelme -- The revolutionary spirit of the Colorado Party / Luis María Argaña -- The tragedy of Fram / Jorge Rubiani -- Be careful, dictator / Elvio Romero -- The worm in the lotus blossom / Graham Greene -- A short history of the Northern Ache people / Kim Hill -- The testimony of Saturnina Almada -- An interview with Corsino Coronel -- Apocalypse / Alfredo Boccia -- My farewell speech / Carmen Lara Castro -- The death of Somoza / Claribel Alegria and Darwin Flakoll -- My vote is for the people / Alcibiades González Delvalle -- Writing as a metaphor for exile / Augusto Roa Bastos -- Paraguay's terror archive / Andrew Nickson -- "A Hundred and Eight" and a burned body : the story not told by the Truth and Justice Commission / Anselmo Ramos -- The final report of the Truth and Justice Commission / Andrés D. Ramírez -- Alfredo Stroessner : revisiting the general / Isabel Hilton -- Re-establishing the status quo / Andrew Nickson -- We have left our barracks / Andrés Rodríguez -- My deepest respects to the Colorado Party / Helio Vera -- The characteristics of Oviedismo / Milda Rivarola -- In homage to the victims of Ycuá Bolaños / Luis Irala -- Where are they? / Alberto Rodas -- The Ayoreo people / Mateo Sobode Chiquenoi -- So much exoticism can be deceptive / Alfredo Boccia Paz -- Inaugural presidential speech / Fernando Lugo Méndez -- First person : Margarita Mbywangi / as told to Jude Webber -- Lessons on paternity from Lugo / Clyde Soto -- Itaipú : an historic achievement that will need to be closely monitored / Ricardo Canese -- A fine woman / Andrés Colmán Gutiérrez -- Ciudad del Este's deadly trade route / Jude Webber -- The challenge of conserving a natural Chaco habitat in the face of severe deforestation pressure and human development needs / Alberto Yanosky -- History, identity and Paraguayidad / Peter Lambert -- Change and continuity in Paraguayan history? 1811, 1911, 2011 / Andrew Nickson -- The Arcadian tragedy / George Pendle -- The bicentenary of Paraguayan independence and of the Guaraní language / Miguel Ángel Verón -- The Afro-descendants of Paraguay / Ignacio Telesca -- Authoritarian ideology : final comments / Guido Rodríguez Alcalá -- With the help of Doña Petrona we make an incursion into folk cuisine / Helio Vera -- Enough of the triple alliance / Jorge Rubiani -- Tereré as a social bond / Derlis Benítez Alvarenga -- The status of women / Riordan Roett and Richard Scott Sacks -- Self portrait, Bernarda María and the Serpent / Pepa Kostianovsky -- Erico / Jorge Barraza -- Recipe for Chipa Guazú / Doña Aída -- National anthem in Guaraní / Félix de Guarania

A discussion of the issues that have made the study of popular culture problematic: definition of the term "popular," difficulties in using two-tier models, oblique approaches & the regressive method, & problems related to sources & to how culture is understood. Also considered is the problem of studying mediators. It is recommended that popular culture research examine the history of daily life, viewing cultures as functional wholes, & taking into account stratifications & conflicts within cultures, as well as power & its distribution, & its corollary, resistance. It is suggested that the notions of hegemonic & subordinate cultures should be taken seriously, as well as subcultural groupings, & that popular culture always exemplifies a "double articulation," as a subordinate culture embodying hegemonic values, but also as an alternative culture constructed in opposition to dominant cultural values. AA

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Exercises -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I: Issues and Methods in Life History -- Introduction: salma's stories -- 1. Individuals and Their Cultures -- 2. Methods in Life History Research -- 3. Individual Identities, Multiple Cultures -- 4. Negotiating Conflicting Cultures and Competing Values -- 5. Writing Multiple Cultures in Life History -- Part 2: Readings in Life History -- Introduction -- 1. Being Indian in America: My Ethnic Roots and Me -- 2. Conversations with Paolo -- 3. Needle and Thread: The Life and Death of a Tailor -- 4. Lessons on the Road: The Life of a Hobo -- 5. "That Really Happened": Ethnography and the Hobby of Twentieth-Century War Reenacting -- 6. A Chameleon-Like Approach: Successful Negotiations of MultipleCultural Traditions -- 7. The Sound of It Stayed in My Ears: Life History with AfricanAmerican Domestics -- 8. My Mexican Friend Marta Who Lives Across the Border from Me in Detroit -- 9. Routes to Identity: Life History Dialogues on Race and Adoption -- Notes -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index

Introduction: Accuracy and Authenticity, Karl Alvestad (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway) and Robert Houghton (University of Winchester, UK) -- Part I. Defining and Claiming Accuracy and Authenticity -- 1. 'History is Our Playground': Accuracy, Authenticity and Historical Media, Andrew Elliot (University of Lincoln, UK) -- 2. The 'Accurate' Deeds of our Fathers: The Changing Narrative of the Foundation of Norway, Karl Alvestad (University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway) -- 3. Medieval Objects in Modern Buildings: Medievalism, Family Identities and Critical Heritage Studies, Linsey Hunter (University of the Highlands and Islands, UK) -- 4. Where do the 'White Middle Ages' Come From? Helen Young (University of Sydney, Australia) -- 5. Modding History: Games Culture and the Constitution of the Authentic/Accurate, Adam Chapman (University of Gothenburg, Sweden) -- Part II. Exploring and Perpetuating (In)Accuracy and (In)Authenticity -- 6. Symbol or Falsehood? The Evolution of the Image of Wallace's Two-Handed Sword, Laura Harrison (University of Edinburgh, UK) -- 7. Authenticity and the Depiction of Medieval Medicine and Science in Modern Film and Television, April Harper (SUNY Oneonta, USA) -- 8. Audience Receptions of the Medieval on the Small and Silver Screen, Sian Beavers (Open University, UK) -- 9. ''Tis But a Scratch': Medieval Martial Arts in Modern Media, Jacob Deacon (University of Leeds, UK) -- 10. Absent Mothers: The Feminized 'Dark Ages' in Modern Board and Card Game Cultures, Daisy Black (University of Wolverhampton, UK) -- Part III. Creating Accuracy and Authenticity -- 11. The Tourist Gaze the 'Medieval' Landscape, Megan Arnott (Western Michigan University, USA) -- 12. Playing at the Crossroads of Religion and Law: Historical Milieu and Context in 'Lost & Found', Owen Gottleib (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA) -- 13. Playing Modding for 'Realism' and 'Accuracy' in Skyrim, Victoria Cooper (University of Leeds, UK) -- 14. Playing the Taskscapes: Representing Medieval Life through Video Games Technologies, Juan Hiriart (Salford University, UK).

"This book investigates China's railway transformation through history, along with culture changes and urban development. The book begins by looking at the background of China and the history and growth of railway development in China through five key phases, followed by assessing the cultural changes in the railway carriage and exploring how these are linked to social equality and national provisions."

AbstractErnest Gellner's work on nationalism is situated in a larger social metaphysic and philosophical anthropology. This paper investigates some of these overarching intellectual commitments and their implications for his arguments about nationalism. Two main issues are examined. Does the method of 'philosophic history' provide any philosophical or methodological support for his treatment of nationalism? What are the implications of the common culture of industrial civilization for his arguments about nationalism? Addressing these issues together contributes to the continuing evaluation of Gellner's work, particularly to recent discussion of his arguments about necessity and nationalism.

During the Allied bombing of Germany, Hitler was more distressed by the loss of cultural treasures than by the leveling of homes. Remarkably, his propagandists broadcast this fact, convinced that it would reveal not his callousness but his sensitivity: the destruction had failed to crush his artist's spirit. It is impossible to begin to make sense of this thinking without understanding what Wolf Lepenies calls The Seduction of Culture in German History. This fascinating and unusual book tells the story of an arguably catastrophic German habit--that of valuing cultural achievem