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The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- 1 Introduction: rethinking organizational culture -- 2 Foundations of cultural studies -- 3 The pre-history of organizational culture -- 4 Models of organizational culture -- 5 Sexism, racism, and other common cultural practices -- 6 Redeeming organizational culture: stories and storytelling -- 7 Concluding comments -- Bibliography -- Index.

In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others.

"This book in memory of F. Donald Logan explores different aspects of Christian culture and society in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Although this period has traditionally been interpreted in terms of decline and decay, this excessively gloomy picture has slowly given way over the last eighty years or so to a more positive view of Christian civilization during these centuries. The twenty-two studies brought together here seek to build on this ongoing reassessment of Later Catholic England, especially in those areas in which Professor Logan himself had done so much to deepen our understanding of Christian English society. Contributors are: Travis Baker, Caroline Barron, Nicholas Bennett, Barbara Bombi, Paul Brand, Janet Burton, James G. Clark, Karen Corsano, Virginia Davis, Charles Donahue Jr, Anne J. Duggan, Joan Greatrex, Diana Greenway, Michael Haren, R.H. Helmholz, Philippa Hoskin, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Frederik Pedersen, Seymour Phillips, Michael J.P. Robson, Jens Röhrkasten, Jane Sayers, R.N. Swanson, Daniel Williman, and Patrick Zutshi"--

"This book in memory of F. Donald Logan explores different aspects of Christian culture and society in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Although this period has traditionally been interpreted in terms of decline and decay, this excessively gloomy picture has slowly given way over the last eighty years or so to a more positive view of Christian civilization during these centuries. The twenty-two studies brought together here seek to build on this ongoing reassessment of Later Catholic England, especially in those areas in which Professor Logan himself had done so much to deepen our understanding of Christian English society. Contributors are: Travis Baker, Caroline Barron, Nicholas Bennett, Barbara Bombi, Paul Brand, Janet Burton, James G. Clark, Karen Corsano, Virginia Davis, Charles Donahue Jr, Anne J. Duggan, Joan Greatrex, Diana Greenway, Michael Haren, R.H. Helmholz, Philippa Hoskin, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Frederik Pedersen, Seymour Phillips, Michael J.P. Robson, Jens Röhrkasten, Jane Sayers, R.N. Swanson, Daniel Williman, and Patrick Zutshi"--

The inclusion of peasant studies within the broader historical field of proletarianization study is proposed. The deconceptualization of the peasantry embodied in historical Marxism & role-set analysis disguises the effects of homogeneity & community on peasant economy. This deconceptualization in Marxist doctrine is argued to be due to a belief that the peasantry must be examined in terms of historical capitalist development, denying the existence of an intrinsic peasant mode of production. The part-society/part-culture approach of role-set analysis ignores the shared attributes of peasant society, while concentrating on the impact of differing social systems. The concept of "proletarianization studies" is proposed as a means to overcome the unilinear understanding of peasant society dynamics engendered by previous study. 29 References. R. McCarthy.

This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. The last decade has witnessed astonishing global events, from 9/11 and military operations in Afghanistan in the same year, to the military intervention in Libya in 2011. Western military forces have been involved in all of these campaigns and have been engaged in continuous military operations for over ten years. It is therefore now apt to focus a spotlight on the military cultures of these state-based armed forces. This book examines how contemporary American and British military cu.

Two traditional approaches to the study of Japan in the West—comparison and a focus on connections—both fundamentally regard Japanese culture as a distinct entity. A less essentialist and more fruitful approach might be to see Japanese culture as the product of responses to global developments and conjunctures that the West has also been subjected to. Classical modernization theory, the multiple modernities approach, and, more recently, the Great Divergence debate have each in their own way situated Japan within global history, although they have usually been accompanied by presumptions about the West's importance for Japan, while at the same time removing Japan from its Asian context. Resituating Japan in its Asian context from a transcultural perspective yields unexpected insights. One example is the role of Islam in Japan, a topic that, although almost entirely unexplored, is closely bound to modern Japanese political history.

This issue looks beyond earlier debates on Asian culture that, back then, were essentially built around dichotomies or polar opposites. This is because in recent years culture—Asian culture, in particular, has been widely problematized and contested, especially in light of fundamentalist tendencies and movements in the region and all over the world. Digital and nuclear advancements, transnational migration, and widespread political and social violence and destabilization are just few of the global developments of the twenty-first century that have profoundly reshaped the field. The theme of the issue emphasizes the valuable place of identity, viewed as a social and conceptual construct than an immutable psychological entity. Identity occupies an important place in discourse where cultural ramifications abound; new sites and modes of social interaction often impact on conceptions and perceptions of identity. True to the thrust of Kasarinlan, the articles in this issue also give credence to political economy. In discussions of culture and identity, the articles regard global trends as part of a political, neocolonial and imperialist project, implicitly or otherwise. Each article grounds particular social or ideological issues and the formation of identities within contentious historical or genealogical configurations.