Suchergebnisse

Hermeneutic premise: from Marx to Jung -- Arius and the enclave from the Iberian peninsula to the Urals -- Constantine: the context -- The birth of the absolute power complex -- Corollaries of the absolute power complex -- Consequences on intellectual and political life -- Consequences in research, science and culture.

Klappentext: "How were manorial lords in the twelfth and thirteenth century able to appropriate peasant labour? And what does this reveal about the changing attitudes and values of medieval England? Considering these questions from the perspective of the 'moral economy', the web of shared values within a society, Rosamond Faith offers a penetrating portrait of a changing world. Anglo-Saxon lords were powerful in many ways but their power did not stem directly from their ownership of land. The values of early medieval England - principally those of rank, reciprocity and worth - were shared across society. The Norman Conquest brought in new attitudes both to land and to the relationship between lords and peasants, and the Domesday Book conveyed the novel concept of 'tenure'. The new 'feudal thinking' permeated all relationships concerned with land: peasant farmers were now manorial tenants, owing labour and rent. Many people looked back to better days"--

Inhaltsverzeichnis: Communist racial democracy in the 1930s -- Embattled images of racial democracy : state anticommunism in the 1930s -- Presaging the war : racial democracy and fascism in the 1930s -- State cultural production, black cultural demarginalization, and racial democracy in the 1930s -- The centrality of race and democracy in the U.S.-Brazil wartime alliance -- A partnership in cultural production : the Brazil-United States racial democracy exchange -- Wartime racial democracy at home : domestic pressures and in-house propaganda.

"This book studies the development of expressions of female adolescent sexuality in the United States from 1850 to 1965. It suggests that during this time, adolescent girls went from being perceived as innocent, asexual beings to beings that were considered primarily sexual in nature"--

"This book tells the story of American party ideology development by chronicling the ideas and rhetoric articulated by the two major parties throughout U.S. history: from the Federalists and Republicans of the late eighteenth century, to the Whigs and Democrats of the mid-nineteenth century, to the Republicans and Democrats of today. Unlike most scholars of American party ideologies, I emphasize how they have changed over time rather than how they have stayed the same"--