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  • 1
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    Victorian Science in Context. (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226481104
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (499 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Victorian science in context
    DDC: 306.450941
    RVK:
    TB 2370
    Keywords: Science -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century ; Great Britain ; Social conditions ; 19th century ; Science ; Great Britain ; History ; 19th century ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 1995 ; Großbritannien ; Naturwissenschaften ; Kultur ; Geschichte 1837-1901
    Abstract: Victorians were fascinated by the flood of strange new worlds that science was opening to them. Exotic plants and animals poured into London from all corners of the Empire, while revolutionary theories such as the radical idea that humans might be descended from apes drew crowds to heated debates. Men and women of all social classes avidly collected scientific specimens for display in their homes and devoured literature about science and its practitioners. Victorian Science in Context captures the essence of this fascination, charting the many ways in which science influenced and was influenced by the larger Victorian culture. Contributions from leading scholars in history, literature, and the history of science explore questions such as: What did science mean to the Victorians? For whom was Victorian science written? What ideological messages did it convey? The contributors show how practical concerns interacted with contextual issues to mold Victorian science-which in turn shaped much of the relationship between modern science and culture.
    Abstract: Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part One: Defining Knowledge -- 1. Defining Knowledge: An Introduction -- 2. The Construction of Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in the Early Victorian Life Sciences -- 3. The Probable and the Possible in Early Victorian England -- 4. Victorian Economics and the Science of Mind -- 5. Biology and Politics: Defining the Boundaries -- 6. Redrawing the Boundaries: Darwinian Science and Victorian Women Intellectuals -- 7. Satire and Science in Victorian Culture -- Part Two: Ordering Nature -- 8. Ordering Nature: Revisioning Victorian Science Culture -- 9. "The Voices of Nature": Popularizing Victorian Science -- 10. Science and the Secularization of Victorian Images of Race -- 11. Elegant Recreations? Configuring Science Writing for Women -- 12. Strange New Worlds of Space and Time: Late Victorian Science and Science Fiction -- Part Three: Practicing Science -- 13. Practicing Science: An Introduction -- 14. Wallace's Malthusian Moment: The Common Context Revisited -- 15. Doing Science in a Global Empire: Cable Telegraphy and Electrical Physics in Victorian -- 16. Zoological Nomenclature and the Empire of Victorian Science -- 17. Remains of the Day: Early Victorians in the Field -- 18. Photography as Witness, Detective, and Impostor: Visual Representation in Victorian Science -- 19. Instrumentation and Interpretation: Managing and Representing the Working Environments of Victorian Experimental Science -- 20. Metrology, Metrication, and Victorian Values -- Contributors -- Index.
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  • 2
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    The Pan-African Nation : Oil and the Spectacle of Culture in Nigeria (2008)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 9780226023564 , 9780226023540
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (345 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Apter, Andrew H. The Pan-African nation
    DDC: 305.896
    RVK:
    MI 31930
    RVK:
    QR 534
    RVK:
    HP 1200
    Keywords: World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture -- (2nd : -- 1977 : -- Lagos, Nigeria) ; Petroleum industry and trade -- Nigeria.. ; Revenue -- Nigeria.. ; Nigeria -- Cultural policy.. ; Africa -- Civilization ; Erdöl ; Erdölpolitik ; Öffentliche Einnahmen ; Boom ; Kultur ; Kulturpolitik ; Feier ; Africa ; Civilization ; Nigeria ; Cultural policy ; Petroleum industry and trade ; Nigeria ; Revenue ; Nigeria ; World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture ; (2nd ; 1977 ; Lagos, Nigeria) ; Electronic books ; Nigeria ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: When Nigeria hosted the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC) in 1977, it celebrated a global vision of black nationhood and citizenship animated by the exuberance of its recent oil boom. Andrew Apter's The Pan-African Nation tells the full story of this cultural extravaganza, from Nigeria's spectacular rebirth as a rapidly developing petro-state to its dramatic demise when the boom went bust. According to Apter, FESTAC expanded the horizons of blackness in Nigeria to mirror the global circuits of its economy. By showcasing masks, dances, images, and souvenirs from its many diverse ethnic groups, Nigeria forged a new national culture. In the grandeur of this oil-fed confidence, the nation subsumed all black and African cultures within its empire of cultural signs and erased its colonial legacies from collective memory. As the oil economy collapsed, however, cultural signs became unstable, contributing to rampant violence and dissimulation. The Pan-African Nation unpacks FESTAC as a historically situated mirror of production in Nigeria. More broadly, it points towards a critique of the political economy of the sign in postcolonial Africa.
    Abstract: Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- La mise en scene -- 1 Rebirth of a Nation -- 2 Nigeria at Large -- The Spectacle of Culture -- 3 Producing the People -- 4 War Canoes and Their Magic -- 5 A Genealogy of the Durbar -- 6 The Mirror of Cultural Production -- La mise en abime -- 7 The Politics of Illusion -- 8 Death and the King's Henchmen -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index.
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; La mise en scene; The Spectacle of Culture; La mise en abime; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;
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  • 3
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    The dominion of the dead (2003)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    ISBN: 0226317927 , 9780226317915 , 9780226317922
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 208 p.)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 306.9
    RVK:
    CQ 7600
    RVK:
    MS 6300
    Keywords: Mort / Aspect psychologique ; Mort / Aspect social ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Death & Dying ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Death, Grief, Bereavement ; Dood ; Begrafenissen ; Psychologische aspecten ; Death / Psychological aspects ; Death / Social aspects ; Gesellschaft ; Psychologie ; Death Psychological aspects ; Death Social aspects ; Psychologie ; Trauer ; Ideengeschichte ; Kultur ; Tod ; Electronic books ; Tod ; Trauer ; Kultur ; Tod ; Ideengeschichte ; Tod ; Psychologie
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-198) and index , The earth and its dead -- Hic jacet -- What is a house? -- The voice of grief -- The origin of our basic words -- Choosing your ancestor -- Hic non est -- The names of the dead -- The afterlife of the image , "How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us." "This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietman Veterans Memorial, Harrison considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn." "The Dominion of the Dead is a meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living."--Jacket
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  • 4
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    The dominion of the dead (2003)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press | Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.
    Details
    ISBN: 9780226317922 , 0226317927
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 208 pages)
    DDC: 306.9
    RVK:
    EC 5410
    RVK:
    CQ 7600
    Keywords: Kultur ; Tod ; Psychologie ; Electronic books
    Abstract: "How do the living maintain relations to the dead? Why do we bury people when they die? And what is at stake when we do? In The Dominion of the Dead, Robert Pogue Harrison considers the supreme importance of these questions to Western civilization, exploring the many places where the dead cohabit the world of the living - the graves, images, literature, architecture, and monuments that house the dead in their afterlife among us." "This work devotes particular attention to the practice of burial. Harrison contends that we bury our dead to humanize the lands where we build our present and imagine our future. As long as the dead are interred in graves and tombs, they never truly depart from this world but remain, if only symbolically, among the living. Spanning a broad range of examples, from the graves of our first human ancestors to the empty tomb of the Gospels to the Vietman Veterans Memorial, Harrison considers the authority of predecessors in both modern and premodern societies. Through inspired readings of major writers and thinkers such as Vico, Virgil, Dante, Pater, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Rilke, he argues that the buried dead form an essential foundation where future generations can retrieve their past, while burial grounds provide an important bedrock where past generations can preserve their legacy for the unborn." "The Dominion of the Dead is a meditation on how the thought of death shapes the communion of the living."--Jacket.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-198) and index
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