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Radical Sydney - Places, Portraits And Unruly Episodes, Terry Irving, Rowan Cahill

Terry Irving

Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world as a postcard, an impressive, beautiful city, a desirable tourist destination.

But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city’s rulers, a radical Sydney they are intent on ‘disappearing’ beneath concrete and glass. In the arc of working-class suburbs to the south and west, menace and disaffection developed. From the early nineteenth century through to the late twentieth century these suburbs were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action.

Through a series of snapshots of …

Economic Impact Of Japanese Imperialism In The Korean Countryside, Paul Nam

Paul Nam

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Beauty, Bodies, Physical Culture: Aesthetics, Architecture And Art In Postrevolutionary Mexico City, Ageeth Sluis

Ageeth Sluis

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Panellist Roundtable Discussion On A. Philip Randolph, Cynthia Taylor

Cynthia Taylor

The Beauvais Sacramentary In The Getty Museum As A "Coronation Sacramentary", Elizabeth Teviotdale

Elizabeth C Teviotdale

Reexamines the evidence--paleographical, art historical, and circumstantial--that Carl Nordenfalk (1907-92) adduced for his hypothesis that Los Angeles, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig V 1 (the ten surviving leaves of a sacramentary written and illuminated around the year 1000) was created for the occasion of the consecration in 1017 of Robert the Pious’s ten-year-old son Hugh as his co-ruler. In putting forward this hypothesis, Nordenfalk was building on a suggestion he made first in 1950 that the manuscript was written and illuminated at the behest of Robert the Pious by a Lombard artist named Nivardus, who was working at the …

Banquet Brutality And Medical Malice In La Condamnation De Banquet, Timothy Tomasik

Timothy J. Tomasik

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American Urban History: A Living Canon. Or Is Anyone Listening?, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

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"Trapper And Mountain Man" Participant/Presenter At Annual “The Museum Comes To Life” Event, Barton Barbour

Barton H. Barbour

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Social Historical Approaches To Italian Humanists And Humanism, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

Railroad Noir: The American West At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Linda Niemann, Joel Jensen

Linda G. Niemann

Culled from the 20 years she spent traveling the American West as a freight brakeman and conductor, Linda Grant Niemann's Railroad Noir delves into the darker side of railroading. The 1990s were a time of crisis for workers caught in the breakup of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Niemann's tales of exhaustion, alcoholism, homelessness, and corporate blundering present a revelatory account of railroading life. Photographer Joel Jensen realizes Niemann's vision of the working West with images of cowboy bars, blue motels, and railroaders working in electrical storms, white-outs, and desert heat waves. The result is an honest, gritty, and striking collaboration.

Battling “Unhealthy Relations:” Soviet Youth Sexuality As A Political Problem, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

This paper explores the way Soviet party and education officials dealt with female youth sexuality, in an effort to get it under control in order to ensure that Soviet girls grew up to be productive members of Soviet society. Many of the policies enacted by the regime reflected profound social conservatism of the majority of the top political leadership of the country and their great fear of youth, and particularly female, sexuality, as a force that could not be overcome, controlled or fully harnessed for the service of the state.

Children's Lives After Zoia's Death: Order, Emotions, And Heroism In Children's Lives And Literature In The Post-War Soviet Union, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

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De-Stalinizing Children: The Quest For Moral Rebirth, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

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Дореволюционные По Форме, Советские По Содержанию? Образовательные Реформы В Годы Войны И Послевоенные Поиски Нормы, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

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Pre-Revolutionary In Form, Soviet In Content? Wartime Educational Reforms And The Postwar Quest For Normality, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

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The Enigmatic Reign Of Al-Wāthiq, John Turner

John P. Turner

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Closing Remarks, Richard Clement

Richard W. Clement

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Puckin’ Fiction: Where Characters Meet The Cultural Mirror – Bobby Bonaduce, Felix Batterinski, And Percival Leary, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

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The Ribald To The Profound: Paul Quarrington’S Lens On Sport, Don Morrow

Donald Morrow

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Polish Immigrants And Chicago's Progressive Parks: Creating Public Space In The City, Dominic Pacyga

Dominic Pacyga

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What We Talk About When We Talk About The Soul, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

The author discusses the popularity among college students of the concept of the soul, and attempts to place it in its proper context. He dispenses with orthodox theological arguments and New Age arguments as scientifically untenable. He takes a so-called Wittgensteinian approach, noting soul's linguistic significance. He analyzes expressions which use the concept of soul and concludes that they are qualitatively different from testable factual expressions. He notes that soul talk is about hopes and aspirations, inspiration, or feelings deeper than friendship. He assigns it meaning outside of scientific concepts. He likens expressions of soul to creative and ethical acts, …

“Art Of The Nation: Jewish Artists And Belorussian Postwar Nationalism”, Ann Livschiz

Ann Livschiz

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Banking On Brownfields, Landfills, And History: Toxic Waste And Urban Renewal In Worcester, Massachusetts, 1986-Present, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

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Teaching Urban Studies, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

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Expressions Of Power In Diplomacy In Fifteenth-Century Florence, Brian Maxson

Brian J. Maxson

The Confessionalized Vision Of Emigration: The Sinking Of The William Nelson And The Founding Of The St. Raphael Society For The Protection Of German Catholic Emigrants, Kevin Ostoyich

Kevin Ostoyich

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Rummaging Through Worcester’S Industrial Ruins: Active Learning And Environmental History, Steven Corey

Steven H. Corey

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The Garden Spot Of The Universe: The Commercial Transformation Of Southern Horticulture, William Thomas Okie

William Okie

Green Guilt, Stephen Asma

Stephen T Asma

The essay discusses the more neurotic aspects of environmentalism, involving guilt over failure to recycle or turn off the lights. It notes that those most prone to these sensibilities are those who have left traditional religion. It quotes philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche who states that religious emotions such as guilt and indignation are still present in a post-Christian world. The essay argues that we should certainly save the planet but avoid the neurosis that often accompanies it.

Naga-Ed-Deir To Thebes To Abydos: The Rise And Spread Of The “Couple Standing Before Offerings” Pose On Fip And Mk Offering Stelae, Jacqueline Jay

Jacqueline E. Jay

The “couple standing before offerings” pose first appeared at Naga-ed-Deir in the First Intermediate Period and gradually rose in popularity at that site. Its appearance at Thebes in the late Eleventh Dynasty coincided with reunification; similarly, it first occurred at Abydos at the beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty, as Amenemhet I was consolidating his control of the north. As the Twelfth Dynasty progressed, however, stelae production became more and more standardized, and the pose ultimately dropped out of use. Thus, as this paper will show, tracing the rise and spread of the “couple standing before offerings” pose enables us to …