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July 9, 2023

Proust, Class, and Nation

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Free Download Proust, Class, and Nation By Edward J. Hughes
2011 | 298 Pages | ISBN: 0199609861 | PDF | 3 MB
Marcel Proust’s A la recherche du temps perdu was produced in momentous times. As an extended textual construction, first conceived of in 1908 and the last tranche of which appeared posthumously almost two decades later, Proust’s novel was assembled against a backdrop of major historical events: pre-war tensions in the wake of the Dreyfus Affair and the Separation of Church and State (issues on which Proust had campaigned publicly); the First World Warand the atmosphere of narrow nationalism and Germanophobia which the conflict generated; and the continuing polarization in class politics in the years after the First World War. These all find echoes in A larecherche and Hughes establishes how the exposure given to questions of class and nation needs to be understood historically. Hughes shows Proust to be an author who both shared the social prejudices of his day and demonstrated a keen sense of detachment from them.

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July 7, 2023

Region, Race, and Class in the Making of Colombia

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Free Download Alfonso Múnera, "Region, Race, and Class in the Making of Colombia "
English | ISBN: 103246335X | 2023 | 158 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This pioneering translation of Alfonso Múnera’s seminal work El fracaso de la nación presents a new interpretation and innovative perspective on canonical Colombian history and the failure of the Colombian nation to English-speaking readers.

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July 7, 2023

Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914 [Lingua Inglese]

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Free Download Culture and Class in English Public Museums, 1850-1914 [Lingua Inglese] By Kate Hill
2005 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 0754604322 | PDF | 20 MB
The nineteenth century witnessed a flowering of museums in towns and cities across Britain. As well as providing a focus for collections of artifacts and a place of educational recreation, this work argues that municipal museums had a further, social role. In a situation of rapid urban growth, allied to social and cultural changes on a scale hitherto unknown, it was inevitable that traditional class and social hierarchies would come under enormous pressure. As a result, urban elites began to look to new methods of controlling and defining the urban environment. One such manifestation of this was the growth of the public museum. In earlier centuries museums were the preserve of learned and respectable minority, yet by the end of the nineteenth century one of the principal rationales of museums was the education, or ‘improvement’, of the working classes. In the control of museums too there was a corresponding shift away from private aristocratic leadership, toward a middle-class civic directorship and a growing professional body of curators. This work is in part a study of the creation of professional authority and autonomy by museum curators. More importantly though, it is about the stablization of middle-class identities by the end of the nineteenth century around new hierarchies of cultural capital. Public museums were an important factor in constructing the identity and authority of certain groups with access to, and control over, them. By examining urban identities through the cultural lens of the municipal museum, we are able to reconsider and better understand the subtleties of nineteenth-century urban society.

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July 2, 2023

Culture of Class Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946

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Free Download Matthew B. Karush, "Culture of Class: Radio and Cinema in the Making of a Divided Argentina, 1920-1946"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 0822352435, 0822352648 | PDF | pages: 290 | 1.4 mb
In an innovative cultural history of Argentine movies and radio in the decades before Peronism, Matthew B. Karush demonstrates that competition with jazz and Hollywood cinema shaped Argentina’s domestic cultural production in crucial ways, as Argentine producers tried to elevate their offerings to appeal to consumers seduced by North American modernity. At the same time, the transnational marketplace encouraged these producers to compete by marketing "authentic" Argentine culture. Domestic filmmakers, radio and recording entrepreneurs, lyricists, musicians, actors, and screenwriters borrowed heavily from a rich tradition of popular melodrama. Although the resulting mass culture trafficked in conformism and consumerist titillation, it also disseminated versions of national identity that celebrated the virtue and dignity of the poor, while denigrating the wealthy as greedy and mean-spirited. This anti-elitism has been overlooked by historians, who have depicted radio and cinema as instruments of social cohesion and middle-class formation. Analyzing tango and folk songs, film comedies and dramas, radio soap operas, and other genres, Karush argues that the Argentine culture industries generated polarizing images and narratives that provided much of the discursive raw material from which Juan and Eva Perón built their mass movement.

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June 30, 2023

The Class of ’77 How My Classmates Changed China

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Free Download Jaime Florcruz, "The Class of ’77: How My Classmates Changed China"
English | ISBN: 9888769413 | 2022 | 238 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Jaime FlorCruz was a student leader in the Philippines when he arrived in 1971 to take a look at Mao’s "New China". On the same day, the Marcos government declared a state of emergency and Jaime was stuck – if he returned he could be jailed, so he stayed in China, and ended up being one of the famous Class of ’77, the first intake of students into prestigious Peking University after a decade of chaos. His classmates included many of the people who have remade China since, including the current premier Li Keqiang, former high-flyer and now imprisoned Bo Xilai and various entrepreneurs, dissidents and scientists. It was the core of the new elite and Jaime was at the center of it. He went on to become one of the top foreign correspondents in China, as bureau chief for both TIME magazine and CNN. The story of how he established himself in China is a unique reflection on the momentous changes that have shaken this country in the past five decades.

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