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Free Download The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 4: Myth, Manners, and Memory By Michael Montgomery & Ellen Johnson & Charles Reagan Wilson
2006 | 297 Pages | ISBN: 0807856924 | PDF | 4 MB
This volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture addresses the cultural, social, and intellectual terrain of myth, manners, and historical memory in the American South. Evaluating how a distinct southern identity has been created, recreated, and performed through memories that blur the line between fact and fiction, this volume paints a broad, multihued picture of the region seen through the lenses of belief and cultural practice. The 95 entries here represent a substantial revision and expansion of the material on historical memory and manners in the original edition. They address such matters as myths and memories surrounding the Old South and the Civil War; stereotypes and traditions related to the body, sexuality, gender, and family (such as debutante balls and beauty pageants); institutions and places associated with historical memory (such as cemeteries, monuments, and museums); and specific subjects and objects of myths, including the Confederate flag and Graceland. Together, they offer a compelling portrait of the "southern way of life" as it has been imagined, lived, and contested.

Free Download The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 24: Race By Thomas C. Holt & Laurie B. Green & Charles Reagan Wilson
2013 | 320 Pages | ISBN: 1469607220 | EPUB | 4 MB
There is no denying that race is a critical issue in understanding the South. However, this concluding volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture challenges previous understandings, revealing the region’s rich, ever-expanding diversity and providing new explorations of race relations. In 36 thematic and 29 topical essays, contributors examine such subjects as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, Japanese American incarceration in the South, relations between African Americans and Native Americans, Chinese men adopting Mexican identities, Latino religious practices, and Vietnamese life in the region. Together the essays paint a nuanced portrait of how concepts of race in the South have influenced its history, art, politics, and culture beyond the familiar binary of black and white.

Free Download The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 14: Folklife By Glenn Hinson & William Ferris & Charles Reagan Wilson
2009 | 402 Pages | ISBN: 0807833460 | EPUB | 5 MB
Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture. Looking at traditional practices still carried on today as well as at aspects of folklife that are dynamic and emergent, contributors to this volume of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture examine a broad range of folk traditions. Moving beyond the traditional view of folklore that situates it in historical practice and narrowly defined genres, entries in this volume demonstrate how folklife remains a vital part of communities’ self-definitions. Fifty thematic entries address subjects such as car culture, funerals, hip-hop, and powwows. In 56 topical entries, contributors focus on more specific elements of folklife, such as roadside memorials, collegiate stepping, quinceanera celebrations, New Orleans marching bands, and hunting dogs. Together, the entries demonstrate that southern folklife is dynamically alive and everywhere around us, giving meaning to the everyday unfolding of community life.

Free Download Irene Morra, "The New Elizabethan Age: Culture, Society and National Identity after World War II"
English | ISBN: 1350153044 | 2020 | 360 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, youngQueen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its ‘modern’, televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the ‘Young Elizabethan’, celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole.

Free Download The New Designer
by Manuel Lima;
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0262047632 | 277 pages | True PDF | 7.48 MB

Free Download Joseph Furstenthal, "The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries"
English | 2010 | pages: 480 | ISBN: 0520253132 | EPUB | 5,2 mb
For this powerful successor to his best-selling guide to California wine, Charles E. Olken has joined forces with Joseph Furstenthal to craft The New Connoisseurs’ Guidebook to California Wine and Wineries. An encyclopedia, atlas, and buying guide combined in one comprehensive, authoritative work, this new guide delivers information and guidance that is not available in any other place. From first page to last, it is geared towards a wide range of consumers, yet also offers the depth and detail that made its predecessor one of the most frequently referenced works by wine educators and industry insiders. Now organized geographically into eight wine regions, the guide has been completely rewritten and expanded to provide the most current information on the state’s evolving wine industry―its history, grapes, winemaking, terminology, geography, and leading wineries.

Free Download Laura Hein, "The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 3, The Modern Japanese Nation and Empire, c.1868 to the Twenty-First Century "
English | ISBN: 1107196132 | 2023 | 860 pages | PDF | 11 MB
This major new volume presents innovative recent scholarship on Japan’s modern history, including its imperial past and transregional entanglements. An international team of leading scholars offer accessible and thought-provoking essays that present an expansive global vision of the archipelago’s history from c. 1868 to the twenty-first century. Japan was the first non-Western society to become a modern nation and empire, to industrialize, and to deliver a high standard of living to virtually all its citizens, capturing international attention ever since. These Japanese efforts to reshape global hierarchies powered a variety of debates and conflicts, both at home and with people and places beyond Japan’s shores. Drawing on the latest Japanese and English-language scholarship, this volume highlights Japan’s distinctive and fast-changing history.

Free Download David L. Howell, "The New Cambridge History of Japan: Volume 2, Early Modern Japan in Asia and the World, c. 1580-1877 "
English | ISBN: 1108417930 | 2024 | 764 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This major new reference work presents an accessible and innovative survey of the latest developments in the study of early modern Japan. The period from about 1580 to 1877 saw the reunification of Japan after a long period of civil war, followed by two and a half centuries of peace and stability under the Tokugawa shogunate, and closing with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which laid the foundation for a modern nation-state. With essays from leading international scholars, this volume emphasizes Japan’s place in global history and pays close attention to gender and environmental history. It introduces readers to recent scholarship in fields including social history, the history of science and technology, intellectual history, and book history. Drawing on original research, each chapter situates its primary source material and novel arguments in the context of close engagement with secondary scholarship in a range of languages. The volume underlines the importance of Japan in the global early modern world.

Free Download Jon Bonné, "The New California Wine: A Guide to the Producers and Wines Behind a Revolution in Taste"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1607743000 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 36.9 mb
A comprehensive guide to the must-know wines and producers of California’s "new generation," and the story of the iconoclastic young winemakers who have changed the face of California viniculture in recent years.

Free Download Anita Jóri, "The New Age of Electronic Dance Music and Club Culture"
English | 2020 | pages: 151 | ISBN: 3030390047, 3030390012 | PDF | 3,4 mb
This book offers a comprehensive overview of electronic dance music (EDM) and club culture. To do so, it interlinks a broad range of disciplines, revealing their (at times vastly) differing standpoints on the same subject. Scholars from such diverse fields as cultural studies, economics, linguistics, media studies, musicology, philosophy, and sociology share their perspectives. In addition, the book features articles by practitioners who have been active on the EDM scene for many years and discuss issues like gender and diversity problems in general, and the effects of gentrification on club culture in Berlin.