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Threads of power : lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen
\"Threads of Power: Lace from the Textilmuseum St. Gallen' offers a look at one of the world's finest collections of historical lace. It traces the development of European lace from its emergence in the sixteenth century to the present, elucidating its important role in fashion. The book explores the longstanding connections between lace and status, addressing styles in lace worn at royal courts, including Habsburg Spain and Bourbon France, as well as lace worn by the elite ruling classes and Indigenous peoples in the Spanish Americas. Featuring new research, the publication covers a range of topics related to lace production, lace in fashion and portraiture, lace revivals, the mechanization of the lace industries in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and contemporary innovations in lace. With a focus on lace techniques, women lace makers, and lace as a signifier of wealth and power, this richly illustrated book includes wide-ranging contributions by curators and experts from major museums and academic institutions\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific
Civil wars and internal conflicts pose the greatest threat to international peace and security in the twenty-first century. Nowhere is this problem more acute than in East Asia and the Pacific, which has far more of its share of such conflicts. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific: Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution, edited by Jacob Bercovitch and Karl DeRouen, Jr., is a book of originally commissioned essays on civil wars which provide a compelling area of inquiry. Many of the Asia-Pacific region's wars are very long (such as in Myanmar), some tend to recur (also in Myanmar); some involve religion (Philippines, Thailand), and some (Aceh, Bougainville, East Timor) of the longest have ended in the last few years. In short, the region presents a variety of interesting dynamics that merit close attention in one volume. The aim of Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific is to provide an original look at these civil wars. The unique feature of the book is that it brings a variety of perspectives together into one volume. Bercovitch and DeRouen, Jr., do this in four sections: The first, titled \"Security and Internal Conflicts in the Region,\" is an overview of conflict and conflict management in the region. Section Two is called \"Features of Conflict in the Region.\" Here the authors cover conflict contours, including intractability, conflict resolution, recurrence, and Islam. Section Three, \"External Involvement in Regional Conflicts,\" focuses on third party intervention in regional conflicts. The individual chapters cover mediation, peacekeeping, and other forms of third party involvement. The final section ties the chapters together. Unraveling Internal Conflicts in East Asia and the Pacific: Incidence, Consequences, and Resolution, edited by Jacob Bercovitch and Karl DeRouen, Jr., provides a fresh and comprehensive look at conflict in the part of the world where internal conflict is most prevalent.
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Studies in urbanormativity
The world has been witnessing a long unfolding process of urbanization that not only has altered the structural basis of society in terms of political economy, but has also symbolically relegated rural people and life to a secondary or deviant status through an ideology of urbanormativity. Both structural and cultural changes rooted in urbanization are connected in complex ways to spatial arrangements that can be described in terms of inequality and uneven development. Through a focus on localities, Studies in Urbanormativity: Rural Community in Urban Society examines the implications of urbanization and its corresponding ideology. Urbanormativity justifies rural domination by holding urban life as the standard against which rural forms are compared and deemed to be irregular, inferior, or deviant. Urban production, as conceptualized in this book, is inherently exploitative of rural resources—natural, social, cultural, and symbolic. As this exploitation advances, a wake of entropic conditions is left behind in the forms of degraded landscapes, broken social institutions, and denigrated communities, cultures and identities. Edited by Gregory M. Fulkerson and Alexander R. Thomas, Studies in Urbanormativity engages a topic on which scholars have been surprisingly silent. Designed for advancing theory and practice, the chapters provide new theoretical tools for understanding the complex relationship between the urban and rural. While primarily intended for scholars and practitioners interested in rural life, rural policy, and community development, the insights of this book will also be of interest to scholars studying various forms of cultural and social domination, as well as identity politics.
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River Morphology
River Morphology deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment.Based on the representation of basic flow parameters, the geometry, classification and historic development of rivers are treated.
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Frauenlob's Song of Songs
\"Frauenlob\" was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c.
1260-1318), a medieval German poet-minstrel. A famous and
controversial figure in his day, Frauenlob (meaning \"praise of
ladies\") exercised a strong influence on German literature into the
eighteenth century. This book introduces the poet to
English-speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his
masterpiece, the Marienleich -a virtuosic poem of more than
500 lines in praise of the Virgin Mary.
Barbara Newman, known for her pathbreaking translation of
Hildegard of Bingen's Symphonia , brilliantly captures the
fervent eroticism of Frauenlob's language. More than the mother of
Jesus, the Lady of Frauenlob's text is a celestial goddess, the
eternal partner of the Trinity. Like Christ himself she is
explicitly said to have two natures, human and divine. Frauenlob
lets the Lady speak for herself in an unusual first-person text of
self-revelation, crafted from the Song of Songs, the Biblical
wisdom books, the Apocalypse, and a wide array of secular materials
ranging from courtly romance to Aristotelian philosophy.
Included with the book is a CD recording of the
Marienleich by the noted ensemble Sequentia, directed by
Benjamin Bagby and the late Barbara Thornton. The surviving music
is the composer's own, reconstructed from fragmentary manuscript
sources. Accompanying Newman's translation is a facing-page edition
of the German text, detailed commentary, and a critical study
presenting the most thorough discussion to date of Frauenlob's
oeuvre, social context, philosophical ideas, sources, language,
music, and influence. Rescuing a long forgotten medieval
masterpiece, Frauenlob's Song of Songs will fascinate
students and scholars of the Middle Ages as well as scholars,
performers, and connoisseurs of early music.
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