The House of Alice Roughton
Author: Xavier Muñoz Puiggròs
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781802071733
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House of Alice Roughton: Cambridge Doctor, Humanist, Patron and Activist
Author: Xavier Munoz Puiggros
Publisher: LSE Studies in Spanish History
Published: 2019-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781789760378
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom her home at 9 Adams Road in the university city of Cambridge, Alice Roughton (1900-1995) demonstrated a strongly altruistic lifestyle, housing young students, the mentally ill, artists, intellectuals, friends, persecuted homosexuals and refugees (German Jews in 1939, Hungarians in 1956 and Chileans in 1973). She practiced psychiatry and general medicine alongside personal activism such as medics against nuclear warfare and opposing the financing of urbanisation - the latter related to the destruction of the historical centres of English cities. Alice was a patron of artists and intellectuals, including the Catalan musician Robert Gerhard and the German dancer Kurt Jooss. She befriended the economists J. M. Keynes and Joan Robinson, the philosopher Bertrand Russell, the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, the molecular biologist James Watson, as well as the composer Benjamin Britten, who held memorable concerts at her house, as well as many other dignitaries of science and the humanities. The House of Alice Roughton locates her professional medical work and private life activities and relationships within the sociological circumstances within which she lived - circumstances that reveal the historical and cultural changes of a century that experienced two world wars, the advance of science and the overturning of lifestyle prejudices. The biography revolves around one location - 9 Adams Road. Alice and her family's lived experiences act as a window onto the profound global transformations which took place from the second industrial revolution to the discovery of the structure of DNA - From the Edwardian to the Contemporary. Her family's life story moves through tragic events in Switzerland to her husband's war years in America. Her biographer's engagement with Alice begins in 1978, on a student holiday trip from his native Catalonia.
A Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-02-04
Total Pages: 992
ISBN-13: 900438829X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries 1925-1950 is the first publication to deal with the avant-garde in the Nordic countries in this period. The essays cover a wide range of avant-garde manifestations: literature, visual arts, theatre, architecture and design, film, radio, body culture and magazines. It is the first major historical work to consider the Nordic avant-garde in a transnational perspective that includes all the arts and to discuss the role of the avant-garde not only within the aesthetic field but in a broader cultural and political context: the pre-war and wartime responses to international developments, the new cultural institutions, sexual politics, the impact of refugees and the new start after the war.
Interrogating Francoism
Author: Helen Graham
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-08-25
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1472576365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHelen Graham here brings together leading historians of international renown to examine 20th-century Spain in light of Franco's dictatorship and its legacy. Interrogating Francoism uses a three-part structure to look at the old regime, the civil war and the forging of Francoism; the nature of Franco's dictatorship; and the 'history wars' that have since taken place over his legacy. Social, political, economic and cultural historical approaches are integrated throughout and 'top down' political analysis is incorporated along with 'bottom up' social perspectives. The book places Spain and Francoism in comparative European context and explores the relationship between the historical debates and present-day political and ideological controversies in Spain. In part a tribute to Paul Preston, the foremost historian of contemporary Spain today, Interrogating Francoism includes an interview with Professor Preston and a comprehensive bibliography of his work, as well as extensive further readings in English. It is a crucial volume for all students of 20th-century Spain.
Insiders Outsiders
Author: Monica Bohm-Duchen
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781848223462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInsiders/Outsiders', published to accompany a UK-wide arts festival of the same name in 2019, examines the extraordinarily rich and pervasive contribution of refugees from Nazi-dominated Europe to the visual culture, art education and art-world structures of the United Kingdom. In every field, emigres arriving from Europe in the 1930s - supported by a small number of like-minded individuals already resident in the UK - introduced a professionalism, internationalism and bold avant-gardism to a British art world not known for these attributes. At a time when the issue of immigration is much debated, the book serves as a reminder of the importance of cultural cross-fertilization and of the deep, long-lasting and wide-ranging contribution that refugees make to British life. Exhibition: Arts festival throughout Britain (May 2019 - May 2020).
Mass Observation and Everyday Life
Author: N. Hubble
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0230503144
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe social-research organization Mass-Observation was founded in 1937. In this book, the true extent and significance of Mass-Observation's unique role in the formation of postwar Britain's idea of itself through the examination of everyday life across the long twentieth century. An excellent guide to Mass-Observation and the period generally, this scholarly work also provides surprising insights into the role social research has played in the development of policy and mass democracy.
Company Towns of the Pacific Northwest
Author: Linda Carlson
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2017-09-01
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0295742925
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Company town.” The words evoke images of rough-and-tumble loggers and gritty miners, of dreary shacks in isolated villages, of wages paid in scrip good only at price-gouging company stores of paternalistic employers. But these stereotypes are outdated, especially for those company towns that flourished well into the twentieth century. This new edition updates the status of the surviving towns and how they have changed in the fifteen years since the original edition, and what new life has been created on the sites of the ones that were razed. In the preface, Linda Carlson reflects on how wonderful it has been to meet people who lived in these towns, or had parents who did, and to hear about their memorable experiences.
Sing a Song of Silence
Author: Jessica Rees
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 186
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Sex-Starved Marriage
Author: Michele Weiner-Davis
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Limited
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780743252416
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Not tonight, darling, I've got a headache...' An estimated one in three couples suffer from problems associated with one partner having a higher libido than the other. Marriage therapist Michele Weiner Davis has written THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE to help couples come to terms with this problem. Weiner Davis shows you how to address pyschological factors like depression, poor body image and communication problems that affect sexual desire. With separate chapters for the spouse that's ready for action and the spouse that's ready for sleep, THE SEX-STARVED MARRIAGE will help you re-spark your passion and stop you fighting about sex. Weiner Davis is renowned for her straight-talking style and here she puts it to great use to let you know you're not alone in having marital sex problems. Bitterness or complacency about ho-hum sex can ruin a marriage, breaking the emotional tie of good sex.
Inclusive Religious Education
Author: Bert Roebben
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783643903556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTo what extent is diversity perceived and recognized as a resource in contemporary religious education in schools and congregations? What happens with children and their teachers when classrooms shift into inclusive learning communities, where all are invited to learn from their abilities and vulnerabilities? This book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the complex domain of inclusive religious education. It brings together scholars working on the intersection of theological, educational, and disability studies. (Series: Dortmund Contributions to Theology and Religious Education / Dortmunder Beitrage zu Theologie und Religionspadagogik - Vol. 12) [Subject: Religious Studies, Education, Disability Studies]
