Author: Ronald Story
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Forging of an Aristocracy
Author: Ronald Story
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Forging of an Aristocracy
Author: Ronald Story
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The Forging of an Aristocracy
Author: Ronald Story
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Judgment and Sensibility
Author: E. Digby Baltzell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351294679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351294679
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Judgment and Sensibility is the second volume of the collected essays of E. Digby Baltzell, one of the keenest observers and analysts of America's upper classes since Thorstein Veblen. Spanning four decades of writing, these essays cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary politics, democratic elitism, Puritanism, Judaism, higher education, urbanization, and the U.S. Supreme Court, among others.
Harvard & the Boston Upper Class
Author: Ronald Story
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819561350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Traces the development of Boston elite society, discusses the relationship between Harvard and changing social forces, and looks at class ideals, exclusion, consolidation, and Brahmin aristocracy
Publisher: Wesleyan
ISBN: 9780819561350
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Traces the development of Boston elite society, discusses the relationship between Harvard and changing social forces, and looks at class ideals, exclusion, consolidation, and Brahmin aristocracy
The Making of a Christian Aristocracy
Author: Michele Renee Salzman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men and women as well as on writings and archeological evidence, she brings new understanding to the process by which pagan aristocrats became Christian, and Christianity became aristocratic. Roman aristocrats would seem to be unlikely candidates for conversion to Christianity. Pagan and civic traditions were deeply entrenched among the educated and politically well-connected. Indeed, men who held state offices often were also esteemed priests in the pagan state cults: these priesthoods were traditionally sought as a way to reinforce one's social position. Moreover, a religion whose texts taught love for one's neighbor and humility, with strictures on wealth and notions of equality, would not have obvious appeal for those at the top of a hierarchical society. Yet somehow in the course of the fourth and early fifth centuries Christianity and the Roman aristocracy met and merged. Examining the world of the ruling class--its institutions and resources, its values and style of life--Salzman paints a fascinating picture, especially of aristocratic women. Her study yields new insight into the religious revolution that transformed the late Roman Empire.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674043049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious traditions? Michele Salzman takes a fresh approach to this much-debated question. Focusing on a sampling of individual aristocratic men and women as well as on writings and archeological evidence, she brings new understanding to the process by which pagan aristocrats became Christian, and Christianity became aristocratic. Roman aristocrats would seem to be unlikely candidates for conversion to Christianity. Pagan and civic traditions were deeply entrenched among the educated and politically well-connected. Indeed, men who held state offices often were also esteemed priests in the pagan state cults: these priesthoods were traditionally sought as a way to reinforce one's social position. Moreover, a religion whose texts taught love for one's neighbor and humility, with strictures on wealth and notions of equality, would not have obvious appeal for those at the top of a hierarchical society. Yet somehow in the course of the fourth and early fifth centuries Christianity and the Roman aristocracy met and merged. Examining the world of the ruling class--its institutions and resources, its values and style of life--Salzman paints a fascinating picture, especially of aristocratic women. Her study yields new insight into the religious revolution that transformed the late Roman Empire.
The Forging of a Rebel
Author: Arturo Barea
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782274936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
This astonishing autobiographical trilogy—hailed by George Orwell and Gabriel García Márquez—is “the most definitive and personal account of Spain’s history during . . . the 20th century” (Guardian). The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement.
Publisher: Pushkin Press
ISBN: 1782274936
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 769
Book Description
This astonishing autobiographical trilogy—hailed by George Orwell and Gabriel García Márquez—is “the most definitive and personal account of Spain’s history during . . . the 20th century” (Guardian). The Forging of a Rebel is an unsurpassed account of Spanish history and society from early in the twentieth century through the cataclysmic events of the Spanish Civil War. Arturo Barea’s masterpiece charts the author's coming-of-age in a bruised and starkly unequal Spain. These three volumes recount in lively detail Barea's daily experience of his country as it pitched toward disaster: we are taken from his youthful play and rebellion on the streets of Madrid, to his apprenticeship in the business world and to the horrors he witnessed as part of the Spanish army in Morocco during the Rif War. The trilogy culminates in an indelible portrait of the Republican fight against Fascist forces in which the Madrid of Barea's childhood becomes a shell and bullet-strewn warzone. Combining historical sweep and authority with poignant characterization and novelistic detail, The Forging of a Rebel is a towering literary and historical achievement.
A Defence of Aristocracy
Author: Anthony Mario Ludovici
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Political science)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Political science)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Aristocracy and Evolution
Author: William Hurrell Mallock
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Bohemia in America, 1858–1920
Author: Joanna Levin
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804772541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the 1850s. At first the province of small artistic coteries, Bohemia soon inspired a popular vogue, embodied in restaurants, clubs, neighborhoods, novels, poems, and dramatic performances across the country. Levin's study follows la vie bohème from its earliest expressions in the U.S. until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1910s. Although Bohemia was everywhere in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 fills this critical void, discovering and exploring the many textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured. Joanna Levin not only provides access to a neglected cultural phenomenon but also to a new and compelling way of charting the development of American literature and culture.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 0804772541
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 481
Book Description
Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 explores the construction and emergence of "Bohemia" in American literature and culture. Simultaneously a literary trope, a cultural nexus, and a socio-economic landscape, la vie bohème traveled to the United States from the Parisian Latin Quarter in the 1850s. At first the province of small artistic coteries, Bohemia soon inspired a popular vogue, embodied in restaurants, clubs, neighborhoods, novels, poems, and dramatic performances across the country. Levin's study follows la vie bohème from its earliest expressions in the U.S. until its explosion in Greenwich Village in the 1910s. Although Bohemia was everywhere in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American culture, it has received relatively little scholarly attention. Bohemia in America, 1858–1920 fills this critical void, discovering and exploring the many textual and geographic spaces in which Bohemia was conjured. Joanna Levin not only provides access to a neglected cultural phenomenon but also to a new and compelling way of charting the development of American literature and culture.