3.335 resultater (0,45841 sekunder)

Vis alle filtre

Mærke

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nulstil filter

Produkter
Fra
Butikker

No More Giants - Jessica Kelly - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

No More Giants - Jessica Kelly - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Architecture is more than buildings and architects. It also involves photographers, writers, advertisers and broadcasters, as well as the people who finance and live in the buildings. Using the career of the critic J. M. Richards as a lens, this book takes a new perspective on modern architecture. Richards served as editor of The Architectural Review from 1937 to 1971, during which time he consistently argued that modernism was integrally linked to vernacular architecture, not through style but through the principle of being an anonymous expression of a time and public spirit. Exploring the continuities in Richards''s ideas throughout his career disrupts the existing canon of architectural history, which has focused on abrupt changes linked to individual ''pioneers'', encouraging us to think again about who is studied in architectural history and how they are researched.

DKK 804.00
3

Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran - Nigel Westbrook - Bog - Manchester University Press -

Development, Architecture, and the Formation of Heritage in Late Twentieth-Century Iran - Nigel Westbrook - Bog - Manchester University Press -

What is the relationship between development as a globalizing project and the production of cultural specificities in developmental contexts? Utilising an architectural lens, this book illustrates how development instigates interest in the past and in the process, creates heritage. It show multiple uses of the past and their contestation in highly fluid social contexts. -- .

DKK 804.00
4

Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man - Tijana Vujosevic - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Modernism and the Making of the Soviet New Man - Tijana Vujosevic - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

What connects modern architecture and design with the varied fields of literature, statistics, theatre and space travel?Tijana Vujoševic explores these questions through a study of the most radical and comprehensive of modernist projects: the invention of communist culture in the aftermath of the October Revolution. During this period, creative people from all disciplines shared a great zeal for inventing the Soviet citizen – the New Man – as well as for designing and narrating the places in which he or she might live. Drawing unique connections between official culture and its 'personalised' versions – utopia and reality, the will for progress and for tyranny – Vujoševic investigates architecture as a vehicle for creating Soviet identity. In so doing, she traces the evolution of Soviet culture from a productivist model, according to which citizens are imagined as workers, to a representational one, where they are connoisseurs of socialism as a total work of art. This evolution provides key insights into the ethical dimension of architecture as a nexus between politics and aesthetics, and as a practice that defines modern culture in a fundamental way.

DKK 804.00
2

Japan's New Security Partnerships - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Japan's New Security Partnerships - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

After decades of solely relying on the United States for its national security needs, Japan has begun to actively develop and deepen its security ties with a growing number of countries and actors in the Asia-Pacific region and Europe, a development that has further intensified under the Shinzo Abe administration. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the motives and objectives from both the Japanese and the partner-countries’ perspectives, and asks what this might mean for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific region, and what lessons can be learned for security cooperation more broadly. It examines in detail Japan’s partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member states. Since the mid-2000s under LDP and DPJ administrations, bilateral security partnerships accelerated and today go beyond non-traditional security issue areas and extend far into traditional security and military affairs, including the exchange and joint acquisition of military hardware, military exercises, and capacity building. It is argued, that these developments will have wide ranging implications for the security architecture in the Asia-Pacific, all of which are explored in this collection. This book is for those interested in Japan’s security policy beyond the US-Japan security alliance, and non-US centred bilateral and multilateral security cooperation. It is ideal for undergraduate and graduate level courses on regional security cooperation and strategic partnerships, and Japanese foreign and security policy.

DKK 848.00
2

The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture - Laura Varnam - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Church as Sacred Space in Middle English Literature and Culture - Laura Varnam - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

The church as sacred space in Middle English literature and culture puts us at the heart of medieval religious life, standing inside the church with the laity in order to ask what it meant to them and why. Exploring a range of Middle English pastoral literature – including sermons, treatises, miracle narratives and a church foundation legend, alongside liturgy, architecture and material culture – the book examines the ways in which the sanctity of the church was constructed and maintained for the edification of the laity. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary theoretical approaches, it offers a reading of the church as continually produced and negotiated by the rituals, performances and practices of its lay communities, who were constantly being asked to attend to its material form, visual decorations and significance. The meaning of the church was a dominant question in late-medieval religious culture. This book provides an invaluable context for students and academics working on lay religious experience and canonical Middle English texts.

DKK 804.00
4

Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France - Elizabeth Chalmers Macknight - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Nobility and Patrimony in Modern France - Elizabeth Chalmers Macknight - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Châteaux, landed estates, family portraits, names, titles and coats of arms are symbols of aristocratic identity and integral to the collective memory of nobility. In this study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, Elizabeth Macknight explains the significance of nobles’ conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles’ property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State intervention during the nineteenth century meant historic monuments became protected under law in the public interest. The Journees du Patrimoine, created in 1984 by the French Ministry for Culture, became a Europe-wide calendar event in 1991. Each year millions of French and international visitors enter residences and museums to admire France’s aristocratic cultural heritage. Drawing on archival evidence from across the country, Macknight presents a compelling account of power, interest and emotion in family dynamics and nobles’ relations with rural and urban communities. This book will be welcomed by students and scholars in European history, heritage studies, history of art, law, architecture, and garden design.

DKK 788.00
2

French Colonial Dakar - Liora Bigon - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

French Colonial Dakar - Liora Bigon - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This book deals with the planning culture and architectural endeavours that shaped the model space of French colonial Dakar, a prominent city in West Africa. The extra-European planning history of Europe is a burgeoning field in scholarly study and literature, particularly in the last few decades, but there has been a clear tendency to focus on the more privileged colonies in the contemporary colonial order, such as British India and the French colonies in North Africa. Colonial urban space in sub-Saharan Africa has been left relatively untreated. This book is a pioneer in attesting the connection between the French colonial doctrines of assimilation and association and French colonial planning and architectural policies in sub-Saharan Africa.French colonial Dakar incorporates a rich variety of historical material and visual evidence from both primary and secondary sources, collected from multilateral channels in Europe and Senegal. It includes an analysis of a variety of planning and architectural models, metropolitan-cum-indigenous. With a focus on the period from the establishment of the city in the mid-nineteenth century until the interwar years, this investigation of the design of Dakar as a regional capital reveals a multiplicity of ''top-down'' and ''bottom-up'' forces. These include a variety of urban politics, policies, practices and agencies, and complex negotiations on both the physical and conceptual levels. It will be of particular interest to scholars in history, geography, architecture, urban planning, African studies and Global South studies.

DKK 804.00
2

Roadworks - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Roadworks - - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This collection of essays offers an interdisciplinary study of roads and wayfinding in medieval England, Wales and Scotland. It looks afresh at the relationship between the road as a material condition of daily life and the formation of local and national communities, arguing that the business of road maintenance, road travel and wayfinding constitutes social bonds. Setting Britain''s thoroughfares against the backdrop of the extant Roman road system, it argues for a technique of road construction and care that is distinctively medieval and challenges the long-held picture of a medieval Britain lacking in technological sophistication. This accessible collection draws out the imaginative, symbolic and cultural significance of the road. It synthesizes information on medieval road terminology, roads as rights of passage and the road as an idea as much as a physical entity. Individual essays look afresh at sources for the study of the medieval English road system, legal definitions of the highway, road-breaking and road-mending, wayfinding and the architecture of the street and its role in popular urban government. The book also explores subjects including hermits and the road as spiritual metaphor, royal itineraries, pilgrimage roads, roads in medieval English romances, English river transport, roads in medieval Wales and roads in the Anglo-Scottish border zone. This book will appeal to scholars of early and late medieval Britain in all disciplines. Its theoretical foundations will also ensure an audience among scholars of cultural studies, especially those in urban studies, transport studies and economic history.

DKK 848.00
2

Corporate and White-Collar Crime in Ireland - Joe Mcgrath - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

Corporate and White-Collar Crime in Ireland - Joe Mcgrath - Bog - Manchester University Press - Plusbog.dk

This is the first definitive examination of the practice of corporate regulation and enforcement from the foundation of the Irish State to the present day. Traditionally, corporate wrongdoing was often criminalised using conventional criminal justice methods and the ordinary police were often charged with the responsibility of enforcing the law. Since the 1990s, however, the conventional crime monopoly on corporate deviancy has become fragmented because a variety of specialist, interdisciplinary agencies with enhanced powers now address corporate wrongdoing. The exclusive dominance of conventional crime methods has also faded because corporate wrongdoing is now specifically addressed by a pyramidal enforcement architecture, taking compliance orientated and sanctioning approaches, using both civil and criminal enforcement mechanisms, where criminal law is now the sanction of last resort. Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland is the first monograph to analyse the transition in Ireland from a sanctioning, 'command and control' model of corporate enforcement to the compliance-orientated regulatory model. It is also unique in locating this shift in its broader sociological and jurisprudential context. As such, the distinctive contribution of this volume is not in the analysis of corporate or white-collar crimes but rather in its analysis of the emerging legal architecture which attempts to manage rather than punish crime. It provides a definitive account of a State at a critical stage of its economic development, having moved from an agrarian and protected society to a free-market globalised economy which is trying to cope with the negative aspects of increased corporate activity, having experienced an economic boom and depression in a remarkably condensed period of time.

DKK 788.00
4