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Clothing and dress --- Fashion --- Women --- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) --- Costume --- Mode --- Femmes --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- History --- Social conditions --- Social aspects --- Histoire --- Conditions sociales --- Aspect social --- Catholic Church --- Influence --- Women's clothing --- Québec (Province) --- Social conditions. --- Influence. --- Beauté féminine (Esthétique) --- Mode vestimentaire --- 20e siecle --- Quebec (canada)
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Nineteenth-century studies of the Orient changed European ideas and cultural institutions in more ways than we usually recognize. 'Orientalism' certainly contributed to European empire-building, but it also helped to destroy a narrow Christian-classical canon. This carefully researched book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik, a subject of special interest because German scholars were the pacesetters in oriental studies between about 1830 and 1930, despite entering the colonial race late and exiting it early. The book suggests that we must take seriously German orientalism's origins in Renaissance philology and early modern biblical exegesis and appreciate its modern development in the context of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century debates about religion and the Bible, classical schooling, and Germanic origins. In ranging across the subdisciplines of Orientalistik, German Orientalism in the Age of Empire introduces readers to a host of iconoclastic characters and forgotten debates, seeking to demonstrate both the richness of this intriguing field and its indebtedness to the cultural world in which it evolved.
Orientalism --- History --- Middle East --- Asia --- Study and teaching --- East and West --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Eastern Hemisphere --- Eurasia --- History of Germany and Austria --- anno 1910-1919 --- anno 1900-1909 --- anno 1800-1899 --- Orientalism - Germany - History - 19th century --- Orientalism - Germany - History - 20th century --- Asia - Study and teaching - Germany - History - 19th century --- Asia - Study and teaching - Germany - History - 20th century
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A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was invented in medieval China—but its secret recipe was first reproduced in Europe by an alchemist in the employ of the Saxon king Augustus the Strong. Saxony’s revered Meissen factory could not keep porcelain’s ingredients secret for long, however, and scores of Holy Roman princes quickly founded their own mercantile manufactories, soon to be rivaled by private entrepreneurs, eager to make not art but profits. As porcelain’s uses multiplied and its price plummeted, it lost much of its identity as aristocratic ornament, instead taking on a vast number of banal, yet even more culturally significant, roles. By the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, it became essential to bourgeois dining, and also acquired new functions in insulator tubes, shell casings, and teeth.Weaving together the experiences of entrepreneurs and artisans, state bureaucrats and female consumers, chemists and peddlers, Porcelain traces the remarkable story of “white gold” from its origins as a princely luxury item to its fate in Germany’s cataclysmic twentieth century. For three hundred years, porcelain firms have come and gone, but the industry itself, at least until very recently, has endured. After Augustus, porcelain became a quintessentially German commodity, integral to provincial pride, artisanal industrial production, and a familial sense of home.Telling the story of porcelain’s transformation from coveted luxury to household necessity and flea market staple, Porcelain offers a fascinating alternative history of art, business, taste, and consumption in Central Europe.
Porcelain industry --- Ceramic industries --- History. --- A Thirst for Empire. --- Asian imports. --- Asian porcelain. --- Biedermeier. --- Charlottenburg. --- Chinese porcelain. --- Delftware. --- Edmund de Waal. --- Erika Rappaport. --- Frankfurt Kitchen. --- Frederik the Great. --- German history. --- Hare with the Amber Eyes. --- Imagining Consumers. --- Janet Gleeson. --- Leora Auslander. --- Maria Theresa. --- Ming porcelain, Kraak. --- Paul Betts. --- Regina Blaszczyk. --- Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. --- Sophie Charlotte. --- Taste and Power. --- The Arcanum. --- The Authority of Everyday Objects. --- The White Road. --- Westerweld Stoneware. --- Wilhelmine plastic. --- consumer culture. --- consumerism. --- earthenware. --- faience. --- faienceries. --- luxury goods. --- mass production. --- mercantile state production. --- mercantilism.
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Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- History of civilization --- porcelain [material]
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Les différents embellissements et restaurations ayant déjà eu lieu de la chapelle de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Lyon, devenue édifice patrimonial à la fin du XIXe siècle, ainsi que les restaurations à venir. ©Electre 2015
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