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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Visions of empire
Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939
by Brad Beaven
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.
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Humanities & Social SciencesNovember 2012Visions of empire
Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939
by Andrew Thompson, Brad Beaven, John Mackenzie
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesAugust 2009Leisure, citizenship and working–class men in Britain, 1850–1940
by Brad Beaven
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2025The devil’s highway
Urban anxieties and subaltern cultures in London’s sailortown, c.1850-1900
by Brad Beaven
Between 1850 and 1900, Ratcliffe Highway was the pulse of maritime London. Sailors from every corner of the globe found solace, and sometimes trouble, in this bustling district. However, for social investigators, it was a place of fascination and fear as it harboured chaotic and dangerous 'exotic' communities. Sailortowns were transient, cosmopolitan and working class in character and provide us with an insight into class, race and gendered relations. They were contact zones of heightened interaction where multi-ethnic subaltern cultures met, sometimes negotiated and at other times clashed with one another. The book argues that despite these challenges sailortown was a distinctive and functional working-class community that was self-regulating and self-moderating. The book uncovers a robust sailortown community in which an urban-maritime culture shaped a sense of themselves and the traditions and conventions that governed subaltern behaviour in the district.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2017Visions of empire
Patriotism, popular culture and the city, 1870–1939
by Andrew Thompson, Brad Beaven, John M. MacKenzie
The emergence of a vibrant imperial culture in British society from the 1890s both fascinated and appalled contemporaries. It has also consistently provoked controversy among historians. This book offers a ground-breaking perspective on how imperial culture was disseminated. It identifies the important synergies that grew between a new civic culture and the wider imperial project. Beaven shows that the ebb and flow of imperial enthusiasm was shaped through a fusion of local patriotism and a broader imperial identity. Imperial culture was neither generic nor unimportant but was instead multi-layered and recast to capture the concerns of a locality. The book draws on a rich seam of primary sources from three representative English cities. These case studies are considered against an extensive analysis of seminal and current historiography. This renders the book invaluable to those interested in the fields of imperialism, social and cultural history, popular culture, historical geography and urban history.
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Social & cultural historyJuly 2012Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
by Allison Abra, Brad Beaven, Brett Bebber, Kelly Boyd
This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women's leisure, dance, football and drug culture. It provides an excellent entry to leisure studies and history, while addressing the contributions of other disciplines and exploring key historiographical trends. Three broad topics structure the collection; cultural contestation and social conflict in leisure; regulation and standardisation; and national identity embodied in leisure and popular culture. The book will be useful to students and educators of twentieth-century and British history, as it offers accessible and topical studies that pique historical curiosity. In addition, historians, sociologists and cultural analysts of the twentieth century will find it essential for understanding pleasure and recreation in twentieth-century British society.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMarch 2016Leisure and cultural conflict in twentieth-century Britain
by Jeffrey Richards, Brett Bebber, Allison Abra, Brad Beaven, Brett Bebber, Kelly Boyd
This collection of essays addresses research trends in the history of British leisure while also presenting a wide range of articles on cultural conflict and leisure in the twentieth century. It includes innovative research on a number of topics, including television, cinema, the circus, women's leisure, dance, football and drug culture. It provides an excellent entry to leisure studies and history, while addressing the contributions of other disciplines and exploring key historiographical trends. Three broad topics structure the collection; cultural contestation and social conflict in leisure; regulation and standardisation; and national identity embodied in leisure and popular culture. The book will be useful to students and educators of twentieth-century and British history, as it offers accessible and topical studies that pique historical curiosity. In addition, historians, sociologists and cultural analysts of the twentieth century will find it essential for understanding pleasure and recreation in twentieth-century British society. ;
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April 2004Troja
by Gustav Schwab, John Flaxman, Manfred Lemmer
Bis heute haben Mythen nichts von ihrer Faszination verloren, im Gegenteil: Sie sind aktueller denn je; davon zeugt nicht zuletzt die mit sagenhaftem Staraufgebot gedrehte dreistündige Verfilmung des Trojanischen Kriegs von Wolfgang Petersen, die am 20. Mai in die deutschen Kinos kommt. In den Hauptrollen sind neben Brad Pitt, Peter O'Toole auch Orlando Bloom und Julie Christie zu sehen. Wer mehr über den Raub der schönen Helena, die List mit dem hölzernen Pferd, den Zweikampf zwischen Achilles und Hektor wissen will, sollte Gustav Schwabs Troja lesen.
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March 2020Das Haus am Orangenhain
Roman
by Susann Urban, Sheila O’Flanagan
Für Juno Ryan bricht eine Welt zusammen, als sie erfährt, dass ihr Freund Brad bei einem tragischen Unglück ums Leben gekommen ist. Und als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann, den sie liebte und mit dem sie von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft träumte, verheiratet war und einen Sohn hat. In ihrer Verzweiflung flüchtet sie nach Spanien in das Ferienhaus einer Freundin, in die idyllische Villa Naranja. Der blaue Himmel, ein streunender Kater und nicht zuletzt Pep, der attraktive Sohn des benachbarten Weinbauern, sind Balsam für ihre Seele.Nach und nach scheint sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen zu können, doch als eines Tages Max, der Bruder ihres Geliebten, in ihr kleines Refugium einbricht, muss Juno sich ihren Gefühlen stellen und herausfinden, was sie im Leben wirklich will …
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March 2020Das Haus am Orangenhain
Roman
by Sheila O’Flanagan, Susann Urban
Für Juno Ryan bricht eine Welt zusammen, als sie erfährt, dass ihr Freund Brad bei einem tragischen Unglück ums Leben gekommen ist. Und als wäre das nicht schon schlimm genug, stellt sich heraus, dass der Mann, den sie liebte und mit dem sie von einer gemeinsamen Zukunft träumte, verheiratet war und einen Sohn hat. In ihrer Verzweiflung flüchtet sie nach Spanien in das Ferienhaus einer Freundin, in die idyllische Villa Naranja. Der blaue Himmel, ein streunender Kater und nicht zuletzt Pep, der attraktive Sohn des benachbarten Weinbauern, sind Balsam für ihre Seele.Nach und nach scheint sie die Vergangenheit hinter sich lassen zu können, doch als eines Tages Max, der Bruder ihres Geliebten, in ihr kleines Refugium einbricht, muss Juno sich ihren Gefühlen stellen und herausfinden, was sie im Leben wirklich will …
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2012The Library and archive collections of the University of Aberdeen
An introduction and description
by Edited by Iain Beaven, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson
This volume commences with the the books and manuscripts given at the foundation of King's College in 1495, continues with the collections which accrued to Marischal College from its foundation in 1593, and comes together with the fusion of the two colleges in 1860 in the modern University of Aberdeen. From the beginning, the scope and focus of the University was international, and its developing collections represent a microcosm of the world of knowledge as it changed over the centuries. The University Colleges of Aberdeen have a distinct intellectual tradition: pragmatically tolerant in times of persecution; dissident from the religious and political policies of the Lowlands; looking outwards to the world of northern Europe and to the territories of the Jacobite diaspora. The book introduces one of the oldest continually-evolving academic library collections of the Anglophone world, surveys its history and includes a series of studies of items or collections of particular interest. ;
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June 2007Der Narrenkönig
Kriminalroman aus dem alten Babylon
by Geagley, Brad / Deutsch Peters, Joachim
