Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education 0231191162, 9780231191166

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middl

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Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
0231191162, 9780231191166

When modern primary schools were first founded in Japan and Egypt in the 1870s, they did not teach art. Yet by the middl

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Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western techniques were adopted an

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The first global history of the middle class While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the E

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Table of contents : Series Statement......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Dedication......Page 7 Epi

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What is sovereignty? Often taken for granted or seen as the ideology of European states vying for supremacy and conquest

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This is the first biography in English of an uncommon American, Dr. David Murray, a professor of mathematics at Rutgers

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Genevieve Alva Clutario traces how beauty and fashion in the Philippines shaped the intertwined projects of imperial exp

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*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the campaign *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading

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A Cultural History of The Human Body presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. This set of six

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The 19th century was a time of new sensory experiences and modes of perception. The raucous mechanical intensity of the

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