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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “marcelo caruso”
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  • Interweaving Peripheries

    Transient Objectives and Morphing Spaces of School and Schooling

    by Marcelo Caruso ...
    Series Book 11 - Studia Educationis Historica
    Urban streets, rubbish bins, the desert and private industry are all examples of what might be termed ‘pedagogical peripheries,’ which, over time, tie into and contribute to the making of school and schooling. As peripheries they might easily be overlooked and their role neglected. However, rather than treating these pedagogical peripheries, which can be both fleeting and highly concrete, as mere ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Decolonization(s) and Education

    New Polities and New Men

    by Marcelo Caruso, Daniel Maul ...
    Series Book 5 - Studia Educationis Historica
    New polities emerged during the processes of decolonization. The break with the colonial past was not only political, but also more general. While conventional wisdom defines education as a field of action reproducing society in time, decolo-nization placed broader and more radical demands on the field: to produce a new society. For this purpose, new forms of education and schooling were required, ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Classroom Struggle

    Organizing Elementary School Teaching in the 19th Century

    Edited by Marcelo Caruso ...
    Series Book 2 - Studia Educationis Historica
    During the institutionalization of mass schooling in the 19th century, teaching large groups of children became both a necessity and a matter of regulation. For officials and inspectors the systematization of classroom interactions was important for effective results. However, while systematization could bring about the constant attention of children and their uninterrupted work, interactions ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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    $19.99 CAD

  • Latin America

    The Allure and Power of an Idea

    by Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo ...
    "Latin America" is a concept firmly entrenched in its philosophical, moral, and historical meanings. And yet, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo argues in this landmark book, it is an obsolescent racial-cultural idea that ought to have vanished long ago with the banishment of racial theory. Latin America: The Allure and Power of an Idea makes this case persuasively.Tenorio-Trillo builds the book on three ... Read more

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  • Reassessing the Transnational Turn

    Scales of Analysis in Anarchist and Syndicalist Studies

    Edited by Constance Bantman, Bert Altena ...
    This edited volume reassesses the ongoing transnational turn in anarchist and syndicalist studies, a field where the interest in cross-border connections has generated much innovative literature in the last decade. It presents and extends up-to-date research into several dynamic historiographic fields, and especially the history of the anarchist and syndicalist movements and the notions of ... Read more

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  • Empowering Interactions

    Political Cultures and the Emergence of the State in Europe 1300–1900

    by Wim Blockmans, Daniel Schläppi ...
    The emergence of the state in Europe is a topic that has engaged historians since the establishment of the discipline of history. Yet the primary focus of has nearly always been to take a top-down approach, whereby the formation and consolidation of public institutions is viewed as the outcome of activities by princes and other social elites. Yet, as the essays in this collection show, such an ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Latin American Gothic in Literature and Culture

    Edited by Inés Ordiz, Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno ...
    Series series Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature
    This book explores the Gothic mode as it appears in the literature, visual arts, and culture of different areas of Latin America. Focusing on works from authors in Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, the Andes, Brazil, and the Southern Cone, the essays in this volume illuminate the existence of native representations of the Gothic, while also exploring the presence of universal archetypes of ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Literary Retranslation in Context

    Edited by Susanne M. Cadera, Andrew Samuel Walsh ...
    Series Book 21 - New Trends in Translation Studies
    The present study examines the interrelation between literary texts, their successive retranslations and the corresponding historical, social and cultural backgrounds that inform these versions. In the case of each text, the authors analyse both the external factors (sociohistorical circumstances, publishing context, authors, translators, etc.) and the internal ones (text analysis, translation ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • In Search of European Liberalisms

    Concepts, Languages, Ideologies

    Edited by Michael Freeden, Javier Fernández-Sebastián, Jörn Leonhard ...
    Series Book 6 - European Conceptual History
    Since the Enlightenment, liberalism as a concept has been foundational for European identity and politics, even as it has been increasingly interrogated and contested. This comprehensive study takes a fresh look at the diverse understandings and interpretations of the idea of liberalism in Europe, encompassing not just the familiar movements, doctrines, and political parties that fall under the ... Read more

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  • Global 1968

    Cultural Revolutions in Europe and Latin America

    Edited by A. James McAdams, Anthony P. Monta ...
    Global 1968 is a unique study of the similarities and differences in the 1968 cultural revolutions in Europe and Latin America.The late 1960s was a time of revolutionary ferment throughout the world. Yet so much was in flux during these years that it is often difficult to make sense of the period. In this volume, distinguished historians, filmmakers, musicologists, literary scholars, and novelists ... Read more

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  • Approaches to the History of Written Culture

    A World Inscribed

    Edited by Martyn Lyons, Rita Marquilhas ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book investigates the history of writing as a cultural practice in a variety of contexts and periods. It analyses the rituals and practices determining intimate or ‘ordinary’ writing as well as bureaucratic and religious writing. From the inscribed images of ‘pre-literate’ societies, to the democratization of writing in the modern era, access to writing technology and its public and private ... Read more

    $141.99 CAD