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Conclusion: Futures of Senses Past

Mark M. Smith

Mark M. Smith is Carolina Distinguished Professor of History at the University of South Carolina. He is the author of several books, including Mastered by the Clock: Time, Slavery, and Freedom in the American South, which was co-winner of the Organization of American Historians’ 1997 Avery O. Craven Award and the South Carolina Historical Society’s Book of the Year. His work on sensory history has been featured in the New York Times. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Sensory History

Berg, 2007

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...It seems counterintuitive to offer a conclusion on a subject that is still very much in its infancy. For that reason, I’ll “conclude” by doing no such thing. Instead, I’ll offer two arguments – informed ruminations, if you will – concerning...

“The Great Machine Doesn’t Wear a Cape!”

Jeff Geers

Jeff Geers

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Comic Books and American Cultural History : An Anthology

Bloomsbury Academic, 2012

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...Within a week of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the following joke was circulated on the internet:Why didn’t Superman stop the planes from hitting the Twin Towers?Because he’s a quadriplegic.Bill Ellis, “A Model for Collecting...

Fashion and Adornment: African American Women in the United States, 1800 to 1920

Patricia Hunt-Hurst

Patricia Hunt-Hurst

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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire Volume 5

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Cultural History Chapter

...The chapter explores the fashion and adornment of African American women from 1800 to 1920. The exploration begins with enslaved women in the Southern United States who had little to no resources to participate in fashion however adornment...

Modeling a New Social Vision: A Response to Law and Order, 1967–1968

Amy C. Schneidhorst

Amy C. Schneidhorst, Ph.D. has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University and Alma College, USA. She is the author of the article, “‘Little Old Ladies and Dangerous Women’: Women’s Peace and Social Justice Activism in Chicago, 1961-1973,” in Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (July 2001) and an active community activist. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Building a Just and Secure World : Popular Front Women’s Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s

Continuum, 2011

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...The year 1968 is often portrayed as a buildup to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) where the male-led anti-Vietnam War movement and Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and his police force clashed in a contest of wills. National...

Belief

Susan J. Palmer

Susan J. Palmer

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Paul Gareau

Paul Gareau

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A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

Cultural History Chapter

...Every religion has its own sacred form of dress. Whether the tradition is Christian, Muslim, Judaic, Buddhist, Hindu, each has its own style of religious clothing—a style that is unique, yet shares certain common features. Most religions...

The Cinematic Landscape of the Empress Theatre

Camille Bédard

Camille Bédard

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Oriental Interiors: Design, Identity, Space

Bloomsbury Academic, 2015

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...A promenade in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) Park, Montreal reveals an unexpected building across Sherbrooke Street West: the Egyptian-inspired Empress Theatre. Mirage or reality? The movie theater is resolutely distinct from the surrounding...

Conclusion

Amy C. Schneidhorst

Amy C. Schneidhorst, Ph.D. has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Eastern Illinois University and Alma College, USA. She is the author of the article, “‘Little Old Ladies and Dangerous Women’: Women’s Peace and Social Justice Activism in Chicago, 1961-1973,” in Peace and Change: A Journal of Peace Research (July 2001) and an active community activist. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Building a Just and Secure World : Popular Front Women’s Struggle for Peace and Justice in Chicago During the 1960s

Continuum, 2011

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...This story begins as the cold-war consensus was beginning to ease and new movements for liberal and radical social change were emerging. This generation of women born before the 1950s was on the cusp between the tradition of separate...

Life Cycle

Katherine Jellison

Katherine Jellison

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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Modern Age Volume 6

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...Middle-Class Life Cycle In the early twentieth century, members of the urban middle class continued to follow the unique life cycle pattern they had established in the late Victorian era. Men and women married, set up independent...

Life Cycle

Philippa Maddern

Philippa Maddern

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Stephanie Tarbin

Stephanie Tarbin

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A Cultural History of Childhood and Family in the Early Modern Age Volume 3

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

Cultural History Chapter

...Life cycle may seem a concept easily applicable to the period 1400–1650. It was well-known to contemporaries, through widespread Ages of “Man” texts and illustrations. Every adult had passed through physical stages of infancy...

A New Time of Death?

Benjamin Noys

Benjamin Noys is Lecturer in English at University College Chichester. He is the author of Georges Bataille. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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The Culture of Death

Bloomsbury Academic, 2005

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...Introduction: Approaching Death Have we entered a new time of death? Is there a particular form of modern death and does this new form of modern death mean that we experience our own time of death in a different way? To answer...