Throughout the ‘long 19th century’, the Ottoman and Russian empires shared a goal of destroying one another. Yet, they also shared a similar vision for imperial state renewal, with the goal of ...avoiding revolution, decline and isolation within Europe. Adrian Brisku explores how this path of renewal and reform manifested itself: forging new laws and institutions, opening up the economy to the outside world, and entering the European political community of imperial states. Political Reform in the Ottoman and Russian Empires tackles the dilemma faced by both empires, namely how to bring about meaningful change without undermining the legal, political and economic status quo. The book offers a unique comparison of Ottoman and Russian politics of reform and their connection to the wider European politico-economic space.
In 1904 Radic mobilized the peasantry into the Croatian Peasant Party that fought to reform Yugoslavia's centralist state system until his assassination in 1928 that ended the country's short ...democratic experience.
By the late Meiji period Japanese were venturing abroad in great numbers, and some of those who traveled kept diaries and wrote formal travelogues. These travelogues reflected a changing view of the ...West and changing artistic sensibilities in the long-standing Japanese literary tradition of travel writing (kikoōbungaku). This book shows that overseas Meiji-period travel writers struck out to create a dynamic new type of travel literature, one that had a solid foundation in traditional Japanese kikōbungaku yet also displayed influence from the West. Musashino in Tuscany specifically examines the poetic imagery and allusion in these travelogues and reveals that when Japanese traveled to the West in the mid-nineteenth century, the images they wrote about tended to be associated not with places initially discovered by the Japanese traveler but with places that already existed in Western fame and lore. And unlike imagery from Japanese traveling in Japan, which was predominantly nature based, Japanese overseas travel imagery was often associated with the manmade world.
Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture. ...Similarly, culture guides how tourism is used and operates. This book examines food and drink tourism, as it is now and is likely to develop, through a cultural 'lens'. It asks: what is food and drink tourism, and why have food and drink provisions and information points become tourist destinations in their own right, rather than remaining among a number of tourism features and components? While it offers a range of international examples, the main focus is on food and drink tourism in the UK. What with the current diversification of tourism in rural areas, the increased popularity of this type of tourism in the UK, the series of BSE, vCJD and foot and mouth crises in British food production, and the cultural and ethnic fusion in British towns and cities, it makes a particularly rich place in which to explore this subject. The author concludes that the future of food and drink tourism lies in diversity and distinctiveness. In an era of globalisation, there is a particular desire to enjoy varied, rather than mono-cultural ambiance and experience. She also notes that there is an immediacy of gratification in food and drink consumption which has become a general requirement of contemporary society.
Contents: Food and drink, from past to present; Food and drink become a leisure destination; Food for thought and visit; Ripe time for providers; Initiative and opinion; Production and display centres and venues; Outlets and markets; Accommodation; Feeding and drinking; Special events and devices, and resources for education; The wine dimension; From among the Cornucopia; The crop now, and for sowing in future; Bibliography; Index.
Wartime Notebooks Bobkowski, Andrzej; Drabik, Grazyna; Engelstein, Laura
11/2018
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A Polish writer's experience of wartime France, a cosmopolitan outsider's perspective on politics, culture, and life under duressWhen the aspiring young writer Andrzej Bobkowski, a self-styled ...cosmopolitan Pole, found himself caught in occupied France in 1940, he recorded his reflections on culture, politics, history, and everyday life. Published after the war, his notebooks offer an outsider's perspective on the hardships and ironies of the Occupation.In the face of war, Bobkowski celebrates the value of freedom and human life through the evocation-in a daringly untragic mode-of ordinary existence, the taste of simple food, the beauty of the French countryside. Resisting intellectual abstractions, his notes exude a young man's pleasure in physical movement-miles clocked on country roads and Parisian streets on his trusty bike-and they reveal the emergence of an original literary voice. Bobkowski was recognized in his homeland as a master of modern Polish prose only after Communism ended. He remains to be discovered in the English-speaking world.
The Slovak national awakening Brock, Peter
The Slovak national awakening,
1976, 1976, 2014, 1976-01-01, 1976-12-15
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The Slovaks lived under Hungarian rule for centuries, with no clear sense of political separateness, preserving Slovak as their spoken language, but using Czech as their written language. In the last ...decades of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries, the efforts made by clerical intellectuals to develop a language more closely attuned to Slovak needs led to the rise of Slovak nationalism.
The Slovak National Awakening describes the three major stages in the development of national consciousness. In the 1780s Catholic intellectuals began to write in the vernacular; a Catholic priest, Bernolàk, produced a Slovak grammar and dictionary and an influential treatise in defence of Slovak as a language separate from Czech. However, while Slovak ethnic distinctness was being asserted, the sense of belonging to the Hungarian nation was not questioned. The next steps were taken by the Protestant intelligentsia, who had been pro-Czech since the Reformation. Influenced by German concepts of linguistic nationalism, they began to assert Slovak cultural and linguistic separateness, but still within the political framework of the Hungarian State.
The third stage in the Slovak Awakening came in the mid-1840s when a group of young Protestant intellectuals, led by L’udovít Štúr, rejected their predecessors’ ‘Czechoslovakism’ and advocated a Slovak language and a Slovak nationality. In 1851, the Catholic Bernolákites and the Protestant Štúrites were able to agree on the language that became the basis of modern Slovak.
This study of the relation between language and nationalism will appeal to specialists in European history and will be of interest for the light it throws on modern separatists and anti-imperialist movements.
Une trilogie encensée par la critique ! Marchez sur les traces de Patrick Leigh Fermor et découvrez l'Europe comme vous ne l'aviez jamais imaginée Un matin gris de décembre 1933, le jeune Patrick ...Leigh Fermor quitte l'Angleterre avec l'idée de traverser l'Europe à pied jusqu'à Constantinople. Une aventure qui sera le grand événement de sa vie et dont il tirera un récit magistral en deux volumes (Le Temps des offrandes et Entre fleuve et forêt), aussitôt reconnus comme des chefs-d'œuvre. Mais plutôt que d'arriver à Constantinople, le second livre s'arrêtait aux gorges du Danube, à la frontière de la Serbie et de la Roumanie. Qu'en était-il de la dernière partie de ce voyage enchanteur au cœur d'une Europe aux portes du cataclysme ? Pendant des années on crut ce troisième manuscrit abandonné, inachevé, voire inexistant. Nombreux sont ceux qui désespéraient de le lire un jour… Puis, miracle, aujourd'hui paraît enfin ce troisième récit, La Route interrompue, inédit, magistral, qui nous mène jusqu'au Mont Athos en Grèce. Presque quatre-vingts ans jour pour jour après que le jeune « Paddy » a pris la route, voici les trois livres réunis sous le titre de Dans la nuit et le vent. Ce livre constitue la première édition intégrale de l'une des œuvres majeures du XXème siècle, un chef-d'œuvre d'humanisme à la rencontre d'un monde disparu, où éclatent l'intelligence, la culture et la passion juvéniles de l'auteur. Les différents tomes sont également disponibles à la vente séparément sous les titres : Le Temps des offrandes, Entre fleuve et forêt et La route interrompue. Un périple passionnant ! CE QU'EN PENSE LA CRITIQUE : Un enchantement de fraîcheur, de drôlerie, d'aventures - Jean d'Ormesson, Le Figaro Magazine Il faut beaucoup de pudeur, peut-être du recul, pour parler aussi bien du bonheur - Nicolas Bouvier, L'Express L'art du voyage, on l'a compris, est
d'abord un art de la digression. Le livre se confond avec le voyage lui-même - Frédéric Vitoux, Le Nouvel Observateur On se laisse conduire avec un plaisir constamment renouvelé par l'art et l'érudition d'un magistral écrivain-voyageur - Jacques Franck, La Libre Belgique Qui se priverait d'un tel livre? - Luis Lema, Le Temps Le plus légendaire des écrivains-voyageurs - Catherine Golliau, Le Point Un chef-d'œuvre du récit de voyage à la britannique - Marc Semo, Libération À PROPOS DE L'AUTEUR : Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) est un écrivain et voyageur anglais, ancien officier des Services spéciaux de l'armée britannique en Crète durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. En dehors de ses voyages, il partagea sa vie entre la Grèce et l'Angleterre. Ses nombreux livres révèlent un écrivain d'une merveilleuse érudition, profondément attaché aux langues et cultures.
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