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Series
Brill's Indological library volume 48
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In Royal Umbrellas of Stone : Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatrīs ('umbrellas'; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatrīs for their late fathers as statements legitimacy. During periods of political upheaval patrons introduced new forms and decorations to respond to current events and evoke a particular...
205) Worlds of dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech culture under communism
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
206) Age of fracture
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Moritz Föllmer traces the history of individuality in Berlin from the late 1920s to the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961. The demand to be recognised as an individual was central to metropolitan society, as were the spectres of risk, isolation and loss of agency. This was true under all five regimes of the period, through economic depression, war, occupation and reconstruction. The quest for individuality could put democracy under...