Inventing Home - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Home write by Akram Fouad Khater. This book was released on 2001-10-30. Inventing Home available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1890 and 1920 over one-third of the peasants of Mount Lebanon left their villages and traveled to the Americas. This book traces the journeys of these villagers from the ranks of the peasantry into a middle class of their own making. Inventing Home delves into the stories of these travels, shedding much needed light on the impact of emigration and immigration in the development of modernity. It focuses on a critical period in the social history of Lebanon--the "long peace" between the uprising of 1860 and the beginning of the French mandate in 1920. The book explores in depth the phenomena of return emigration, the questioning and changing of gender roles, and the rise of the middle class. Exploring new areas in the history of Lebanon, Inventing Home asks how new notions of gender, family, and class were articulated and how a local "modernity" was invented in the process. Akram Khater maps the jagged and uncertain paths that the fellahin from Mount Lebanon carved through time and space in their attempt to control their future and their destinies. His study offers a significant contribution to the literature on the Middle East, as well as a new perspective on women and on gender issues in the context of developing modernity in the region.
New York Living
New York Living - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York Living write by Paul Gunther. This book was released on 2017-04-11. New York Living available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Residences featured here show New York living of the moment: homes that defy traditional definition but which are nevertheless rooted in the historic ground of the city. What does a home look like in twenty-first-century New York? While the city’s name alone brings to mind very specific ideas—the Fifth Avenue penthouse, with its elegant moldings and crystal chandeliers; the SoHo loft, with its bright spaces and air of bohemian ease; the Brooklyn brownstone, with its fireplaces, parquet floors, and lush backyards—the truth is, New York today is much more than this, and the potential for variety in ways of living is, now more than ever, virtually limitless. As a result, in the twenty-first century, the combined design professions enjoy an unprecedented menu of prospective solutions, whether based upon respect for a classically inflected New York past, an emphatic denial of such a tradition, or, most often, some hybrid response that often yields the best innovation possible. New York Living celebrates this vast potential while exploring contemporary apartments and town houses throughout the city, ranging beyond Manhattan into the outer boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx, and back to the center, Manhattan, which continues to climb ever higher in its reach toward the sky.
Inventing Iraq
Inventing Iraq - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inventing Iraq write by Toby Dodge. This book was released on 2003. Inventing Iraq available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Dodge offers a sobering look back at the first attempt by a Western power to remake Iraq in its own image.
In the Dream House
In the Dream House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In the Dream House write by Carmen Maria Machado. This book was released on 2019-11-05. In the Dream House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
The Invention of Tradition
The Invention of Tradition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invention of Tradition write by Eric Hobsbawm. This book was released on 1992-07-31. The Invention of Tradition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores examples of this process of invention and addresses the complex interaction of past and present in a fascinating study of ritual and symbolism.
