Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
The World the Sixties Made: Politics and Culture in Recent America
The World the Sixties Made", the first academic collection to treat the last quarter of the twentieth century as a distinct period of U.S. history, rebuts popular accounts that emphasize a conservative ascendancy. The essays in this volume survey a vast historical terrain to tease out the meaning of the not-so-long ago.
Last Landscapes: The Architecture of the Cemetery in the WestLast Landscapes explores death and the landscape of the cemetery. The picturesque village churchyard; the tightly packed "historic cities of the dead" such as the Jewish Cemetery in Prague; the war cemeteries of Northern France; the modernism of the Stockholm Woodland Cemetery; the graveyards of North America -- in discussing the history and culture of these architectural expressions of memory and loss, Ken Worpole also -locates the national, religious and romantic attitudes they express.
Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
Reading folktales from other countries is an engaging way to learn about other cultures and other people. Folktales present readers both a window into another culture and a mirror reflecting certain aspects of their own culture. In the...
