Author: Herbert C. Huser
Publisher: National Defense University (NDU)
Keywords: alfonsin, menem, relations, military, civil, argentine
Number of Pages: 251
Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-10: 1579060595
ISBN-13: 9781579060596
As this book goes to press, Argentina is once more in the throes of political crisis. At the close of 2001, Fernando de la Rua, Argentina’s third popularly elected president since the military government of 1976 to 1983, resigned just 2 years into his term. A constitutional successor resigned after a week, having irritated the factions in his own party to the extent that they refused to support him. Riots that caused the deaths of 26 citizens and 13 police brought the third interim president down. Then more rioters broke into the halls of Congress and set fire to the building, causing
Authors:Bart Beaty, Derek Brito,
Publisher: UBC Pre
Keywords: popular, culture, canadian, contexts, communicate, iii, canadians
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2009-12-15
ISBN-10: 1897425597
ISBN-13: 9781897425596
The contributors to this third volume of How Canadians Communicate focus on the question "What does Canadian popular culture have to say about the construciton and negotiation of Canadian national identity?" They show how popular culture is negotiated across the different terrains where a sense of national identity is built, by producers and audiences, government and industry, history and geography, ethnicities, and citizenships. Canada does indeed have a popular culture distinct from other nations, and these contributors are out to prove it. About the Editors Bart Beaty is an associate profe
Author: measureofamerica
Publisher: ebookdb.org
Keywords: louisiana, report, development, human, portrait
Number of Pages: 98
Published: 2009-09-17
eBookDB-ID: EBDB097908
• A human development index for Louisiana, using post-Katrina data, with rankings by parish groups, ethnicity and gender. The index reveals that while some groups within the state enjoy levels of well-being that surpass those of first-ranked Connecticut, others experience health, education, and income levels of the rest of the country thirty, forty, even fifty years ago; • First-ever 2007 life expectancy calculations for all Louisiana parishes and for whites and African Americans in each parish; • Reliable international comparisons of groups within Louisiana to well-being measures in other c
Author: Joe Karagani
Publisher: Social Science Research Council
Keywords: ssrc, book, columbia, culture, participation, digital, structures
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2008-02-19
eBookDB-ID: EBDB097907
Digital technologies are engines of cultural innovation, from the virtualization of group networks and social identities to the digital convergence of textural and audio-visual media. User-centered content production, from Wikipedia and YouTube to Open Source, has become the emblem of this transformation, but the changes run deeper and wider than these novel organizational forms. Digital culture is also about the transformation of what it means to be a creator within a vast and growing reservoir of media, data, computational power, and communicative possibilities. We have few tools and models
Author: Chen Tingyou
Publisher: China Intercontinental Press
Keywords: series, china, cultural, calligraphy, chinese
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 2003-10-31
ISBN-10: 7508503228
ISBN-13: 9787508503226
Proceeding from the origins of Chinese characters, this book introduces the origins and development of Chinese calligraphy as an art form, its various styles and characteristics, and representative master calligraphers throughout Chinese history.
Author: Xu Chengbei
Publisher: China Intercontinental Press
Keywords: series, china, cultural, opera, peking
Number of Pages: 133
Published: 2003-10-31
ISBN-10: 7508502566
ISBN-13: 9787508502564
With a history of more than 200 years, Peking Opera is not a native opera of Beijing, but a new opera type formed by inter-exchange between Hui troupe actors and Han melody actor that came from south to Beijing as well as absorbing the merits of several other operas popular in Beijing then. Peking Opera rooted in Chinese culture is quite different from Western drama. For first-time foreign viewers, Peking Opera is hard to understand. But as long as you are willing to explore and understand the artistic characteristics and cultural connotations of Peking Opera, you will find everythig about it
Author: Robin C. Whittaker
Publisher: UBC Pre
Keywords: playhouse, press, walterdale, plays, action, premier, thespian
Number of Pages: 569
Published: 2009-04-02
ISBN-10: 1897425260
ISBN-13: 9781897425268
Robin Whittaker makes an important contribution to Canadian theatre studies with the first critical anthology of Canadian plays first performed by the Walterdale Theatre Associates, Edmonton’s historic amateur theatre company. This collection commemorates Walterdale’s 50th anniversary and highlights the social and artistic significance of amateur theatre practice in Canada by drawing together significant plays by acclaimed and emerging Canadian playwrights, detailed introductions, and archival production photographs.About the AuthorRobin C. Whittaker is completing doctoral work at
