Tag: Remaking

Free Download Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009507494 | 90 Pages | PDF (True) | 6 MB
The making of fashionable women’s dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

Free Download Daniel Monterescu, "Jewish Revival Inside Out: Remaking Jewishness in a Transnational Age "
English | ISBN: 0814349188 | 2022 | 335 pages | EPUB | 3 MB
Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal" projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations, the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative cultural initiatives that promote what can be termed "lifestyle Judaism." This range between institutionalized revival movements and ephemeral event-driven projects circumscribes a diverse space of creative agency, which calls for a bottom-up empirical analysis of cultural creativity and the re-invention of Jewish tradition worldwide. Indeed, the trope of a "Jewish Renaissance" has become both a descriptive category of an increasingly popular and scholarly discourse across the globe, and a prescriptive model for social action. This volume explores the global transformations of contemporary Jewishness, which give renewed meaning to identity, tradition, and politics in our post secular world.

Free Download R. JAGANNATHAN, "DHARMIC NATION: Freeing Bharat, Remaking India"
English | ISBN: 9355209762 | 2023 | 232 pages | EPUB | 270 KB
We are amidst a battle between dharma and adharma.

Free Download Ms. Sharon Sassler, Amanda Miller, "Cohabitation Nation: Gender, Class, and the Remaking of Relationships"
English | 2017 | pages: 296 | ISBN: 0520286979, 0520286987 | EPUB | 4,4 mb
"We have fun and we enjoy each other’s company, so why shouldn’t we just move in together?"-Lauren, from CohabitationNation

Free Download Tattered Kimonos in Japan: Remaking Lives from Memories of World War II (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CRZZMMBS | 2024 | 6 hours and 15 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 334 MB
Author: Robert Rand
Narrator: Curt Bonnem
Since John Hersey’s Hiroshima, very few books have examined the meaning and impact of World War II through the eyes of Japanese men and women who survived that conflict. Tattered Kimonos in Japan does just that: It is an intimate journey into contemporary Japan from the perspective of the generation of Japanese soldiers and civilians who survived World War II, by a writer whose American father and Japanese father-in-law fought on opposite sides of the conflict. Mindful of the power of victimhood, memory, and shared suffering, he travels across Japan, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki, meeting a compelling group of men and women whose lives, even now, are defined by the trauma of war, and by lingering questions of responsibility and repentance for Japan’s wartime aggression. The image of a tattered kimono from Hiroshima is the thread that drives the narrative arc of this emotional story about a writer’s encounter with history, inside the Japan of his father’s generation, on the other side of his father’s war. This is a book about history with elements of family memoir. It offers a fresh and truly unique perspective for listeners interested in World War II, Japan, or Judaica; listeners seeking cross-cultural journeys; and listeners intrigued by Japanese culture, particularly the kimono.

Free Download Afsar Mohammad, "Remaking History: 1948 Police Action and the Muslims of Hyderabad"
English | ISBN: 100933963X | 2024 | 320 pages | PDF | 9 MB

Free Download Gavin S.K. Lee, "Queer Ear: Remaking Music Theory"
English | ISBN: 0197536778 | 2023 | 344 pages | EPUB, PDF | 7 MB + 15 MB

Free Download The Gateway to the Pacific: Japanese Americans and the Remaking of San Francisco (Historical Studies of Urban America) by Meredith Oda
English | December 27, 2018 | ISBN: 022659260X, 022659274X | True EPUB | 304 pages | 2.3 MB
In the decades following World War II, municipal leaders and ordinary citizens embraced San Francisco’s identity as the "Gateway to the Pacific," using it to reimagine and rebuild the city. The city became a cosmopolitan center on account of its newfound celebration of its Japanese and other Asian American residents, its economy linked with Asia, and its favorable location for transpacific partnerships. The most conspicuous testament to San Francisco’s postwar transpacific connections is the Japanese Cultural and Trade Center in the city’s redeveloped Japanese-American enclave.

Free Download Jessica M. Chapman, Suzie Althens (Narrator), "Remaking the World: Decolonization and the Cold War"
English | ASIN: B0CQ3Y5F6S | 2023 | M4B@64 kbps | ~12:30:00 | 391 MB
Remaking the World examines the connections between the Cold War and decolonization, which helped define the post-World War II global order. Drawing on new scholarship, this comprehensive study provides a chronological overview from World War I to the Soviet collapse and highlights key developments in the international system as decolonization unfolded in tandem with the Cold War. Through six carefully selected case studies-India, Egypt, the Congo, Vietnam, Angola, and Iran-historian Jessica M. Chapman addresses the shifting of Soviet, American, Chinese, and Cuban policies, the centrality of modernization, the role of the United Nations, the often-outsized influence of regional actors like Israel and South Africa, and seminal post-Vietnam War shifts in the international system. Each of the case studies analyzes at least one geopolitical turning point, demonstrating that the Cold War and decolonization were mutually constitutive processes in which local, national, and regional developments altered the superpower competition.
Chapman describes a picture of the complexities of international relations and the ways in which local communist and democratic movements differed from their Soviet and American counterparts, including their visions for independence and success.

Free Download Naomi Roux, "Remaking the urban: Heritage and transformation in Nelson Mandela Bay "
English | ISBN: 1526140284 | 2021 | 264 pages | PDF | 22 MB
After the end of the apartheid regime in the 1990s, South Africa experienced a boom in new heritage and commemorative projects. These ranged from huge new museums and monuments to small community museums and grassroots memory work. At the same time, South African cities have continued to grapple with the difficulties of overcoming entrenched inequalities and divisions. Urban spaces are deep repositories of memory, and also sites in need of radical transformation. Remaking the Urban examines the intersections between post-apartheid urban transformation and the politics of heritage-making in divided cities, using the Nelson Mandela Bay Metro in South Africa’s Eastern Cape as a case study.