"Hundreds of rural communities tasted political freedom in the Holy Roman Empire. For shorter or longer periods, villagers managed local affairs without subjection to territorial overlords. In this first book-length study, Beat Kümin focuses on the five case studies of Gochsheim…
Modernist urbanism seems progressive, even Utopian: design for a better world through a democratic and humane built environment. But two currents undermine this vision from within: an Arcadianism which turns to a rural idyll as retreat from change and the effects of industrializ…
"During the Victorian period, England changed from being a predominantly rural to an increasingly urban and suburban society. Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England explores visual and literary representations of clothing in the context of these rapid changes in Victorian l…
"During the Victorian period, England changed from being a predominantly rural to an increasingly urban and suburban society. Clothing and Landscape in Victorian England explores visual and literary representations of clothing in the context of these rapid changes in Victorian l…
Ruralism and literature in Romania
"The topics of the volume range from re-readings of canonical works to ideological readings of modern Romanian literature, rural novels of the Romanian socialist realism and post-communist literary trends centred around rural life"--.
Ruralism and literature in Romania
A previously unpublished photo series by Irwin Klein of northern New Mexican counterculture communes from 1967-1971 blended with modern essays on the topic
