"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to…
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Stone : Arabic in the age of Ottomanism -- Dog : the Zionification of Hebrew -- Gold : text and value -- Paper : banknotes and the colonial dictionary -- Ceramic : the British street-naming campaign -- Wall : Hebrew graffiti on the Western Wall -- Cloth : the banners of Nabi Mus…
"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to…
"For years, Yair Wallach walked the streets of Jerusalem, searching for writing on its walls. He looked for graffiti, logos, inscriptions, official signs, and ephemera, focusing on how modern Jerusalem took shape in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From 1850 to…
Author's Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction; Kul'turnost' and the Rhetoric of Proper Conduct -- 2. The Rhetoric of Consent: Radost', Liubov', Umilenie and Vostorg -- 3. Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty: The Ethos of Service -- 4. Lichnost' and the Rhetoric of Duty…
This book examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. It shows how terms for cultured conduct (kul'turnost'), political affection (love, liubov', joy-radost' etc.), personhood (lichnost'), truth (pravd…
This book examines the rhetorical force of certain key words in the discourses of Russian state, political thought, and literature. It shows how terms for cultured conduct (kul'turnost'), political affection (love, liubov', joy-radost' etc.), personhood (lichnost'), truth (pravd…
"The influential readings contained in this volume combine conceptual history - the history of words and languages - and global history, showing clearly how the two disciplines can benefit from a combined approach. The readings familiarize the reader with conceptual history and …
