Book Review: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Geschichte/Revue suisse d'histoire/Rivista storica svizzera 56, 1 (2006), special issue Verkehrsgeschichte, Train Tracks: Work, Play and Politics on the Railway, The Bridges of Medieval England: Transport and Society, 400–1800, Social Dimensions of Sustainable Transport: Transatlantic Perspectives, Storia dei trasporti in Italia, Konzentration und Krise der deutschen Schiffahrt. Maritime Wirtschaft und Politik im Kaiserreich, in der Weimarer Republik und im Nationalsozialismus, Naked Airport: A Cultural History of the World's Most Revolutionary Structure, Le Saint-Laurent et les Grands Lacs au temps de la vapeur 1850–1950, Carriers and Coachmasters: Trade and Travel before the Turnpikes, The Dangers of Bus Reregulation, Das Verkehrssystem als Modernisierungsfaktor. Straßen, Post, Fuhrwesen und Reisen nach Triest und Fiume vom Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts bis zum Eisenbahnzeitalter, Cars and Culture: The Life Story of a Technology, Der holprige Siegeszug des Automobils 1895–1930. Zur Motorisierung des Straßenverkehrs in Frankreich, Deutschland und der Schweiz, Motorphobia: Antiautomobiler Protest in Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik, The West Highland Railway: Plans, Politics and People, Handel und Verkehr im 20. Jahrhundert (Enzyklopädie deutscher Geschichte, Ships' Fastenings: From Sewn Boat to Steamship, Von der Preussag zur TUI. Wege und Wandlungen eines Unternehmens 1923–2003, St Christoph am Arlberg. Die Geschichte von Hospiz und Taverne, Kapelle und Bruderschaft, von Brücken, Wegen und Wasserstraßen, Säumern, Wirten und anderen Menschen an einem Alpenpaß. Ende des 14. bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts, Dow's Dictionary of Railway Quotations, Freizeit und Vergnügen vom 14. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert, Von der Chaussee zur Schiene. Militär und Eisenbahnen in Preußen 1833 bis 1866

Abstract That English has spread in Asia is well-known, but this critical reflection, and the five contributions and book review that we hereby introduce, contribute to rectifying the relative absence in the sociology of language literature of studies approaching language ideologies and practices in specific Asian contexts from local perspectives. We are not alone; our inspections of journal archives show that scholars are increasingly responding to this relative absence in recent years. What this special issue offers is further diversity of both authors and cases, and moreover this special issue draws attention to the immutable, binary structure underlying the various globally-circulating discourses of the East and the West as part of investigating how socially constructed East-West binaries interact with language ideologies about English and other languages. It shifts the attention from fixity – East versus West – to diversity, extending East to Easts and West to Wests as our contributors identify and examine multiple, endogenous “imaginative geograph[ies]” (from Arif Dirlik’s [1996] “Chinese history and the question of Orientalism”, History and Theory 35(4): 97) constructed through various Orientalist ideologies. It founds this approach on a combination of the theory of recursive language ideologies and critical Orientalism scholarship. This is generative of new and useful sociolinguistic analyses. Having laid out this theoretical extension, this editorial then provides an overview of the issue’s contributions, which examine how socially constructed East-West binaries are interacting with language ideologies about English and other languages on sub-national scales in various Asian contexts including in Korea, China, Japan, Tajikistan and Pakistan.

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Book Review : The Far East. A History of the Impact of the West on Eastern Asia. BY PAUL H. CLYDE. (New York: Prentice Hall. 1948. Pp. xxi, 862. $5.75.)

Political Research Quarterly ◽

10.1177/106591294800100115 ◽

1948 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 85-86

Author(s):

H. G. Callis

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Far East ◽

Eastern Asia ◽

The West ◽

The Far East ◽

History Of ◽

The Impact

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A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age

10.5040/9781474206907 ◽

2021 ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural History ◽

21St Century ◽

Global Changes ◽

New Materials ◽

The West ◽

Post Colonial ◽

Everyday Objects ◽

Modern Age ◽

The World ◽

History Of

A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age covers the period 1900 to today, a time marked by massive global changes in production, transportation, and information-sharing in a post-colonial world. New materials and inventions – from plastics to the digital to biotechnology – have created unprecedented scales of disruption, shifting and blurring the categories and meanings of the object. If the 20th Century demonstrated that humans can be treated like things whilst things can become ever more human, where will the 21st Century take us? The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Objects examines how objects have been created, used, interpreted and set loose in the world over the last 2500 years. Over this time, the West has developed particular attitudes to the material world, at the centre of which is the idea of the object. The themes covered in each volume are objecthood; technology; economic objects; everyday objects; art; architecture; bodily objects; object worlds.

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Urban Formalism

10.5422/fordham/9780823288045.001.0001 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

David Faflik

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

New York ◽

Cultural History ◽

Subjective Experience ◽

The West ◽

Urban Experience ◽

Street Protest ◽

History Of ◽

New Form ◽

The City

Urban Formalism radically reimagines what it meant to “read” a brave new urban world during the transformative middle decades of the nineteenth century. At a time when contemporaries in the twin capitals of modernity in the West, New York and Paris, were learning to make sense of unfamiliar surroundings, city peoples increasingly looked to the experiential patterns, or forms, from their everyday lives in an attempt to translate urban experience into something they could more easily comprehend. Urban Formalism interrogates both the risks and rewards of an interpretive practice that depended on the mutual relation between urbanism and formalism, at a moment when the subjective experience of the city had reached unprecedented levels of complexity. What did it mean to read a city sidewalk as if it were a literary form, like a poem? On what basis might the material form of a burning block of buildings be received as a pleasurable spectacle? How closely aligned were the ideology and choreography of the political form of a revolutionary street protest? And what were the implications of conceiving of the city’s exciting dynamism in the static visual form of a photographic composition? These are the questions that Urban Formalism asks and begins to answer, with the aim of proposing a revisionist semantics of the city. This book not only provides an original cultural history of forms. It posits a new form of urban history, comprised of the representative rituals of interpretation that have helped give meaningful shape to metropolitan life.

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