Product Description: Warning that the loss of cultural continuity by villagers will ultimately destroy cities, a journalist documents the closing urban-rural population gap and loss of cultural stability because of technological advances and population drain to urban centers.

Product Description: As early as 1933, exiled writers and intellectuals from Nazi Germany began to write their autobiographies, memoirs and other autobiographical texts, signaling a new and prolific period of this genre. This study examines their self-representations and self-definitions which extend from the presentation of the self as religious convert and political crusader, as hero and martyr, and as victim and the «Other»...read more

Product Description: An interdisciplinary collection of articles on the literature that arose from the Spanish Civil War.

Describes the lives and customs of ordinary people in Brazil, Nepal, the Philippines, Vietnam, Bangladesh, Mexico, Iran, India, Egypt, and Indonesia

The result of three hundred interviews with notable British figures--John Fowles, Peggy Ashcroft, Jeremy Irons, Paul Theroux, and others--this work chronicles the state of Great Britain after two world wars and the loss of its Empire

Product Description: Trees, Why Do You Wait? is a moving oral history chronicling the changes taking place in rural America .Through it, we meet real people of the heartland and feel the suffering and the strength in their relationship to the land.

Product Description: An introduction for the nonspecialist to some of the major aesthetic issues in 18th century Germany. This volume focuses on theoretical pronouncements of Lessing, J.M.R. Lenz, K.Ph.Moritz, Wilhelm Heinse, Herder, Diderot, Jean Paul, Schiller, Wilhelm von Humboldt and Goethe.

Peasant life in four cultures

The author traces the lives of his family members from 1774 to 1941 and shows how they adapted to the events and changing technologies of their periods

In telling the story of a young peasant man from the upper Nile, the cultural and psychological turbulence of a country being thrust into the twentieth century is revealed