Opening book details…
Can I read Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64) on EtoBox?
Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64) by Tom Brass is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64) about?
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty, landowner and colonizer as disempowered, 'ordinary' or well-disposed towards 'those below', whose interests they share, underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural 'otherness' abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass tourist, the plebeian from home.
Who reads Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 64)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Tom Brass
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Pub
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004273948
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Science
Other editions & translations
More by Tom Brass
Similar books
- Culture, Power And History: Studies in Critical Sociology (Studies in Critical Social Sciences, V. 4) (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) — Abigail Brooks; Denise Leckenby; Stephen J. Pfohl; Aimee Van Wagenen; Patricia Arend (2005)
- Globalization And the Environment (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) — Andrew Jorgenson; Edward L Kick; Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (2006)
- Peasants, Populism and Postmodernism: The Return of the Agrarian Myth (Library of Peasant Studies, 17) — Dr Tom Brass (2000)
- Authoritarian Populism and the Rural World (Critical Agrarian Studies) — Ian Scoones, Marc Edelman, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Lyda Fernanda Forero, Ruth Hall, Wendy Wolford, Ben White, (2021)
- Agrarian Bengal: Economy, Social Structure and Politics, 1919-1947 (Cambridge South Asian Studies) — Bose, Sugata , 1956- (1986)
- Crisis, Politics And Critical Sociology (studies In Critical Social Sciences) — Graham Cassano, Richard Dello Buono, Richard A. (2009)