Class, Culture and the Agrarian Myth Contributor(s): Brass (Author) |
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ISBN: 900425997X ISBN-13: 9789004259973 Publisher: Brill
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: May 2014 Click for more in this series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Minority Studies - History | Social History |
Dewey: 305.563 |
LCCN: 2014008994 |
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.5" L (1.85 lbs) 460 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Index |
Review Citations: Choice 12/01/2014 pg. 658 |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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