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UNINA9910777693603321 |
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Semmerling Tim Jon <1961-> |
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Israeli and Palestinian postcards [[electronic resource] ] : presentations of national self / / Tim Jon Semmerling |
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Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2004 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Postcards - Israel |
Postcards - Palestine |
Self-presentation - Israel |
Self-presentation - Palestine |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction The Presentation of National Self -- One Palphot’s Israeli Self -- Two The Palestinian Self in Artwork Postcards -- Three The Janus-Faced Palestinian Self -- Four The Ecological Palestinian Self -- Five The Orientalized Area Self -- Six The Heritage-Enriched Palestinian Self -- Conclusion Tom Sawyer, Visual Methodologist, and the Presentation of National Self -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Searing images of suicide bombings and retaliatory strikes now define the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for many Westerners, but television and print media are not the only visual realms in which the conflict is playing out. Even tourist postcards and greeting cards have been pressed into service as vehicles through which Israelis and Palestinians present competing visions of national selfhood and conflicting claims to their common homeland. In this book, Tim Jon Semmerling explores how Israelis and Palestinians have recently used postcards and greeting cards to present images of the national self, to build national awareness and reinforce nationalist ideologies, and to gain international acceptance. He discusses and displays the works of numerous postcard/greeting card manufacturers, artists, and photographers and identifies the symbolic choices in their postcards, |
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how the choices are arranged into messages, what the messages convey and to whom, and who benefits and loses in these presentations of national self. Semmerling convincingly demonstrates that, far from being ephemeral, Israeli and Palestinian postcards constitute an important arena of struggle over visual signs and the power to produce reality. |
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UNINA9910791599203321 |
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Autore |
Kuehn Thomas <1950-> |
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Heirs, kin, and creditors in Renaissance Florence / / Thomas Kuehn [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2008 |
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0-511-38156-5 |
1-107-18527-0 |
0-511-38626-5 |
9786611254971 |
0-511-38262-6 |
0-511-38443-2 |
0-511-38729-6 |
0-511-38828-4 |
1-281-25497-5 |
0-511-51180-9 |
0-511-38045-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xvii, 237 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Inheritance and succession - Italy - Florence - History |
Renunciation of inheritance - Italy - Florence - History |
Florence (Italy) History 1421-1737 |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-226) and index. |
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Preface: The ambivalence of inheritance -- Introduction: Of inheritance and kinship -- Family and inheritance -- Florentine laws regulating |
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inheritance and repudiation -- Repudiation and inheritance -- Profile of Florentine repudiation and inheritance -- Repudiations and household wealth -- Repudiation as an inheritance practice -- Repudiations in dispute. |
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This study, based on Florentine repudiations of inheritance, reveals that inheritance was not simply an automatic process where the recipients were passive, if grateful. In influential European societies of the past, it was in fact a process that continued long after the deceased's death. Heirs also had options: at the least, to reject a burdensome patrimony, but also to manoeuvre property to others and to avoid (at times deceptively, if not fraudulently) the claims of others to portions of the estate. Repudiation was a vestige of Roman law that once again became a viable legal institution with the revival of Roman law in the Middle Ages. Florentines incorporated repudiation into their strategies of adjustment after death, showing that they were not merely passive recipients of what came their way. Further, these strategies fostered family goals, including continuity across the generations. |
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