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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Aanvankelijk was ik een beetje in de war, omdat ik de invalshoek van dit boekje niet goed snapte. Het geeft een mix van de ontmoeting tussen Westerse en niet-Westerse culturen, afgewisseld met historische episodes uit de Westerse geschiedenis zelf, allemaal uit de periode van de 16de tot het begin van de 20ste eeuw. Kunstwerken worden regelmatig aangebracht om alles te illustreren. Pas met het nawoord werd me duidelijk dat dit gebaseerd was op een televisiereeks van de BBC (Civilisations), als opvolger van en tegelijk ook tegengewicht voor Kenneth Clark’s reeks Civilisation, uit 1969. Terecht stipt Olusoga aan dat die een heel beperkte, Europese en mannelijke blik wierp op kunst. Olusoga corrigeert dat inderdaad door het accent te leggen op de wederzijdse beïnvloeding tussen culturen, maar waarbij de Westerse vanaf het einde van de 18de eeuw door de Verlichting verviel in een superioriteitsdenken dat de andere culturen ging knechten. Wat betreft de mannelijke blik, stuurt Olusoga veel minder bij: vrouwelijke stemmen zijn ook in dit boekje helaas amper aanwezig. Toch een interessant werk. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieCivilisations (book 2)
There is nothing simple about the idea of civilisation. It is a concept with multiple and contested meanings. Prefix it with the word 'western' and you have a whole new set of problems. Equally thorny is the belief, once commonplace, that civilisation was a singular project, a phenomenon that spread across parts of the world from a single source. The view that multiple civilisations emerged independently at various times and in various places across the world was not an idea many Victorian thinkers had much time for. Indeed, in the age of European Empires, nations justified their domination of other peoples by claiming they were engaged in a great 'civilising mission'. Perhaps all that is certain about the concept of civilisation is that its opposite, barbarism, is toxic. In Civilisations, David Olusoga travels the world to piece together the shared histories that link nations. In Part One, First Contact, we discover what happened to art in the great Age of Discovery, when civilisations encountered each other for the first time? Although undoubtedly a period of conquest and destruction it was also one of mutual curiosity, global trade and the exchange of ideas In Part Two, The Cult of Progress we see how the Industrial Revolution transformed the world, impacting every corner, and every civilisation, from the cotton mills of the Midlands, through Napoleon's conquest of Egypt, to the demise of both Native American and Maori populations and the adventof photography in Paris in 1839. Incredible art - both looted and created - relay the key events and their outcomes throughout the world. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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