The Emperor's New Clothes
Title | The Emperor's New Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Christian Anderson |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | 26 |
Release | 2018-09-23 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781727498400 |
Hans Christian Andersen was a Danish author best known for writing children's stories including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Ugly Duckling." But he didn't just write short stories, and his intended audience wasn't restricted to children. In addition to his fairy tales, Andersen wrote poems, plays, novels, travel books, essays, and more. He hungered for recognition at home (Denmark) and abroad-and he got it! Eventually. Today, his stories can be read in over one hundred languages. But no matter what language they're in, Andersen's tales have got something for everyone. In them, you'll find beauty, tragedy, nature, religion, artfulness, deception, betrayal, love, death, judgment, penance, and-occasionally-a happy ending. They're complex tales, but since Andersen himself was pretty complex, we like to think that art imitates life. Or something like that. "The Emperor's New Clothes" (Danish: Kejserens nye Kl?der) is a short tale by Hans Christian Andersen about two weavers who promise an Emperor a new suit of clothes that is invisible to those who are unfit for their positions, stupid, or incompetent. When the Emperor parades before his subjects in his new clothes, no one dares to say that he doesn't see any suit of clothes until a child cries out, "But he isn't wearing anything at all!" The tale has been translated into over a hundred languages. Includes a unique illustration!
The Empire's New Clothes
Title | The Empire's New Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Philip Murphy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2018-08-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190935006 |
In the wake of Brexit, the Commonwealth has been identified as an important body for future British trade and diplomacy, but few know what it actually does. How is it organized and what has held it together for so long? How important is the Queen's role as Head of the Commonwealth? Most importantly, why has it had such a troubled recent past, and is it realistic to imagine that its fortunes might be reversed?In The Empire's New Clothes,? Murphy strips away the gilded self-image of the Commonwealth to reveal an irrelevant institution afflicted by imperial amnesia. He offers a personal perspective on this complex and poorly understood institution, and asks if it can ever escape from the shadow of the British Empire to become an organization based on shared values, rather than a shared history.
Empire's New Clothes
Title | Empire's New Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Andrew Passavant |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780415935555 |
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Emperor's New Clothes ; The Steadfast Tin Soldier
Title | The Emperor's New Clothes ; The Steadfast Tin Soldier PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Christian Andersen |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 40 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780716616290 |
A collection of three popular folk tales; Emperor's new clothes, Steadfast tin soldier and Puss in boots.
Empire's New Clothes
Title | Empire's New Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Street |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2015-12-03 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1317260554 |
As Obama nears the middle of his first-term as president Paul Street assesses his performance against the expectations of his supporters. While mainstream journalists have noted discrepancies between Obama's original vision and reality, Paul Street uniquely measures Obama's record against the expectations of the truly progressive agenda many of his supporters expected him to follow. Taken together, the list of Obama's weakened policies is startling: his business-friendly measures with the economy, the lack of support for the growing mass of unemployed and poor, the dilution of his health reform agenda, the passage of a record-setting Pentagon budget, and escalation of US military violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. Street's account reveals these and many other indications of how deeply beholden Obama is to existing dominant domestic and global hierarchies and doctrines.
The Empire's New Clothes
Title | The Empire's New Clothes PDF eBook |
Author | Harry D. Harootunian |
Publisher | Prickly Paradigm Press |
Total Pages | 123 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780972819671 |
Empire and imperialism have returned with a vengeance—not as a set of ideas and practices to be exhumed by the historians, but as paradigms for twenty-first-century living. Harry Harootunian turns his unrelenting gaze to signs of the new imperialism in the world—from the United States’ occupation of Iraq to other supposed terrorist enclaves around the globe. The arguments being made today for imperialism’s historical and contemporary value echo earlier rationales for modernization theory and its conception of “development” during the heyday of the Cold War. Harootunian decisively cuts through the layers to reveal that under the new clothes, it’s the same empire.
The Right to Dress
Title | The Right to Dress PDF eBook |
Author | Giorgio Riello |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 525 |
Release | 2019-01-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108643523 |
This is the first global history of dress regulation and its place in broader debates around how human life and societies should be visualised and materialised. Sumptuary laws were a tool on the part of states to regulate not only manufacturing systems and moral economies via the medium of expenditure and consumption of clothing but also banquets, festivities and funerals. Leading scholars on Asian, Latin American, Ottoman and European history shed new light on how and why items of dress became key aspirational goods across society, how they were lobbied for and marketed, and whether or not sumptuary laws were implemented by cities, states and empires to restrict or channel trade and consumption. Their findings reveal the significance of sumptuary laws in medieval and early modern societies as a site of contestation between individuals and states and how dress as an expression of identity developed as a modern 'human right'.