From Chivalry to Terrorism: War and the Changing Nature of Masculinity - Hardcover

Braudy, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679450351 ISBN 13: 9780679450351

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

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Explores the ways in which European and American cultures established a definition of masculinity based on a the roles of soldiers and warriors, tracing warfare from the middle ages to the present to reveal how perceptions and images of masculinity changed in relation to specific wars and technologies. 20,000 first printing.

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Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California.

Leo Braudy is University Professor and Bing Professor of English at the University of Southern California. He previously taught at Yale, Columbia, and Johns Hopkins. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as a Senior Scholar Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has been a fellow at the Rockefeller Foundation at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, as well as a writer-in-residence at the American Academy in Rome. His book <i>Jean Renoir: The World of His Films</i> was a finalist for the National Book Award. Another of his books, <i>The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History, </i>was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. He has written for the <i>New York Times,</i> the <i>Washington Post,</i> and <i>Harper’s.</i> Mr. Braudy lives with his wife in Los Angeles.

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0679450351
• ISBN 13: 9780679450351
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 613
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