Search results
transfer, manifest in Stratagems and Spoils ( 1969 and 1970 ) and Gifts and Poisons ( 1971 ), reflected three influences: Evans-Pritchard, Gilbert Murray, and Max Gluckman; second, how Bailey influenced me; and third, how the influencers and Bailey’s social background shaped not just his anthropology but his character. I confine myself to books up to and including the
: So strong is the bond between history and decoration, that in the practice of the latter we cannot, if we would, wholly shake off the influence of past times over what we do at present. I do not think it is too much to say that no man, however original he may be, can sit down to-day and draw the ornament of a cloth, or the form
6 Themes and influences No nation can pursue the path to self-government free from all external considerations and untrammelled by the intellectual influences descending from the past.1 Introduction In order to understand the thinking behind the 1922 Constitution, it is necessary to consider the document in the light of its intellectual and political context. The 1920s were years of momentous significance for Ireland because, after centuries of oppression and revolutionary struggle, the Irish people had finally gained the freedom to construct a new State for
The criteria for assessing Strummer's influence are its depth and breadth across space and time. In other words, where, when and for how long and in what manner did he influence people? Was it, for example, deep-seated and long-lasting or was it short and superficial – whether, for instance, in Britain or the US – and in what time period did this occur? And in what ways did Strummer change people's attitudes and behaviours? These questions concern the qualitative and quantitative aspects, without for the moment examining the ‘why’ and ‘how
By virtue of culture, history and its pivotal role in shaping Europe’s policy towards Russia, Germany currently finds itself exposed to two forms of Russian influence. One is ‘soft’ power, including culture, language and co-optation; the other is ‘harder’ power, including traditional espionage and agent recruitment as well as new forms of disinformation and a novel type of threat in the form of cyber security attacks. Disinformation was widely used against the FRG during the Cold War by both the USSR and the GDR, albeit through much narrower channels than those
5 More allies, more influence? The Atlantic Arc and transEuropean networks In this chapter I examine a Basque government campaign to promote an ambitious high-speed train (HST) project linking Basque towns into Spanish and European transport networks. The Basque HST project, known locally as the ‘Basque Y’, aims to link Bilbao, San Sebastián and Vitoria in the Basque Country south to Madrid and north, across the Pyrenees, to France and the rest of Europe. The project has been a major Basque government priority since the 1980s, and is considered key for future
’s influence over Shakespeare’s subsequent tragedies thus: His second tragedy, Romeo and Juliet , did what only Kyd’s Soliman and Perseda among extant plays had done before on the public stage, namely to place a conflict of love at the centre of a tragedy. His third tragedy, Julius Caesar , covers the
Attention to the epic, oral, filmic, televisual and photographic models employed in Rushdie’s novels give some indication of the referential range of his fiction – but the above account has by no means exhausted the potential list of Rushdie’s influences. Treated comprehensively, such a list would run to many pages, and would, no doubt, become very boring. 1 Rushdie’s reasons for practising such a referential artform may be explained in various ways; but certainly one of the central explanations must be that Rushdie writes in this way
travelled to Chicago to cover the Al Capone trial, the only woman journalist to do so, and flew to Germany in a two-seater plane with a drunken pilot in 1933, after the notorious Nazi ‘mass marriages’ in Berlin, to interview Magda Goebbels, who darkly warned her that the ‘era of strong men’ had arrived. 8 This chapter not only examines Lane’s participation strategy, which in this case is the established one of parental/familial influence and access through her newspaperman father, but also seeks a possible source of her fearlessness and unusual self-assurance. These
, and content in his aesthetically pleasing life. By this, the fourth Ripley novel, Tom is settled into a contented lifestyle that suits him. The third and previous Ripley novel Ripley’s Game (1974) demonstrates Tom’s interfering side. In this novel he influences a terminally ill local man to become involved in Mafia killings with him, mainly out of boredom. In Ripley’s Game , Tom’s unique moral code is foregrounded as he dispatches members of the Mafia to rid the world of vermin, as he sees them, rather than from expediency in his previous killings and his