Week 7: Politics and culture in the fin de siècle
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Week 7 focused on cultural shifts in fin de siècle Europe. Established traditions and norms were increasingly challenged as urban growth led to new experiences and anxieties. Views of human nature as changeable and volatile ruled by urges rather than just reason grew. An interconnected world emerged through technology and inventions capturing this period of economic and technological optimism. Urban public spaces like boulevards and new structures like department stores brought both excitement and alienation as modern life accelerated.
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This Dissertation explores the particular circumstances of Mirzapur, a region located in the
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accelerated due to factors such as agriculture and urbanization. Information regarding land use and
cover is essential for various planning and management tasks related to the Earth's surface,
providing crucial environmental data for scientific, resource management, policy purposes, and
diverse human activities.
Accurate understanding of land use and cover is imperative for the development planning
of any area. Consequently, a wide range of professionals, including earth system scientists, land
and water managers, and urban planners, are interested in obtaining data on land use and cover
changes, conversion trends, and other related patterns. The spatial dimensions of land use and
cover support policymakers and scientists in making well-informed decisions, as alterations in
these patterns indicate shifts in economic and social conditions. Monitoring such changes with the
help of Advanced technologies like Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems is
crucial for coordinated efforts across different administrative levels. Advanced technologies like
Remote Sensing and Geographic Information Systems
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Changes in vegetation cover refer to variations in the distribution, composition, and overall
structure of plant communities across different temporal and spatial scales. These changes can
occur natural.
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Week 7: Politics and culture in the fin de siècle
- 1. Week 7: Fin de siècle Europe
- 2. Cultural shifts • Growing challenges to established traditions and norms (rationalism, classicism, middle class values) • Urban growth leads to new experiences and anxieties. • Human nature increasingly viewed as changeable and volatile, ruled as much by urges and instincts as thought and reason.
- 3. Economic and technological optimism The Crystal Palace, 1851 Hall of Machine
- 4. An inter-connected world Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days (1874)
- 5. “By dint of inventing machinery, men will end in being eaten up by it! I have always fancied that the end of the earth will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand millions of atmospheric pressure, shall explode and blow up our Globe!” —J. Verne, Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
- 6. “Flaneurs” and urban exploration “It is not given to every man to take a bath of multitude; enjoying a crowd is an art; and only he can relish a debauch of vitality at the expense of the human species, on whom, in his cradle, a fairy has bestowed the love of masks and masquerading, the hate of home, and the passion for roaming.” —Charles Baudelaire, Paris Spleen (1869)
- 7. Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde (1875)
- 8. Boulevards made for strolling (and seeing)
- 9. The department store: Temple of consumerism or source of new anxieties?
- 10. Urban excitement and alienation Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge (1895)
- 11. Edgar Degas, L’absinthe (1876)
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- 13. Rise of “biological” racism
- 14. Sigmund Freud, explorer of the irrational