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Beauty in the Age of Empire: Japan, Egypt, and the Global History of Aesthetic Education
ISBN: 9780231549288
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Arts -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Japan; Arts -- Study and teaching (Primary) -- Egypt; Arts in education;

Beauty in the Age of Empire is a global history of aesthetic education focused on how Western techniques were adopted and transformed in Egypt and Japan. Raja Adal uncovers the emergence of aesthetic subjects in pedagogy and their role in the creation of the modern citizen and state.

Raja Adal (PhD, History, Harvard) is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh. His work has appeared in Comparative Studies in Society and History and Theory, Culture, and Society.Raja Adal is assistant professor of history at the University of Pittsburgh.