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Author: Charles S. Maier Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674040441 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.
Author: Driss Chraibi Publisher: New York Review of Books ISBN: 1681373602 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 241
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The Simple Past came out in 1954, and both in France and its author’s native Morocco the book caused an explosion of fury. The protagonist, who shares the author’s name, Driss, comes from a Moroccan family of means, his father a self-made tea merchant, the most devout of Muslims, quick to be provoked and ready to lash out verbally or physically, continually bent on subduing his timid wife and many children to his iron and ever-righteous will. He is known, simply, as the Lord, and Driss, who is in high school, is in full revolt against both him and the French colonial authorities, for whom, as much as for his father, he is no one. Driss Chraïbi’s classic coming-of-age story is about colonialism, Islam, the subjection of women, and finding, as his novel does, a voice that is as cutting and coruscating as it is original and free.
Author: Charles S. Maier Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 9780674040441 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
Bringing his book up to date with reflections since its first publication a decade ago, Charles S. Maier writes that the historians’ controversy gave Germany a chance to air the issues immediately before unification and, in effect, the controversy substituted for the constitutional debate that a united Germany never got around to holding. The premises of national community, whether formulated in terms of legal culture, inherited collective responsibilities, or patriotic habits of the heart, had already been subjects for vigorous discussion.
Author: Reinhart Koselleck Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 0231127715 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 340
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Modernity in the late eighteenth century transformed all domains of European life -intellectual, industrial, and social. Not least affected was the experience of time itself: ever-accelerating change left people with briefer intervals of time in which to gather new experiences and adapt. In this provocative and erudite book Reinhart Koselleck, a distinguished philosopher of history, explores the concept of historical time by posing the question: what kind of experience is opened up by the emergence of modernity? Relying on an extraordinary array of witnesses and texts from politicians, philosophers, theologians, and poets to Renaissance paintings and the dreams of German citizens during the Third Reich, Koselleck shows that, with the advent of modernity, the past and the future became 'relocated' in relation to each other.The promises of modernity -freedom, progress, infinite human improvement -produced a world accelerating toward an unknown and unknowable future within which awaited the possibility of achieving utopian fulfillment. History, Koselleck asserts, emerged in this crucial moment as a new temporality providing distinctly new ways of assimilating experience. In the present context of globalization and its resulting crises, the modern world once again faces a crisis in aligning the experience of past and present. To realize that each present was once an imagined future may help us once again place ourselves within a temporality organized by human thought and humane ends as much as by the contingencies of uncontrolled events.
Author: Charles E. Orser Publisher: Rowman Altamira ISBN: 9780761991427 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 484
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A collection of classic and contemporary articles demonstrating the development of historical archaeology over the past 20 years, both in North America and throughout the world. Contains sections on recent perspectives, people and places, historic artifacts, interdisciplinary studies, landscape studies, and international historical archaeology. For use in historical archaeology classes. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Mark C. Carnes Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 9780805037609 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 324
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Essays that consider how classic movies have reflected history include the writings of such noted historians as Paul Fussell, Antonia Fraser, and Gore Vidal.
Author: Silvana Rosenfeld Publisher: University Press of Colorado ISBN: 1607325969 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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Rituals of the Past explores the various approaches archaeologists use to identify ritual in the material record and discusses the influence ritual had on the formation, reproduction, and transformation of community life in past Andean societies. A diverse group of established and rising scholars from across the globe investigates how ritual influenced, permeated, and altered political authority, economic production, shamanic practice, landscape cognition, and religion in the Andes over a period of three thousand years. Contributors deal with theoretical and methodological concerns including non-human and human agency; the development and maintenance of political and religious authority, ideology, cosmologies, and social memory; and relationships with ritual action. The authors use a diverse array of archaeological, ethnographic, and linguistic data and historical documents to demonstrate the role ritual played in prehispanic, colonial, and post-colonial Andean societies throughout the regions of Peru, Chile, Bolivia, and Argentina. By providing a diachronic and widely regional perspective, Rituals of the Past shows how ritual is vital to understanding many aspects of the formation, reproduction, and change of past lifeways in Andean societies. Contributors: Sarah Abraham, Carlos Angiorama, Florencia Avila, Camila Capriata Estrada, David Chicoine, Daniel Contreras, Matthew Edwards, Francesca Fernandini, Matthew Helmer, Hugo Ikehara, Enrique Lopez-Hurtado, Jerry Moore, Axel Nielsen, Yoshio Onuki, John Rick, Mario Ruales, Koichiro Shibata, Hendrik Van Gijseghem, Rafael Vega-Centeno, Verity Whalen
Author: Odette C. Bell Publisher: Odette C. Bell ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 193
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The past should stay in the past, right? Universal rule, isn’t it? Meet Sally Wise – past witch and a woman who’s about to be thrown into the greatest trouble history has ever cooked up. When Sally returns home to take over the family business, she inherits a curse. She’s about to become the custodian of a magical book with 10,000 historical figures. From Cleopatra, to Julius Caesar, her work will be cut out for her. Then she meets him – the bolshie, quick-witted, cold detective. He’s thrown into her life, and try as she might, she can’t break free. Good. She’ll need him, and he’ll need her. For the pages of history are rustling, and something dark is about to push through. …. Past Tense follows a rare witch and a clueless detective fighting for each other through time. If you love your urban fantasies with action, heart, and a splash of romance, grab Past Tense Book One today and soar free with an Odette C. Bell series.
Author: David Kilpatrick Publisher: ISBN: 9780964690363 Category : Languages : en Pages : 300
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This volume is designed to prevent and correct most word-level reading difficulties. It trains phonemic awareness and promotes sight vocabulary acquisition, and therefore reading fluency.
Author: Lauren Istvandity Publisher: Anthem Press ISBN: 1783089709 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 256
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Remembering Popular Music’s Past capitalizes on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music’s material past and on scholarly explorations of the ways in which popular music, as heritage, is produced, legitimized and conferred cultural and historical significance. The chapters in this collection consider the spaces, practices and representations that constitute popular music heritage to elucidate how popular music’s past is lived in the present. Thus the focus is on the transformation of popular music into heritage, and the role of history and memory in this process. The cultural studies framework adopted in Remembering Popular Music’s Past encompasses unique approaches to popular music historiography, sociology, film analysis, and archival and museal work. Broadly, the collection deals with the precarious nature of popular music heritage, history and memory.
Author: John Campbell Publisher: MIT Press ISBN: 9780262531313 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 286
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John Campbell shows that the general structural features of human thought can be seen as having their source in the distinctive ways in which we think about space and time.
Author: Charles S. Maier
Author: Driss Chraibi
Author: Charles S. Maier
Author: Reinhart Koselleck
Author: Charles E. Orser
Author: Mark C. Carnes
Author: Silvana Rosenfeld
Author: Odette C. Bell
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