Author: D.R. Woolf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000849104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
First published in 1998. Including a wide range of information and recommended for academic libraries, this encyclopedia covers historiography and historians from around the world and will be a useful reference to students, researchers, scholars, librarians and the general public who are interested in the writing of history. Volume II covers entries from K to Z.
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing, Volume 2
Author: D.R. Woolf
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000849104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
First published in 1998. Including a wide range of information and recommended for academic libraries, this encyclopedia covers historiography and historians from around the world and will be a useful reference to students, researchers, scholars, librarians and the general public who are interested in the writing of history. Volume II covers entries from K to Z.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000849104
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 940
Book Description
First published in 1998. Including a wide range of information and recommended for academic libraries, this encyclopedia covers historiography and historians from around the world and will be a useful reference to students, researchers, scholars, librarians and the general public who are interested in the writing of history. Volume II covers entries from K to Z.
A Global Encyclopedia of Historical Writing
Author: D.R. Woolf
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134819986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134819986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Watershed
Author: Mark Barr
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background--a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people--Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity in the rural community--where violence, prostitution, and dog-fighting are commonplace--thrusts together the federal and local worlds, in an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, and Ron Rash's Serena.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938235597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Set in 1937 in rural Tennessee, with the construction of a monumental dam serving as background--a cinematically biblical effort to harness elemental forces and bring power to the people--Watershed delivers a gripping story of characters whose ambitions and yearnings threaten to overflow the banks of their time and place. Nathan, an engineer hiding from his past, and Claire, a small-town housewife, struggle to find their footing in the newly-electrified, job-hungry, post-Depression South. As Nathan wrestles with the burdens of a secret guilt and tangled love, Claire struggles to balance motherhood and a newfound freedom that awakens ambitions and a sexuality she hadn't known she possessed. The arrival of electricity in the rural community--where violence, prostitution, and dog-fighting are commonplace--thrusts together the federal and local worlds, in an evocative feat of storytelling in the vein of Kent Haruf's Plainsong, and Ron Rash's Serena.
The Watershed of Two Eras
Author: Jan Romein
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The author examines historical events from 1890 to the outbreak of World War I including the Boxer Rebellion, the Boer War, the Dreyfus case, the growth of anti-Semitism, the arms race, the economic crisis, and the growth of urbanization.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 842
Book Description
The author examines historical events from 1890 to the outbreak of World War I including the Boxer Rebellion, the Boer War, the Dreyfus case, the growth of anti-Semitism, the arms race, the economic crisis, and the growth of urbanization.
Reflections on the Modern and the Global
Author: Bruce Mazlish
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 141285184X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Over the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurance: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to globalization, a period marked by increasing interdependency and interconnectivity, as evidenced by events such as the advent of the computer. Bruce Mazlish argues that in order to understand ourselves in the world today we need to know more about the nature of both concepts. Mazlish discusses the transition in terms of "reflections." Rather than adding to the enormous amount of archival research that already exists, he instead examines slices of modernity--the way of seeing, the sense of self, for example--as if under a microscope. He sees modernity as strongly marked by its insistence on freedom of political and religious thought and the rights of man (later expanded to include women). Such changes did not happen all at once, but as a gradual development. While some prefer to contemplate the transition from the modern to the global as a continuous, seamless development, Mazlish argues that post-WWII developments are best understood in terms of a break or a "rupture." Illustrating that the process was further accelerated by the computer revolution and the launching of artificial satellites, Mazlish places the events of 1989 in the framework of globalization. He concludes by inquiring further into the significance of the transition from modernity to globalization and its impact upon thought and identity.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 141285184X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
Over the past five hundred years, historians and other social scientists have perceived an extraordinary occurance: the transition from the Middle Ages, via the Renaissance, to modernity. Equally remarkable has been the transition taking place in the last fifty years from modernity to globalization, a period marked by increasing interdependency and interconnectivity, as evidenced by events such as the advent of the computer. Bruce Mazlish argues that in order to understand ourselves in the world today we need to know more about the nature of both concepts. Mazlish discusses the transition in terms of "reflections." Rather than adding to the enormous amount of archival research that already exists, he instead examines slices of modernity--the way of seeing, the sense of self, for example--as if under a microscope. He sees modernity as strongly marked by its insistence on freedom of political and religious thought and the rights of man (later expanded to include women). Such changes did not happen all at once, but as a gradual development. While some prefer to contemplate the transition from the modern to the global as a continuous, seamless development, Mazlish argues that post-WWII developments are best understood in terms of a break or a "rupture." Illustrating that the process was further accelerated by the computer revolution and the launching of artificial satellites, Mazlish places the events of 1989 in the framework of globalization. He concludes by inquiring further into the significance of the transition from modernity to globalization and its impact upon thought and identity.
James Joyce and the Question of History
Author: James Fairhall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Explores James Joyce's work as a response to developments in British and European history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558761
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Explores James Joyce's work as a response to developments in British and European history.