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Author: Carlo Ginzburg Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520274482 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʾs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Carlo Ginzburg Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520274482 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
Book Description
"This book is a translation of historian Carlo Ginzburgʾs latest collection of essays. Through the detective work of uncovering a wide variety of stories or microhistories from fragments, Ginzburg takes on the bigger questions: How do we draw the line between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? Stories range from medieval Europe, the inquisitional trial of a witch, seventeenth-century antiquarianism, and twentieth-century historians"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Carlo Ginzburg Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520949846 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 336
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Carlo Ginzburg’s brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? How do we grapple with the historical conventions that inform, in different ways, all written documents? In his answers, Ginzburg peels away layers of subsequent readings and interpretations that envelop every text to make a larger argument about history and fiction. Interwoven with compelling autobiographical references, Threads and Traces bears moving witness to Ginzburg’s life as a European Jew, the abiding strength of his scholarship, and his deep engagement with the historian’s craft.
Author: Jane L. Collins Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 0226113736 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 222
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Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex economic dynamics driving the global apparel industry. To dispel these misunderstandings, Jane L. Collins visited two very different apparel firms and their factories in the United States and Mexico. Moving from corporate headquarters to factory floors, her study traces the diverse ties that link First and Third World workers and managers, producers and consumers. Collins examines how the transnational economics of the apparel industry allow firms to relocate or subcontract their work anywhere in the world, making it much harder for garment workers in the United States or any other country to demand fair pay and humane working conditions. Putting a human face on globalization, Threads shows not only how international trade affects local communities but also how workers can organize in this new environment to more effectively demand better treatment from their distant corporate employers.
Author: Carlo Ginzburg Publisher: JHU Press ISBN: 1421409917 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 241
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Carlo Ginzburg considers how we assign historical context to events. More than twenty years after Clues, Myths, and the Historical Method was first published in English, this extraordinary collection remains a classic. The book brings together essays about Renaissance witchcraft, National Socialism, sixteenth-century Italian painting, Freud’s wolf-man, and other topics. In the influential centerpiece of the volume Carlo Ginzburg places historical knowledge in a long tradition of cognitive practices and shows how a research strategy based on reading clues and traces embedded in the historical record reveals otherwise hidden information. Acknowledging his debt to art history, psychoanalysis, comparative religion, and anthropology, Ginzburg challenges us to retrieve cultural and social dimensions beyond disciplinary boundaries. In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on how easily we miss the context in which we read, write, and live. Only hindsight allows some understanding. He examines his own path in research during the 1970s and its relationship to the times, especially the political scenes of Italy and Germany. Was he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the elusive and constantly evolving nature of history and historical research.
Author: April Liu Publisher: ISBN: 9781773270234 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 208
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For more than 100 years, Vancouver has been home to a vibrant and thriving Cantonese opera scene. As a performance art carried out by transient troupes, it is an ephemeral medium that rarely leaves a trace in the historic records. However, an extraordinary treasure trove of early 20th-century Cantonese opera costumes, props, and stage dressings made its way to the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver, BC. In the first book-length study of this little known collection, April Liu retraces the arduous journeys of early Cantonese opera troupes who began arriving along the west coast of North America during the mid-19th century. A close examination of the costumes and props reveal the moving songs, stories, performances, and ritual practices of early Chinese migrant communities who struggled to make a home in a foreign and often hostile land.
Author: Thomas Ricks Lindley Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications ISBN: 1556229836 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 406
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Never wavering in its search for the bedrock of fact, this book is a methodical, piece-by-piece dismantling of what we thought we knew and a convincing speculation about what might have really happened during that courageous fight for independence.
Author: Eliot Weinberger Publisher: New Directions Publishing ISBN: 9780811214568 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 212
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A collection of twenty-four essays by American author Eliot Weinberger, in which he discusses his personal travels around the world, and other topics.
Author: Sebastian Faulks Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1588365689 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 669
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Sixteen-year-old Jacques Rebière is living a humble life in rural France, studying butterflies and frogs by candlelight in his bedroom. Across the Channel, in England, the playful Thomas Midwinter, also sixteen, is enjoying a life of ease-and is resigned to follow his father's wishes and pursue a career in medicine. A fateful seaside meeting four years later sets the two young men on a profound course of friendship and discovery; they will become pioneers in the burgeoning field of psychiatry. But when a female patient at the doctors' Austrian sanatorium becomes dangerously ill, the two men's conflicting diagnosis threatens to divide them--and to undermine all their professional achievements. From the bestselling author of Birdsong comes this masterful novel that ventures to answer challenging questions of consciousness and science, and what it means to be human.
Author: Armand Morin Publisher: Morgan James Publishing ISBN: 160037879X Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 164
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True story from one of the world’s most successful Internet Marketers. Follow the steps that have led Armand to make millions of dollars. Learn to quickly and easily recognize great opportunities by using Armand’s Opportunity Matrix. Insights on how to think and perform like a millionaire. Discover the five elements necessary to accomplish anything in life. Success Leaves Traces is a way of re-engineering any task that anyone has ever done and make the process your own. Learn ways to get more out of a small team than most companies do with giant ones. How to gain focus and stay on task to accomplish all of your goals. Understand the “Stop Factor” and how to avoid it so it never stops you from moving forward again.
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Author: Jane L. Collins
Author: Carlo Ginzburg
Author: Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Author: April Liu
Author: Thomas Ricks Lindley
Author: Eliot Weinberger
Author: Sebastian Faulks
Author: Armand Morin