A History In Fragments

Author : Richard Vinen
Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748123445

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A History in Fragments by Richard Vinen Pdf

The problem with the history of twentieth-century Europe is that everyone thinks they know it. The great stories of the century - the two world wars, the rise and fall of Nazism and communism, female emancipation - seem self-evidently important. But behind the grand narratives, the politics and the ideologies, lies another history: the history of forces that shaped the lives of individual Europeans. That is the thrust of Richard Vinen's magisterial survey of this uniquely destructive and creative century. It argues that there is no single history that encompasses the experience of all Europeans, but rather a multiplicity of different, partially interlocking, histories. Some of these histories are told here in a book which seeks to root the generalisations of large-scale analysis in the concrete - and sometimes incongruous - details of individual lives. Challenging, informing and revealing, this is history writing at its finest.

Author : Fred Orton,Wood,Clare Lees
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UVA:X004832932

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Fragments of History by Fred Orton,Wood,Clare Lees Pdf

A study of the two premier survivals of pre-Viking Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture. This book shows the reader how to understand the monuments as social products in relation to a history of which our knowledge is so fragmentary, and concludes with a discussion of their underlying premises.

Author : Myra Seaman,Eileen A. Joy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814213049

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Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism by Myra Seaman,Eileen A. Joy Pdf

Fragments for a History of a Vanishing Humanism brings together scholars working in prehistoric, classical, medieval, and early modern studies who are developing, from longer and slower historical perspectives, critical post/humanisms that explore: 1) the significance (historical, sociocultural, psychic, etc.) of human expression and affectivity; 2) the impact of technology and new sciences on what it means to be a human self; 3) the importance of art and literature in defining and enacting human selves; 4) the importance of history in defining the human; 5) the artistic plasticity of the human; 6) the question of a human collectivity--what is the value, and peril, of "being human" or "being post/human" together?; and finally, 7) the constructive, and destructive, relations (aesthetic, historical, and philosophical) of the human to the nonhuman. This volume, edited by Myra Seaman and Eileen A. Joy, insists on the always provisional and contingent formations of the human, and of various humanisms, over time, while also aiming to demonstrate the different ways these formations emerge (and also disappear) in different times and places, from the most ancient past to the most contemporary present. The essays are offered as "fragments" because the authors do not believe there can ever be a "total history" of either the human or the post/human as they play themselves out in differing historical contexts. At the same time, the volume as a whole argues that defining what "the human" (or "post/human") is has always been an ongoing, never finished cultural project.

Author : Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015049626149

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Fragments for a History of the Human Body by Michel Feher,Ramona Naddaff,Nadia Tazi Pdf

Part 2 covers the junctures between the body's "outside" and "inside" by studying the manifestations - or production - of the soul and the expression of the emotions and, on another level, by examining the speculations inspired by cenesthesia, pain, and death.

Author : Alison Winter
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226902586

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Memory by Alison Winter Pdf

Picture your 21st birthday. Did you have a party? If so, do you remember who was there? How clear are these memories? Should we trust them? Such questions have fascinated scientists for hundreds of years, and, as Alison Winter shows in this book, the answers have changed dramatically in just the past century.

Author : Jeffrey N Wasserstrom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134613724

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Global Shanghai, 1850-2010 by Jeffrey N Wasserstrom Pdf

This book explores the play of international forces and international ideas about Shanghai, looking backward as far as its transformation into a subdivided treaty port in the 1840s, and looking forward to its upcoming hosting of China’s first World’s Fair, the 2010 Expo. As such, Global Shanghai is a lively and informative read for students and scholars of Chinese studies and urban studies and anyone interested in the history of Shanghai.

Author : Michael O'Loughlin,Marilyn Charles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781442231863

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Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering by Michael O'Loughlin,Marilyn Charles Pdf

Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering: Trauma, History, and Memory offers a kaleidoscope of perspectives that highlight the problem of traumatic memory. Because trauma fragments memory, storytelling is impeded by what is unknowable and what is unspeakable. Each of the contributors tackles the problem of narrativizing memory that is constructed from fragments that have been passed along the generations. When trauma is cultural as well as personal, it becomes even more invisible, as each generation’s attempts at coping push the pain further below the surface. Consequently, that pain becomes increasingly ineffable, haunting succeeding generations. In each story the contributors offer, there emerges the theme of difference, a difference that turns back on itself and makes an accusation. Themes of knowing and unknowing show the terrible toll that trauma takes when there is no one with whom the trauma can be acknowledged and worked through. In the face of utter lack of recognition, what might be known together becomes hidden. Our failure to speak to these unaspirated truths becomes a betrayal of self and also of others. In the case of intergenerational and cultural trauma, we betray not only our ancestors but also the future generations to come. In the face of unacknowledged trauma, this book reveals that we are confronted with the perennial choice of speaking or becoming complicit in our silence.

Author : Eric Herring,Glen Rangwala
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Coalition Provisional Authority
ISBN : 0801444578

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Iraq in Fragments by Eric Herring,Glen Rangwala Pdf

When the United States led the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, it expected to be able to establish a prosperous liberal democracy with an open economy that would serve as a key ally in the region. It sought to engage Iraqi society in ways that would defeat any challenge to that state building project and U.S. guidance of it. Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala argue that state building in Iraq has been crippled less by preexisting weaknesses in the Iraqi state, Iraqi sectarian divisions or U.S. policy mistakes than by the fact that the US has attempted-with only limited success-to control the parameters and outcome of that process. They explain that the very nature of U.S. state-building in Iraq has created incentives for unregulated local power struggles and patron-client relations. Corruption, smuggling, and violence have resulted. The main legacy of the US-led occupation, the authors contend, is that Iraq has become a fragmented state-that is, one in which actors dispute where overall political authority lies and in which there are no agreed procedures for resolving such disputes. As long as this is the case, the authority of the state will remain limited. Technocratic mechanisms such as training schemes for officials, political fixes such as elections, and the coercive tools of repression will not be able to overcome this situation. Placing the occupation within the context of regional, global, and U.S. politics, Herring and Rangwala demonstrate how the politics of co-option, coercion, and economic change have transformed the lives and allegiances of the Iraqi population. As uncertainty about the future of Iraq persists, this volume provides a much-needed analysis of the deeper forces that give meaning to the daily events in Iraq.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:762037519

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Author : Agnes Heller
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0631187553

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A Philosophy of History in Fragments by Agnes Heller Pdf

Author : Andrew Arsan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849047005

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Lebanon by Andrew Arsan Pdf

A reflective examination of everyday life in Lebanon in times of precarity and political torpor.

Author : Marita Bullock
Publisher : Intellect Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781841505534

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Memory Fragments by Marita Bullock Pdf

Taking as its starting point four contemporary visual artists whose work utilizes the conventions of museum display and collecting practices, Memory Fragments examines how these artists have reconfigured dominant representations of Australian history and identity, including viewpoints often marginalized by gender and race. Echoing Walter Benjamin's reflections on history and time, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to scholars working in the arts as well as modern and postmodern cultural studies.

Author : William Tronzo
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892369263

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The Fragment by William Tronzo Pdf

The universe may well have begun with an immense act of fragmentation, "the big bang," that sent particles flying in all directions to perform spectacular acts of creation and destruction. The fragment, volatile and unpredictable, is not simply the static part of a once-whole thing but itself something in motion. Drawing upon art history, archaeology, literature, numismatics, philosophy, and film, this book explores the significance of the fragment and addresses the powerful drives that have impelled it into the cultural mainstream. Book jacket.

Author : Martin Corless-Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1934200387

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English Fragments by Martin Corless-Smith Pdf

The final volume in a trilogy of alternate selves and alternate literary histories

Author : Åslaug Ommundsen,Tuomas Heikkilä
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317086734

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Nordic Latin Manuscript Fragments by Åslaug Ommundsen,Tuomas Heikkilä Pdf

Much of what is known about the past often rests upon the chance survival of objects and texts. Nowhere is this better illustrated than in the fragments of medieval manuscripts re-used as bookbindings in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Such fragments provide a tantalizing, yet often problematic glimpse into the manuscript culture of the Middle Ages. Exploring the opportunities and difficulties such documents provide, this volume concentrates on the c. 50,000 fragments of medieval Latin manuscripts stored in archives across the five Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. This large collection of fragments (mostly from liturgical works) provides rich evidence about European Latin book culture, both in general and in specific relation to the far north of Europe, one of the last areas of Europe to be converted to Christianity. As the essays in this volume reveal, individual and groups of fragments can play a key role in increasing and advancing knowledge about the acquisition and production of medieval books, and in helping to distinguish locally made books from imported ones. Taking an imaginative approach to the source material, the volume goes beyond a strictly medieval context to integrate early modern perspectives that help illuminate the pattern of survival and loss of Latin manuscripts through post-Reformation practices concerning reuse of parchment. In so doing it demonstrates how the use of what might at first appear to be unpromising source material can offer unexpected and rewarding insights into diverse areas of European history and the history of the medieval book.