Conceiving A Nation

Author : Gilbert Markus
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748679010

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This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth's Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda.Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls 'luminous debris' - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.

Author : Mira Morgenstern
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271036533

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Conceiving a Nation by Mira Morgenstern Pdf

Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a fluid and ongoing process of negotiation open to a range of livable solutions—is actually rooted in the Bible. This book draws attention to the contribution that the Bible makes to political discourse about the nation. The Bible is particularly well suited to this open-ended discourse because of its own nature as a text whose ambiguity and laconic quality render it constantly open to new interpretations and applicable to changing circumstances. The Bible offers a pluralistic understanding of different models of political development for different nations, and it depicts altering concepts of national identity over time. In this book, Morgenstern reads the Bible as the source of a dynamic critique of the ideas that are conventionally considered to be fundamental to national identity, treating in successive chapters the ethnic (Ruth), the cultural (Samson), the political (Jotham), and the territorial (Esther). Throughout, she explores a number of common themes, such as the relationship of women to political authority and the “strangeness” of Israelite political existence. In the Conclusion, she elucidates how biblical analysis can aid in recognition of modern claims to nationhood.

Author : Gilbert Márkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 1474435203

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This title covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly 100 miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Gilbert Markus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls 'luminous debris' - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a 'dark age'.

Author : Mira Morgenstern
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780271048062

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Author : Gilbert Márkus
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Scotland
ISBN : 0748679006

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Conceiving a Nation. Scotland to 900 AD. by Gilbert Márkus Pdf

This new edition in The New History of Scotland series, replacing Alfred Smyth?s Warlords and Holy Men (1984), covers the history of Scotland in the period up to 900 AD. A great deal has changed in the historiography of this period in the intervening three decades: an entire Pictish kingdom has moved nearly a hundred miles to the north; new archaeological finds have forced us to rethink old assumptions; and the writing of early medieval history is beginning to struggle out of the shadow of later medieval sources which have too often been read rather naively and without sufficient regard for their implicit ideological agenda. Gilbert Márkus brings a stimulating approach to studying this elusive period, analysing both its litter of physical evidence as well as its literary sources - what he calls?luminous débris? - as a method of shedding light on the reality of the period. In doing so, he reforms our historical perceptions of what has often been dismissed as a?dark age?

Author : Mira Morgenstern
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271074948

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Conceiving a Nation by Mira Morgenstern Pdf

Current conflicts in both national and international arenas have undermined the natural, organic concept of nationhood as conventionally espoused in the nineteenth century. Conceiving a Nation argues that the modern understanding of the nation as a contested concept—as the product of a fluid and ongoing process of negotiation open to a range of livable solutions—is actually rooted in the Bible. This book draws attention to the contribution that the Bible makes to political discourse about the nation. The Bible is particularly well suited to this open-ended discourse because of its own nature as a text whose ambiguity and laconic quality render it constantly open to new interpretations and applicable to changing circumstances. The Bible offers a pluralistic understanding of different models of political development for different nations, and it depicts altering concepts of national identity over time. In this book, Morgenstern reads the Bible as the source of a dynamic critique of the ideas that are conventionally considered to be fundamental to national identity, treating in successive chapters the ethnic (Ruth), the cultural (Samson), the political (Jotham), and the territorial (Esther). Throughout, she explores a number of common themes, such as the relationship of women to political authority and the “strangeness” of Israelite political existence. In the Conclusion, she elucidates how biblical analysis can aid in recognition of modern claims to nationhood.

Author : Grant Parker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107100817

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South Africa, Greece, Rome by Grant Parker Pdf

This book explores how since colonial times South Africa has created its own vernacular classicism, both in creative media and everyday life.

Author : Belle Boggs
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781555979454

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The Art of Waiting by Belle Boggs Pdf

A brilliant exploration of the natural, medical, psychological, and political facets of fertility When Belle Boggs's "The Art of Waiting" was published in Orion in 2012, it went viral, leading to republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a spot at the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix." In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her realization that she might never be able to conceive. She searches the apparently fertile world around her--the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the birth of eaglets near her rural home, and an unusual gorilla pregnancy at a local zoo--for signs that she is not alone. Boggs also explores other aspects of fertility and infertility: the way longing for a child plays out in the classic Coen brothers film Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth to Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?; the financial and legal complications that accompany alternative means of family making; the private and public expressions of iconic writers grappling with motherhood and fertility. She reports, with great empathy, complex stories of couples who adopted domestically and from overseas, LGBT couples considering assisted reproduction and surrogacy, and women and men reflecting on childless or child-free lives. In The Art of Waiting, Boggs deftly distills her time of waiting into an expansive contemplation of fertility, choice, and the many possible roads to making a life and making a family.

Author : Steven Vertovec,Robin Cohen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199252282

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Conceiving Cosmopolitanism by Steven Vertovec,Robin Cohen Pdf

In questioning what we share as human beings and whether we can ever live in peace with one another, the contributors to this study consider the multiple meanings of the term cosmopolitanism in the past and present. They then develop new ways of conceiving cosmopolitanism for the 21st century and beyond.

Author : Laura L. Lovett
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0807868108

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Conceiving the Future by Laura L. Lovett Pdf

Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction. Their pronatalism emerged from a modernist conviction that reproduction and population could be regulated. European countries sought to regulate or encourage reproduction through legislation; America, by contrast, fostered ideological and cultural ideas of pronatalism through what Laura Lovett calls "nostalgic modernism," which romanticized agrarianism and promoted scientific racism and eugenics. Lovett looks closely at the ideologies of five influential American figures: Mary Lease's maternalist agenda, Florence Sherbon's eugenic "fitter families" campaign, George Maxwell's "homecroft" movement of land reclamation and home building, Theodore Roosevelt's campaign for conservation and country life, and Edward Ross's sociological theory of race suicide and social control. Demonstrating the historical circumstances that linked agrarianism, racism, and pronatalism, Lovett shows how reproductive conformity was manufactured, how it was promoted, and why it was coercive. In addition to contributing to scholarship in American history, gender studies, rural studies, and environmental history, Lovett's study sheds light on the rhetoric of "family values" that has regained currency in recent years.

Author : Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199913169

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Conceiving Citizens by Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet Pdf

While Iranian women have most frequently been viewed through the politics of veiling, Conceiving Citizens interprets modern Iranian politics and society through the history of women's health and sexuality. Drawing on archival documents and manuscript sources from Iran and elsewhere, Firoozeh Kashani-Sabet illustrates how debates over hygiene, reproductive politics, and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries explained demographic trends and put women at the center of nationalist debates. Exploring women's lives under successive regimes, she chronicles the hygiene campaigns that cast mothers as custodians of a healthy civilization; debates over female education, employment, and political rights; government policies on contraception and population control; and tensions between religion and secularism.

Author : Patrick Hanafin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781317162551

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Conceiving Life by Patrick Hanafin Pdf

This volume examines the evolution of reproductive law in Italy from the `far west' of the 1980s and 90s through to one of the most potentially restrictive systems in Europe. The book employs an array of sociological, philosophical and legal material in order to discover why such a repressive piece of legislation has been produced at the end of a period of substantial change in the dynamic of gender relations in Italy. The book also discusses Italian policy within the wider European policy framework.

Author : Michal S. Raucher
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253052384

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Conceiving Agency by Michal S. Raucher Pdf

Conceiving Agency: Reproductive Authority among Haredi Women explores the ways Haredi Jewish women make decisions about their reproductive lives. Although they must contend with interference from doctors, rabbis, and the Israeli government, Haredi women find space for—and insist on—autonomy from them when they make decisions regarding the use of contraceptives, prenatal testing, fetal ultrasounds, and other reproductive practices. Drawing on their experiences of pregnancy, knowledge of cultural norms of reproduction, and theological beliefs, Raucher shows that Haredi women assert that they are in the best position to make decisions about reproduction. Conceiving Agency puts forward a new view of Haredi women acting in ways that challenge male authority and the structural hierarchies of their conservative religious tradition. Raucher asserts that Haredi women's reproductive agency is a demonstration of women's commitment to Haredi life and culture as well as an indication of how they define religious ethics.

Author : Josep R. Llobera
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1571816127

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Foundations of National Identity by Josep R. Llobera Pdf

What we are experiencing is an increasing autonomy of ethnonations, i.e. nations without a state, in the wake of a weakening of the multinational states and the transfer of their sovereignty upwards, in the case of Europe to the federation of the European Union, and downwards to the "ethnonations"."--Jacket.

Author : Risa Cromer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781479818587

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Conceiving Christian America by Risa Cromer Pdf

"An insider's look at a powerful social movement that aims to transform how we think about frozen human embryos, reproductive politics, and the future of the nation"--