History In The Plural

Author : Niklas Olsen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857452962

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History in the Plural by Niklas Olsen Pdf

Reinhart Koselleck (1923–2006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream historical writing, he created numerous highly innovative approaches, absorbing influences from other academic disciplines as represented in the work of philosophers and political thinkers like Hans Georg Gadamer and Carl Schmitt and that of internationally renowned scholars such as Hayden White, Michel Foucault, and Quentin Skinner. An advocate of "grand theory," Koselleck was an inspiration to many scholars and helped move the discipline into new directions (such as conceptual history, theories of historical times and memory) and across disciplinary and national boundaries. He thus achieved a degree of international fame that was unusual for a German historian after 1945. This book not only presents the life and work of a "great thinker" and European intellectual, it also contributes to our understanding of complex theoretical and methodological issues in the cultural sciences and to our knowledge of the history of political, historical, and cultural thought in Germany from the 1950s to the present.

Author : Anoma Pieris
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780824833541

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Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes by Anoma Pieris Pdf

During the nineteenth century, the colonial Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang, and Melaka were established as free ports of British trade in Southeast Asia and proved attractive to large numbers of regional migrants. Following the abolishment of slavery in 1833, the Straits government transported convicts from the East India Company’s Indian presidencies to the settlements as a source of inexpensive labor. The prison became the primary experimental site for the colonial plural society and convicts were graduated by race and the labor needed for urban construction. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes investigates how a political system aimed at managing ethnic communities in the larger material context of the colonial urban project was first imagined and tested through the physical segregation of the colonial prison. It relates the story of a city, Singapore, and a contemporary city-state whose plural society has its origins in these historical divisions. A description of the evolution of the ideal plan for a plural city across the three settlements is followed by a detailed look at Singapore’s colonial prison. Chapters trace the prison’s development and its dissolution across the urban landscape through the penal labor system. The author demonstrates the way in which racial politics were inscribed spatially in the division of penal facilities and how the map of the city was reconfigured through convict labor. Later chapters describe penal resistance first through intimate stories of penal life and then through a discussion of organized resistance in festival riots. Eventually, the plural city ideal collapsed into the hegemonic urban form of the citadel, where a quite different military vision of the city became evident. Hidden Hands and Divided Landscapes is a fascinating and thoroughly original study in urban history and the making of multiethnic society in Singapore. It will compel readers to rethink the ways in which colonial urban history, postcolonial urbanism, and governance have been theorized by scholars and represented by governments.

Author : Suzannah Lipscomb,Helen Carr
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 147462247X

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What Is History, Now? by Suzannah Lipscomb,Helen Carr Pdf

'THE history book for now. This is why and how historians do what they do. And why they need to' Dan Snow 'What is History, Now? demonstrates how our constructs of the past are woven into our modern world and culture, and offers us an illuminating handbook to understanding this dynamic and shape-shifting subject. A thought-provoking, insightful and necessary re-examination of the subject' Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five 'The importance of history is becoming more evident every day, and this humane book is an essential navigation tool. Urgent and utterly compelling' Sathnam Sanghera, author of Empireland 'Important and exciting' Kate Williams, author of Rival Queens Inspired by the influential text WHAT IS HISTORY? authored by Helen Carr's great-grandfather, E.H. Carr, and published on the 60th anniversary of that book, this is a groundbreaking new collection addressing the burning issue of how we interpret history today. What stories are told, and by whom, who should be celebrated, and what rewritten, are questions that have been asked recently not just within the history world, but by all of us. Featuring a diverse mix of writers, both bestselling names and emerging voices, this is the history book we need NOW. WHAT IS HISTORY, NOW? covers topics such as the history of racism and anti-racism, queer history, the history of faith, the history of disability, environmental history, escaping imperial nostalgia, hearing women's voices and 'rewriting' the past. The list of contributors includes: Justin Bengry, Leila K Blackbird, Emily Brand, Gus Casely-Hayford, Sarah Churchwell, Caroline Dodds Pennock, Peter Frankopan, Bettany Hughes, Dan Hicks, Onyeka Nubia, Islam Issa, Maya Jasanoff, Rana Mitter, Charlotte Riley, Miri Rubin, Simon Schama, Alex von Tunzelmann and Jaipreet Virdi.

Author : Richard Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : English language
ISBN : PRNC:32101038142012

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Historical Outlines of English Accidence by Richard Morris Pdf

Author : Bonnie Costello
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691202907

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The Plural of Us by Bonnie Costello Pdf

The Plural of Us is the first book to focus on the poet’s use of the first-person plural voice—poetry’s “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, Bonnie Costello uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I,” “we” has hardly been noticed, even though it has appeared throughout the history of poetry. Reading for this pronoun in its variety and ambiguity, Costello explores the communal function of poetry—the reasons, risks, and rewards of the first-person plural. Costello adopts a taxonomic approach to her subject, considering “we” from its most constricted to its fully unbounded forms. She also takes a historical perspective, following Auden’s interest in the full range of “the human pluralities” in a time of particular pressure for and against the collective. Costello offers new readings as she tracks his changing approach to voice in democracy. Examples from many other poets—including Walt Whitman, T. S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, and Wallace Stevens—arise throughout the book, and the final chapter offers a consideration of how contemporary writers find form for what George Oppen called “the meaning of being numerous.” Connecting insights to philosophy of language and to recent work in concepts of community, The Plural of Us shows how poetry raises vital questions—literary and social—about how we speak of our togetherness.

Author : Sophie McCall
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780774859936

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First Person Plural by Sophie McCall Pdf

In this innovative exploration, told-to narratives, or collaboratively produced texts by Aboriginal storytellers and (usually) non-Aboriginal writers, are not romanticized as unmediated translations of oral documents, nor are they dismissed as corruptions of original works. Rather, the approach emphasizes the interpenetration of authorship and collaboration. Focused on the 1990s, when debates over voice and representation were particularly explosive, this captivating study examines a range of told-to narratives in conjunction with key political events that have shaped the struggle for Aboriginal rights to reveal how these narratives impact larger debates about Indigenous voice and literary and political sovereignty.

Author : Máiréad Nic Craith
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Culture conflict
ISBN : 1571813144

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Plural Identities--singular Narratives by Máiréad Nic Craith Pdf

Northern Ireland is frequently characterised in terms of a two traditions paradigm, representing the conflict as being between two discrete cultures. Demonstrating the reductionist nature of this argument, this book highlights the complexity of reality.

Author : Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317558040

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Truth and History in the Ancient World by Lisa Hau,Ian Ruffell Pdf

This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth – one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true – or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenophon, and Ktesias, as well as Hellenistic and later historiography, material culture in Vitruvius, and Lucian’s satire. Rather than investigate whether historiography incorporates elements of poetic, rhetorical, or narrative techniques to shape historical accounts, or whether cultural memory is flexible or manipulated, this volume examines pluralities of truth and belief within the ancient world – and consequences for our understanding of culture, ancient or otherwise.

Author : Thomas Cable
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134425358

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A Companion to Baugh and Cable's A History of the English Language by Thomas Cable Pdf

This comprehensive and accessible student workbook accompanies the fifth edition of Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable's History of the English Language. Each chapter in the workbook corresponds directly to a chapter in the textbook and offers exercises, review questions, extensive supplementary examples, additional explanations and a range of sample extracts taken from texts of different periods. An additional 'pre-chapter' on the sounds of English also provides phonetic information and exercises that will prove useful throughout the book. This third edition has been revised alongside the textbook and includes new exercises to accompany the sections on Gender Issues and Linguistic Change, and African American Vernacular English. This workbook is an invaluable companion for all History of English Language courses.

Author : Jean-Luc Nancy
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804739757

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Being Singular Plural by Jean-Luc Nancy Pdf

This book, by one of the most innovative and challenging contemporary thinkers, rethinks community and the very idea of the social. Nancy's fundamental argument is that being is always "being with," that "I" is not prior to "we," that existence is essentially co-existence.

Author : Arthur Alfaix Assis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009041546

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Plural Pasts by Arthur Alfaix Assis Pdf

What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword 'past events' are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic plurality that characterizes contemporary academic historiography. The reflection on different sorts of pasts that can be at focus in historical research and writing encompasses events as well as non-events, especially recursive social structures and cultural webs. Some consequences of such plurality for discussions concerning historical methodology, explanation, exemplification, and representation are also outlined. The basic message, reinforced throughout, is that the great relevance of non-event-centred approaches should prompt us to talk more about “histories” in the plural and less about “history” in the singular.

Author : August Hjalmar Edgren
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Spanish language
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2F4Q

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A Brief Spanish Grammar with Historical Introductions and Exercises by August Hjalmar Edgren Pdf

Author : J. Keller
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230623767

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Writing Plural Worlds in Contemporary U.S. Poetry by J. Keller Pdf

This book reveals how poets within the U.S. multi-ethnic avant-garde give up the goal of narrating one comprehensive, rooted view of cultural reality in favour of constructing coherent accounts of relational, local selves and worlds.

Author : Hans Bernhard Schmid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789048124374

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Plural Action by Hans Bernhard Schmid Pdf

Collective Intentionality is a relatively new label for a basic social fact: the sharing of attitudes such as intentions, beliefs and emotions. This volume contributes to current research on collective intentionality by pursuing three aims. First, some of the main conceptual problems in the received literature are introduced, and a number of new insights into basic questions in the philosophy of collective intentionality are developed (part 1). Second, examples are given for the use of the analysis of collective intentionality in the theory and philosophy of the social sciences (part 2). Third, it is shown that this line of research opens up new perspectives on classical topics in the history of social philosophy and social science, and that, conversely, an inquiry into the history of ideas can lead to further refinement of our conceptual tools in the analysis of collective intentionality (part 3).

Author : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : GENT:900000147897

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Historical and Statistical Information Respecting the History, Condition and Prospects of the Indian Tribes of the United States: Information respecting the history, condition and prospects of the Indian tribes of the United States by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft Pdf