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Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0940262320
Seminal works of cultural history that changed the way we think about ourselves.
Author : William Irwin Thompson
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015026986243
Excerpts from the Stanford Symposium on the Prevention of Nuclear War emphasizing the bases for a mutual and verifiable nuclear arms treaty and techniques for reducing international tensions. Twelve distinguished men and women discuss the need for a new mode of thinking about the nuclear arms race.
Author : Michelle R. Warren
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0816634912
Written from a post-colonial North American perspective, this study considers the ways in which medieval British writers, in the wake of the Norman Conquest, used Arthurian historiography to reflect their fears about `colonial contamination' and about borders in general. The first half of the study examines the presentation of British history in works written on the Anglo-Welsh border. Warren then examines literature from the continent to look at British history from a Norman perspective. Parts of this study have been previously published.
Author : Carl H Nightingale
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0465052193
Filled with fascinating insights into the collective emotional life of inner-city kids, this book is also a highly original history of the erosion of urban community life since World War II.
Author : Tony Rettman
Publisher : Bazillion Points LLC
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 193595024X
Starting in 1981 via Minor Threat's revolutionary call to arms, the clean and positive straight edge hardcore punk movement took hold and prospered during the 1980s, earning a position as one of the most durable yet chronically misunderstood music subcultures. Straight edge created its own sound and visual style, went on to embrace vegetarianism, and later saw the rise of a militant fringe. As the "don't drink, don't smoke" message spread from Washington, D.C., to Boston, California, New York City, and, eventually, the world, adherents struggled to define the fundamental ideals and limits of what may be the ultimate youth movement. Tony Rettman traces the story of straight edge from adolescent origins to enduring counterculture via fresh first-hand accounts from the clear and alert members of Minor Threat, SS Decontrol, Youth of Today, DYS, Slapshot, Uniform Choice, 7 Seconds, Stalag 13, Justice League, Chain of Strength, No for an Answer, Insted, Gorilla Biscuits, Judge, Bold, Projec
Author : Michael Pye
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780241963838
An epic adventure: from the Vikings to the Enlightenment, from barbaric outpost to global hub, this book tells the dazzling history of northern Europe's transformation by sea. 'Pye writes like a dream. Magnificent' Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps ______________ This is a story of saints and spies, of anglers and pirates, traders and marauders - and of how their wild and daring journeys across the North Sea built the world we know. When the Roman Empire retreated, northern Europe was a barbarian outpost at the very edge of everything. A thousand years later, it was the heart of global empires and the home of science, art, enlightenment and money. We owe this transformation to the tides and storms of the North Sea. Boats carried food and raw materials, but also new ideas and information. The seafarers raided, ruined and killed, but they also settled and coupled. With them they brought new tastes and technologies - books, science, clothes, paintings and machines. Drawing on an astonishing breadth of learning and packed with human stories and revelations, this is the epic drama of how we came to be who we are. ______________ 'A closely-researched and fascinating characterisation of the richness of life and the underestimated interconnections of the peoples all around the medieval and early modern North Sea' Chris Wickham, author of The Inheritance of Rome: A History of Europe from 400 to 1000 'Elegant writing and extraordinary scholarship . . . Miraculous' Hugh Aldersey-Williams, author of Periodic Tales and Anatomies 'Bristling, wide-ranged and big-themed . . . at its most meaningful, history involves a good deal of art and storytelling. Pye's book is full of both' Russell Shorto, New York Times 'For anyone, like this reviewer, who is tired of medieval history as a chronicle of kings and kingdoms, knights and ladies, monks and heretics, The Edge of the World provides a welcome respite' Prof Patrick J Geary, Wall Street Journal
Author : Merle Massie
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887554544
Saskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood ‘regions’ has reduced the Saskatchewan identity to its southern prairie denominator and has distorted cultural and historical interpretations to favor the prairie south. Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional “prairie” narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian west.
Author : Karen Offen,Chen Yan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429671371
This book considers the promise of women's and gender history for revolutionizing our understanding of the past while also acknowledging the current national political, financial, and other contextual realities that can (and do) constrain or promote the possibilities for researching and writing women's history. The editors assert that the promise of women's and gender history is a cutting edge field of research, "a revolutionary development in the politics of historical scholarship," essential for understanding the human past. Further, they argue for the inseparability of women's history and gendered analytical approaches. The contributors to the volume address questions including: what have been the achievements of women's and gender history over the past two decades? To what extent has it succeeded in making women's history an integral part of historical study rather than an optional specialist area? What impact has the study of manhood, masculinities, and men's gendered power had on our understanding of women's lives? What is the relationship between gender studies and new critical histories of colonialism and empire, contact zones, cross-cultural encounters, and racialization? How is new work on cultural geography and spatial categories impacting on our historical understandings of bodily difference? This book was originally published as a special issue of the Women’s History Review.
Author : Joseph C. Abdo
Publisher : Joseph Abdo
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9789729985805
During the 19th century, the United States and Europe were on the brink of a transition that would lead to the modern world. In the middle of the Atlantic the Dabney family from Boston had settled on the small island of Faial in the Azores and quickly became involved in the political, literary, intellectual and religious changes taking place at that time on both sides of the Atlantic. This book provides a rare glimpse of life from the point of view of some well-known historical figures, as well as some "anonymous" insiders, creating a picture of individuals and events in the 19th century from a fresh perspective. In some instances it fills in unsuspected gaps or provides different interpretations of what occurred in the story of the 19th century. This American family at the crossroads of the Atlantic had an importance that was hidden behind the mists of the Atlantic.
Author : Paula A. Scott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439630617
An icon of Southern California and one of America's most imaginative and vibrant cities--the fitting destination at the end of Route 66--Santa Monica lies on the brink of the West and is known throughout the nation for its beaches and its Hollywood A-list locals With a foundation built by the Gabrielino Indians and molded by Spanish and Mexican land grants, railroad battles, and a constant influx of settlers, Santa Monica became an oceanside haven for actors and airplane companies, road races and ranchers.
Author : Margaret Conrad
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487532697
At the Ocean’s Edge offers a vibrant account of Nova Scotia’s colonial history, situating it in an early and dramatic chapter in the expansion of Europe. Between 1450 and 1850, various processes – sometimes violent, often judicial, rarely conclusive – transferred power first from Indigenous societies to the French and British empires, and then to European settlers and their descendants who claimed the land as their own. This book not only brings Nova Scotia’s struggles into sharp focus but also unpacks the intellectual and social values that took root in the region. By the time that Nova Scotia became a province of the Dominion of Canada in 1867, its multicultural peoples, including Mi’kmaq, Acadian, African, and British, had come to a grudging, unequal, and often contested accommodation among themselves. Written in accessible and spirited prose, the narrative follows larger trends through the experiences of colourful individuals who grappled with expulsion, genocide, and war to establish the institutions, relationships, and values that still shape Nova Scotia’s identity.
Author : Mark Cave,Stephen M. Sloan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199859313
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index.
Author : Tom Coffman
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0824826620
In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of twentieth-century Hawaii. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959: U.S. annexation of the Hawaiian kingdom, the wartime crisis of the Japanese-American community, postwar labor organization, the Cold War, the development of Hawaii's legendary Democratic Party, the rise of native Hawaiian nationalism. His account weaves together the threads of multicultural and transnational forces that have shaped the Islands for more than a century, looking beyond the Hawaii carefully packaged for the tourist to the Hawaii of complex and conflicting identities--independent kingdom, overseas colony, U.S. state, indigenous nation--a wonderfully rich, diverse, and at times troubled place. With a sure grasp of political history and culture based on decades of firsthand archival research, Tom Coffman takes Hawaii's story into the twentieth century and in the process sheds new light on America's island edge.
Author : Roger Chartier
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0801854369
Throughout, Chartier keeps his focus on historians who have stressed the relations between the products of discourse and social practices.
Author : Terri Dougherty,Terri Sievert
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Military art and science
ISBN : 9781429613125
Edge super high interest, low reading level books about great warriors in history.