Reinventing History

Author : Kristine Bruland,Anne Gerritsen,Pat Hudson,Giorgio Riello
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780228002079

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Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation by Kristine Bruland,Anne Gerritsen,Pat Hudson,Giorgio Riello Pdf

The Industrial Revolution is central to the teaching of economic history. It has also been key to historical research on the commercial expansion of Western Europe, the rise of factories, coal and iron production, the proletarianization of labour, and the birth and worldwide spread of industrial capitalism. However, perspectives on the Industrial Revolution have changed significantly in recent years. The interdisciplinary approach of Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation - with contributions on the history of consumption, material culture, and cultural histories of science and technology - offers a more global perspective, arguing for an interpretation of the industrial revolution based on global interactions that made technological innovation and the spread of knowledge possible. Through this new lens, it becomes clear that industrialising processes started earlier and lasted longer than previously understood. Reflecting on the major topics of concern for economic historians over the past generation, Reinventing the Economic History of Industrialisation brings this area of study up to date and points the way forward.

Author : Virginia Torrie
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487534134

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Reinventing Bankruptcy Law by Virginia Torrie Pdf

Reinventing Bankruptcy Law explodes conventional wisdom about the history of the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in its place offers the first historical account of Canada’s premier corporate restructuring statute. The book adopts a novel research approach that combines legal history, socio-legal theory, ideas from political science, and doctrinal legal analysis. Meticulously researched and multi-disciplinary, Reinventing Bankruptcy Law provides a comprehensive and concise history of CCAA law over the course of the twentieth century, framing developments within broader changes in Canadian institutions including federalism, judicial review, and statutory interpretation. Examining the influence of private parties and commercial practices on lawmaking, Virginia Torrie argues that CCAA law was shaped by the commercial needs of powerful creditors to restructure corporate borrowers, providing a compelling thesis about the dynamics of legal change in the context of corporate restructuring. Torrie exposes the errors in recent case law to devastating effect and argues that courts and the legislature have switched roles – leading to the conclusion that contemporary CCAA courts function like a modern day Court of Chancery. This book is essential reading for the Canadian insolvency community as well as those interested in Canadian institutions, legal history, and the dynamics of change.

Author : Scott S. Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317546627

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Reinventing Religious Studies by Scott S. Elliott Pdf

"Reinventing Religious Studies" offers readers an opportunity to trace the important trends and developments in Religious Studies over the last forty years. Over this time the study of religion has been transformed into a critical discipline informed by a wide range of perspectives from sociology to anthropology, politics to material culture, and economics to cultural theory. "Reinventing Religious Studies" brings together key writings which have helped shape scholarship, teaching and learning in the field. All the essays are drawn from the CSSR Bulletin, a provocative, occasionally irreverent, and always critical journal which has long been at the centre of debates in Religious Studies. This collection will prove invaluable for students and scholars of theory and method in Religious Studies. It offers readers a unique opportunity to understand the history of key issues in the study of religion and what remains central to the study of religion today.

Author : John McMillan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780393323719

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Reinventing the Bazaar: A Natural History of Markets by John McMillan Pdf

McMillan takes readers on a lively tour, from the wild swings of the stock market to the online auctions of eBay to the unexpected twists of the world's post-communist economies.

Author : Scott McGill,Cristiana Sogno,Edward Watts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0521898218

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From the Tetrarchs to the Theodosians by Scott McGill,Cristiana Sogno,Edward Watts Pdf

An integrated collection of essays examining the politics, social networks, law, historiography, and literature of the later Roman world. The volume treats three central themes: the first section looks at political and social developments across the period and argues that, in spite of the stress placed upon traditional social structures, many elements of Roman life remained only slightly changed. The second section focuses upon biographical texts and shows how late-antique authors adapted traditional modes of discourse to new conditions. The final section explores the first years of the reign of Theodosius I and shows how he built upon historical foundations while unfurling new methods for utilising, presenting, and commemorating imperial power. These papers analyse specific events and local developments to highlight examples of both change and continuity in the Roman world from 284-450.

Author : Ian F. McNeely,Lisa Wolverton
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780393337716

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Reinventing Knowledge: From Alexandria to the Internet by Ian F. McNeely,Lisa Wolverton Pdf

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Author : Huaiyin Li
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822038707170

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Reinventing Modern China by Huaiyin Li Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive account of Chinese historiography on modern China. It examines the major master narratives and modes of narration in representing the events and overarching themes in modern Chinese history.

Author : Jonathan Lee
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783786268

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The Great Mistake by Jonathan Lee Pdf

The 'Father of Greater New York' is dead. Shot outside his Park Avenue mansion in the year of our Lord, 1903. In the hour of his death, will the truth of his life finally break free? Born to a struggling farming family in 1820, Andrew Haswell Green was a self-made man who reshaped Manhattan, built Central Park and turned New York into a modern metropolis. Now, at eighty-three, when he thought the world could hold no more surprises, he is murdered. As the detective assigned to the case traces his ghost across the city, other spectres appear: a wealthy courtesan; a broken-hearted man in a bowler hat; and an ambitious politician, Samuel, whose lifelong friendship was a source of joy and frustration. In a life of industry and restraint, where is the space for love? As restlessly inventive and absorbing as its protagonist, The Great Mistake is the story of a city, and a singular man, transformed by longing.

Author : James Moore,Ian Macgregor Morris,Andrew J. Bayliss
Publisher : Institute of Historical Research
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124195012

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Reinventing History by James Moore,Ian Macgregor Morris,Andrew J. Bayliss Pdf

Author : Daniel Frick
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700635627

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Reinventing Richard Nixon by Daniel Frick Pdf

"Nixon's the One!" proclaimed his campaign paraphernalia. "Tricky Dick!" retorted his detractors. From presidential savior for conservative America to bte noire for the political Left, the Richard Nixon persona has worn many masks and labels. In fiction and poetry and pop songs, in television and film, no other national political figure has so thoroughly saturated our public consciousness with so many contrasting images. Focusing on the process of Nixon's continuous reinvention, Daniel Frick reveals a figure who continues to expose key fault lines in the nation's self-definition. Drawing on references ranging from All in the Family to Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, he shows how Nixon has become one of America's most durable and multifaceted icons in the ongoing and fierce debates over the import and meaning of the last sixty years of national life. Examining Nixon's autobiographies and political memorabilia, Frick offers far-reaching perceptions not only of the man but of Nixon's version of himself-contrasted with those who would interpret him differently. He cites reinventions of Nixon from the late 1980s, particularly the museum at the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace, to demonstrate the resilience of certain national mythic narratives in the face of liberal critiques. And he recounts how celebrants at Nixon's state funeral, at which Bob Dole's eulogy depicted a God-fearing American hero, attempted to bury the sources of our divisions over him, rendering in some minds the judgment of "redeemed statesman" to erase his status as "disgraced president." With dozens of illustrations-Nixon posing with Elvis (the National Archives' most requested photo), Nixonian cultural artifacts, classic editorial cartoons—no other book collects in one place such varied images of Nixon from so many diverse media. These reinforce Frick's probing analysis to help us understand why we disagree about Nixon—and why it matters how we resolve our disagreements. Whether your image of Nixon is shaped by his autobiography Six Crises, Oliver Stone's surprisingly sympathetic film Nixon, John Adams's landmark opera Nixon in China, or by the saga of Watergate, Reinventing Richard Nixon expands on all perspectives. It shows how, through these contradictory mythic stories, we continue to reinvent, much like Nixon himself, our own sense of national identity.

Author : Christopher Wilkes
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781527534056

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Reinventing Capitalism in New Zealand by Christopher Wilkes Pdf

In the nineteenth century, Britain bestrode the world. Its domination depended in part on it exporting its social and economic problems to the farthest reaches of the globe. In Aotearoa/New Zealand, Britain’s élite thought they had found a ready-made country in which to re-establish their way of life. This invasion might ease their problems at home, and extend their influence to the edge of the earth. White settlers began to arrive in New Zealand in numbers during the 1840s, and sought to reinvent capitalism in a new land. This book traces the shape of this reinvention, and the slow emergence of New Zealand’s particular form of class structure. The book will be of interest to anyone concerned with the history of capitalism, and its colonial ambitions. It sheds light on the enduring nature of inequality in New Zealand, and where it might originate. Students of political science, sociology, history and cultural studies will find its arguments of interest.

Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0099819708

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Reinventing Shakespeare by Gary Taylor Pdf

Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his plays through the centuries, arguing that claims of his uniqueness reflect the characteristics of particular eras and critics more than Shakespeare.

Author : David Cantor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015055844552

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Reinventing Hippocrates by David Cantor Pdf

This collection of essays explores the multiple uses, constructions and meanings of Hippocrates and Hippocratic medicine since the Renaissance, and elucidate the cultural and social circumstances that encouraged the creation of such varied proposals.

Author : Price Fiona Price
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474412896

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Reinventing Liberty by Price Fiona Price Pdf

Redefines the British historical novel as a key site in the construction of British national identityThe British historical novel has often been defined in the terms set by Walter Scott's fiction, as a reflection on a clear break between past and present. Returning to the range of historical fiction written before Scott, Reinventing Liberty challenges this view by returning us to the rich range of historical novels written in the late eighteenth-century. It explores how these works participated in a contentious debate concerning political change and British national identity. Ranging across well-known writers, like William Godwin, Horace Walpole and Frances Burney, to lesser-known figures, such as Cornelia Ellis Knight and Jane Porter, Reinventing Liberty reveals how history becomes a site to rethink Britain as 'land of liberty' and it positions Scott in relation to this tradition.Key FeaturesRecovers the richness of the historical novel and history writing before Walter Scott, including the contribution of women writers to this debateExplores how historical fiction probes anxieties at the rise of commerce, the question of empire, and radical political changeRewrites our understanding of Scott and his relation to the earlier British historical novel

Author : Marcel Uwineza,Elisée Rutagambwa,Michel Segatagara Kamanzi
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Postwar reconstruction
ISBN : 9781647123475

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Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda by Marcel Uwineza,Elisée Rutagambwa,Michel Segatagara Kamanzi Pdf

The first comprehensive examination of the Catholic Church's role in the genocide against the Tutsi and its attempts at reconciliation From April to July 1994, more than a million people were killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. Tutsi men, women, and children were slaughtered by Hutu extremists in churches and school buildings, and their lifeless bodies were left rotting in these sacred places under the deep silence of church authorities. Pope Francis's apology more than twenty years later presents the opportunity to reimagine the essence of the Church, the missionary enterprise, theology in its multiple dimensions, the purification of memory, and the place of human dignity in the Catholic faith. Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda critically examines the Church's responsibility in Rwanda's tragic history and opens the dialogue to construct a new theology. Contributors to this volume offer moving personal testimonies of their journeys to reconciling the evil that has marred the Church's image: bystanders' indifference to the suffering, despite their claim as members of the Church. The first volume of its kind, Reinventing Theology in Post-Genocide Rwanda is a necessary step toward the Rwandan Catholic Church and humanity's restoration of fundamental peace and lasting reconciliation. Catholic clergy, lay people, and human rights advocates will benefit from this examination of ecclesial moral failure and subsequent reconciliatory efforts.