The Burden Of History

Author : Elizabeth Furniss
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774842181

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This book is an ethnography of the cultural politics of Native/non-Native relations in a small interior BC city -- Williams Lake -- at the height of land claims conflicts and tensions. Furniss analyses contemporary colonial relations in settler societies, arguing that 'ordinary' rural Euro- Canadians exercise power in maintaining the subordination of aboriginal people through 'common sense' assumptions and assertions about history, society, and identity, and that these cultural activities are forces in an ongoing, contemporary system of colonial domination. She traces the main features of the regional Euro-Canadian culture and shows how this cultural complex is thematically integrated through the idea of the frontier. Key facets of this frontier complex are expressed in diverse settings: casual conversations among Euro-Canadians; popular histories; museum displays; political discourse; public debates about aboriginal land claims; and ritual celebrations of the city's heritage.

Author : Andrew Stuart Bergerson
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9783110246360

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The Happy Burden of History by Andrew Stuart Bergerson Pdf

The series publishes monographs and edited volumes that showcase significant scholarly work at the various intersections that currently motivate interdisciplinary inquiry in German cultural studies. Topics span German-speaking lands and cultures from the 18th to the 21st century, with a special focus on demonstrating how various disciplines and new theoretical and methodological paradigms work across disciplinary boundaries to create knowledge and add to critical understanding in German studies. The series editor is a renowned professor of German studies in the United States who penned one of the foundational texts for understanding what interdisciplinary German cultural studies can be. All works are peer-reviewed and in English. Three new titles will be published annually. About the series editor: Irene Kacandes is the Dartmouth Professor of German Studies and Comparative Literature at Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. She received three degrees from Harvard University and also studied at the Free University of Berlin and Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She publishes on a wide range of interdisciplinary topics including secondary orality, rhetoric, aesthetics, trauma, witnessing, family and generational memory, experimental life writing, Holocaust testimony, and narrative theory. She has lectured widely in the United States and Europe and currently serves as President of the International Society for the Study of Narrative and Vice President of the German Studies Association.

Author : Antoinette Burton
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807860656

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Burdens of History by Antoinette Burton Pdf

In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.

Author : Anna Wylegała,Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253046734

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The Burden of the Past by Anna Wylegała,Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper Pdf

In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often synonymous with notions of trauma. In Ukraine, memory mechanisms were disrupted by political systems seeking to repress and control the past in order to form new national identities supportive of their own agendas. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, memory in Ukraine was released, creating alternate visions of the past, new national heroes, and new victims. This release of memories led to new conflicts and "memory wars." How does the past exist in contemporary Ukraine? The works collected in The Burden of the Past focus on commemorative practices, the politics of history, and the way memory influences Ukrainian politics, identity, and culture. The works explore contemporary memory culture in Ukraine and the ways in which it is being researched and understood. Drawing on work from historians, sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and political scientists, the collection represents a truly interdisciplinary approach. Taken together, the groundbreaking scholarship collected in The Burden of the Past provides insight into how memories can be warped and abused, and how this abuse can have lasting effects on a country seeking to create a hopeful future.

Author : Kan Kimura
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472054107

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A rigorously historical investigation into the ongoing issues in Japan-Korea relations and how and why both governments have acted--and not acted--to address them

Author : John D. Rosenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040102407

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Carlyle and the Burden of History by John D. Rosenberg Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Furniss
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0774807113

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In this ethnographic case study of an interior British Columbia community, the author looks at the roots of social conflicts and examines how prevalent colonial assumptions of history, identity and Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal relations affect the lives of all the residents. She shows how assumptions about colonisation permeate many aspects of everyday life and work to reinforce the marginalization of the native people of the area but she also points out that the native people are engaging in strategies to confront and challenge the frontier complex. While focused on Williams Lake, this book has a much broader relevance and throws light on current debates about Aboriginal and settler understandings of history, the legitimacy of Aboriginal claims, and the place of Aboriginal people in Canadian society.

Author : Comer Vann Woodward
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0807118915

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The Burden of Southern History by Comer Vann Woodward Pdf

In this book Woodward brilliantly addresses the interrelated themes of Southern identity, Southern distinctiveness, and the strains of irony that characterize much of the South's historical experience.

Author : David A. Kirsch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Automobile industry and trade
ISBN : UOM:49015002599869

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The Electric Vehicle and the Burden of History by David A. Kirsch Pdf

In the context of regulations requiring emission so low that electric and hybrid cars will be necessary, Kirsch (industrial ecology, U. of California-Los Angeles) takes the Electric Vehicle Company as a starting point for a vision of an alternative automotive system in which gasoline and electric vehicles would each have been used to supply different kinds of transport services. He argues that technological superiority was in the hearts and minds of engineers, consumers, and drivers. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Comer Vann Woodward (historien).)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Southern States
ISBN : OCLC:493967837

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The Burden of Southern History by Comer Vann Woodward (historien).) Pdf

Author : Eli Lederhendler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190293994

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Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History by Eli Lederhendler Pdf

Volume XXI of the distinguished annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry marks sixty years since the end of the Second World War and forty years since the Second Vatican Council's efforts to revamp Church relations with the Jewish people and the Jewish faith. Jews, Catholics, and the Burden of History offers a collection of new scholarship on the nature of the Jewish-Catholic encounter between 1945 and 2005, with an emphasis on how this relationship has emerged from the shadow of the Holocaust.

Author : Udayon Misra
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199091577

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Burden of History by Udayon Misra Pdf

The Partition of India left in its wake far-reaching consequences for the northeastern state of Assam. Appearing to be caught in a time warp, the region continues to grapple with questions that engaged the public mind more than seven decades ago, before and immediately after the Partition. Alarmingly, issues such as immigration, demographic change, language, and identity have not only retained their relevance but have also gained an extra edge today. In this volume, the author outlines the present contentious issues confronting the state. Explaining the roots of these disputes and how the challenge posed by Assam held serious consequences for the nation as a whole, this work examines the developments that occurred in the years preceding Independence and the Partition. These developments have etched their effect on the society, politics, and economy of Assam, along with the entire northeastern region, in an indelible manner. As the volume reveals, the burden of those momentous years still rests heavily on Assam’s contemporary political scenario.

Author : Catherine Wanner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0271042613

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Burden of Dreams by Catherine Wanner Pdf

Focusing on schools, festivals, commemorative ceremonies, and monuments, Catherine Wanner shows how Soviet-created narratives have been recast to reflect a post-Soviet Ukrainocentric perspective. In the process, we see how new histories are understood and acted upon. This reveals regional cleavages and the resilience of cultural differences produced by the Soviet regime. For some people, the system they criticized yesterday is the one they long for today.

Author : Hugh Ragsdale
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0765637073

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The Russian Tragedy by Hugh Ragsdale Pdf

A well-written interpretive history of Russia from earliest times to today--a recounting of the story of Russia's past that is rich with insights into the nation's present torment. The author discusses Russia's strengths and weaknesses as a civilization, the dilemmas that have always confronted it, and the challenges posed by the contemporary effort to remake Russia. In ten chronological and thematic chapters, the author --describes the distinctive nature of Russia's experience as an Eastern civilization, of Europe, but not of the West; --evokes the ways in which Russia's culture, especially its rich literature, has both embodied and expressed the nation's ambivalent identity; --chronicles the periodic efforts of the Russian state, over three centuries, to catch up with the West without becoming Western; With grace and good sense, Ragsdale revisits the past not to explain, justify, or condemn, but to illuminate the present.

Author : Rochelle Riley
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780814345153

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The Burden by Rochelle Riley Pdf

Examines the continued emotional, economic, and cultural enslavement of African Americans in the twenty-first century.