The Combing Of History

Author : David William Cohen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226112787

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The Combing of History by David William Cohen Pdf

How is historical knowledge produced? And how do silence and forgetting figure in the knowledge we call history? Taking us through time and across the globe, David William Cohen's exploration of these questions exposes the circumstantial nature of history. His investigation uncovers the conventions and paradigms that govern historical knowledge and historical texts and reveals the economic, social, and political forces at play in the production of history. Drawing from a wide range of examples, including African legal proceedings, German and American museum exhibits, Native American commemorations, public and academic debates, and scholarly research, David William Cohen explores the "walls and passageways" between academic and non-academic productions of history.

Author : Nayanika Mookherjee
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822375227

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The Spectral Wound by Nayanika Mookherjee Pdf

Following the 1971 Bangladesh War, the Bangladesh government publicly designated the thousands of women raped by the Pakistani military and their local collaborators as birangonas, ("brave women”). Nayanika Mookherjee demonstrates that while this celebration of birangonas as heroes keeps them in the public memory, they exist in the public consciousness as what Mookherjee calls a spectral wound. Dominant representations of birangonas as dehumanized victims with disheveled hair, a vacant look, and rejected by their communities create this wound, the effects of which flatten the diversity of their experiences through which birangonas have lived with the violence of wartime rape. In critically examining the pervasiveness of the birangona construction, Mookherjee opens the possibility for a more politico-economic, ethical, and nuanced inquiry into the sexuality of war.

Author : A. Amoko
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230113985

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Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution by A. Amoko Pdf

This work examines both the emergence of African literature and its institutionalization within nationalist African academies. Amoko analyzes the relationship between such institutions of literature and the processes of nationalist legitimization and between colonial and postcolonial school cultures and national cultures.

Author : James Burnley
Publisher : London : S. Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Wool-combing
ISBN : UOM:39015009216907

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The History of Wool and Woolcombing by James Burnley Pdf

Author : Lorena Rizzo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429800047

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Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa by Lorena Rizzo Pdf

This book studies the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa, using a series of encounters with Southern African photographic archives to reflect on photography as a distinct historical form. Through use of private and public archives, images produced by African itinerant photographers, white settlers, and colonial state institutions, this book explores the relationship between photography and history in colonial Southern Africa. Late nineteenth century Cape Colonial prison albums, police photographs from German Southwest Africa, African studio portraits, identity documents, travel permits and passports from the 1920s and 1930s, visual studies of whiteness and blackness authored by settler photographers, South African dompas photographs from the 1950s and 1960s, and aerial photography from the Eastern Cape in the mid-twentieth century are examined to highlight the ways in which photographic images cut across conventional institutional boundaries and complicate rigid distinctions between the private and the public, the political and the aesthetic, the colonial and the vernacular, or the subject and the object. Photography and History in Colonial Southern Africa argues that rather than understanding photographs as a means of preserving and recreating the past in the present, we can value them for how they evoke at once the need for and the limits of historical reconstruction. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of colonial history, photographic history, visual media, and African studies.

Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1360 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : English language
ISBN : EHC:148100220910S

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A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles by James Augustus Henry Murray Pdf

Author : Douglas Northrop
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118305478

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A Companion to World History by Douglas Northrop Pdf

A COMPANION TOWORLD HISTORY "This new volume offers insightful reflections by both leading and emerging world historians on approaches, methodologies, arguments, and pedagogies of a sub-discipline that has continued to be in flux as well as in need of defining itself as a relevant alternative to the traditional national, regional, or chronological fields of inquiry" Choice "The focus...on the practicalities of how to do world history probably gives it its edge. Its thirty-three chapters are grouped into sections that address how to set up research projects in world history, how to teach it, how to get jobs in it, how to frame it, and how it is done in various parts of the globe. It is an actual handbook, in other words, as opposed to a sample of exemplary work." English Historical Review A Companion to World History offers a comprehensive overview of the variety of approaches and practices utilized in the field of world and global history. This state-of-the-art collection of more than 30 insightful essays – including contributions from an international cast of leading world historians and emerging scholars in the field – identifies continuing areas of contention, disagreement, and divergence, while pointing out fruitful directions for further discussion and research. Themes and topics explored include the lineages and trajectories of world history, key ideas and methods employed by world historians, the teaching of world history and how it draws upon and challenges "traditional" approaches, and global approaches to writing world history. By considering these interwoven issues of scholarship and pedagogy from a transnational, interregional, and world/global scale, fresh insights are gained and new challenges posed. With its rich compendium of diverse viewpoints, A Companion to World History is an essential resource for the study of the world's past.

Author : Jack Dougherty,Kristen Nawrotzki
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472052066

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Writing History in the Digital Age by Jack Dougherty,Kristen Nawrotzki Pdf

A born-digital project that asks how recent technologies have changed the ways that historians think, teach, author, and publish

Author : Donald A. Ritchie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195339550

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The Oxford Handbook of Oral History by Donald A. Ritchie Pdf

'The Oxford Handbook of Oral History' brings together 40 authors on five continents to address the evolution of oral history, the impact of digital technology, the most recent methodological and archival issues and the application of oral history to both scholarly research and public presentations.

Author : Sten Pultz Moslund
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 8772897848

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Making Use of History in New South African Fiction by Sten Pultz Moslund Pdf

A study of the use of history as political ammunition and literature as historical counter-discourse in Mongane Serote's "Gods of Our Time", Mike Nicol's "The Ibis Tapestry", and Zakes Mda's "Ways of Dying". Moslund shows how literary engagement with the past seeks to rupture the continuity of a strongly dichotomised epistemology and through that dissolve the inherited polarisation of society. Falsification of history is exposed as constructed discourse and past simplifications of reality as sharply demarcated into homogenous self-justifying, categorisations of, Us against Them, are challenged with paradox, doubt and introspection.

Author : Leslie Witz
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2003-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253028310

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Apartheid's Festival by Leslie Witz Pdf

Apartheid's Festival highlights the conflicts and debates that surrounded the 1952 celebration of the 300th anniversary of the landing of Jan Van Riebeeck and the founding of Cape Town, South Africa. Taking place at the height of the apartheid era, the festival was viewed by many as an opportunity for the government to promote its nationalist, separatist agenda in grand fashion. Leslie Witz's fine-grained examination of newspapers, brochures, pamphlets, and advertising materials reveals the expectations of the festival planners as well as how the festival was engineered, historical figures were reconstructed, and the ANC and other anti-apartheid organizations mounted opposition to it. While laying open the darker motives of the apartheid regime, Witz shows that the production of local history is part of a global process forged by the struggle between colonialism and resistance. Readers interested in South Africa, representations of nationalism, and the making of public history will find Apartheid's Festival to be an important study of a society in transition.

Author : National Association of Wool Manufacturers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Wool industry
ISBN : CORNELL:31924069285868

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Bulletin by National Association of Wool Manufacturers Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433090797915

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Bulletin by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271021179

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New Perspectives on Historical Writing by Peter Burke Pdf

A new edition of this best-selling collection of essays by leading experts on historical methodology. Since its first publication in 1992, New Perspectives on Historical Writing has become a key reference work used by students and researchers interested in the most important developments in the methodology and practice of history. For this new edition, the book has been thoroughly revised and updated and includes an entirely new chapter on environmental history. Peter Burke is joined here by a distinguished group of internationally renowned historians, including Robert Darnton, Ivan Gaskell, Richard Grove, Giovanni Levi, Roy Porter, Gwyn Prins, Joan Scott, Jim Sharpe, Richard Tuck, and Henk Wesseling. The contributions examine a wide range of interdisciplinary areas of historical research, including women's history, history &"from below,&" the history of reading, oral history, the history of the body, microhistory, the history of events, the history of images, and political history.

Author : William Robert Ochieng'
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Kenya
ISBN : 9966251529

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Historical Studies and Social Change in Western Kenya by William Robert Ochieng' Pdf