The Enlightenment Philanthropy And The Idea Of Social Progress In Early Australia

Author : Ilya Lazarev
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429818080

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The Enlightenment, Philanthropy and the Idea of Social Progress in Early Australia by Ilya Lazarev Pdf

This book seeks to highlight the influence of the Enlightenment idea of social progress on the character of the "civilising mission" in early Australia by tracing its presence in the various "civilising" attempts undertaken between 1788 and 1850. It also represents an attempt to marry the history of the British Enlightenment and the history of settler-Aboriginal interactions. The chronological structure of the book, as well as the breadth of its content, will facilitate the readers’ understanding of the evolution of "civilising attempts" and their epistemological underpinnings, while throwing additional light on the influence of the Enlightenment on Australian history as a whole.

Author : Bronwyn Carlson,Terri Farrelly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031286094

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The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations by Bronwyn Carlson,Terri Farrelly Pdf

The Palgrave Handbook on Rethinking Colonial Commemorations explores global efforts, particularly from Indigenous and Bla(c)k communities, to dismantle colonial commemorations, monuments, and memorials. Across the world, many Indigenous and Bla(c)k communities have taken action to remove, rectify and/or re-imagine colonial commemorations. These efforts have had the support of some non-Indigenous and white community members, but very often they have faced fierce opposition. In spite of this, many have succeeded, and this work aims to acknowledge and honour these efforts. As a current and much-debated issue, this book will present fresh findings and analyses of recent and historical events, including #RhodesMustFall, Anzac Day protests, and the transferral of confederate monuments to museums. Comprising of chapters written by Indigenous, Bla(c)k and non-Indigenous authors, from a wide variety of locations, backgrounds and purposes, this topical volume is a timely and important contribution to the fields of memory studies, Indigenous Studies, and cultural heritage.

Author : Andrea Rapini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429663482

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The History of the Vespa by Andrea Rapini Pdf

Despite the symbolic capital and the global commercial success of the Vespa scooter, there is no academic book dealing with its history, only literature produced by the company itself or by scooter enthusiasts. The origins of the Vespa are shrouded in mist, entrusted more to myth than to historical truth. Based on lengthy research carried out in Piaggio’s historical archives and on an interdisciplinary approach, this volume aims to fill this gap. It shows how the Vespa took techniques from the most advanced aeronautical industries in the world, adapting and hybridizing them in an original way, and how the company disseminated its models in the transnational social space.

Author : Christopher Milnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429647857

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A History of Euphoria by Christopher Milnes Pdf

Very few people have not at some point in their lives believed themselves or their loved ones to be reasonably healthy when, in "reality", sickness was encroaching or never went away. Health has been deceiving us for thousands of years, but rarely have we entirely dispensed with it as a concept. This book sets out to establish why and how that might be. The first of its kind, this longue durée historical study explores some of the ways in which people in western societies and cultures have come to believe that they, or other people, have perceived or misperceived health, well-being and euphoria—a word which, before the twentieth century, usually named the experience of health. This book draws from a number of areas of historical research, including the histories of convalescence, addiction, madness and Sigmund Freud’s interest in Euphorie in his pre-psychoanalytical period.

Author : Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429523748

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A History of Shaolin by Lu Zhouxiang Pdf

Shaolin Monastery at Mount Song is considered the epicentre of the Chan school of Buddhism. It is also well known for its martial arts tradition and has long been regarded as a special cultural heritage site and an important symbol of the Chinese nation. This book is the first scholarly work in English to comprehensively examine the full history of Shaolin Monastery from 496 to 2016. More importantly, it offers a clear grasp of the origins and development of Chan Buddhism through an examination of Shaolin, and highlights the role of Shaolin and Shaolin kung fu in the construction of a national identity among the Chinese people in the past two centuries.

Author : Lisa Slater
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429782879

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Anxieties of Belonging in Settler Colonialism by Lisa Slater Pdf

This book analyses the anxiety "well-intentioned" settler Australian women experience when engaging with Indigenous politics. Drawing upon cultural theory and studies of affect and emotion, Slater argues that settler anxiety is an historical subjectivity which shapes perception and senses of belonging. Why does Indigenous political will continue to provoke and disturb? How does settler anxiety inform public opinion and "solutions" to Indigenous inequality? In its rigorous interrogation of the dynamics of settler colonialism, emotions and ethical belonging, Anxieties of Belonging has far-reaching implications for understanding Indigenous-settler relations.

Author : Ulla Aatsinki,Johanna Annola,Mervi Kaarninen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429663468

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Families, Values, and the Transfer of Knowledge in Northern Societies, 1500–2000 by Ulla Aatsinki,Johanna Annola,Mervi Kaarninen Pdf

This edited collection sheds light on Nordic families’ strategies and methods for transferring significant cultural heritage to the next generation over centuries. Contributors explore why certain values, attitudes, knowledge, and patterns were selected while others were left behind, and show how these decisions served and secured families’ well-being and values. Covering a time span ranging from the early modern era to the end of the twentieth century, the book combines the innovative "history from below" approach with a broad variety of families and new kinds of source material to open up new perspectives on the history of education and upbringing.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi,Steven Mintz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429537226

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Children and Globalization by Hoda Mahmoudi,Steven Mintz Pdf

Globalization has carried vast consequences for the lives of children. It has spurred unprecedented waves of immigration, contributed to far-reaching transformations in the organization, structure, and dynamics of family life, and profoundly altered trajectories of growing up. Equally important, globalization has contributed to the world-wide dissemination of a set of international norms about children’s welfare and heightened public awareness of disparities in the lives of children around the world. This book's contributors – leading historians, literary scholars, psychologists, social geographers, and others – provide fresh perspectives on the transformations that globalization has produced in children's lives.

Author : Michael Modarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429785603

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The Transatlantic Genealogy of American Anglo-Saxonism by Michael Modarelli Pdf

This book traces the myth of Anglo-Saxonism as it crosses from Britain to the New World as both a cultural construct and ideological nation-building tool. Through extensive investigations of both early American and English cultural attitudes toward Anglo-Saxonism and similar texts, the book advances the claim that the ways in which Anglo-Saxon authors envisioned history as unfolding becomes an important ideological model for later New World conceptions of historical and national identity. From this beginning, the book follows the influence of this adopted American Anglo-Saxonism in early American literature and the socio-cultural implications that follow upon this influence.

Author : Jane Addams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Charities
ISBN : HARVARD:32044023408768

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Philanthropy and Social Progress by Jane Addams Pdf

Author : Jessie Mitchell
Publisher : ANU E Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781921862113

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In Good Faith? by Jessie Mitchell Pdf

In the early decades of the 19th century, Indigenous Australians suffered devastating losses at the hands of British colonists, who largely ignored their sovereignty and even their humanity. At the same time, however, a new wave of Christian humanitarians were arriving in the colonies, troubled by Aboriginal suffering and arguing that colonists had

Author : Anne Burnett Keary
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3483636

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Comparing Cross-cultural Histories by Anne Burnett Keary Pdf

Author : Nicole Starling
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003860761

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Evangelical Belief and Enlightenment Morality in the Australian Temperance Movement by Nicole Starling Pdf

This book explores the history of the Australian temperance movement and the ideas that informed it, offering a detailed examination of the beliefs of evangelicals involved. The temperance movement in Australia was large and influential, and played a vital role in shaping the cultural and political life of the emerging nation across the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The study focuses on the relationship between evangelicalism and 'Moral Enlightenment' ideas within the temperance movement between 1832 and 1930. It considers the complex and varied ways in which they interacted within the thinking of the movement’s leaders, enriches discussions regarding religion and secularisation, and offers new insight into the involvement of women. Against the larger horizon of global evangelicalism, the international temperance movement, and the evolution of Australian political culture, the chapters look at the reported words and actions of six key temperance leaders: John Saunders, George Washington Walker, John McEncroe, Alfred Stackhouse, Mary Ann Thomas and Elizabeth Webb Nicholls. The book will be relevant to scholars of religious history and those with an interest in the evangelical Protestant tradition.

Author : John Fitzgerald,Hon-ming Yip
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528264

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Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850–1949 by John Fitzgerald,Hon-ming Yip Pdf

Chinese Diaspora Charity and the Cantonese Pacific, 1850–1949 sheds new light on the history of charity among Chinese overseas and its place in the history of charity in China and in the wider history of global philanthropy. It finds that diaspora charity, besides serving traditional functions of helping the sick and destitute and supporting development in China, helped to build trust among dispersed hometown networks while challenging color boundaries in host societies by contributing to wider social causes. The book shows that charitable activities among the “Gold Rush” communities of the Pacific rim—a loosely integrated émigré network from Guangdong Province perhaps better known for its business acumen and hard work among English-speaking settler societies in North America and Australasia—also led the way with social innovations that helped to shape modern charity in China. Fitzgerald and Yip’s volume demonstrates that charity lay at the heart of community life among Chinese communities overseas. From remittances accompanying letters to contributions to benevolent organizations, emigrants transferred funds in many different ways to meet urgent requirements such as disaster relief while also contributing to long-term initiatives like building schools or hospitals. By drawing attention to diaspora contributions to their host societies, the contributors correct a common misunderstanding of the historical Chinese diaspora which is often perceived by host communities as self-interested or disengaged. This important study also reappraises the value of charitable donations in the maintenance of networks, an essential feature of diaspora life across the Cantonese Pacific. “Fitzgerald and Yip’s fascinating collection is a major contribution to the growing study of charity and its relationship to social welfare. The essays show how remittances were used for much more than family support. The book fills a large gap on the almost unrecognized importance of charity among Cantonese communities in the Chinese diaspora.” —Diana Lary, University of British Columbia “This collection is a great contribution to our understanding of how important charity became among overseas Chinese in the early stages of the diaspora—between 1850 and 1949. Philanthropy was crucial in the creation of trust networks among the diasporic communities that earned Chinese recognition to the overseas communities both in China and in their host countries.” —Sue Fawn Chung, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Author : J. B. Bury
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486780665

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The Idea of Progress by J. B. Bury Pdf

Wide-ranging, erudite and stimulating, this thought-provoking volume describes the birth and development of one of the most important basic ideas of our civilization: progress, or the concept that humanity is advancing in a definite and desirable direction. Throughout, Bury examines the contributions of Darwin, Descartes, Voltaire, Locke, and other important thinkers.