The Nation S Hero In Memoriam

Author : Filomena Viana Guarda,Adriana Martins,Helena Gonçalves da Silva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443820059

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Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe by Filomena Viana Guarda,Adriana Martins,Helena Gonçalves da Silva Pdf

Conflict, Memory Transfers and the Reshaping of Europe discusses processes of memory construction associated with the realities of war and genocide, totalitarianism, colonialism as well as trans-border dialogues in the overcoming of conflict memories. It is based on the premise that there are no available clear-cut or definite positions to approach the problematic issues of conflict, memory and history. Consequently, it examines and articulates across several different media discourses, problems, contexts and considerations of value. Its scope is thus deliberately interdisciplinary, drawing on the cross-fertilization of diverse research methods. The book addresses a number of issues and raises questions that have been crucial to our modern thought, and problematic or even inexplicable to any cultural theory that approaches history with an ethical approach. It works through and evaluates ongoing representative processes, strategies and practices, next to longstanding constraints, dilemmas and taboos regarding discussions of contentious matters. The different perspectives from which the issues of conflict, identity and memory are examined, in authoritarian, new European and (post-) colonial contexts, provide examples of power and conflict memory intervening in discourse and areas of cultural practice, destabilizing fixed or encoded meaning. It examines how the “making sense” of our memories—so vital for the qualification of culture and social practices—is about concepts and ideas, as well as emotions and attachments, i.e. meaning resulting from effective social exchange framed by specific contexts of interpretation. As such, the book is also a contribution to a memory culture that is pushing forward the clarification of conflicts, crystallizations of tension and all sorts of threads that bind us, very often invisibly, to the past.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1108 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Memorial Day
ISBN : HARVARD:32044015195415

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The National Memorial Day by Anonim Pdf

Contains reports of the Memorial Day services in various cities and towns of 31 states.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433082351655

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The Lincoln Memorial Collection by Anonim Pdf

Author : James Blackstone Memorial Library (Branford, Conn.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433089896637

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Catalogue of the James Blackstone Memorial Library, Branford, Conn by James Blackstone Memorial Library (Branford, Conn.) Pdf

Author : Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000911152

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Crosses of Memory and Oblivion by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco Pdf

This book explores the history and legacy of monuments to the fallen from the Francoist side in the Spanish Civil War. Del Arco Blanco studies thousands of monuments in towns and cities across Spain to provide a detailed account of the history and memory of the civil war, Francoism, and the transition to democracy. Chapters in the book focus on the myth of those said to have 'fallen for God and for Spain'—a phrase that encapsulated and shaped the dichotomy between ‘good’ and ‘bad’ Spaniards. They also focus on the use of monuments to control political and ideological ideals and to legitimise the Francoist dictatorship. Further chapters study Spanish society’s struggle to deal with its past of mass killing, denial, and exclusion. Del Arco Blanco also pays attention to the way the Francoist authorities used monuments and memory for their political and ideological advantage and to control people, power as well as the political agenda. The book draws on extensive research to reconstruct both the specific history of monuments scattered throughout the country and their role within manipulative Francoist memory of the Spanish Civil War. In these ways, monuments helped shape the Francoist narrative and memory, but they also became part of the landscape of contemporary Spanish history. This book is an excellent resource for postgraduate students and professional researchers studying the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and the influence of monuments on the construction of national memory, culture, and society in Spain both at the time and through to the present day.

Author : B. Trezise
Publisher : Springer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137336224

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Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory by B. Trezise Pdf

Performing Feeling in Cultures of Memory brings memory studies into conversation with a focus on feelings as cultural actors. It charts a series of memory sites that range from canonical museums and memorials, to practices enabled by the virtual terrain of Second Life, popular 'trauma TV' programs and radical theatre practice.

Author : Professor Sally Webster
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781472418999

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The Nation's First Monument and the Origins of the American Memorial Tradition by Professor Sally Webster Pdf

The commemorative tradition in early American art is considered for the first time in Sally Webster's fascinating study of public monuments and the construction of an American patronymic tradition. Until now, no attempt has been made to create a coherent early history of the carved symbolic language of American liberty and independence. Webster's study provides a new focus on New York City as the eighteenth-century city in which the European tradition of public commemoration was reconstituted as monuments to liberty's heroes.

Author : Paul Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110402377

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Dialogue as a Trans-disciplinary Concept by Paul Mendes-Flohr Pdf

This volume of essays takes as its point of departure Martin Buber’s principle of dialogue, which he applied as a comprehensive hermeneutic method for the study of various cultural phenomena. The volume critically evaluates the methodological purchase to be gained by the introduction of Buber’s conception of dialogue in political theory, psychology and psychiatry, and religious studies.

Author : Moses King
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385415553

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The Poets' Tributes to Garfield. A Collection of Many Memorial Poems by Moses King Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Author : Keith A. Crawford,Stuart J. Foster
Publisher : IAP
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781607526599

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War, Nation, Memory by Keith A. Crawford,Stuart J. Foster Pdf

The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world’s population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its prominent place in school history textbooks is almost guaranteed. As this book demonstrates, however, the stories that nations choose to tell their young about World War II do not represent a universally accepted “truth” about events during the war. Rather, wartime narratives contained in school textbooks typically are selected to instil in the young a sense of national pride, common identify, and shared collective memory. To understand this process War, Nation, Memory describes and evaluates school history textbooks from many nations deeply affected by World War II including China, France, Germany, Japan, USA, and the United Kingdom. It critically examines the very different and complex perspectives offered in many nations and analyses the ways in which textbooks commonly serve as instruments of socialisation and, in some cases, propaganda. Above all, War, Nation, Memory demonstrates that far from containing “neutral” knowledge, history textbooks prove fascinating cultural artefacts consciously shaped and legitimated by powerful ideological, cultural, and sociopolitical forces dominant in the present.

Author : Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBE:UBBE-00094384

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Memorial Adresses on the Life of Alpheus S. Williams by Williams Pdf

Author : Norman Vasu,Yolanda Chin,Kam-yee Law
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134598175

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Nations, National Narratives and Communities in the Asia-Pacific by Norman Vasu,Yolanda Chin,Kam-yee Law Pdf

Many states in the Asia Pacific region are not built around a single homogenous people, but rather include many large, varied, different national groups. This book explores how states in the region attempt to develop commonality and a nation and the difficulties that arise. It discusses the consequences which ensue when competing narratives clash, and examines the nature of resistance to dominant narratives which arise. It considers the problems in a wide range of countries in the region including Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea, Australia and New Zealand.

Author : Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz,Judith Baumel-Schwartz
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299234836

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Perfect Heroes by Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz,Judith Baumel-Schwartz Pdf

During World War II, the British military dropped several dozen parachutists from Palestine, including three women, behind enemy lines in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. These young soldiers, most of whom had fled Europe only a few years earlier, faced a double challenge: their British mission was to find pilots who had jettisoned over enemy territory and assist them in returning to Allied-occupied lands; their Zionist mission was to contact Jewish communities, assist them in rebuilding the local Zionist movement, and, when necessary, help their members escape from the Nazis. Seven of the parachutists lost their lives in this effort. In Perfect Heroes, an expanded and updated English adaptation of her Hebrew book Giborim le-mofet, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz recounts the history of these parachutists' wartime escapades and also analyzes the ways that various segments of Israeli society—military, political, legal, educational, youth, literary, and artistic—used the parachutists' story over the course of fifty years to build a nationalist narrative and to promote their own partisan and, at times, contradictory agendas. Baumel-Schwartz also offers broader comparative discussions of how individuals were commemorated as WWII heroes and heroines in many countries, in service of national mythologizing and collective memory.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11480412

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Memorial Addresses on the life and character of Alpheus S. Williams, (a representative from Michigan,) delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate, forty-fifth Congress, third Session by Anonim Pdf

Author : James H. Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789462096561

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(Re)Constructing Memory: School Textbooks and the Imagination of the Nation by James H. Williams Pdf

This book examines the shifting portrayal of the nation in school textbooks in 14 countries during periods of rapid political, social, and economic change. Drawing on a range of analytic strategies, the authors examine history and civics textbooks, and the teaching of such texts, along with other prominent curricular materials—children’s readers, a required text penned by the head of state, a holocaust curriculum, etc.. The authors analyze the uses of history and pedagogy in building, reinforcing and/or redefining the nation and state especially in the light of challenges to its legitimacy. The primary focus is on countries in developing or transitional contexts. Issues include the teaching of democratic civics in a multiethnic state with little history of democratic governance; shifts in teaching about the Khmer Rouge in post-conflict Cambodia; children’s readers used to define national space in former republics of the Soviet Union; the development of Holocaust education in a context where citizens were both victims and perpetuators of violence; the creation of a national past in Turkmenistan; and so forth. The case studies are supplemented by commentary, an introduction and conclusion.