The Transatlantic Genealogy Of American Anglo Saxonism

Author : Michael Modarelli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Matthew Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350190481

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Memory and Modern British Politics by Matthew Roberts Pdf

This edited collection explores absence, presence and remembrance in British political culture and memory studies. Comprehensive in its scope, it covers the entire modern period, bringing together the 19th and 20th centuries as well as Britain, Ireland and the Atlantic World. As the first comparative and in-depth study to explore the central and contested place of memory and the invention of tradition in modern British politics, chapters include memorialisation, statue-mania, anniversaries and on the wider impact and invoking of 'dead generations'. In doing so, this book provides a new, exciting and accessible way of engaging with the history of British political culture.

Author : Ian Tyrrell
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226833422

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American Exceptionalism by Ian Tyrrell Pdf

A powerful dissection of a core American myth. The idea that the United States is unlike every other country in world history is a surprisingly resilient one. Throughout his distinguished career, Ian Tyrrell has been one of the most influential historians of the idea of American exceptionalism, but he has never written a book focused solely on it until now. The notion that American identity might be exceptional emerged, Tyrrell shows, from the belief that the nascent early republic was not simply a postcolonial state but a genuinely new experiment in an imperialist world dominated by Britain. Prior to the Civil War, American exceptionalism fostered declarations of cultural, economic, and spatial independence. As the country grew in population and size, becoming a major player in the global order, its exceptionalist beliefs came more and more into focus—and into question. Over time, a political divide emerged: those who believed that America’s exceptionalism was the basis of its virtue and those who saw America as either a long way from perfect or actually fully unexceptional, and thus subject to universal demands for justice. Tyrrell masterfully articulates the many forces that made American exceptionalism such a divisive and definitional concept. Today, he notes, the demands that people acknowledge America’s exceptionalism have grown ever more strident, even as the material and moral evidence for that exceptionalism—to the extent that there ever was any—has withered away.

Author : Thomas Cobb,Olga Maria May Akroyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666913736

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Presidents and Place by Thomas Cobb,Olga Maria May Akroyd Pdf

Presidents and Place: America's Favorite Sons highlights the interrelationship between America's leading political icons and various facets of space and place, including places of birth and death as well as regional allegiances, among others. The chapters examine the legacy of relationships between presidents and place in a variety of social and cultural forms, ranging from famous political campaigns to television series to developments in tourism. Beginning with the political iconography of New York's Federal Hall in early eighteenth-century America and ending with a focus on the Republican Party's electoral relationship with the South, the interdisciplinary and methodologically diverse nature of the chapters reveals that place has more than a biographical significance in relation to US presidents.

Author : Ulla Aatsinki,Johanna Annola,Mervi Kaarninen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Barbara Korte,Simon Wendt,Nicole Falkenhayner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429557842

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Heroism as a Global Phenomenon in Contemporary Culture by Barbara Korte,Simon Wendt,Nicole Falkenhayner Pdf

Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies.

Author : Hoda Mahmoudi,Steven Mintz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,5 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 : Andrea Rapini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 49,6 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 : Lu Zhouxiang
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 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 : Christopher Milnes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 47,5 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 : Justyna Jajszczok,Aleksandra Musiał
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429559426

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The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts by Justyna Jajszczok,Aleksandra Musiał Pdf

The aim of this book is to explore the body in various historical contexts and to take it as a point of departure for broader historiographical projects. The chapters in the volume present the ways in which the body constitutes a valuable and productive object of historical analysis, especially as a lens through which to trace histories of social, political, and cultural phenomena and processes. More specifically, the authors use the body as a tool for critical re-examination of particular histories of human experience, and of societal and cultural practices, thus contributing to the burgeoning area of body history in terms of both specific case studies as well as historiography in general.

Author : Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221288198

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The Genealogical Preface to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by Anglo-Saxon Chronicle Pdf

Author : Günter Leypoldt,Manfred Berg
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783839451892

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Authority and Trust in US Culture and Society by Günter Leypoldt,Manfred Berg Pdf

In the past two decades, a discourse of crisis has emerged about the democratic institutions and political culture of the US: many structures of authority which people had more or less taken for granted are facing a massive public loss of trust. This volume takes an interdisciplinary and historical look at the transformations of authority and trust in the United States. The contributors examine government institutions, political parties, urban neighborhoods, scientific experts, international leadership, religious communities, and literary production. Exploring the nexus between authority and trust is crucial to understand the loss of legitimacy experienced by political, social, and cultural institutions not only in the United States but in Western democracies at large.

Author : John Randolph Dos Passos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Anglo-Saxon race
ISBN : UCAL:B3646120

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The Anglo-Saxon Century and the Unification of the English-speaking People by John Randolph Dos Passos Pdf

Author : Srdjan Vucetic
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804772259

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The Anglosphere by Srdjan Vucetic Pdf

Focuses on Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States.