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Author : Edward Palmer Thompson,MARHO (Organization)
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0719010675
Author : Jaś Elsner,Joan Pau Rubiés
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 1861890206
A much-needed contribution to the expanding interest in the history of travel and travel writing, Voyages and Visions is the first attempt to sketch a cultural history of travel from the sixteenth century to the present day. The essays address the theme of travel as a historical, literary and imaginative process, focusing on significant episodes and encounters in world history. The contributors to this collection include historians of art and of science, anthropologists, literary critics and mainstream cultural historians. Their essays encompass a challenging range of subjects, including the explorations of South America, India and Mexico; mountaineering in the Himalayas; space travel; science fiction; and American post-war travel fiction. Voyages and Visions is truly interdisciplinary, and essential reading for anyone interested in travel writing. With essays by Kasia Boddy, Michael Bravo, Peter Burke, Melissa Calaresu, Jesus Maria Carillo Castillo, Peter Hansen, Edward James, Nigel Leask, Joan-Pau Rubies and Wes Williams.
Author : Penny Bryden,Colin MacMillan Coates,Maureen Katherine Lux,Marcel Martel,Daniel Samson,Danny Samson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : Canada
ISBN : 017666940X
The editor?s choice Post-Confederation volume of Visions brings together 12 pre-selected modules that tackle topics within Canadian history. This unique collection provides consistency for instructors and students as each module is designed around a consistent framework. A short contextual introduction provides students with an overview of what they will be learning and is followed by a series of both primary and secondary sources, including visual materials. All modules conclude with questions for further discussion and study, along with a bibliography. This collection can be used to compliment a core text or be used on its own, depending on the approach of the course.
Author : Robert A. Rosenstone
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674266834
Can filmed history measure up to written history? What happens to history when it is recorded in images, rather than words? Can images convey ideas and information that lie beyond words? Taking on these timely questions, Robert Rosenstone pioneers a new direction in the relationship between history and film. Rosenstone moves beyond traditional approaches, which examine the history of film as art and industry, or view films as texts reflecting their specific cultural contexts. This essay collection makes a radical venture into the investigation of a new concern: how a visual medium, subject to the conventions of drama and fiction, might be used as a serious vehicle for thinking about our relationship with the past. Rosenstone looks at history films in a way that forces us to reconceptualize what we mean by "history." He explores the innovative strategies of films made in Africa, Latin America, Germany, and other parts of the world. He journeys into the history of film in a wide range of cultures, and expertly traces the contours of the postmodern historical film. In essays on specific films, including Reds, JFK, and Sans Soleil, he considers such issues as the relationship between fact and film and the documentary as visionary truth. Theorists have for some time been calling our attention to the epistemological and literary limitations of traditional history. The first sustained defense of film as a way of thinking historically, this book takes us beyond those limitations.
Author : William L. Davis
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781469655673
In this interdisciplinary work, William L. Davis examines Joseph Smith's 1829 creation of the Book of Mormon, the foundational text of the Latter Day Saint movement. Positioning the text in the history of early American oratorical techniques, sermon culture, educational practices, and the passion for self-improvement, Davis elucidates both the fascinating cultural context for the creation of the Book of Mormon and the central role of oral culture in early nineteenth-century America. Drawing on performance studies, religious studies, literary culture, and the history of early American education, Davis analyzes Smith's process of oral composition. How did he produce a history spanning a period of 1,000 years, filled with hundreds of distinct characters and episodes, all cohesively tied together in an overarching narrative? Eyewitnesses claimed that Smith never looked at notes, manuscripts, or books—he simply spoke the words of this American religious epic into existence. Judging the truth of this process is not Davis's interest. Rather, he reveals a kaleidoscope of practices and styles that converged around Smith's creation, with an emphasis on the evangelical preaching styles popularized by the renowned George Whitefield and John Wesley.
Author : Susan LeBel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Canada
ISBN : OCLC:1019938233
Author : Henry Abelove
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : 0394722000
Thirteen historians explain how they developed their unique approaches to the study of the past and share their goals in writing history
Author : A. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230554658
The History of Science Fiction traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece up to the present day. The author is both an academic literary critic and acclaimed creative writer of the genre. Written in lively, accessible prose it is specifically designed to bridge the worlds of academic criticism and SF fandom.
Author : Jennifer D. Keene,Saul Cornell,Edward T. O'Donnell
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-31
Category : United States
ISBN : 0205092667
See history. Understand history. Praised by instructors and students alike, the first edition of Visions of America has brought history to life for a generation of visual learners-and has shown how competing visions of America have shaped our nation's past. We've made the second edition of this program even better by adding engaging new features and even easier access to new teaching resources. And, thorough integration with the new MyHistoryLab enables instructors to personalize learning for each student. A better teaching and learning experience This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how: Personalize Learning -- The new MyHistoryLab delivers proven results in helping students succeed, provides engaging experiences that personalize learning, and comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students and instructors achieve their goals. Improve Critical Thinking -- Chapter openers and end-of-chapter study materials that are tied to MyHistoryLab combine visual sources, narrative, and questions to help students study effectively. Engage Students -- Features focusing on visions that have shaped America and images are integrated with the new MyHistoryLab for a comprehensive learning program. Support Instructors -- MyHistoryLab, Annotated Instructor's eText, MyHistoryLab Instructor's Guide, Teaching Images and Teaching Notes, Class Preparation Tool, Instructor's Manual, MyTest, and PowerPoints are available to be packaged with this text. For volume one of this test, search ISBN-10: 0205092675 For volume two of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205092683 Note: MyHistoryLab does not come automatically packaged with this text. To purchase MyHistoryLab, please visit: www.myhistorylab.com or you can purchase a ValuePack of the text + MyHistorylab (at no additional cost): ValuePack ISBN-10: 0205251617 / ValuePack ISBN-13: 9780205251612.
Author : David C. Wright, Jr.,,Allan W. Austin
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-19
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786456345
Essays in this work examine treatments of history in science fiction and fantasy television programs from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Some essays approach science fiction and fantasy television as primary evidence, demonstrating how such programs consciously or unconsciously elucidate persistent concerns and enduring ideals of a past era and place. Other essays study television as secondary evidence, investigating how popular media construct and communicate narratives about past events.
Author : Zachary Lockman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521115872
This second edition considers how the 'global war on terror' has changed the way the West views the Islamic world.
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 635 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 186046372X
Robert Hughes begins where American art itself began, with the Native Americans and the first Spanish invaders in the Southwest; he ends with the art of today. In between, in a scholarly text that crackles with wit, intelligence and insight, he tells the story of how American art developed. Hughes investigates the changing tastes of the American public; he explores the effects on art of America's landscape of unparalleled variety and richness; he examines the impact of the melting-pot of cultures that America has always been. Most of all he concentrates on the paintings and art objects themselves and on the men and women - from Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins to Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keeffe, from Arthur Dove and George Bellows to Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko -awho created them. This is an uncompromising and refreshingly opinionated exploration of America, told through the lens of its art.
Author : Patrick Joyce
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0521447976
In examining how the laboring people of nineteenth-century England saw their social order, this text looks beyond class to reveal the significance of other sources of social identity and social imagery, including the notions of "the people" themselves.
Author : Gerhard L. Weinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521852544
Visions of Victory, first published in 2005, explores the views of eight leaders of the major powers of World War II - Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, Chiang Kai-shek, Stalin, Churchill, de Gaulle, and Roosevelt. He compares their visions of the future in the event of victory. While the leaders primarily focused on fighting and winning the war, their decisions were often shaped by their aspirations for the future. What emerges is a startling picture of postwar worlds. After exterminating the Jews, Hitler intended for all Slavs to die so Germans could inhabit Eastern Europe. Mussolini and Hitler wanted extensive colonies in Africa. Churchill hoped for the re-emergence of British and French empires. De Gaulle wanted to annex the northwest corner of Italy. Stalin wanted to control Eastern Europe. Roosevelt's vision included establishing the United Nations. Weinberg's comparison of the individual portraits of the war-time leaders is a highly original and compelling study of history that might have been.
Author : Peter Sutoris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Community development
ISBN : 1849045712
Visions of Development examines the Indian state's postcolonial development ideology between Independence in 1947 and the Emergency of 1975-77. Sutoris pioneers a novel methodology for the study of development thought and its cinematic representations, analysing films made by the Films Division of India between 1948 and 1975. By comparing these documentaries to late-colonial films on 'progress', his book highlights continuities with and departures from colonial notions of development in modern India. It is the first scholarly volume to be published on the history of Indian documentary film. Of the approximately 250 documentaries analysed by Peter Sutoris, many of which have never been discussed in the existing literature, most are concerned with economic planning and industrialisation, large dams, family planning, schemes aimed at the integration of tribal peoples (Adivasis) into society, and civic education. Almost all films analysed in this volume are available for free online viewing through the website of the Films Division. Links are provided on the companion website www.visionsofdevelopment.com.