Archive Stories

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822387042
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Book Synopsis Archive Stories by : Antoinette Burton

Download or read book Archive Stories written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-25 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the importance of archives to the profession of history, there is very little written about actual encounters with them—about the effect that the researcher’s race, gender, or class may have on her experience within them or about the impact that archival surveillance, architecture, or bureaucracy might have on the histories that are ultimately written. This provocative collection initiates a vital conversation about how archives around the world are constructed, policed, manipulated, and experienced. It challenges the claims to objectivity associated with the traditional archive by telling stories that illuminate its power to shape the narratives that are “found” there. Archive Stories brings together ethnographies of the archival world, most of which are written by historians. Some contributors recount their own experiences. One offers a moving reflection on how the relative wealth and prestige of Western researchers can gain them entry to collections such as Uzbekistan’s newly formed Central State Archive, which severely limits the access of Uzbek researchers. Others explore the genealogies of specific archives, from one of the most influential archival institutions in the modern West, the Archives nationales in Paris, to the significant archives of the Bakunin family in Russia, which were saved largely through the efforts of one family member. Still others explore the impact of current events on the analysis of particular archives. A contributor tells of researching the 1976 Soweto riots in the politically charged atmosphere of the early 1990s, just as apartheid in South Africa was coming to an end. A number of the essays question what counts as an archive—and what counts as history—as they consider oral histories, cyberspace, fiction, and plans for streets and buildings that were never built, for histories that never materialized. Contributors. Tony Ballantyne, Marilyn Booth, Antoinette Burton, Ann Curthoys, Peter Fritzsche, Durba Ghosh, Laura Mayhall, Jennifer S. Milligan, Kathryn J. Oberdeck, Adele Perry, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, John Randolph, Craig Robertson, Horacio N. Roque Ramírez, Jeff Sahadeo, Reneé Sentilles

Dwelling in the Archive

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195144253
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (442 download)

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Book Synopsis Dwelling in the Archive by : Antoinette M. Burton

Download or read book Dwelling in the Archive written by Antoinette M. Burton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of the writings of three 20th century Indian women, this book explores how the memoirs, fictions, and histories written by women can be read as counter-narratives of colonial modernity.

A History of Heaven

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Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691006840
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Book Synopsis A History of Heaven by : Jeffrey Burton Russell

Download or read book A History of Heaven written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1999-01-03 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well known for his historical accounts of Satan and hell, Jeffrey Burton Russell explores the brighter side of eternity: heaven. He not only examines concepts found among Jews, Greeks and Romans, but asks how time 'passes' in eternity.

History of Electric Cars

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Publisher : Crowood
ISBN 13 : 1847975712
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (479 download)

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Book Synopsis History of Electric Cars by : Nigel Burton

Download or read book History of Electric Cars written by Nigel Burton and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2013-06-30 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred years ago electric cars were the most popular automobiles in the world. In the late nineteenth century and at the start of the twentieth century, they outsold every other type of car. And yet, within a couple of decades of the start of the twentieth century, the electric car had vanished. Thousands of battery-powered cars disappeared from the streets, replaced by the internal combustion engine, and their place in the history of the automobile was quietly erased. A century later, electric cars are making a comeback. Fears over pollution and global warming have forced manufacturers to reconsider the electric concept. A History of Electric Cars presents for the first time the full story of electric cars and their hybrid cousins. It examines how and why electric cars failed the first time - and why today's car manufacterers must learn the lessons of the past if they are to avoid repeating previous mistakes all over again. The book examines in detail: Early vehicles such as the Lohner-Porsche petrol-electric hybrid of 1901; Key figures in the history of the electric car development such as Henry Ford; Sir Clive Sinclair's plans to build a number of electric vehicles, designed to sit alongside the Sinclair C5; The return of the electric technology to vehicles as diverse as the NASA Lunar Rover, commuting vehicles and supercars; Future developments in electric cars. For the first time the full story of electric cars and their hybrids are examined.The hidden past of the electric automobile is uncovered and its future developments are discussed. Superbly illustrated with 300 colour photographs, many of which are rare and original sketch designs. Nigel Burton has written and lectured on cars and automotive history for more than twenty years.

The Age of Lincoln

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Publisher : Hill and Wang
ISBN 13 : 1429939559
Total Pages : 661 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Age of Lincoln written by Orville Vernon Burton and published by Hill and Wang. This book was released on 2008-07-08 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stunning in its breadth and conclusions, The Age of Lincoln is a fiercely original history of the five decades that pivoted around the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Abolishing slavery, the age's most extraordinary accomplishment, was not its most profound. The enduring legacy of the age of Lincoln was inscribing personal liberty into the nation's millennial aspirations. America has always perceived providence in its progress, but in the 1840s and 1850s pessimism accompanied marked extremism, as Millerites predicted the Second Coming, utopianists planned perfection, Southerners made slavery an inviolable honor, and Northerners conflated Manifest Destiny with free-market opportunity. Even amid historic political compromises the middle ground collapsed. In a remarkable reappraisal of Lincoln, the distinguished historian Orville Vernon Burton shows how the president's authentic Southernness empowered him to conduct a civil war that redefined freedom as a personal right to be expanded to all Americans. In the violent decades to follow, the extent of that freedom would be contested but not its central place in what defined the country. Presenting a fresh conceptualization of the defining decades of modern America, The Age of Lincoln is narrative history of the highest order.

Moving Subjects

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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252075684
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Moving Subjects by : Tony Ballantyne

Download or read book Moving Subjects written by Tony Ballantyne and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating how intimacy is constructed across the restless world of empire

A History of Medieval Christianity

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Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780820445113
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of Medieval Christianity by : Jeffrey Burton Russell

Download or read book A History of Medieval Christianity written by Jeffrey Burton Russell and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, a general history of the church in the Middle Ages, pays close attention to the spiritual, intellectual, and institutional aspects of medieval Christianity. From its beginnings, the church has existed in a state of tension between two forces: the spirit of order and the spirit of prophecy. The spirit of order attempts to reform humanity and human institutions; the spirit of prophecy attempts to transform them into the world of God. This tension created a balance within the church that kept it from forgetting the nature of basic religious experience while continuing to remain sensitive to the needs of society.

A History of India

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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405195096
Total Pages : 487 pages
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Book Synopsis A History of India by : Burton Stein

Download or read book A History of India written by Burton Stein and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Burton Stein's classic A History of India builds on the success of the original to provide an updated narrative of the development of Indian society, culture, and politics from 7000 BC to the present. New edition of Burton Stein’s classic text provides a narrative from 7000 BC up to the twenty-first century Includes updated and extended coverage of the modern period, with a new chapter covering the death of Nehru in 1964 to the present Expands coverage of India's internal political and economic development, and its wider diplomatic role in the region Features a new introduction, updated glossary and further reading sections, and numerous figures, photographs and fully revised maps Part of The Blackwell History of the World Series The goal of this ambitious series is to provide an accessible source of knowledge about the entire human past, for every curious person in every part of the world. It will comprise some two dozen volumes, of which some provide synoptic views of the history of particular regions while others consider the world as a whole during a particular period of time. The volumes are narrative in form, giving balanced attention to social and cultural history (in the broadest sense) as well as to institutional development and political change. Each provides a systematic account of a very large subject, but they are also both imaginative and interpretative. The Series is intended to be accessible to the widest possible readership, and the accessibility of its volumes is matched by the style of presentation and production.

Michigan History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Michigan History by : George Newman Fuller

Download or read book Michigan History written by George Newman Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michigan History Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
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Download or read book Michigan History Magazine written by George Newman Fuller and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Michigan History Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 854 pages
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Download or read book Michigan History Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nobel Prize

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Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559705929
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Book Synopsis The Nobel Prize by : Burton Feldman

Download or read book The Nobel Prize written by Burton Feldman and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Nobel Institution in detail, telling about the award and its beginnings, what it means to win a Nobel Prize, the fields in which it is presented, who judges and how the prize is awarded, and more.

Indiana Magazine of History

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
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Download or read book Indiana Magazine of History written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Burdens of History

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Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807860654
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Book Synopsis Burdens of History by : Antoinette Burton

Download or read book Burdens of History written by Antoinette Burton and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of British middle-class feminism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Antoinette Burton explores an important but neglected historical dimension of the relationship between feminism and imperialism. Demonstrating how feminists in the United Kingdom appropriated imperialistic ideology and rhetoric to justify their own right to equality, she reveals a variety of feminisms grounded in notions of moral and racial superiority. According to Burton, Victorian and Edwardian feminists such as Josephine Butler, Millicent Garrett Fawcett, and Mary Carpenter believed that the native women of colonial India constituted a special 'white woman's burden.' Although there were a number of prominent Indian women in Britain as well as in India working toward some of the same goals of equality, British feminists relied on images of an enslaved and primitive 'Oriental womanhood' in need of liberation at the hands of their emancipated British 'sisters.' Burton argues that this unquestioning acceptance of Britain's imperial status and of Anglo-Saxon racial superiority created a set of imperial feminist ideologies, the legacy of which must be recognized and understood by contemporary feminists.

A Primer for Teaching World History

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Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351889
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book A Primer for Teaching World History written by Antoinette Burton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers principles to consider when creating a world history syllabus; it prompts a teacher, rather than aiming for full world coverage, to pick an interpretive focus and thread it through the course. It will be used by university faculty, graduate students, and high school teachers who are teaching world history for the first time or want to rethink their approach to teaching the subject.

Michigan Genealogy

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Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317557
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Book Synopsis Michigan Genealogy by : Carol McGinnis

Download or read book Michigan Genealogy written by Carol McGinnis and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2005 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the finest statewide sourcebooks ever published, a remarkable compilation of sources and resources that are available to help researchers find their Michigan ancestors. It identifies records on the state and regional level and then the county level, providing details of vital records, court and land records, military records, newspapers, and census records, as well as the holdings of the various societies and institutions whose resources and facilities support the special needs of the genealogist. County-by-county, it lists the names, addresses, websites, e-mail addresses, and hours of business of libraries, archives, genealogical and historical societies, courthouses, and other record repositories; describes their manuscripts and record collections; highlights their special holdings; and provides details regarding queries, searches, and restrictions on the use of their records.

Burton's History of Mathematics

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Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Burton's History of Mathematics written by David M. Burton and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1995 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: