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Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader

Author : Derek Thiess
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739196189
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Relativism, Alternate History, and the Forgetful Reader written by Derek Thiess and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writer of alternate history asks “what if?” What if one historical event were different, what would the world look like today? In a similar way, the postmodern philosopher of history suggests that history is literature, or that if we read certain historical details differently we would get a distinctly different interpretation of past events. While the science fiction alternate history means to illuminate the past, to increase our understanding of past events, however, the postmodern approach to history typically suggests that such understanding is impossible. To the postmodern philosopher, history is like literature in that it does not offer the reader access to the past, but only an interesting story. Building on criticism that suggests personal psychological reasons for this obscuring the past, and using a literary theory of readership, this book challenges the postmodern approach to history. It channels the speculative power of science fiction to read the works of postmodern philosophy of history as alternate histories themselves, and to map the limits and pathology of their forgetful reading of the past.

Philosophy in Process

Author : Paul Weiss
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887060809
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy in Process written by Paul Weiss and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-11-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Writing, Teaching and Researching History in the Electronic Age

Author : Dennis A. Trinkle
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317451430
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Book Synopsis Writing, Teaching and Researching History in the Electronic Age by : Dennis A. Trinkle

Download or read book Writing, Teaching and Researching History in the Electronic Age written by Dennis A. Trinkle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the role of the computer and electronic technology in the discipline of history. It includes representative articles addressing H-Net, scholarly publication, on-line reviewing, enhanced lectures using the World Wide Web, and historical research.

Translations on International Communist Developments

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Translations on International Communist Developments written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Shepherd to Fools

Author : Drew Mendelson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1664187812
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book A Shepherd to Fools written by Drew Mendelson and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-08-12 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Shepherd to Fools is the second of Drew Mendelson’s trilogy of Vietnam War novels that began with Song Ba To and will conclude with Poke the Dragon. Shepherd: It is the ragged end of the Vietnam war. With the debacle of a failing South Vietnamese invasion of Northern Laos as background, A Shepherd to Fools tells the harrowing tale of a covert Hatchet Team of US soldiers and Montagnard mercenaries. They are ordered to find and capture or kill a band of American deserters, called Longshadows, before the world learns of their paralyzing rebellion. An earlier attempt to capture them failed disastrously, the facts of it buried. Captain Hugh Englander commands the Hatchet Team. He is a humorless bastard, sneering and discourteous to every regular army soldier. He cares little for the welfare of his own men and nothing for the lives of the deserters. The conflict between him and Captain David Weisman, the artillery officer assigned to the mission for artillery support, threatens to tear the team apart. Deep in the Laotian jungle, the team is caught in a final, horrific battle facing an enemy armed with Sarin nerve gas, the “worst of the worst” of the war’s clandestine weapons.

Who Will Write Our History?

Author : Samuel D. Kassow
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253041058
Total Pages : 603 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Who Will Write Our History? written by Samuel D. Kassow and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1940, the historian Emanuel Ringelblum established a clandestine organization, code named Oyneg Shabes, in Nazi-occupied Warsaw to study and document all facets of Jewish life in wartime Poland and to compile an archive that would preserve this history for posterity. As the Final Solution unfolded, although decimated by murders and deportations, the group persevered in its work until the spring of 1943. Of its more than 60 members, only three survived. Ringelblum and his family perished in March 1944. But before he died, he managed to hide thousands of documents in milk cans and tin boxes. Searchers found two of these buried caches in 1946 and 1950. Who Will Write Our History tells the gripping story of Ringelblum and his determination to use historical scholarship and the collection of documents to resist Nazi oppression.

The Dial

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Dial written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Social History of Early India

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Pearson Education India
ISBN 13 : 9788131719589
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Early India written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and published by Pearson Education India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed seminar papers.

The Bible Confronts the Bible

Author : Gray Fitzgerald
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 1934937894
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book The Bible Confronts the Bible written by Gray Fitzgerald and published by Hillcrest Publishing Group. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bible Confronts the Bible is a book for those troubled by parts of the Bible that: -Show a vengeful and vindictive God -Appear to be in conflict with other scripture -Portray God not only as a God of war but as ordering genocide -Describe Biblical leaders practicing ethnic cleansing -Picture God punishing the descendants of sinners for generations -Describe a God who favors some ethnic groups while rejecting others As Jesus was discerning God's will and call for his life, he embraced parts of the Hebrew Scriptures. They were an invaluable resource for him as he struggled to be faithful to his call and relationship with God. However, there were other parts of Hebrew Scripture that Jesus not only rejected but confronted. Having an awareness of which scriptures Jesus chose and which he confronted is extremely valuable in comprehending the Bible and determining what God requires of us. This knowledge is critical as we discern and choose our own spiritual paths. The Bible Confronts the Bible is one of the few resources addressing this significant faith issue.

History of Humanity: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415093095
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book History of Humanity: From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century written by Peter Burke and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 1994 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth volume of the this series examines historical events and cultural, social and political structures which were introduced between the 16th and 18th centuries.

The Living Age

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 844 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Living Age written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Literary History of Canada

Author : Carl F. Klinck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487590997
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Literary History of Canada written by Carl F. Klinck and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1976-12-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature provides a comprehensive, up-to-date reference work. It has already proven itself invaluable as a source of information on authors, genres, and literary trends and influences. It represents a positive attempt to give a history of Canada in terms of writings which deserve attention because of significant thought, form, and use of language. Volume 3 has been newly written for this edition of the History, and covers the years from about 1960 to 1974. The contributors to this volume are Claude Bissell, Desmond Pacey, Lauriat Lane, jr, Michael S. Cross, Thomas A. Goudge, John Webster Grant, John H. Chapman, William E. Swinton, Henry B. Mayo, Malcolm Ross, Brandon Conron, Clara Thomas, Sheila A. Egoff, John Ripley, William H. New, George Woodcock, and Northrop Frye.

Literary Criticism

Author : Joseph North
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674978536
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Joseph North and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Criticism offers a concise overview of literary studies in the English-speaking world from the early twentieth century to the present. Joseph North steps back from the usual tangle of figures, schools, and movements in order to analyze the intellectual paradigms that underpinned them. The result is a radically new account of the discipline’s development, together with a trenchant argument about where its political future lies. People in today’s literature departments often assume that their work is politically progressive, especially when compared with the work of early- and mid-twentieth-century critics. North’s view is less cheering. For when understood in relation to the longer arc of the discipline, the current historicist and contextualist mode in literary studies represents a step to the Right. Since the global turn to neoliberalism in the late 1970s, all the major movements within literary studies have been diagnostic rather than interventionist in character: scholars have developed sophisticated techniques for analyzing culture, but they have retreated from systematic attempts to transform it. In this respect, the political potential of current literary scholarship compares poorly with that of earlier critical modes, which, for all their faults, at least had a programmatic commitment to cultural change. Yet neoliberalism is now in crisis—a crisis that presents opportunities as well as dangers. North argues that the creation of a genuinely interventionist criticism is one of the central tasks facing those on the Left of the discipline today.

Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel

Author : Isaac Kalimi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108588379
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Writing and Rewriting the Story of Solomon in Ancient Israel written by Isaac Kalimi and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-29 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon's image as a wise king and the founder of Jerusalem Temple has become a fixture of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic literature. Yet, there are essential differences between the portraits of Solomon that are presented in the Hebrew Bible. In this volume, Isaac Kalimi explores these differences, which reflect divergent historical contexts, theological and didactic concepts, stylistic and literary techniques, and compositional methods among the biblical historians. He highlights the uniqueness of each portrayal of Solomon - his character, birth, early life, ascension, and temple-building - through a close comparison of the early and late biblical historiographies. Whereas the authors of Samuel-Kings stay closely to their sources and offer an apology for Solomon's kingship, including its more questionable aspects, the Chronicler freely rewrites his sources in order to present the life of Solomon as he wished it to be. The volume will serve scholars and students seeking to understand biblical texts within their ancient Near Eastern contexts.

Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet

Author : Pierre Bayle
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791445471
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (454 download)

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Download or read book Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet written by Pierre Bayle and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The appearance of this comet caused so many panicked inquiries to be made of Pierre Bayle, one of the Enlightenment's greatest thinkers, that he decided to formally respond to them, hence the present work, which first appeared in 1682. The book's principle task was to undermine the influence of "superstition" in political life, and it was here that Bayle made the notorious suggestion, unique in the history of political thought until then, that a decent society of atheists is possible in principle. There is no other English translation of this book in print -- the only other version was printed in 1708. This translation is based on a recently revised critical edition of the complete French text and includes a substantial interpretive essay that both elucidates the arguments of the work and indicates the importance of Bayle in the history of the modern Enlightenment.

Studying Early India

Author : Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788178241432
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book Studying Early India written by Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book comprises a set of interrelated essays on some of the key issues which continue to excite historians and scholars of early India. It shows the profound impact of colonialism on the study of India's early past, the new methods and premises introduced into India by colonial studies, and the variety of departures from traditional, pre-colonial modes of history-writing. It goes on to show that post-Independence historiography has brought a fresh set of problems to the fore: such as the integration of archaeology with narratives of early Indian history; of the trajectories of social change and social formation; of the historical position of ideology and its shifts; and of the ways of communicating knowledge of a past which is now increasingly under non-academic fundamentalist onslaughts. With its diverse parts connected by strong threads of interest in the changing nature of history-writing on early India, this new book on the methodological changes that confront the historian of pre-colonial India will consolidate Professor Chattopadhyaya's reputation as one of the foremost thinkers in his area of ancient and early medieval history.

American Film History

Author : Cynthia Lucia
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118475127
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)

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Download or read book American Film History written by Cynthia Lucia and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the American underground film to the blockbuster superhero, this authoritative collection of introductory and specialized readings explores the core issues and developments in American cinematic history during the second half of the twentieth-century through the present day. Considers essential subjects that have shaped the American film industry—from the impact of television and CGI to the rise of independent and underground film; from the impact of the civil rights, feminist and LGBT movements to that of 9/11. Features a student-friendly structure dividing coverage into the periods 1960-1975, 1976-1990, and 1991 to the present day, each of which opens with an historical overview Brings together a rich and varied selection of contributions by established film scholars, combining broad historical, social, and political contexts with detailed analysis of individual films, including Midnight Cowboy, Nashville, Cat Ballou, Chicago, Back to the Future, Killer of Sheep, Daughters of the Dust, Nothing But a Man, Ali, Easy Rider, The Conversation, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Longtime Companion, The Matrix, The War Tapes, the Batman films, and selected avant-garde and documentary films, among many others. Additional online resources, such as sample syllabi, which include suggested readings and filmographies, for both general and specialized courses, will be available online. May be used alongside American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 to provide an authoritative study of American cinema from its earliest days through the new millennium