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Making History Even Worse

Author : Doreen Klahold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783656504191
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Making History Even Worse written by Doreen Klahold and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1,3, University of Dusseldorf "Heinrich Heine," language: English, abstract: Many a German would wish to undo his country's past. We would prefer that Hitler had never been born, that the Third Reich and especially the Holocaust would have never taken place. However, how is it that an immense number of the (non-German) alternate histories about the Third Reich - and there are actually quite a lot - depict the world as not better or even worse without Hitler. This essay will focus on the uchronian nightmare scenario Making History written by the British author Stephen Fry in 1996 and winner of the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. First, I will treat the protagonist's utopian wish to create a better world by preventing Hitler from being conceived and the dystopian effect of the "changing" of history. This playing with expectations attracts the reader's attention and shows the complexity of history and society, even though it naturally has a merely entertaining tenor as well. Second, I will briefly analyze that the style of rewriting history, the contrasting juxtaposition of the different chapters and particularly the two opposing parts of the novel, and, finally, the ironic tone implied continuously underline the sometimes satiric developments of fate and the naive wish of making a better, "utopian" world without being able to assess the outcome. Finally, against the concept of alternate history in general, it will be seen that alternate history is a means to examine history and present, but how history would have turned out differently is hard to tell since it depends on more than just individual events or persons. By thinking about how things could have been worse, we perhaps learn to accept that everything that happens shapes us and our present, as barbaric as it might be.

Making History

Author : Zuleika Rodgers
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004150080
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Zuleika Rodgers and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encounter between interpretation and history in the writings of Josephus provides the conceptual framework for this collection of essays. In particular, the question of historical method, both ancient and modern, is explored from a variety of perspectives.

Making History

Author : Brian Friel
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780573693151
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Brian Friel and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 1989 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friel has written an historical play about Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, who led an alliance of Irish and Spanish soldiers against the armies of Elizabeth I in an attempt to drive the English out of Ireland. The action takes place before and after the Battle of Kinsdale, at which the alliance was defeated.

Making History

Author : Carol Bakhos
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 1951498968
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Carol Bakhos and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2024-03-29 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays in this volume honor Richard L. Kalmin, one of the leading scholars of rabbinic literature. Volume contributors explore a variety of topics related to Kalmin’s wide-ranging work from the development of the Talmud to rabbinic storytelling, from the transmission of tales across geographic and cultural boundaries to ancient Jewish and Iranian interactions. Many of the essays reflect current trends in how scholars use ancient Jewish literary sources to address questions of historical import. Contributors include Carol Bakhos, Beth A. Berkowitz, Noah Bickart, Robert Brody, Joshua Cahan, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Steven D. Fraade, Shamma Friedman, Alyssa M. Gray, Judith Hauptman, Christine Hayes, Catherine Hezser, Marc Hirshman, David Kraemer, Marjorie Lehman, Kristen Lindbeck, Jonathan S. Milgram, Chaim Milikowsky, Michael L. Satlow, Marcus Mordecai Schwartz, Seth Schwartz, Burton L. Visotzky, and Sarah Wolf.

Making History Now and Then

Author : D. Cannadine
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230594263
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Making History Now and Then written by D. Cannadine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-06-17 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects twelve previously unpublished essays by one of Britain's most eminent historians, David Cannadine, including his inaugural and valedictory lectures at the Institute of Historical Research. A unique volume discussing the study and nature of History itself and a range of key topics and periods in British and Imperial History.

Making History

Author : Stephen Fry
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1616955260
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (169 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Stephen Fry and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2014-12-30 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “terrific” novel of alternate history asks: What if Hitler had never been born? (The Washington Post) Michael Young is a graduate student at Cambridge who is completing his dissertation on the early life of Adolf Hitler. Leo Zuckermann is an aging German physicist haunted by the Holocaust. Together, they idealistically embark on an experiment to change the course of history. And with their success is launched a brave new world that is in some ways better than ours—but in most ways even worse.

Imagining the Unimaginable

Author : Glyn Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501350560
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Unimaginable written by Glyn Morgan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagining the Unimaginable examines popular fiction's treatment of the Holocaust in the dystopian and alternate history genres of speculative fiction, analyzing the effectiveness of the genre's major works as a lens through which to view the most prominent historical trauma of the 20th century. It surveys a range of British and American authors, from science fiction pulp to Pulitzer Prize winners, building on scholarship across disciplines, including Holocaust studies, trauma studies, and science fiction studies. The conventional discourse around the Holocaust is one of the unapproachable, unknowable, and the unimaginable. The Holocaust has been compared to an earthquake, another planet, another universe, a void. It has been said to be beyond language, or else have its own incomprehensible language, beyond art, and beyond thought. The 'othering' of the event has spurred the phenomenon of non-realist Holocaust literature, engaging with speculative fiction and its history of the uncanny, the grotesque, and the inhuman. This book examines the most common forms of nonmimetic Holocaust fiction, the dystopia and the alternate history, while firmly positioning these forms within a broader pattern of non-realist engagements with the Holocaust.

Making History

Author : Alex Callinicos
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004136274
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Alex Callinicos and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Making History" seeks systematically to address the problem, widely discussed by social scientists and historians, of the relative roles played by social structures and human agency in social change. Alex Callinicos has added an introduction to this new edition updating the argument of this influential book first published in 1987.

The World Hitler Never Made

Author : Gavriel D. Rosenfeld
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521847063
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book The World Hitler Never Made written by Gavriel D. Rosenfeld and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-05-23 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating 2005 study of the place of alternate histories of Nazism within Western popular culture.

History Making History

Author : William D. Dean
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780887068928
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book History Making History written by William D. Dean and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recognizes that the postmodern "new historicism" leads to a value-neutral relativism and leaves theology with an impossible choice. Dean argues that the postmodern challenge is incoherent and ineffective unless it is reinterpreted in terms of its classical American roots. Before offering a third option, Dean defends the neopragmatism of Richard Rorty, Richard Bernstein, Nelson Goodman, Hilary Putnam, Cornel West, and Jeffrey Stout; the deconstructivism of Jacques Derrida and Mark Taylor; and the recent theology of Gordon Kaufman. The third option, opening up a new possibility for American theology, is the radical empiricism of William James and John Dewey and the precedent of the "Chicago School."

Making History / Making Blintzes

Author : Mickey Flacks
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081358924X
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Making History / Making Blintzes written by Mickey Flacks and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-31 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making History/Making Blintzes is a chronicle of the political and personal lives of progressive activists Richard (Dick) and Miriam (Mickey) Flacks, two of the founders of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, their stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present. Throughout this memoir, the couple demonstrates that their lifelong commitment to making history through social activism cannot be understood without returning to the deeply personal context of their family history—of growing up “Red Diaper babies” in 1950s New York City, using folk music as self-expression as adolescents in the 1960s, and of making blintzes for their own family through the 1970s and 1980s. As the children of immigrants and first generation Jews, Dick and Mickey crafted their own religious identity as secular Jews, created a critical space for American progressive activism through SDS, and ultimately, found themselves raising an “American” family.

Making History / Making Blintzes

Author : Mickey Flacks
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813589223
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Deconstructing History

Author : Alun Munslow
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415131933
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Deconstructing History written by Alun Munslow and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In "Deconstructing History," Alan Munslow examines history in the postmodern age, providing an introduction to the topics and debates inherent in a postmodern approach to history. Detailing both empiricist and deconstruction issues and considering the arguments of both schools, Munslow debates the position that not only is history defined as the textual product of historians but also that narrative may provide the textual model for the past itself. An examination of the character of historical evidence and an exploration of the role of historians as well as a discussion of the failure of traditional historical models is included. Munslow maps the controversies involved in and assesses the merits of the deconstructionist position, arguing that instead of beginning with past events themselves, history begins with representations of the past.

Making the History of Computing Relevant

Author : Arthur Tatnall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3642416500
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book Making the History of Computing Relevant written by Arthur Tatnall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed post-proceedings of the IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on the History of Computing, HC 2013, held in London, UK, in June 2013. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics related to the history of computing and offer a number of different approaches to making this history relevant. These range from discussion of approaches to describing and analyzing the history through storytelling and education to description of various collections, working installations and reconstruction projects. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: the importance of storytelling in museums; spotlight on some key collections and their future plans; thoughts on expanding the audience for computing history; spotlight on some research projects; integrating history with computer science education; putting the history of computing into different contexts; celebrating nostalgia for games - and its potential as Trojan horse; the importance and challenges of working installations; and reconstruction stories.

How Big Things Get Done

Author : Bent Flyvbjerg
Publisher : Currency
ISBN 13 : 0593239520
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book How Big Things Get Done written by Bent Flyvbjerg and published by Currency. This book was released on 2023-02-07 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Why do big projects go wrong so often, and are there any lessons you can use when renovating your kitchen? Bent Flyvbjerg is the ‘megaproject’ expert and Dan Gardner brings the storytelling skills to How Big Things Get Done, with examples ranging from a Jimi Hendrix studio to the Sydney Opera House.”—Financial Times (Best Books of 2023 So Far) “Entertaining . . . There are lessons here for managers of all stripes.”—The Economist Nothing is more inspiring than a big vision that becomes a triumphant, new reality. Think of how the Empire State Building went from a sketch to the jewel of New York’s skyline in twenty-one months, or how Apple’s iPod went from a project with a single employee to a product launch in eleven months. These are wonderful stories. But most of the time big visions turn into nightmares. Remember Boston’s “Big Dig”? Almost every sizeable city in the world has such a fiasco in its backyard. In fact, no less than 92% of megaprojects come in over budget or over schedule, or both. The cost of California’s high-speed rail project soared from $33 billion to $100 billon—and won’t even go where promised. More modest endeavors, whether launching a small business, organizing a conference, or just finishing a work project on time, also commonly fail. Why? Understanding what distinguishes the triumphs from the failures has been the life’s work of Oxford professor Bent Flyvbjerg, dubbed “the world’s leading megaproject expert.” In How Big Things Get Done, he identifies the errors in judgment and decision-making that lead projects, both big and small, to fail, and the research-based principles that will make you succeed with yours. For example: • Understand your odds. If you don’t know them, you won’t win. • Plan slow, act fast. Getting to the action quick feels right. But it’s wrong. • Think right to left. Start with your goal, then identify the steps to get there. • Find your Lego. Big is best built from small. • Be a team maker. You won’t succeed without an “us.” • Master the unknown unknowns. Most think they can’t, so they fail. Flyvbjerg shows how you can. • Know that your biggest risk is you. Full of vivid examples ranging from the building of the Sydney Opera House, to the making of the latest Pixar blockbusters, to a home renovation in Brooklyn gone awry, How Big Things Get Done reveals how to get any ambitious project done—on time and on budget.

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: New England Patriots

Author : Sean Glennon
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1617490245
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly: New England Patriots written by Sean Glennon and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Genuine fans take the best team moments with the less than great, and know that the games that are best forgotten make the good moments truly shine. This monumental book of the New England Patriots documents all the best moments and personalities in the history of the team, but also unmasks the regrettably awful and the unflinchingly ugly. In entertaining—and unsparing—fashion, this book sparkles with Patriots highlights and lowlights, from wonderful and wacky memories to the famous and infamous. Such moments include the impressive Super Bowl seasons but also the horrendous years in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Whether providing fond memories, goose bumps, or laughs, this portrait of the team is sure to appeal to the fan who has been through it all.

Law, Justice, and Power

Author : Sinkwan Cheng
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804748919
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (489 download)

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Download or read book Law, Justice, and Power written by Sinkwan Cheng and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides different disciplinary and cultural perspectives on the ethical and political ramifications of the incommensurable yet inextricable relationships among law, justice, and power.