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Author : Julia Gayley Erhart
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Recollecting Descent written by Julia Gayley Erhart and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Warnek
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253111517
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (115 download)
Download or read book Descent of Socrates written by Peter Warnek and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-21 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of Plato's Dialogues, philosophers have been preoccupied with the identity of Socrates and have maintained that successful interpretation of the work hinges upon a clear understanding of what thoughts and ideas can be attributed to him. In Descent of Socrates, Peter Warnek offers a new interpretation of Plato by considering the appearance of Socrates within Plato's work as a philosophical question. Warnek reads the Dialogues as an inquiry into the nature of Socrates and in doing so opens up the relationship between humankind and the natural world. Here, Socrates appears as a demonic and tragic figure whose obsession with the task of self-knowledge transforms the history of philosophy. In this uncompromising work, Warnek reveals the importance of the concept of nature in the Platonic Dialogues in light of Socratic practice and the Ancient ideas that inspire contemporary philosophy.
Author : Josephine D. Lee
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781439901205
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Re/collecting Early Asian America written by Josephine D. Lee and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining the early period as spanning the nineteenth century to the 1960s, the essays address the Asian American individuals and communities that have been omitted from "official" histories; trace the roots of persistent racial stereotypes and myths; and retrieve artistic production that raises questions of what counts as "art" or as Asian American. By reconsidering the political, cultural, and material history written in the past three decades, contributes to a new understanding of Asian America's past and relationship to the present.
Author : Alison Mearns Benders
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814665330
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (146 download)
Download or read book Recollecting America's Original Sin written by Alison Mearns Benders and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2022-05-14 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollecting America's Original Sin: A Pilgrimage of Race and Grace journeys into anti-black racism throughout US history through a Christian spirituality lens. The reflections are fashioned as a spiritual pilgrimage that integrates listening, reflecting, and daily living. It recollects the nation’s freedom struggles around race, our original sin, which constrains and stains us now as ever. Walking a holy road of past, present, and future meaning, the chapters interlace historical moments and places into a web of provocative concerns. Anyone desiring to respond faithfully to the justice reckonings now seizing our country will travel the race-and-grace journey in these pages.
Author : Sarah Carter
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1897425821
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (974 download)
Download or read book Recollecting written by Sarah Carter and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollecting is a rich collection of essays that illuminate the lives of late eighteenth-century to the mid twentieth-century Aboriginal women, who have been overlooked in sweeping narratives of the history of the West. Some essays focus on individual women - a trader, a performer, a non-human woman - while others examine cohorts of women - wives, midwives, seamstresses, nuns. Authors look beyond the documentary record and standard representations of women, drawing also on records generated by the women themselves, including their beadwork, other material culture, and oral histories.
Author : Nicholas A. Brown
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822944379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Re-Collecting Black Hawk written by Nicholas A. Brown and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The name Black Hawk permeates the built environment in the upper midwestern United States. It has been appropriated for everything from fitness clubs to used car dealerships. Makataimeshekiakiak, the Sauk Indian war leader whose name loosely translates to “Black Hawk,” surrendered in 1832 after hundreds of his fellow tribal members were slaughtered at the Bad Axe Massacre. Re-Collecting Black Hawk examines the phenomena of this appropriation in the physical landscape, and the deeply rooted sentiments it evokes among Native Americans and descendants of European settlers. Nearly 170 original photographs are presented and juxtaposed with texts that reveal and complicate the significance of the imagery. Contributors include tribal officials, scholars, activists, and others including George Thurman, the principal chief of the Sac and Fox Nation and a direct descendant of Black Hawk. These image-text encounters offer visions of both the past and present and the shaping of memory through landscapes that reach beyond their material presence into spaces of cultural and political power. As we witness, the evocation of Black Hawk serves as a painful reminder, a forced deference, and a veiled attempt to wipe away the guilt of past atrocities. Re-Collecting Black Hawk also points toward the future. By simultaneously unsettling and reconstructing the midwestern landscape, it envisions new modes of peaceful and just coexistence and suggests alternative ways of inhabiting the landscape.
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Waverley Novels written by Walter Scott and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Walter Scott
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368123459
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (681 download)
Download or read book The Fortunes of Nigel written by Walter Scott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-28 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.
Author : John Sallis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253210715
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Being and Logos written by John Sallis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being and Logos is... a philosophical adventure of rare inspiration.... Its power to illuminate the text..., its ecumenicity of inspiration, its methodological rigor, its originality, and its philosophical profundity--all together make it one of the few philosophical interpretations that the philosopher will want to re-read along with the dialogues themselves. A superadded gift is the author's prose, which is a model of lucidity and grace. --International Philosophical Quarterly Being and Logos is highly recommended for those who wish to learn how a thoughtful scholar approaches Platonic dialogues as well as for those who wish to consider a serious discussion of some basic themes in the dialogues. --The Academic Reviewer
Author : Noah Coburn
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804778906
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Bazaar Politics written by Noah Coburn and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the fall of the Taliban, instability reigned across Afghanistan. However, in the small town of Istalif, located a little over an hour north of Kabul and not far from Bagram on the Shomali Plain, local politics remained relatively violence-free. Bazaar Politics examines this seemingly paradoxical situation, exploring how the town's local politics maintained peace despite a long, violent history in a country dealing with a growing insurgency. At the heart of this story are the Istalifi potters, skilled craftsmen trained over generations. With workshops organized around extended families and competition between workshops strong, kinship relations become political and subtle negotiations over power and authority underscore most interactions. Starting from this microcosm, Noah Coburn then investigates power and relationships at various levels, from the potters' families; to the local officials, religious figures, and former warlords; and ultimately to the international community and NGO workers. Offering the first long-term on-the-ground study since the arrival of allied forces in 2001, Noah Coburn introduces readers to daily life in Afghanistan through portraits of local residents and stories of his own experiences. He reveals the ways in which the international community has misunderstood the forces driving local conflict and the insurgency, misunderstandings that have ultimately contributed to the political unrest rather than resolved it. Though on first blush the potters of Istalif may seem far removed from international affairs, it is only through understanding politics, power, and culture on the local level that we can then shed new light on Afghanistan's difficult search for peace.
Author : Rebeca Helfer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802090672
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection written by Rebeca Helfer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.
Author : Christopher Bobonich
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191530735
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Plato's Utopia Recast written by Christopher Bobonich and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2002-07-11 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plato's Utopia Recast is an illuminating reappraisal of Plato's later works, which reveals radical changes in his ethical and political theory. Christopher Bobonich argues that in these works Plato both rethinks and revises important positions which he held in his better-known earlier works such as the Republic and the Phaedo. Bobonich analyses Plato's shift from a deeply pessimistic view of non-philosophers in the Republic, where he held that only philosophers were capable of virtue and happiness, to his far more optimistic position in the Laws, where he holds that the constitution and laws of his ideal city of Magnesia would allow all citizens to achieve a truly good life. Bobonich sheds light on how this and other highly significant changes in Plato's views are grounded in changes in his psychology and epistemology. This book will change our understanding of Plato. His controversial moral and political theory, so influential in Western thought, will henceforth be seen in a new light.
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110678012
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Africa in Global History written by Toyin Falola and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-12-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook places emphasis on modern/contemporary times, and offers relevant sophisticated and comprehensive overviews. It aims to emphasize the religious, economic, political, cultural and social connections between Africa and the rest of the world and features comparisons as well as an interdisciplinary approach in order to examine the place of Africa in global history. "This book makes an important contribution to the discussion on the place of Africa in the world and of the world in Africa. An outstanding work of scholarship, it powerfully demonstrates that Africa is not marginal to global concerns. Its labor and resources have made our world, and the continent deserves our respect." – Mukhtar Umar Bunza, Professor of Social History, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, and Commissioner for Higher Education, Kebbi State, Nigeria "This is a deep plunge into the critical place of Africa in global history. The handbook blends a rich set of important tapestries and analysis of the conceptual framework of African diaspora histories, imperialism and globalization. By foregrounding the authentic voices of African interpreters of transnational interactions and exchanges, the Handbook demonstrates a genuine commitment to the promotion of decolonized and indigenous knowledge on African continent and its peoples." – Samuel Oloruntoba, Visiting Research Professor, Institute of African Studies, Carleton University
Author : Paul Georg Geiss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134384750
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Pre-tsarist and Tsarist Central Asia written by Paul Georg Geiss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, written from the perspective of political sociology, represents the first comparative examination of Central Asian communal and political organisation before and after the tsarist conquest of the region. It covers Turkman, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and other tribal societies, analyses the patrimonial state structures of the Emirate of Bukhara and the Khanates of Khiva and Khokand, and discusses the impacts of the established tsarist civil military administration on communal and political orientations of the Muslim population.
Author : Persifor Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Persifor Frazer's Descendants: Notes and papers of or connected with Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765 written by Persifor Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Persifor Frazer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Persifor Frazer's Descendants: Notes and papers of or connected with Persifor Frazer in Glasslough, Ireland, and his son, John Frazer of Philadelphia, 1735-1765. v.2. General Persifor Frazer, a memoir compiled principally from his own papers written by Persifor Frazer and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected])
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Waverley novels. 25 vols. written by sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
