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Author : Kimberly E. Bird
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Revolutionary Ambience and Historical Memory written by Kimberly E. Bird and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Jacobson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 0807899178
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Catalonia's Advocates written by Stephen Jacobson and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean. Far from being mere curators of static law, Barcelona's lawyers were at the center of social conflict and political and economic change, mediating between state, family, and society. Beginning with the resurrection of a decadent bar during the Enlightenment, Jacobson traces the historical evolution of lawyers throughout the long nineteenth century. Among the issues he explores are the attributes of the modern legal profession, how lawyers engaged with the Enlightenment, how they molded events in the Age of Revolution and helped consolidate a liberal constitutional order, why a liberal profession became conservative and corporatist, and how lawyers promoted fin-de-siecle nationalism. From the vantage point of a city with a distinguished legal tradition, Catalonia's Advocates provides fresh insight into European social and legal history; the origins of liberal professionalism; education, training, and the practice of law in the nineteenth century; the expansion of continental bureaucracies; and the corporatist aspects of modern nationalism.
Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838607293
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (386 download)
Download or read book Middle Eastern Politics and Historical Memory written by Jacob Lassner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the complex history of the ancient Near East and Islamic World brought to bear in contemporary political discourse? In this book, Medieval Near Eastern historian Jacob Lassner explores the resonance of ancient and medieval history in the political disputes that dominate the contemporary Middle East. From identification with ancient forbears as a method of legitimization and nation-building, to tracing the deep history of the concept of revolution in the Arab world, the author probes the historical foundations of modern conflicts in the region. A medievalist, the author takes the position that an appreciation of cultural history is essential to understanding the debate surrounding the Israel/Palestine conflict. In turn, the book identifies the misappropriation and misunderstanding of the past, deliberate or accidental, as key weapon in the ongoing conflict.
Author : David Chandler
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 052092455X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Voices from S-21 written by David Chandler and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon by focusing on one of its key institutions, the secret prison outside Phnom Penh known by the code name "S-21." The facility was an interrogation center where more than 14,000 "enemies" were questioned, tortured, and made to confess to counterrevolutionary crimes. Fewer than a dozen prisoners left S-21 alive. During the Democratic Kampuchea (DK) era, the existence of S-21 was known only to those inside it and a few high-ranking Khmer Rouge officials. When invading Vietnamese troops discovered the prison in 1979, murdered bodies lay strewn about and instruments of torture were still in place. An extensive archive containing photographs of victims, cadre notebooks, and DK publications was also found. Chandler utilizes evidence from the S-21 archive as well as materials that have surfaced elsewhere in Phnom Penh. He also interviews survivors of S-21 and former workers from the prison. Documenting the violence and terror that took place within S-21 is only part of Chandler's story. Equally important is his attempt to understand what happened there in terms that might be useful to survivors, historians, and the rest of us. Chandler discusses the "culture of obedience" and its attendant dehumanization, citing parallels between the Khmer Rouge executions and the Moscow Show Trails of the 1930s, Nazi genocide, Indonesian massacres in 1965-66, the Argentine military's use of torture in the 1970s, and the recent mass killings in Bosnia and Rwanda. In each of these instances, Chandler shows how turning victims into "others" in a manner that was systematically devaluing and racialist made it easier to mistreat and kill them. More than a chronicle of Khmer Rouge barbarism, Voices from S-21 is also a judicious examination of the psychological dimensions of state-sponsored terrorism that conditions human beings to commit acts of unspeakable brutality. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 2000. The horrific torture and execution of hundreds of thousands of Cambodians by Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge during the 1970s is one of the century's major human disasters. David Chandler, a world-renowned historian of Cambodia, examines the Khmer Rouge phenomenon
Author : S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521645867
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution written by S. N. Eisenstadt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution is a major comparative analysis of fundamentalist movements in cultural and political context, with an emphasis on the contemporary scene. Leading sociologist S. N. Eisenstadt examines the meaning of the global rise of fundamentalism as one very forceful contemporary response to tensions in modernity and the dynamics of civilization. He compares modern fundamentalist movements with the proto-fundamentalist movements which arose in the 'axial civilizations' in pre-modern times; he shows how the great revolutions in Europe which arose in connection with these movements shaped the political and cultural programmes of modernity; and he contrasts post-Second World War Moslem, Jewish and Protestant fundamentalist movements with communal national movements, notably in Asia. The central theme of the book is the distinctively Jacobin features of fundamentalist movements and their ambivalent attitude to tradition: above all their attempts to essentialize tradition in an ideologically totalistic way. Eisenstadt has won the Amalfi book prize.
Author : Philip D. Beidler
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817319301
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Beautiful War written by Philip D. Beidler and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-12 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A study of war and its myriad representations in art, history, and memory, from the early modern era to the present." ... Provided by publisher.
Author : Paul Connerton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139503367
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)
Download or read book The Spirit of Mourning written by Paul Connerton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses – and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested in cultural objects such as tattoos, letters, buildings and public spaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collective than it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy.
Author : Oksana Sarkisova
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211434
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Past for the Eyes written by Oksana Sarkisova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book America, History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Author : Matthew Carmona
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0750665319
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Urban Design Reader written by Matthew Carmona and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential reading for architects, planners, and anyone else involved in urban design.
Author : David Porter Chandler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voices from S-21 written by David Porter Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the confessions under torture of the political enemies of Pol Pot discovered in a prison code-named S-21 when the Vietnamese took over Phnom Penh in Jan. 1979. These documents are supplemented by interviews with survivors and former workers to bring to life the story of a people consumed in a course of auto-genocide.
Author : E. Jaiwant Paul
Publisher : Roli Books Private Limited
ISBN 13 : 8194566142
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Har Dayal: The Great Revolutionary written by E. Jaiwant Paul and published by Roli Books Private Limited. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023062748X
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Memory, Trauma and World Politics written by D. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory, Trauma and World Politics focuses on the effect that the memory of traumatic episodes (especially war and genocide) has on shaping contemporary political identities. Theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich, this book is an incisive treatment of the ways in which the study of social memory can inform global politics analysis.
Author : Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000527166
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Family Memory written by Radmila Švaříčková Slabáková and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Family Memory: Practices, Transmissions and Uses in a Global Perspective, researchers from five different continents explore the significance of family memory as an analytical tool and a research concept. Family memory is the most important memory community. This volume illustrates the range and power of family memories, often neglected by memory studies dealing with larger mnemonic entities. This book highlights the potential of family memory research for understanding societies’past and present and the need for a more comprehensive and systematic use of family memories. The contributors explain how family memories can be a valuable resource across a range of settings pertaining to individual and collective identities, national memories, intergenerational transmission processes and migration, transnational and diasporic studies. This volume presents the past, present and future of family memory as a prospective field of memory studies and the role of family memory in intergenerational transmission of social and political values. Family memory of violent events and genocide is also looked at, with discussions of the Armenian Genocide, Russian Revolution and Rwandan Genocide. This book will be an important read for cultural and oral historians; family historians; public historians; researchers in narrative studies, psychology, politics and international studies.
Author : Jing Wang
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501333496
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Half Sound, Half Philosophy written by Jing Wang and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 1990s until today, China's sound practice has been developing in an increasingly globalized socio-political-aesthetic milieu, receiving attentions and investments from the art world, music industry and cultural institutes, with nevertheless, its unique acoustic philosophy remaining silent. This book traces the history of sound practice from contemporary Chinese visual art back in the 1980s, to electronic music, which was introduced as a target of critique in the 1950s, to electronic instrument building fever in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and to the origins of both academic and nonacademic electronic and experimental music activities. This expansive tracing of sound in the arts resonates with another goal of this book, to understand sound and its artistic practice through notions informed by Chinese qi-cosmology and qi-philosophy, including notions of resonance, shanshui (mountains-waters), huanghu (elusiveness and evasiveness), and distributed monumentality and anti-monumentality. By turning back to deep history to learn about the meaning and function of sound and listening in ancient China, the book offers a refreshing understanding of the British sinologist Joseph Needham's statement that “Chinese acoustics is acoustics of qi.” and expands existing conceptualization of sound art and contemporary music at large.
Author : Leslie Hawkins Damasceno
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814325957
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (259 download)
Download or read book Cultural Space and Theatrical Conventions in the Works of Oduvaldo Vianna Filho written by Leslie Hawkins Damasceno and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his work he constantly appraised his own dramatic development and the potential of his theatrical activity, in light of cultural and political possibilities, to affect social change.
Author : Murray Bookchin
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826450548
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)
Download or read book The Third Revolution written by Murray Bookchin and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive account of the great revolutions that swept over Europe and America.
