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Crossed Histories
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Author : Mariko Asano Tamanoi
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2005-04-30
Crossed Histories written by Mariko Asano Tamanoi and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-30 with History categories.
Crossed Histories represents a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to "Manchuria" under Japan’s influence from the turn of the twentieth century to 1945. The contributors, who represent the fields of history, literature, film studies, sociology, and anthropology, unpack the complexity of Manchuria as an effect of the geopolitical imaginaries of various individuals and groups shaped by imperialism, colonialism, Pan-Asianism, and the present globalization. Manchuria is thus examined in the imaginations of a Chinese journalist and his Shanghai readers in the 1930s; prewar Japanese city planners and architects; a Manchu princess later executed by the Chinese nationalist government; various audiences of Japanese "goodwill films" of the 1930s and 1940s; the seven thousand Poles who immigrated to northern Manchuria in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; the state makers of Manchukuo (which included both Japanese and Chinese leaders) and North and South Korea during the Cold War era; and a student of Manchuria Nation- Building University in the mid-1940s.
Crossed Histories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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Totalitarianisms The Closed Society And Its Friends A History Of Crossed Languages
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Author : Juan Francisco Fuentes
language : en
Publisher: Ed. Universidad de Cantabria
Release Date : 2019-04-29
Totalitarianisms The Closed Society And Its Friends A History Of Crossed Languages written by Juan Francisco Fuentes and has been published by Ed. Universidad de Cantabria this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-29 with Political Science categories.
It is striking that the main political concept coined by the century of democracy has been totalitarianism. Since its birth in fascist Italy in the 1920s, the term has made a long journey throughout different countries and periods. After representing the fascination for dictatorships during the interwar years, totalitarianism became a key concept of the ‘war of words’ waged between democracy and communism until the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was ‘a hot word for a Cold War’, as termed by the author of this book to convey the importance of this contest of crossed languages, which also included images, symbols and other forms of ‘senso-propaganda’. The Closed Society and Its Friendshighlights the role played by language in the building of a dystopian civilization conceived as an alternative to the open society created by liberalism. The book analyses the dimension of totalitarianisms, from fascism and Nazism to communism, as political religions with some common features, such as the cult of personality and the conception of society as a community of believers. This fascinating essay on the dark side of the 20th century ends with a disturbing epilogue: ‘Is totalitarianism back?’
Connecting Histories Of Education
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Author : Barnita Bagchi
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-03-01
Connecting Histories Of Education written by Barnita Bagchi and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-01 with History categories.
The history of education in the modern world is a history of transnational and cross-cultural influence. This collection explores those influences in (post) colonial and indigenous education across different geographical contexts. The authors emphasize how local actors constructed their own adaptation of colonialism, identity, and autonomy, creating a multi-centric and entangled history of modern education. In both formal as well as informal aspects, they demonstrate that transnational and cross-cultural exchanges in education have been characterized by appropriation, re-contextualization, and hybridization, thereby rejecting traditional notions of colonial education as an export of pre-existing metropolitan educational systems.
The Star Crossed Stone
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Author : Ken McNamara
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
The Star Crossed Stone written by Ken McNamara and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Science categories.
Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologists study them for clues to the earth’s history. In The Star-Crossed Stone, Kenneth J. McNamara, an expert on fossil echinoids, takes readers on an incredible fossil hunt, with stops in history, paleontology, folklore, mythology, art, religion, and much more. Beginning with prehistoric times, when urchin fossils were used as jewelry, McNamara reveals how the fossil crept into the religious and cultural lives of societies around the world—the roots of the familiar five-pointed star, for example, can be traced to the pattern found on urchins. But McNamara’s vision is even broader than that: using our knowledge of early habits of fossil collecting, he explores the evolution of the human mind itself, drawing striking conclusions about humanity’s earliest appreciation of beauty and the first stirrings of artistic expression. Along the way, the fossil becomes a nexus through which we meet brilliant eccentrics and visionary archaeologists and develop new insights into topics as seemingly disparate as hieroglyphics, Beowulf, and even church organs. An idiosyncratic celebration of science, nature, and human ingenuity, The Star-Crossed Stone is as charming and unforgettable as the fossil at its heart.
Crossed Flags
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Author : William Allan Laxon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Crossed Flags written by William Allan Laxon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Cargo ships categories.
Transactions Of The Watford Natural History Society And Hertfordshire Field Club
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Author : Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Transactions Of The Watford Natural History Society And Hertfordshire Field Club written by Watford Natural History Society and Hertfordshire Field Club and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Natural history categories.
The Poetry Of Derek Walcott 1948 2013
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Author : Derek Walcott Estate
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-02-04
The Poetry Of Derek Walcott 1948 2013 written by Derek Walcott Estate and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-04 with Poetry categories.
'He gives us more than himself or 'a world'; he gives us a sense of infinity embodied in the language.' Alongside Joseph Brodsky's words of praise one might mention the more concrete honours that the renowned poet Derek Walcott has received: a MacArthur Fellowship; the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry; the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Poetry of Derek Walcott 1948-2013 draws from every stage of the poet's storied career. Here are examples of his very earliest work, like 'In My Eighteenth Year,' published when the poet himself was still a teenager; his first widely celebrated verse, like 'A Far Cry from Africa,' which speaks of violence, of loyalties divided in one's very blood; his mature work, like 'The Schooner Flight' from The Star-Apple Kingdom; and his late masterpieces, like the tender 'Sixty Years After,' from the 2010 collection White Egrets. Across sixty-five years, Walcott has grappled with the themes that have defined his work as they have defined his life: the unsolvable riddle of identity; the painful legacy of colonialism on his native Caribbean island of St. Lucia; the mysteries of faith and love and the natural world; the Western canon, celebrated and problematic; the trauma of growing old, of losing friends, family, one's own memory. This collection, selected by Walcott's friend the English poet Glyn Maxwell, will prove as enduring as the questions, the passions, that have driven Walcott to write for more than half a century.
Legendary History Of The Cross
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Author : John Ashton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1887
Legendary History Of The Cross written by John Ashton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1887 with Cross and crosses categories.
History Of The One Hundred And Fifth Regiment Of Pennsylvania Volunteers
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Author : Kate M. Scott
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
History Of The One Hundred And Fifth Regiment Of Pennsylvania Volunteers written by Kate M. Scott and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Pennsylvania categories.