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Imagined Histories
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Author : Anthony Molho
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-06-05
Imagined Histories written by Anthony Molho and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-05 with History categories.
This collection of essays by twenty-one distinguished American historians reflects on a peculiarly American way of imagining the past. At a time when history-writing has changed dramatically, the authors discuss the birth and evolution of historiography in this country, from its origins in the late nineteenth century through its present, more cosmopolitan character. In the book's first part, concerning recent historiography, are chapters on exceptionalism, gender, economic history, social theory, race, and immigration and multiculturalism. Authors are Daniel Rodgers, Linda Kerber, Naomi Lamoreaux, Dorothy Ross, Thomas Holt, and Philip Gleason. The three American centuries are discussed in the second part, with chapters by Gordon Wood, George Fredrickson, and James Patterson. The third part is a chronological survey of non-American histories, including that of Western civilization, ancient history, the middle ages, early modern and modern Europe, Russia, and Asia. Contributors are Eugen Weber, Richard Saller, Gabrielle Spiegel, Anthony Molho, Philip Benedict, Richard Kagan, Keith Baker, Joseph Zizak, Volker Berghahn, Charles Maier, Martin Malia, and Carol Gluck. Together, these scholars reveal the unique perspective American historians have brought to the past of their own nation as well as that of the world. Formerly writing from a conviction that America had a singular destiny, American historians have gradually come to share viewpoints of historians in other countries about which they write. The result is the virtual disappearance of what was a distinctive American voice. That voice is the subject of this book.
Imagined Histories
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Author : Kerry Cox
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2009-11-24
Imagined Histories written by Kerry Cox and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-24 with Poetry categories.
Don't miss your chance to own this stunning limited edition volume of poetry by Seattle poet Kerry Cox. Makes a great gift for the poetry lover in your life!
Imagined Histories
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Author : Graham Percy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
Imagined Histories written by Graham Percy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Artists categories.
History Made History Imagined
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Author : David Walter Price
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 1999
History Made History Imagined written by David Walter Price and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
In this provocative and original study, David Price investigates history as a form of poiesis -- the act of making in language -- and suggests that certain novels can provide the best means of engaging in historical interpretation. Contending that the fundamental act of narration itself, including the narration of history, expresses a system of values, Price explores the work of seven contemporary novelists who share a commitment to reexamining history as idea and a refusal to accept history as given. Within a theoretical framework based on Friedrich Nietzsche and Giambattista Vico, Price investigates how these writers -- Carlos Fuentes, Susan Daitch, Salman Rushdie, Michel Tournier, Ishmael Reed, Graham Swift, and Mario Vargas Llosa -- create a discursive space between history and literature, a space within which history can be questioned and the making of history explored. Through their novels, these writers replace the univocal expression of history as a description of "what really happened" with a polyvocality of competing discourses, languages, and points of view. Price's investigation of three modalities of the poietic novel -- the history of forgotten possibilities, the construction of countermemory and cultural critique, and history as myth -- has far-reaching implications for how we read and question the narratives we understand as history. By treating the past as a dynamic flow of values, rather than a fixed collection of facts, History Made, History Imagined fosters a deeper understanding not only of literature and philosophy but also of history and our relationship to it.
The Imagined Past
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Author : Christopher Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 1989
The Imagined Past written by Christopher Shaw and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Art, British categories.
Historical Imagination
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Author : David J. Staley
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-12-27
Historical Imagination written by David J. Staley and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-27 with History categories.
Historical Imagination examines the threshold between what historians consider to be proper, imagination-free history and the malpractice of excessive imagination, asking where the boundary between the two sits and the limits of permitted imagination for the historian. We use "imagination" to refer to a mental skill that encompasses two different tasks: the reconstruction of previously experienced parts of the world and the creation of new objects and experiences with no direct connection to the actual world. In history, imagination means using the mind's eye to picture both the actual and inactual at the same time. All historical works employ at least some creative imagination, but an excess is considered "too much". Under what circumstances are historians permitted to cross this boundary into creative imagination and how far can they go? Supporting theory with relatable examples, Staley shows how historical works are a complex combination of mimetic and creative imagination and offers a heuristic for assessing this ratio in any work of history. Setting out complex theoretical concepts in an accessible and understandable manner and encouraging the reader to consider both the nature and limits of historical imagination, this is an ideal volume for students and scholars of the philosophy of history.
Tell Me How It Was
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-03-21
Tell Me How It Was written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-21 with categories.
MG Press partnered with 826michigan for this exciting project with a simple goal: gain new perspectives on history through the eyes of the eighth graders at Scarlett Middle School. Why? Recording history not only serves as our collective memory, but the changing perspectives of our understanding of history and how we make sense of our experiences in the here and now. The students, in the midst of learning about historical fiction and its significance, wrote about times before they were born, all the way up to recent memory, exploring a new vantage on world events, things close to home, and even just the everyday.
Imagining Early Modern Histories
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Author : Elizabeth Ketner
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-15
Imagining Early Modern Histories written by Elizabeth Ketner and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Interpreting textual mediations of history in early modernity, this volume adds nuance to our understanding of the contributions fiction and fictionalizing make to the shape and texture of versions of and debates about history during that period. Geographically, the scope of the essays extends beyond Europe and England to include Asia and Africa. Contributors take a number of different approaches to understand the relationship between history, fiction, and broader themes in early modern culture. They analyze the ways fiction writers use historical sources, fictional texts translate ideas about the past into a vernacular accessible to broad audiences, fictional depictions and interpretations shape historical action, and the ways in which nonfictional texts and accounts were given fictional histories of their own, intentionally or not, through transmission and interpretation. By combining the already contested idea of fiction with performance, action, and ideas/ideology, this collection provides a more thorough consideration of fictional histories in the early modern period. It also covers more than two centuries of primary material, providing a longer perspective on the changing and complex role of history in forming early modern national, gendered, and cultural identities.
Liturgy S Imagined Past S
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Author : Teresa Berger
language : en
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Release Date : 2016-05-03
Liturgy S Imagined Past S written by Teresa Berger and has been published by Liturgical Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-03 with Religion categories.
This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established images of liturgy’s past. Based on papers presented at the 2014 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference, Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s seeks to invigorate discussion of methodologies and materials in contemporary writings on liturgy’s pasts and to resource such writing at a point in time when formidable questions are being posed about the way in which historians construct the object of their inquiry.
Beauty Imagined
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Author : Geoffrey Jones
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-02-25
Beauty Imagined written by Geoffrey Jones and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-25 with Business & Economics categories.
The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and firms which have shaped this industry, such as Avon, Coty, Estée Lauder, L'Oréal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how successive generations of entrepreneurs built brands which shaped perceptions of beauty, and the business organizations needed to market them. They democratized access to beauty products, once the privilege of elites, but they also defined the gender and ethnic borders of beauty, and its association with a handful of cities, notably Paris and later New York. The result was a homogenization of beauty ideals throughout the world. Today globalization is changing the beauty industry again; its impact can be seen in a range of competing strategies. Global brands have swept into China, Russia, and India, but at the same time, these brands are having to respond to a far greater diversity of cultures and lifestyles as new markets are opened up worldwide. In the twenty first century, beauty is again being re-imagined anew.