The Birth Of The Past
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Author |
: Zachary S. Schiffman |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2011-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421402789 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421402785 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of the Past by : Zachary S. Schiffman
Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labelling things taken out of context as "anachronisms." The author shows how this tendency did not always exist, and how the past as such was born of the perceived difference between past and present. He takes readers on a grand tour of historical thinking from antiquity to modernity.
Author |
: Zachary S. Schiffman |
Publisher |
: JHU Press |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2011-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781421403373 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1421403374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of the Past by : Zachary S. Schiffman
How we learned to distinguish past from present and see the world historically. Outstanding Academic Title, Choice How did people learn to distinguish between past and present? How did they come to see the past as existing in its own distinctive context? In The Birth of the Past, Zachary Sayre Schiffman explores these questions in his sweeping survey of historical thinking in the Western world. Today we automatically distinguish between past and present, labeling things that appear out of place as "anachronisms." Schiffman shows how this tendency did not always exist and how the past as such was born of a perceived difference between past and present. Schiffman takes readers on a grand tour of historical thinking from antiquity to modernity. He shows how ancient historians could not distinguish between past and present because they conceived of multiple pasts. Christian theologians coalesced these multiple pasts into a single temporal space where past merged with present and future. Renaissance humanists began to disentangle these temporal states in their desire to resurrect classical culture, creating a "living past." French enlighteners killed off this living past when they engendered a form of social scientific thinking that measured the relations between historical entities, thus sustaining the distance between past and present and relegating each culture to its own distinctive context. Featuring a foreword by the eminent historian Anthony Grafton, this fascinating book draws upon a diverse range of sources—ancient histories, medieval theology, Renaissance art, literature, legal thought, and early modern mathematics and social science—to uncover the meaning of the past and its relationship to the present.
Author |
: Markus Friedrich |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2018-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472130689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472130684 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of the Archive by : Markus Friedrich
The dynamic but little-known story of how archives came to shape and be shaped by European culture and society
Author |
: Michael T. Martin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 344 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0253042356 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780253042354 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of a Nation by : Michael T. Martin
Over one hundred years since it premiered on cinema screens, D. W. Griffith's controversial photoplay The Birth of a Nation continues to influence American film production and to have relevance for race relations in the United States. This work challenges the idea the United States has moved beyond racial problems and highlights the role of film and representation in the continued struggle for equality.
Author |
: Anna North |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2021-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781635575439 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1635575435 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Outlawed by : Anna North
A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK * INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * BELLETRIST BOOK CLUB PICK * INDIE NEXT SELECTION * LIBRARY READS SELECTION * AMAZON EDITORS' CHOICE * WASHINGTON POST BEST OF THE YEAR The "terrifying, wise, tender, and thrilling" (R.O. Kwon) adventure story of a fugitive girl, a mysterious gang of robbers, and their dangerous mission to transform the Wild West. In the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw. The day of her wedding, 17 year old Ada's life looks good; she loves her husband, and she loves working as an apprentice to her mother, a respected midwife. But after a year of marriage and no pregnancy, in a town where barren women are routinely hanged as witches, her survival depends on leaving behind everything she knows. She joins up with the notorious Hole in the Wall Gang, a band of outlaws led by a preacher-turned-robber known to all as the Kid. Charismatic, grandiose, and mercurial, the Kid is determined to create a safe haven for outcast women. But to make this dream a reality, the Gang hatches a treacherous plan that may get them all killed. And Ada must decide whether she's willing to risk her life for the possibility of a new kind of future for them all. Featuring an irresistibly no-nonsense, courageous, and determined heroine, Outlawed dusts off the myth of the old West and reignites the glimmering promise of the frontier with an entirely new set of feminist stakes. Anna North has crafted a pulse-racing, page-turning saga about the search for hope in the wake of death, and for truth in a climate of small-mindedness and fear.
Author |
: Bruno Maçães |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197528341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197528341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis History Has Begun by : Bruno Maçães
Popular consensus says that the US rose over two centuries to Cold War victory and world domination, and is now in slow decline. But is this right? History's great civilizations have always lasted much longer, and for all its colossal power, American culture was overshadowed by Europe until recently. What if this isn't the end? In History Has Begun, Bruno Maçães offers a compelling vision of America's future, both fascinating and unnerving. From the early American Republic, he takes us to the turbulent present, when, he argues, America is finally forging its own path. We can see the birth pangs of this new civilization in today's debates on guns, religion, foreign policy and the significance of Trump. Should the coronavirus pandemic be regarded as an opportunity to build a new kind of society? What will its values be, and what will this new America look like? Maçães traces the long arc of US history to argue that in contrast to those who see the US on the cusp of decline, it may well be simply shifting to a new model, one equally powerful but no longer liberal. Consequently, it is no longer enough to analyze America's current trajectory through the simple prism of decline vs. progress, which assumes a static model-America as liberal leviathan. Rather, Maçães argues that America may be casting off the liberalism that has defined the country since its founding for a new model, one more appropriate to succeeding in a transformed world.
Author |
: Lary May |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 1983 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:476511158 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Screening Out the Past by : Lary May
Author |
: Scott A. Sandage |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 396 |
Release |
: 2006-04-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 067401510X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674015104 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (0X Downloads) |
Synopsis Born Losers by : Scott A. Sandage
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
Author |
: Simon Price |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2011-02-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781101475799 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110147579X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of Classical Europe by : Simon Price
An innovative and intriguing look at the foundations of Western civilization from two leading historians; the first volume in the Penguin History of Europe The influence of ancient Greece and Rome can be seen in every aspect of our lives. From calendars to democracy to the very languages we speak, Western civilization owes a debt to these classical societies. Yet the Greeks and Romans did not emerge fully formed; their culture grew from an active engagement with a deeper past, drawing on ancient myths and figures to shape vibrant civilizations. In The Birth of Classical Europe, the latest entry in the much-acclaimed Penguin History of Europe, historians Simon Price and Peter Thonemann present a fresh perspective on classical culture in a book full of revelations about civilizations we thought we knew. In this impeccably researched and immensely readable history we see the ancient world unfold before us, with its grand cast of characters stretching from the great Greeks of myth to the world-shaping Caesars. A landmark achievement, The Birth of Classical Europe provides insight into an epoch that is both incredibly foreign and surprisingly familiar.
Author |
: Tony Bennett |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2013-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136115165 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136115161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Birth of the Museum by : Tony Bennett
In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britian, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organized their collections, and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture. Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place. This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to their reading list.