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Magill Family Egyptian Adventure
Par John Magill, Judith Ann Magill Cathcard. 2016
The Magill Family Egyptian Adventure tells the story of Canadian, Arthur Napier Magill, who lost his sight as a young…
man, as he and his young family embark on a years’ long adventure to Egypt, where he was seconded by the UN from his role at CNIB in 1953 to head a team of experts to establish a CNIB like demonstration school for the blind to serve that country and to provide training for others to replicate the school in neighbouring Arab states. Using newspaper articles, family photographs, letters home, and written project reports, readers gain insight into expatriate life and the enormous difference this UN mission made to the many blind people in the Middle East who would otherwise have been unable to live productive and independent lives. Arthur Napier Magill later became the second Managing Director of CNIB, succeeding Colonel E. A. Baker.Agency in Archaeology
Par John Robb, Marcia-Anne Dobres. 2000
Agency in Archaeology is the first critical volume to scrutinise the concept of agency and to examine in-depth its potential…
to inform our understanding of the past. Theories of agency recognise that human beings make choices, hold intentions and take action. This offers archaeologists scope to move beyond looking at broad structural or environmental change and instead to consider the individual and the group Agency in Archaeology brings together nineteen internationally renowned scholars who have very different, and often conflicting, stances on the meaning and use of agency theory to archaeology. The volume is composed of five theoretically-based discussions and nine case studies, drawing on regions from North America and Mesoamerica to Western and central Europe, and ranging in subject from the late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers to the restructuring of gender relations in the north-eastern US.Russia's First World War: A Social and Economic History
Par Peter Gatrell. 2004
The story of Russia’s First World War remains largely unknown, neglected by historians who have been more interested in the…
grand drama that unfolded in 1917. In Russia’s First World War: A Social and Economic History Peter Gatrell shows that war is itself ‘revolutionary’ – rupturing established social and economic ties, but also creating new social and economic relationships, affiliations, practices and opportunities. Russia’s First World War brings together the findings of Russian and non-Russian historians, and draws upon fresh research. It turns the spotlight on what Churchill called the ‘unknown war’, providing an authoritative account that finally does justice to the impact of war on Russia’s home frontAcross the Great Divide: Cultures of Manhood in the American West
Par Matthew Basso, Laura McCall, Dee Garceau. 2001
In Across the Great Divide, some of our leading historians look to both the history of masculinity in the West…
and to the ways that this experience has been represented in movies, popular music, dimestore novels, and folklore.Jesuits at the Margins: Missions and Missionaries in the Marianas (1668-1769) (Routledge Studies in Cultural History #41)
Par Alexandre Coello de la Rosa. 2016
In the past decades historians have interpreted early modern Christian missions not simply as an adjunct to Western imperialism, but…
a privileged field for cross-cultural encounters. Placing the Jesuit missions into a global phenomenon that emphasizes economic and cultural relations between Europe and the East, this book analyzes the possibilities and limitations of the religious conversion in the Micronesian islands of Guåhan (or Guam) and the Northern Marianas. Frontiers are not rigid spatial lines separating culturally different groups of people, but rather active agents in the transformation of cultures. By bringing this local dimension to the fore, the book adheres to a process of missionary “glocalization” which allowed Chamorros to enter the international community as members of Spain’s regional empire and the global communion of the Roman Catholic Church.The Age of the Dictators: A Study of the European Dictatorships, 1918-53
Par D. G. Williamson. 2006
The Age of the Dictators presents a comprehensive survey of the origins and interrelationship of the European dictatorships. All the regimes…
are addressed, with ample coverage of the period 1939-45, and analysis of the Soviet government up to Stalin’s death in 1953. Exploring their ideological and political roots, and the role of the First World War in their rise to power, David Williams identifies the dictatorships as products of their time. He examines the Soviet, Italian Fascist and Nazi dictatorships, as well as the authoritarian regimes in Spain, Portugal, Eastern Europe and the Balkans, providing an analysis of each as an entity, of how they evolved and related to one another, and to what extent they were a common response to life after the First World War. Mindful of historiographical issues, the textbook attends to the arguments of key historians, and includes a list of relevant sources to assist students in their study of the period. Combining an accessible, succinct writing style with a broad historical scope, The Age of the Dictators is an illuminating and thorough account of a fascinating period in world history.Why did the Soviet economic system fall apart? Did the economy simply overreach itself through military spending? Was it the…
centrally-planned character of Soviet socialism that was at fault? Or did a potentially viable mechanism come apart in Gorbachev's clumsy hands? Does its failure mean that true socialism is never economically viable? The economic dimension is at the very heart of the Russian story in the twentieth century. Economic issues were the cornerstone of soviet ideology and the soviet system, and economic issues brought the whole system crashing down in 1989-91. This book is a record of what happened, and it is also an analysis of the failure of Soviet economics as a concept.Women in Twentieth-Century Britain: Social, Cultural and Political Change
Par Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska. 2001
Women's lives have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century: reduced fertility and the removal of formal barriers…
to their participation in education, work and public life are just some examples. At the same time, women are under-represented in many areas, are paid significantly less than men, continue to experience domestic violence and to bear the larger part of the burden in the domestic division of labour. Women in 2000 may have many more choices and opportunities than they had a hundred years ago, but genuine equality between men and women remains elusive. This unique, illustrated history discusses a wide range of topics organised into four parts: the life course - the experience of girlhood, marriage and the ageing process; the nature of women's work, both paid and unpaid; consumption, culture and transgression; and citizenship and the state.The Political Research Experience: Readings and Analysis
Par Marcus E. Ethridge. 2002
Organized to complement an introductory course in political science research methods, this work aims to help students understand research as…
it is actually practiced. Each chapter opens with an explanation of basic concepts and methods of political research.Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources (Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources)
Par Jonathan Willis, Laura Sangha. 2016
Understanding Early Modern Primary Sources is an introduction to the rich treasury of source material available to students of early…
modern history. During this period, political development, economic and social change, rising literacy levels, and the success of the printing press, ensured that the State, the Church and the people generated texts and objects on an unprecedented scale. This book introduces students to the sources that survived to become indispensable primary material studied by historians. After a wide-ranging introductory essay, part I of the book, ‘Sources’, takes the reader through seven key categories of primary material, including governmental, ecclesiastical and legal records, diaries and literary works, print, and visual and material sources. Each chapter addresses how different types of material were produced, whilst also pointing readers towards the most important and accessible physical and digital source collections. Part II, ‘Histories’, takes a thematic approach. Each chapter in this section explores the sources that are used to address major early modern themes, including political and popular cultures, the economy, science, religion, gender, warfare, and global exploration. This collection of essays by leading historians in their respective fields showcases how practitioners research the early modern period, and is an invaluable resource for any student embarking on their studies of the early modern period.Gender, Kinship and Power: A Comparative and Interdisciplinary History
Par Mary Jo Maynes, Ulrike Strasser, Ann Waltner, Birgitte Soland. 1996
Through twenty engaging essays exploring cultures ranging from ancient Judaic civilization to contemporary Brazil, Gender, Kinship and Power places important…
contemporary issues related to kinship--such as parental responsibility and female-headed households--in their proper comparative and historical framework.The eighteenth century represents a critical period in the transition of the English urban history, as the town of the…
early modern era involved into that of the industrial revolution; and since Britain was the 'first industrial nation', this transformation is of more-than-national significance for all those interested in the histroy of towns. This book gathers together in one volume some of the most interesting and important articles that have appeared in research journals to provide a rich variety of perspectives on urban evelopment in the period.The Russian Peasantry 1600-1930: The World the Peasants Made
Par David Moon. 1999
This impressive work, set to become the standard history on the subject, offers a definitive survey of peasant society in…
Russia, from the consolidation of serfdom and tsarist autocracy in the 17th century through to the destruction of the peasant's traditional world under Stalin. Over three-quarters of Russian society were peasants in these years, and David Moon explores all aspects of their life xxx; including the rural economy, peasant households, village communities xxx; and their political role, including protest against the landowning elites. In the process he presents a fresh perspective on the history of Russia itself. A big book in every way xxx; and compellingly readable.Two decades before the war against Ukraine, a “special operation” was launched against Russian historical memory, aggressively reshaping the nation’s understanding…
of its history and identity. The Kremlin’s militarization of Russia through World War II propaganda is well documented, but the glorification of Russian medieval society and its warlords as a source of support for Putinism has yet to be explored. This book offers the first comparison of Putin’s political neomedievalism and re-Stalinization and introduces the concept of mobmemory to the study of right-wing populism. It argues that the celebration of the oprichnina, Ivan the Terrible’s regime of state terror (1565–1572), has been fused with the rehabilitation of Stalinism to reconstruct the Russian Empire. The post-Soviet case suggests that the global obsession with the Middle Ages is not purely an aesthetic movement but a potential weapon against democracy. The book is intended for students, scholars, and non-specialists interested in understanding Russia’s anti-modern politics and the Russians’ support for the terror unleashed against Ukraine.Physical Culture and Body Beautiful
Par Jan Todd. 1998
In examining the course of the debate between the philosophies of Rousseau and Wollstonecraft in the first seventy years of…
the nineteenth century, several important conclusions have been reached. First, a much more diverse spectrum of women's exercise existed in the antebellum era than is currently described in modern historical texts. Second, several exercise systems had significant links to an ideal of womanhood - called in this text Majestic Womanhood - which directly competed with the prevailing construct of the ideology of True Womanhood articulated by historian Barbara Welter. Third, purposive training mattered in the lives of American women influencing them physically, intellectually, and emotionally. In many instances, this training empowered women to step beyond the confines of their separate sphere of domestic duty and involve themselves in the world outside their homes.With firsthand sources and archeological research, this study explores life inside Nazi prisons during the occupation of the Channel Islands.Through…
most of the Second World War, Nazis occupied the Bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey, two British Crown dependencies in the English Channel. With extensive research, archeologist Gilly Carr has uncovered the enduring legacies of this occupation. In Nazi Prisons in Britain, she shines a light on the lives of citizen resisters who became political prisoners on their own soil. Carr explores political prisoner consciousness and solidarity through the letters of the “Jersey 21” and the diaries of Frank Falla, Guernsey’s best-known resister. Drawing on memoirs, poetry, graffiti, official archives, and material culture—as well as the words of war criminals, traitors, surrealist artists, and many others—she reveals what life was like inside these brutal Nazi prisons.RAF College, Cranwell: A Centenary Celebration
Par Roger Annett. 2020
A history of Great Britain’s Royal Air Force College in Cranwell, told from the perspective of former cadets.“We Seek the…
Highest” has been the motto of the thousands of Officer Cadets who, over ten decades, have passed through the rigorous training regime at the Royal Air Force College, Cranwell, Lincolnshire. The words embody the College ethos: to strive to reach the tough standards demanded by the RAF, in the air and on the ground.This book tells the 100-year story from the point of view of the Officer Cadets themselves. The College was founded in 1919—some eighteen months after the birth of the RAF itself—with the aim of providing a cadre of disciplined, highly trained officers, ready to lead the service through the uncertain postwar and post-Empire times to come. Since then, it has responded continuously to the UK’s political, economic, and military requirements.The RAF Officer Cadets’ world has thus been one of change. The author documents these changes from 1919 to today, overlaying the historical and social scene with the candidly related airborne and ground-based exploits of three-score ex-cadets.The core narrative is based on the three years at Cranwell of 81 Entry of Flight Cadets, who graduated in July 1962 with thirty-seven jet pilots and eight navigators, having launched a curriculum-changing experiment in degree-level studies.With a foreword from an Air Chief Marshal former cadet, 130 illustrations, and a full index, this is a cadets’ tribute to a world-famous military academy on its centenary.Toxic
Par Sarah Ditum. 2023
'Brilliant . . . really made me realise how no one has pulled back and given an overall story to…
the last 20 years . . . It's clever because it makes me think about now' ADAM CURTIS, FILMMAKERBritney, Paris, Lindsay, Aaliyah, Janet, Amy, Kim, Chyna, Jen. Nine iconic women whose fame in the early internet years of the century came at a price. In Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties, journalist Sarah Ditum describes how each of the women changed 'celebrity' forever, despite often falling victim to it, during what we now view as one of the most hostile eras in which to be female.Through Paris' ambivalent relationship with her blogger namesake Perez Hilton; to Britney's paternalistic governors; Jen's attempts to control her career and image; and Janet's betrayal at the Superbowl, these celebrities of The Noughties were presented with the riches of early social media and market opportunity, as long as they abided by the new rules of engagement. Some of these high-profile women were hypersexualised and 'upskirted' by the press; some were shamed by their advertising sponsors; others were contracted by shady management companies and industry figures such as Harvey Weinstein and R Kelly. Together they illuminate the culture of the early twenty-first century. Toxic: Women, Fame and The Noughties is a wild ride through the millennial years.Human Sacrifice and Value: Revisiting the Limits of Sacred Violence from an Anthropological and Archaeological Perspective (Studies in Death, Materiality and the Origin of Time)
Par Svein H. Gullbekk, Sean O’Neill, Marianne Moen, Matthew J. Walsh. 2024
The present volume was made possible by the Norwegian Research Council’s generous funding of the Human Sacrifice and Value project…
(FRIPROHUMSAM 275947). It explores concepts of human sacrifice. This volume explores concepts of human sacrifice, focusing on its value – or multiplicity of values – in relative cultural and temporal terms, whether sacrifice is expressed in actual killings, in ideas revolving around ritualized, sanctioned or sanctified violence or loss, or in transformed and (often sublimated) undertakings. Bridging a wide variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, it analyses a spectrum of sacrificial logics and actions, daring us to rethink the scholarship of sacrifice by considering the oft hidden, subliminal and even paradoxical values and motivations that underlie sacrificial acts. The chapters give needed attention to pivotal questions in studies of sacrifice and ritualized violence – such as how we might employ new approaches to the existing evidence or revise long-debated theories about what exactly ‘human sacrifice’ is or might be, or why human sacrifice seems to emerge so often and so easily in human social experience across time and in vastly different cultures and historical contexts. Thus, the volume will strike a chord with scholars of sociology, anthropology, archaeology, history, religious studies, political science and economics –wherever interest is focused on critically rethinking questions of sacred and sanctified human violence, and the values that make it what it is.La historia del futuro: La palabra que cambió el mundo
Par Isaac Marcet. 2023
Frente al momento actual, todos nos preguntamos: ¿podremos sobrevivir a los retos del presente? ¿Tenemos tan siquiera un futuro? Pocas…
épocas han sido tan decisivas como la nuestra: cambio climático, sobrepoblación, bombas nucleares, inteligencia artificial... No obstante, nadie se está formulando la pregunta clave: ¿qué es el futuro? O, mejor aún, ¿quién lo inventó para esclavizarnos? La historia del futuro es un ensayo que relata el origen de la idea que definió y condenó a nuestra civilización. Sin embargo, más que otro libro sobre el futuro, este es un relato sobre cómo recobrar el tiempo más allá del tiempo.Hallaremos las respuestas que buscamos entre los antiguos mitos babilónicos, los enigmas del tiempo del Antiguo Egipto o la creencia en el fin del mundo de la tradición hindú y la cristiana.Sin excepción, todos ellos nos recordarán una sencilla enseñanza: hasta que no nos iniciemos en los misterios del tiempo, nunca seremos libres. Solo de esta manera, podremos volver a tener un futuro después del futuro.«El tiempo es el problema esencial del hombre. Si supiéramos qué es el tiempo, sabríamos qué es el mundo, quiénes somos. El tiempo es el problema. Es el enigma».Jorge Luis BorgesIsaac Marcet es el creador del medio de comunicación PlayGround.Desde el año 2008, fecha de su fundación, hasta el año 2022, fue su director y editor. También, ha sido el creador y conductor de proyectos de podcasting de pensamiento y política como Salir del Grupo o Generación Futuro, además de plataformas de innovación democrática como El Futuro es Ahora.