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Автор: Sam Edwards, Faye Sayer, Michael Dolski
Название: Histories on Screen: The Past and Present in Anglo-American Cinema and Television
ISBN: 1474217044 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474217040
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: How, as historians, should we 'read' a film? Histories on Screen answers this and other questions in a crucial volume for any history student keen to master source use.

The book begins with a theoretical 'Thinking about Film' section that explores the ways in which films can be analyzed and interrogated as either primary sources, secondary sources or indeed as both. The much larger 'Using Film' segment of the book then offers engaging case studies which put this theory into practice. Topics including gender, class, race, war, propaganda, national identity and memory all receive good coverage in what is an eclectic multi-contributor volume. Documentaries, films and television from Britain and the United States are examined and there is a jargon-free emphasis on the skills and methods needed to analyze films in historical study featuring prominently throughout the text.

Histories on Screen is a vital resource for all history students as it enables them to understand film as a source and empowers them with the analytical tools needed to use that knowledge in their own work.

Автор: Sarah Longair
Название: Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964
ISBN: 147243787X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472437877
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa.

Автор: Chater Kathleen
Название: Untold Histories
ISBN: 0719085977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719085970
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: Untold Histories looks in detail at the experiences of theaverage black person in England and Wales during the period of the Britishslave trade, revealing information about sex ratios, ages, from where in theworld they came and how they were treated by the criminal justice system. -- .

Автор: Bachrach, Dr. David S.
Название: Histories of a medieval german city, worms c. 1000-c. 1300
ISBN: 1472436415 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472436412
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: The history of medieval Germany, particularly that of the lower social orders, has thus far remained largely unknown outside of the German-speaking regions of modern Europe. The translation of the four texts in this volume, which focus on the city of Worms in the period c.1000 to c.1300, is intended to help fill these lacunae.

Автор: Anna Clark
Название: Alternative Histories of the Self: A Cultural History of Sexuality and Secrets, 1780-1917
ISBN: 1350030635 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350030633
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Alternative Histories of the Self investigates how people re-imagined the idea of the unique self in the period from 1762 to 1917. Some used the notion of the unique self to justify their gender and sexual transgression, but others rejected the notion of the unique self and instead demanded the sacrifice of the self for the good of society. The substantial introductory chapter places these themes in the cultural context of the long nineteenth century, but the book as a whole represents an alternative method for studying the self. Instead of focusing on the thoughts of great thinkers, this book explores how five unusual individuals twisted conventional ideas of the self as they interpreted their own lives. These subjects include:

* The Chevali r/e d'Eon, a renegade diplomat who was outed as a woman
* Anne Lister, who wrote coded diaries about her attraction to women
* Richard Johnson, who secretly criticized the empire that he served
* James Hinton, a Victorian doctor who publicly advocated philanthropy and privately supported polygamy
* Edith Ellis, a socialist lesbian who celebrated the 'abnormal'

These five case studies are skilfully used to explore how the notion of the unique individual was used to make sense of sexual or gender non-conformity. Yet this queer reading will go beyond same-sex desire to analyse the issue of secrets and privacy; for instance, what stigma did men who practiced or advocated unconventional relationships with women incur? Finally, Clark ties these unusual lives to the wider questions of ethics and social justice: did those who questioned sexual conventions challenge political traditions as well?

This is a highly innovative study that will be of interest to intellectual historians of modern Britain and Europe, as well as historians of gender and sexuality.

Автор: Spear Sheldon
Название: Pennsylvania Histories: Two Hundred Years of Personalities and Events, 1750 1950
ISBN: 1611462096 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611462098
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: Pennsylvania Histories examines the state`s history over two hundred years through the study of a number of somewhat obscure yet significant individuals and events. The narrative often confronts issues pertaining to ethnicity, gender, and the social class structure.

Автор: Peter Atkins
Название: Animal Cities: Beastly Urban Histories
ISBN: 1409446557 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409446552
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Considering animals in urban settings is a firmly established area of study. This book looks at working and productive animals that lived and died in nineteenth-century cities such as London, Edinburgh and Paris with argument their presence yields insights into evolving contemporary understandings of the category urban and what made a good city.

Автор: Mary Spongberg
Название: Women Writers and the Nation`s Past 1790-1860: Empathetic Histories
ISBN: 1350168815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350168817
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: 1790 saw the publication of Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France -- the definitive tract of modern conservatism as a political philosophy. Though women of the period wrote texts that clearly responded to and reacted against Burke's conception of English history and to the contemporary political events that continued to shape it, this conversation was largely ignored or dismissed, and much of it remains to be reconsidered today.Examining the works of women writers from Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft to the Strickland sisters and Mary Anne Everett Green, this book begins to recuperate that conversation and in doing so uncovers a more complete and nuanced picture of women's participation in the writing of history. Professor Mary Spongberg puts forward an alternate, feminized historiography of Britain that demonstrates how women writers' recourse to history caused them to become generically innovative and allowed them to participate in the political debates that framed the emergence of modern British historiography, and to push back against the Whig interpretation of history that predominated from 1790-1860.

Автор: Parker Roger, Rutherford Susan
Название: London Voices, 1820-1840: Vocal Performers, Practices, Histories
ISBN: 022667018X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780226670188
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: London, 1820. The British capital is a metropolis that overwhelms dwellers and visitors alike with constant exposure to all kinds of sensory stimulation. Over the next two decades, the city's tumult will reach new heights: as population expansion places different classes in dangerous proximity and ideas of political and social reform linger in the air, London begins to undergo enormous infrastructure change that will alter it forever.

It is the London of this period that editors Roger Parker and Susan Rutherford pinpoint in this book, which chooses one broad musical category--voice--and engages with it through essays on music of the streets, theaters, opera houses, and concert halls; on the raising of voices in religious and sociopolitical contexts; and on the perception of voice in literary works and scientific experiments with acoustics. Emphasizing human subjects, this focus on voice allows the authors to explore the multifaceted issues that shaped London, from the anxiety surrounding the city's importance in the musical world at large to the changing vocal imaginations that permeated the epoch. Capturing the breadth of sonic stimulations and cultures available--and sometimes unavoidable--to residents at the time, London Voices, 1820-1840 sheds new light on music in Britain and the richness of London culture during this period.

Название: Walking histories, 1800-1914
ISBN: 1137484977 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137484970
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Few historians have written about walking, despite its obvious centrality to the human condition. Walking Histories, 1800-1914 adopts a global perspective, including contributions from specialists in the history and culture of Great Britain, North America, Australia, Russia, East-Central Europe, and South Asia.