Uses Of The Past

Author : Herbert Joseph Muller
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 9780805207835
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of the Past written by Herbert Joseph Muller and published by Schocken. This book was released on 1985 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the paradoxes and incongruities in the history of Western civilization, the author assesses its value in guiding today's societies

Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440637911
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Purpose of the Past written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An erudite scholar and an elegant writer, Gordon S. Wood has won both numerous awards and a broad readership since the 1969 publication of his widely acclaimed The Creation of the American Republic. With The Purpose of the Past, Wood has essentially created a history of American history, assessing the current state of history vis-à-vis the work of some of its most important scholars-doling out praise and scorn with equal measure. In this wise, passionate defense of history's ongoing necessity, Wood argues that we cannot make intelligent decisions about the future without understanding our past. Wood offers a master's insight into what history-at its best-can be and reflects on its evolving and essential role in our culture.

Author : Helle Bjerg
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839413257
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historicizing the Uses of the Past written by Helle Bjerg and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field. The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking - being fundamental for any democratic political culture.

Author : Herbert Joseph Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Loom of History written by Herbert Joseph Muller and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jorma Kalela
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230356583
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making History written by Jorma Kalela and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-11-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a personal connection to the past, independent of historical inquiry. So, what is the role of the historian? Making History argues that historians have damagingly dissociated the discipline of history from the everyday nature of history, defining their work only in scholarly terms. Exploring the relationship between history and society, Kalela makes the case for a more participatory historical research culture, in which historians take account of their role in society and the ways in which history-making as a basic social practice is present in their work. Making History not only asks provocative questions about the role of the historian, it also provides practical guidance for students and historians on planning research projects with greater public impact. This book is vital reading for all historians, lay and professional, and will be an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses on historiography and research methods.

Author : Marcia Landy
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 0816628254
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Uses of the Past written by Marcia Landy and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinematic Uses of the Past was first published in 1996. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. From the first, cinema has sustained a romance with the past. The nature of this attachment, and what it reveals about our culture, is the subject of Marcia Landy's book. Cinematic Uses of the Past looks at British, American, Italian, and African films for what they can tell us about popular history and our cultural investment in certain images of the past. Landy peruses six different moments in the history of cinema, employing the theories of Nietzsche and Gramsci. Her reading of these films explores their investments in history and memory in relation to ideas of nation, sexuality, gender, and race. Among the films she discusses are A Fistful of Dynamite, The Scarlet Empress, Dance with a Stranger, Holocaust, Schindler's List, Le camp de Thiaroye, Guelwaar, The Leopard, and Veronika Voss. A thoroughly compelling reading of these emblematic films, Cinematic Uses of the Past is also a revealing interpretation of popular history, exposing the fragmentary, tentative, and invested nature of cultural memory. Marcia Landy is professor of literature and film studies at the University of Pittsburgh. She is the author of several books, including Film, Politics, and Gramsci (Minnesota, 1995).

Author : Giovanni Levi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135315701
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Uses of the Past written by Giovanni Levi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work addresses political and historiographical uses of history. A group of leading historians and thinkers discuss questions of collective identity and representation in relation to the fluctuating concept of "Past" and its changing relevance. Among the topics are Greek historiographical questions, Balkan history, the Armenian problem, and the Plaestine historical narrative.

Author : Herbert J. Muller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of the Past written by Herbert J. Muller and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Yitzhak Hen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521639989
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Uses of the Past in the Early Middle Ages written by Yitzhak Hen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-08 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a source of identity. Each essay examines the mechanisms by which ideas about the past were - sometimes - subtly reshaped for present purposes.

Author : Roy Rosenzweig
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231500487
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Presence of the Past written by Roy Rosenzweig and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some people make photo albums, collect antiques, or visit historic battlefields. Others keep diaries, plan annual family gatherings, or stitch together patchwork quilts in a tradition learned from grandparents. Each of us has ways of communing with the past, and our reasons for doing so are as varied as our memories. In a sweeping survey, Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen asked 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and how it influences their daily lives and hopes for the future. The result is a surprisingly candid series of conversations and reflections on how the past infuses the present with meaning. Rosenzweig and Thelen found that people assemble their experiences into narratives that allow them to make sense of their personal histories, set priorities, project what might happen next, and try to shape the future. By using these narratives to mark change and create continuity, people chart the courses of their lives. A young woman from Ohio speaks of giving birth to her first child, which caused her to reflect upon her parents and the ways that their example would help her to become a good mother. An African American man from Georgia tells how he and his wife were drawn to each other by their shared experiences and lessons learned from growing up in the South in the 1950s. Others reveal how they personalize historical events, as in the case of a Massachusetts woman who traces much of her guarded attitude toward life to witnessing the assassination of John F. Kennedy on television when she was a child. While the past is omnipresent to Americans, "history" as it is usually defined in textbooks leaves many people cold. Rosenzweig and Thelen found that history as taught in school does not inspire a strong connection to the past. And they reveal how race and ethnicity affects how Americans perceive the past: while most white Americans tend to think of it as something personal, African Americans and American Indians are more likely to think in terms of broadly shared experiences--like slavery, the Civil Rights Movement, and the violation of Indian treaties." Rosenzweig and Thelen's conclusions about the ways people use their personal, family, and national stories have profound implications for anyone involved in researching or presenting history, as well as for all those who struggle to engage with the past in a meaningful way.