Past for the Eyes

Past for the Eyes
Title Past for the Eyes PDF eBook
Author Oksana Sarkisova
Publisher Central European University Press
Pages 436
Release 2008-01-01
Genre History
ISBN 6155211434

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How do museums and cinema shape the image of the Communist past in today’s Central and Eastern Europe? This volume is the first systematic analysis of how visual techniques are used to understand and put into context the former regimes. After history “ended” in the Eastern Bloc in 1989, museums and other memorials mushroomed all over the region. These efforts tried both to explain the meaning of this lost history, as well as to shape public opinion on their society’s shared post-war heritage. Museums and films made political use of recollections of the recent past, and employed selected museum, memorial, and media tools and tactics to make its political intent historically credible. Thirteen essays from scholars around the region take a fresh look at the subject as they address the strategies of fashioning popular perceptions of the recent past.

Through Women's Eyes, Combined

Through Women's Eyes, Combined
Title Through Women's Eyes, Combined PDF eBook
Author Ellen Carol DuBois
Publisher Macmillan Higher Education
Pages 835
Release 2015-09-18
Genre History
ISBN 1319019196

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Through Women’s Eyes: An American History with Documents was the first text to present a narrative of U.S. women’s history within the context of the central developments of the United States and to combine this core narrative with written and visual primary sources in each chapter. The authors’ commitment to highlighting the best and most current scholarship, along with their focus on women from a broad range of ethnicities, classes, religions, and regions, has helped students really understand U.S. history Through Women’s Eyes.

Eyes of the Nation

Eyes of the Nation
Title Eyes of the Nation PDF eBook
Author Vincent Virga
Publisher Bunker Hill Publishing, Inc.
Pages 428
Release 2004
Genre United States
ISBN 1593730357

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A magnificent one volume pictorial and narrative history of the United States with more than five hundred exceptional illustrations, many reproduced here for the first time.

Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes

Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes
Title Book History Through Postcolonial Eyes PDF eBook
Author Robert Fraser
Publisher Routledge
Pages 225
Release 2008-08-18
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN 1134142277

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This surprising study draws together the disparate fields of postcolonial theory and book history in a challenging and illuminating way. Robert Fraser proposes that we now look beyond the traditional methods of the Anglo-European bibliographic paradigm, and learn to appreciate instead the diversity of shapes that verbal expression has assumed across different societies. This change of attitude will encourage students and researchers to question developmentally conceived models of communication, and move instead to a re-formulation of just what is meant by a book, an author, a text. Fraser illustrates his combined approach with comparative case studies of print, script and speech cultures in South Asia and Africa, before panning out to examine conflicts and paradoxes arising in parallel contexts. The re-orientation of approach and the freshness of view offered by this volume will foster understanding and creative collaboration between scholars of different outlooks, while offering a radical critique to those identified in its concluding section as purveyors of global literary power.

Through Deaf Eyes

Through Deaf Eyes
Title Through Deaf Eyes PDF eBook
Author Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher Gallaudet University Press
Pages 176
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN

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From the PBS film, 200 photographs and text depict the American deaf community and its place in our nation's history.

Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes

Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes
Title Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes PDF eBook
Author Nile Green
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Afghanistan
ISBN 9781849045087

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Recent international intervention in Afghanistan has reproduced familiar versions of the Afghan national story, from repeatedly doomed invasions to perpetual fault lines of ethnic division. Yet almost no attention has been paid to the ways in which Afghans themselves have made sense of their history. Radically questioning received ideas about how to understand Afghanistan, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes asks how Afghan intellectuals, ideologues and ordinary people have understood their collective past. The book brings together the leading international specialists to focus on case studies of the Dari, Pashto and Uzbek histories which Afghans have produced in abundance since the formation of the Afghan state in the mid-eighteenth century. As crucial sources on Afghans' own conceptions of state, society and culture, their writings help us understand the dominant and marginal, conflicting and changing, ways in which Afghans have understood the emergence of their own society and its relationships with the wider world.Based on new research in Afghan languages, Afghan History Through Afghan Eyes opens up entirely fresh perspectives on Afghan political, social and cultural life, providing penetrating insights into the master narratives behind domestic and international conflict in Afghanistan.

The Eyes of a King

The Eyes of a King
Title The Eyes of a King PDF eBook
Author Catherine Banner
Publisher Random House
Pages 328
Release 2008-09-04
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1407044354

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Five-year-old Cassius escaped the brutal assassination of his parents, the king and queen of Malonia, and was exiled to modern-day England. Now fifteen, Cassius continues to be hidden in England under the protection of his tutor, the great Alderbaran, who's ancient prophecy says that Cassius will, one day, return and claim his rightful place on the throne. At the same time, fifteen-year-old Leo remains in Malonia where a repressive dictatorial regime under the new king, Lucien, followed the assassination. One day Leo discovers a wonderful book in which parts of an epic story appear each day - a remarkable story that reveals the secrets of the prophecy, the assassination and how they are connected to Leo's own family history.