Time and the Shape of History

Time and the Shape of History
Title Time and the Shape of History PDF eBook
Author P. J. Corfield
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2007
Genre History
ISBN 9780300115581

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Time and the Shape of History

Time and the Shape of History
Title Time and the Shape of History PDF eBook
Author P. J. Corfield
Publisher Yale University Press
Pages 329
Release 2007-01-01
Genre Science
ISBN 030013794X

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In this lively comedy of love and money in sixteenth-century Venice, Bassanio wants to impress the wealthy heiress Portia, but lacks the necessary funds. He turns to his merchant friend, Antonio, who is forced to borrow from Shylock, a Jewish moneylender. When Antonio's business falters, repayment becomes impossible, and by the terms of the loan agreement, Shylock is able to demand a pound of Antonio's flesh. Portia cleverly intervenes, and all ends well (except of course for Shylock).

Time Maps

Time Maps
Title Time Maps PDF eBook
Author Eviatar Zerubavel
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 194
Release 2012-06-12
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0226924904

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The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct. Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors? As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we cannot answer burning questions such as these without a deeper understanding of how we envision the past. In a pioneering attempt to map the structure of collective memory, Zerubavel considers the cognitive patterns we use to organize the past and the social grammar of conflicting interpretations of history. Drawing on fascinating examples that range from Hiroshima to the Holocaust, and from ancient Egypt to the former Yugoslavia, Zerubavel shows how we construct historical origins; how we tie discontinuous events together into stories; how we link families and entire nations through genealogies; and how we separate distinct historical periods from one another through watersheds, such as the invention of fire or the fall of the Berlin Wall. "Time Maps extends beyond all of the old clichés about linear, circular, and spiral patterns of historical process and provides us with models of the actual legends used to map history…brilliant and elegant."-Hayden White, University of California, Santa Cruz

The Invisible History of the Human Race

The Invisible History of the Human Race
Title The Invisible History of the Human Race PDF eBook
Author Christine Kenneally
Publisher ReadHowYouWant.com
Pages 477
Release 2015-01-29
Genre Science
ISBN 1458798704

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A New York Times Notable Book of 2014 We are doomed to repeat history if we fail to learn from it, but how are we affected by the forces that are invisible to us? What role does Neanderthal DNA play in our genetic makeup? How did the theory of eugenics embraced by Nazi Germany first develop? How is trust passed down in Africa, and silence inherited in Tasmania? How are private companies like Ancestry.com uncovering, preserving and potentially editing the past? In The Invisible History of the Human Race, Christine Kenneally reveals that, remarkably, it is not only our biological history that is coded in our DNA, but also our social history. She breaks down myths of determinism and draws on cutting - edge research to explore how both historical artefacts and our DNA tell us where we have come from and where we may be going.

The Shape of European History

The Shape of European History
Title The Shape of European History PDF eBook
Author William Hardy McNeill
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press
Pages 202
Release 1974
Genre History
ISBN

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Basing his analysis on a cultural anthropological approach, Professor McNeill surveys events from ancient Greece to the industrialized states of modern Europe. He examines the interacting social and economic forces and the influence and diffusion of succeeding centres of power and culture.

Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History

Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History
Title Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History PDF eBook
Author Charlotte Roberts
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 209
Release 2014
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0198704836

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Edward Gibbon and the Shape of History offers a detailed examination of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a work of scholarship and of literature.

Regimes of Historicity

Regimes of Historicity
Title Regimes of Historicity PDF eBook
Author Fran�ois Hartog
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 286
Release 2015-01-13
Genre History
ISBN 0231163762

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Fran�ois Hartog explores crucial moments of change in societyÕs Òregimes of historicityÓ or its way of relating to the past, present, and future. Inspired by Arendt, Koselleck, and Ricoeur, Hartog analyzes a broad range of texts, positioning the The Odyssey as a work on the threshold of a historical consciousness and then contrasting it against an investigation of the anthropologist Marshall SahlinsÕs concept of Òheroic history.Ó He tracks changing perspectives on time in Ch‰teaubriandÕs Historical Essay and Travels in America, and sets them alongside other writings from the French Revolution. He revisits the insight of the French Annals School and situates Pierre NoraÕs Realms of Memory within a history of heritage and our contemporary presentism. Our presentist present is by no means uniform or clear-cut, and it is experienced very differently depending on oneÕs position in society. There are flows and acceleration, but also what the sociologist Robert Castel calls the Òstatus of casual workers,Ó whose present is languishing before their very eyes and who have no past except in a complicated way (especially in the case of immigrants, exiles, and migrants) and no real future (since the temporality of plans and projects is denied them). Presentism is therefore experienced as either emancipation or enclosure, in some cases with ever greater speed and mobility and in others by living from hand to mouth in a stagnating present. Hartog also accounts for the fact that the future is perceived as a threat and not a promise. We live in a time of catastrophe, one he feels we have brought upon ourselves.