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This book deals with the representation of the Partition of India -
the experience of trauma and violence - through fiction, literary
motifs and narratives, and shows that in examining the nature of
such testimony through history, cultural memory has a significant
role to play.
It was the decade of daring Expressionist canvases, of brilliant
book design, of the Bauhaus total work of art, of pioneering
psychology, of drag balls, cabaret, Metropolis, and Marlene
Dietrich's rising star in theater and silent film. Between the
paroxysms of two world wars, Berlin in the 1920s was a carpe diem
cultural heyday, replete with groundbreaking art, invention, and
thought. This book immerses readers in the freewheeling spirit of
Berlin's Weimar age. Through exemplary works in painting,
sculpture, architecture, graphic design, photography, and film, we
uncover the innovations, ideas, and precious dreams that
characterized this unique cultural window. We take in the jazz bars
and dance halls; the crowded kinos and flapper fashion; the
advances in technology and transport; the radio towers and rumbling
trams and trains; the soaring buildings; the cinematic masterworks;
and the newly independent women who smoked cigarettes, wore their
hair short, and earned their own money. Featured works in this
vivid cultural portrait include Hannah Hoech's The Journalists;
Lotte Jacobi's Hands on Typewriter; Otto Dix's Portrait of the
Journalist Sylvia von Harden; Peter Behrens's project of
theAlexanderplatz; and Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel,
starring Dietrich as cabaret performer Lola Lola. Along the way, we
explore both the utopian yearnings and the more ominous economic
and political realities which fueled the era's escapist,
idealistic, or reactionary masterworks. Behind the bright lights
and glitter dresses, we see the inflation, factory labor, and
fragile political consensus that lurked beneath this golden era and
would eventually spell its savage end with the rise of National
Socialism. About the series Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series
has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever
published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art History series
features: approximately 100 color illustrations with explanatory
captions a detailed, illustrated introduction a selection of the
most important works of the epoch, each presented on a two-page
spread with a full-page image and accompanying interpretation, as
well as a portrait and brief biography of the artist
Intellectual traditions are commonly regarded as cultural
variations, historical legacies, or path dependencies. By analyzing
road junctions between different traditions of Public
Administration this book contests the dominant perspective of
path-dependent national silos, and highlights the ways in which
they are hybrid and open to exogenous ideas. Analyzing the
hybridity of administrative traditions from an historical
perspective, this book provides a new approach to the history of
Public Administration as a scientific discipline. Original and
interdisciplinary chapters address the question of how scholars
from the U.S., Germany and France mutually influenced each other,
from the closing years of the 19th Century, up until the
neo-liberal turn of the 1970s. Offering a thorough analysis of the
transatlantic history of Public Administration, the conclusion
argues that it is vital to learn from the past, in order to make
Public Administration more realistic in theory, as well as more
successful in practice. Advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
political science scholars will find this to be a valuable tool in
understanding the foundations of transatlantic Public
Administration. This book will also greatly benefit researchers on
comparative and transnational history with a keen interest in
Public Administration.
What are the limits of language? How to bring philosophy closer to
everyday life? What is a good human being? These were among the
questions that philosophers wrestled with in mid-twentieth-century
Britain, a period shadowed by war and the rise of fascism. In
response to these events, thinkers such as Gilbert Ryle, J. L.
Austin, Elizabeth Anscombe and Iris Murdoch aspired to a new level
of watchfulness and self-awareness about language. Being vigilant
about their words was their way to keep philosophy true to everyday
experience. A Terribly Serious Adventure traces the friendships and
the rivalries, the shared preoccupations and the passionate
disagreements of Oxford's most brilliant thinkers. Far from being
stuck in a world of tweed, pipes and public schools, the Oxford
philosophers drew on their wartime lives as soldiers and spies,
conscientious objectors and prisoners of war in creating their
greatest works, works that are original in both thought and style,
true masterpieces of British modernism. Nikhil Krishnan brings his
knowledge and understanding of philosophy to bear on the lives and
intellectual achievements of a large and lively cast of characters.
Together, they stood for a compelling moral vision of philosophy
that is still with us today.
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Thin Places
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Kerri ni Dochartaigh
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An Indie Next Selection for April 2022An Indies Introduce Selection
for Winter/Spring 2022 A Junior Library Guild Selection Both a
celebration of the natural world and a memoir of one family's
experience during the Troubles, Thin Places is a gorgeous braid of
"two strands, one wondrous and elemental, the other violent and
unsettling, sustained by vividly descriptive prose" (The Guardian).
Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry, on the border of the North
and South of Ireland, at the very height of the Troubles. She was
brought up on a council estate on the wrong side of town--although
for her family, and many others, there was no right side. One
parent was Catholic, the other was Protestant. In the space of one
year, they were forced out of two homes. When she was eleven, a
homemade bomb was thrown through her bedroom window. Terror was in
the very fabric of the city, and for families like ni
Dochartaigh's, the ones who fell between the cracks of identity, it
seemed there was no escape. In Thin Places, a luminous blend of
memoir, history, and nature writing, ni Dochartaigh explores how
nature kept her sane and helped her heal, how violence and poverty
are never more than a stone's throw from beauty and hope, and how
we are, once again, allowing our borders to become hard and terror
to creep back in. Ni Dochartaigh asks us to reclaim our landscape
through language and study, and remember that the land we fight
over is much more than lines on a map. It will always be ours,
but--at the same time--it never really was.
Fully updated, and coming up to the present day, with new material
encompassing current concerns, such as African opposition to
apartheid, international anti-apartheid activities and recent
events, such as the election of Cyril Ramaphosa as President of the
ANC, which have led to deeper consideration of the differing
ideological approaches reflected in the history, the volume gives
students, with no prior background in South African history, a full
historical grounding for the current situation in South Africa and
its position in the world. African history, particularly global
South African history encompassing as it does a site of historical
racial tension, is popular in universities around the world, and
with anniversaries approaching, such as the 25th anniversary of the
democratic transition, and the 60th anniversary of the Sharpeville
Massacre, this will only increase. Even in its fourth edition it
remains the only student-friendly text that focuses on the history
of apartheid, as one of the most defining periods in modern
history, as distinct from trying to provide a full account of the
entirety of South African history.
The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in
the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South
Africa was, until 1910, a vast and untamed land where great
fortunes could be made (and lost); where great battles were fought
(and lost); and where great men had their reputations forged, or
dashed, or sometimes both. Martin Meredith's follow-up to his
magisterial The State of Africais an equally epic new history of
the making of South Africa. Covering the extraordinarily eventful
four decades leading up to the establishment of the Union of South
Africa in 1910, it covers some of the most iconic tales of imperial
history. The Zulus at Rorke's Drift; the Jameson Raid; the diamond
and gold rushes at Kimberley and Witwatersrand; the Boer wars; the
titanic struggle between the arch-imperialist Cecil Rhodes and his
Boer rival, Paul Kruger -- DIAMONDS, GOLD AND WARbrings all of
these and more together in a stunningly coherent and compelling
narrative. History, somehow, just isn't as colourful any more.
"New York Times" Bestseller,
With a New Afterword
"Schlosser has a flair for dazzling scene-setting and an arsenal of
startling facts . . . "Fast Food Nation" points the way but, to
resurrect an old fast food slogan, the choice is yours."--"Los
Angeles Times"
In 2001, "Fast Food Nation" was published to critical acclaim and
became an international bestseller. Eric Schlosser's expose
revealed how the fast food industry has altered the landscape of
America, widened the gap between rich and poor, fueled an epidemic
of obesity, and transformed food production throughout the world.
The book changed the way millions of people think about what they
eat and helped to launch today's food movement.
In a new afterword for this edition, Schlosser discusses the
growing interest in local and organic food, the continued
exploitation of poor workers by the food industry, and the need to
ensure that every American has access to good, healthy, affordable
food. "Fast Food Nation" is as relevant today as it was a decade
ago. The book inspires readers to look beneath the surface of our
food system, consider its impact on society and, most of all, think
for themselves.
"As disturbing as it is irresistible . . . Exhaustively researched,
frighteningly convincing . . . channeling the spirits of Upton
Sinclair and Rachel Carson."--"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Schlosser shows how the fast food industry conquered both appetite
and landscape."--"The New Yorker"
Eric Schlosser is a contributing editor for the "Atlantic "and the
author of "Fast Food Nation," "Reefer Madness," and "Chew on This"
(with Charles Wilson).
'It's damned hard lines asking for bread and only getting a
bullet!' The dramatic and chaotic events surrounding the Russian
Revolution have been studied and written about extensively for the
last hundred years, by historians and journalists alike. However,
some of the most compelling and valuable accounts are those
recorded by eyewitnesses, many of whom were foreign nationals
caught in Petrograd at the time. Drawing from the Bodleian
Library's rich collections, this book features extracts from
letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of
onlookers. Primarily British, the authors include Sydney Gibbes,
English tutor to the royal children, Bertie Stopford, an antiques
dealer who smuggled the Vladimir tiara and other Romanov jewels
into the UK, and the private secretary to Lord Milner in the
British War Cabinet. Contrasting with these are a memoir by Stinton
Jones, an engineer who found himself sharing a train compartment
with Rasputin, a newspaper report by governess Janet Jeffrey who
survived a violent confrontation with the Red Army, and letters
home from Labour politician, Arthur Henderson. Accompanied by
seventy contemporary illustrations, these first-hand accounts are
put into context with introductory notes, giving a fascinating
insight into the tumultuous year of 1917.
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Young Stalin
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Winner of the Costa Biography Award What makes a Stalin? Was he a
Tsarist agent or Lenin's bandit? Was he to blame for his wife's
death? When did the killing start? Based on revelatory research,
here is the thrilling story of how a charismatic cobbler's son
became a student priest, romantic poet, prolific lover, gangster
mastermind and murderous revolutionary. Culminating in the 1917
revolution, Simon Sebag Montefiore's bestselling biography
radically alters our understanding of the gifted politician and
fanatical Marxist who shaped the Soviet empire in his own brutal
image. This is the story of how Stalin became Stalin.
Until the 1970s, if you suffered a medical crisis, your chances of
survival were minimal. A 9-1-1 call might bring police or even the
local funeral home. But that all changed with Freedom House EMS in
Pittsburgh, a group of Black men who became America's first
paramedics and set the gold standard for emergency medicine around
the world, only to have their story and their legacy erased-until
now. In American Sirens, acclaimed journalist and paramedic Kevin
Hazzard tells the dramatic story of how a group of young,
undereducated Black men forged a new frontier of healthcare. He
follows a rich cast of characters that includes John Moon, an
orphan who found his calling as a paramedic; Peter Safar, the Nobel
Prize-nominated physician who invented CPR and realized his vision
for a trained ambulance service; and Nancy Caroline, the idealistic
young doctor who turned a scrappy team into an international
leader. At every turn, Freedom House battled racism-from the
community, the police, and the government. Their job was gruelling,
the rules made up as they went along, their mandate nearly
impossible-and yet despite the long odds and fierce opposition,
they succeeded spectacularly. Never-before revealed in full, this
is a rich and troubling hidden history of the Black origins of
America's paramedics, a special band of dedicated essential
workers, who stand ready to serve day and night on the line between
life and death for every one of us.
Pham Xuan An was a Communist agent whose espionage adventures -
under the cover story of a celebrated war correspondent in the
Western Media -- were as brilliant for Hanoi as they were
shattering for Washington during the tumultuous days of the Vietnam
War. He has been dubbed "the perfect spy" and affectionately
referred to by some as "the spy who loved us". Not quite.
Journalist and Southeast Asian specialist Luke Hunt prises this
story open. He knew and interviewed An for many years, along with
many friends and colleagues in journalism who knew him best in war,
on the journalistic beat and amid the collapse of South Vietnam.
Bob Woodward exposes one of the final pieces of the Richard Nixon
puzzle in his new book The Last of the President's Men. Woodward
reveals the untold story of Alexander Butterfield, the Nixon aide
who disclosed the secret White House taping system that changed
history and led to Nixon's resignation. In 46 hours of interviews
with Butterfield, supported by thousands of documents, many of them
original and not in the presidential archives and libraries,
Woodward has uncovered new dimensions of Nixon's secrets,
obsessions and deceptions. Butterfield provides the intimate
details of what it was like working and living just feet from the
most powerful man in the world as he sought to navigate the
obligations to his president and the truth of Nixon's obsessions
and deceptions. The Last of the President's Men could not be more
timely and relevant as the public in America and around the world
question how much do we know about President Donald Trump and the
people who won the presidency with him in 2016 - what really drives
them, how do they really make decisions, who do they surround
themselves with, and what are their true political and personal
values?
The tumultuous political events that swept Russia in the early
twentieth century sent powerful ripples around the world. The
Bolshevik revolutionaries and activists had sympathizers among
Americans and Europeans alike, and one notable way they exercised
their support was through artfully created postcards. This
remarkable volume" "presents for the first time a newly unearthed
collection of those cards that recount the 1917 Russian Revolution
in a novel way.
The postcards originated not only from Russia, but also from
Germany, the United States, Belgium, and France, and they reflect
their diverse origins in the rich array of artistic styles employed
to create them. Whether simply drawn, hand-painted, or
mass-printed, the cards present compelling and complex images of
the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the people who were enmeshed
in it. The cards serve as concise yet powerful artistic documents
of Russian history and culture, as they display bloody and graphic
street scenes, rare pictures of lesser-known revolutionary leaders,
satirical sketches of Russian rulers, portraits of the royal
family, illustrations of palaces and institutional buildings, and
depictions of pivotal events leading up to the Revolution such as
the 1905 assassination of Grand Duke Alexander. Also included in
this fascinating visual narrative are cards depicting crucial
events from the aftermath of the Revolution, including the great
famine of 1921 and public celebrations of the newly formed Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics.
An unprecedented and arresting exploration of the Russian Empire
in its death throes, "Postcards from the Russian Revolution"
reveals a wholly new and vibrant perspective on one ofthe most
important political movements of the twentieth century.
Computer: A History of the Information Machine traces the history
of the computer and its unlimited, information-processing
potential. Comprehensive and accessibly written, this fully updated
fourth edition adds new chapters on the globalization of
information technology, the rise of social media, fake news, and
the gig economy, and the regulatory frameworks being put in place
to tame the ubiquitous computer. Computer is an insightful look at
the pace of technological advancement and the seamless way
computers are integrated into the modern world. The authors examine
the history of the computer including the first steps taken by
Charles Babbage in the nineteenth century, and how wartime needs
and the development of electronics led to the giant ENIAC, the
first electronic computer. For a generation IBM dominated the
computer industry. In the 1980s, the desktop PC liberated people
from room-sized, mainframe computers. Next, laptops and smartphones
made computers available to half of the world's population, leading
to the rise of Google and Facebook, and powerful apps that changed
the way we work, consume, learn, and socialize. The volume is an
essential resource for scholars and those studying computer
history, technology history, and information and society, as well
as a range of courses in the fields of computer science,
communications, sociology, and management.
This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of
concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in
scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from
historiography itself, but from related areas such as literature,
sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into
productive dialogues with history. Clearly written and accessible,
this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and
new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the
history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of
this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of
the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by
engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have
provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors
analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about
the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about
the task of exploring the past and determining where the line
separating history from other disciplines, such as sociology or
geography, runs. History: An Introduction to Theory and Method 3ed
is an essential resource for students of historical theory and
method working at both an introductory and more advanced level.
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP THREE BESTSELLER; Winner of the Los Angeles
Times Book Prize for History 2018; One of the Daily Telegraph's
Best Books of 2017; A Guardian 'Readers' Choice' Best Book of 2017;
Without the benefit of hindsight, how do you interpret what's right
in front of your eyes?; The events that took place in Germany
between 1919 and 1945 were dramatic and terrible but there were
also moments of confusion, of doubt - of hope. How easy was it to
know what was actually going on, to grasp the essence of National
Socialism, to remain untouched by the propaganda or predict the
Holocaust?; Travellers in the Third Reich is an extraordinary
history of the rise of the Nazis based on fascinating first-hand
accounts, drawing together a multitude of voices and stories,
including students, politicians, musicians, diplomats,
schoolchildren, communists, scholars, athletes, poets, journalists,
fascists, artists, tourists, even celebrities like Charles
Lindbergh and Samuel Beckett. Their experiences create a remarkable
three-dimensional picture of Germany under Hitler - one so palpable
that the reader will feel, hear, even breathe the atmosphere.;
These are the accidental eyewitnesses to history. Disturbing,
absurd, moving, and ranging from the deeply trivial to the deeply
tragic, their tales give a fresh insight into the complexities of
the Third Reich, its paradoxes and its ultimate destruction.
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