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The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has
traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often,
indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of
the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four nations
is at the heart of some of the liveliest historical research today.
In this major contribution to that research, eleven leading
scholars consider key aspects of the internal relations of England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales in the early modern period, and the
problems of accommodating different -- and resistant -- cultures to
a single centralizing polity. The contributors are: Sarah Barber;
Toby Barnard; Ciaran Brady; Keith M. Brown; Jane Dawson; Steven G.
Ellis; David Hayton; Philip Jenkins; Alan Macinnes; Michael Mac
Craith; and John Morrill.
In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics
examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create
context for source analysis. The chapters cover 2000 years and
stretch across the Americas and Europe. They are grouped into three
themes, with the first four exploring aspects of movement within
and around an environment: buildings, the tension between habitat
and tourist landscape, cemeteries and war memorials. Three chapters
look at different aspects of performance: masque and opera in which
performance is (re)constructed from several media, radio and
television. The final group of chapters consider objects and
material culture in which both spatial placement and performance
influence how they might be read as historical sources:
archaeological finds and their digital management, the display of
objects in heritage locations, clothing, photograph albums and
scrapbooks. Supported by a range of case studies, the contributors
embed lessons and methodological approaches within their chapters
that can be adapted and adopted by those working with similar
sources, offering students both a theoretical and practical
demonstration of how to analyse sources within their contexts.
Drawing out common threads to help those wishing to illuminate
their own historical investigation, this book encourages a broad
and inclusive approach to the physical and social contexts of
historical evidence for those undertaking source analysis.
Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and
turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their
work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of
interpretation and require historians to consider alternative
theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians
successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna
Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists
in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history,
architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and
material culture to explain why, when and how these less
traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader
to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical
questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and
provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and
interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the
introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those
factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered
throughout the book. Taking examples from around the globe, this
collection of essays aims to inspire practitioners of history to
expand their horizons, and incorporate a wide variety of primary
sources in their work.
The British Isles is a multi-national arena, but its history has
traditionally been studied from a distinctively English -- often,
indeed, London -- perspective. Now, however, the interweaving of
the distinct but mutually-dependent histories of the four nations
is at the heart of some of the liveliest historical research today.
In this major contribution to that research, eleven leading
scholars consider key aspects of the internal relations of England,
Scotland, Ireland and Wales in the early modern period, and the
problems of accommodating different -- and resistant -- cultures to
a single centralizing polity.
The contributors are: Sarah Barber; Toby Barnard; Ciaran Brady;
Keith M. Brown; Jane Dawson; Steven G. Ellis; David Hayton; Philip
Jenkins; Alan Macinnes; Michael Mac Craith; and John Morrill.
Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and
turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their
work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of
interpretation and require historians to consider alternative
theoretical and practical approaches. In order to help historians
successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna
Peniston-Bird bring together chapters from historical specialists
in the fields of fine art, photography, film, oral history,
architecture, virtual sources, music, cartoons, landscape and
material culture to explain why, when and how these less
traditional sources can be used. Each chapter introduces the reader
to the source, suggests the methodological and theoretical
questions historians should keep in mind when using it, and
provides case studies to illustrate best practice in analysis and
interpretation. Pulling these disparate sources together, the
introduction discusses the nature of historical sources and those
factors which are unique to, and shared by, the sources covered
throughout the book. Taking examples from around the globe, this
collection of essays aims to inspire practitioners of history to
expand their horizons, and incorporate a wide variety of primary
sources in their work.
In Approaching Historical Sources in Their Contexts, 12 academics
examine how space, time and performance interact to co-create
context for source analysis. The chapters cover 2000 years and
stretch across the Americas and Europe. They are grouped into three
themes, with the first four exploring aspects of movement within
and around an environment: buildings, the tension between habitat
and tourist landscape, cemeteries and war memorials. Three chapters
look at different aspects of performance: masque and opera in which
performance is (re)constructed from several media, radio and
television. The final group of chapters consider objects and
material culture in which both spatial placement and performance
influence how they might be read as historical sources:
archaeological finds and their digital management, the display of
objects in heritage locations, clothing, photograph albums and
scrapbooks. Supported by a range of case studies, the contributors
embed lessons and methodological approaches within their chapters
that can be adapted and adopted by those working with similar
sources, offering students both a theoretical and practical
demonstration of how to analyse sources within their contexts.
Drawing out common threads to help those wishing to illuminate
their own historical investigation, this book encourages a broad
and inclusive approach to the physical and social contexts of
historical evidence for those undertaking source analysis.
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and
politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking
contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing
political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes
through an examination of how religion both facilitated and
constrained transformations in political organization and status
relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage
of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the
Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from
North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the
Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself
generated political innovation and thus enabled political
centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus
on elite religion to understand how local political authority was
negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse
constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed
non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh
perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new
ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and
politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking
contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing
political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes
through an examination of how religion both facilitated and
constrained transformations in political organization and status
relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage
of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas
spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the
Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from
North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the
Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself
generated political innovation and thus enabled political
centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus
on elite religion to understand how local political authority was
negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse
constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed
non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh
perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new
ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.
The first full-length biography of Phebe Hanaford (1829-1921) takes
the reader from her Quaker childhood on Nantucket Island to her
remaining years on the mainland where both religious and marital
restrictions fail to confine her. Her success as an author brings
financial independence that allows her the religious choice of
ordination as a Universalist minister and the personal choice of
Ellen Miles as her companion of forty-four years. Rev. Hanaford
unites her twenty-year ministry with the woman's rights movement
while facing the criticism known in her church as the "woman
issue." Following the death of Ellen Miles in 1902, Phebe becomes
the victim of exploitation and neglect by family members who in
1921 bury her in an unmarked grave. Two decades of isolation
prematurely removes Phebe Hanaford from public life. Now with a
marker on her grave, documented sources and oral family history
tell her story and restores Phebe Hanaford to her rightful place in
women's history.
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