Tag: Memories

Free Download Éva Guillorel, "Rhythms of Revolt: European Traditions and Memories of Social Conflict in Oral Culture"
English | ISBN: 0367232065 | 2019 | 428 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The culture of insurgents in early modern Europe was primarily an oral one; memories of social conflicts in the communities affected were passed on through oral forms such as songs and legends. This popular history continued to influence political choices and actions through and after the early modern period. The chapters in this book examine numerous examples from across Europe of how memories of revolt were perpetuated in oral cultures, and they analyse how traditions were used. From the German Peasants’ War of 1525 to the counter-revolutionary guerrillas of the 1790s, oral traditions can offer radically different interpretations of familiar events. This is a ‘history from below’, and a history from song, which challenges existing historiographies of early modern revolts.

Free Download Hyaesin Yoon, "Prosthetic Memories: Postcolonial Feminisms in a More-Than-Human World "
English | ISBN: 1478028017 | 2025 | 232 pages | PDF | 11 MB
In Prosthetic Memories, Hyaesin Yoon examines the entanglements of humans, animals, and technologies across South Korea and the United States at the turn of the twenty-first century. Interrogating a variety of body-technology interfaces, Yoon outlines an emergent mode of prosthetic memory in which human memory is extended into both machines and animals. Prosthetic memory overflows and provides an alternative to familiar human perception, Western scientific reason, and other senses of knowledge in ways that can foster networks of solidarity, care, and empathy between human and nonhuman subjects. Among other sites and subjects, Yoon examines tongue surgery to correct English pronunciation in Korea, Asian American poetry that engages the human-machine divide, transnational dog cloning, and stem cell research, each of which activates potent postcolonial feminist mnemonics and alliances. In so doing, Yoon narrates the countermemories of racialized, gendered, diasporic, queer, and marginalized human and nonhuman others that work against the violent and isolating biopolitical and neoliberal forces in contemporary society.

Free Download Rebecca De Souza, "Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus "
English | ISBN: 0198918097 | 2025 | 288 pages | PDF | 5 MB
Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature, and its overlap with contemporary formations of collective identity, race, and nation. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on.

Free Download Philip A. Seaton, "Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido "
English | ISBN: 1138838985 | 2015 | 244 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Hokkaido, the northernmost island of Japan, barely features in most histories of the Second World War. However, the combination of distinctive war experiences, a vibrant set of local historian groups, and powerful media organizations disseminating local war history, has generated an identifiable set of local collective memories. Hokkaidoʼs status as an early colonial acquisition also makes the island an important vantage point from which to reassess the course and nature of the Japanese Empire.

Free Download A Long Way South: Salvaged Memories from Travels in Latin America by Sara Stewart
English | November 8th, 2024 | ISBN: 1784779857 | 216 pages | True EPUB | 4.38 MB
In A Long Way South, itinerant traveller Sara Stewart relates memories salvaged from her explorations of Latin America during 1974/5, a turbulent, politically unstable period where kidnappings and smuggling were commonplace, where dead bodies lined the roads and where tanks guarded the streets of two capitals following a military coup and insurgency.

Free Download Sarah Blowen, "Recollections of France: Memories, Identities and Heritage in Contemporary France "
English | ISBN: 157181728X | 2001 | 272 pages | PDF | 828 KB
Since the 1980s, France has experienced a vigorous revival of interest in its past and cultural heritage. This has been expressed as part of a movement of remembering through museums and festivals as well as via elaborate commemorations, most notably those held to celebrate the bi-centenary of the Revolution in 1989 and can be interpreted as part of a re-examinaton of what it means to be French in the context of ongoing Europeanization. This study brings together scholars from multidisciplinary backgrounds and engages them in debate with professionals from France, who are working in the fields of museology, heritage and cultural production. Addressing subjects such as war and memory, gastronomy and regional identity, maritime culture and urban societies, they throw fresh light on the process by which France has been conceptualized and packaged as a cultural object.

Free Download Sayan Dey, "Performing Memories and Weaving Archives:: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean"
English | ISBN: 1839986905 | 2023 | 114 pages | PDF | 9 MB
This book engages with how the Siddis in Gujarat and the South African Indians in South Africa perform different forms of creolized socio-cultural practices in the contemporary era. Since the precolonial times, India and South Africa have developed commercial relations through sharing clothing materials, minerals, precious stones, and spices. Besides exchanging physical objects, varieties of cultures, traditions, and rituals were also exchanged between these countries. With the emergence of colonization in both these countries as Africans were brought to India as slaves and Indians were taken to South Africa as indentured laborers, a lot of objects like musical instruments, plant seeds, cooking utensils, and hand-woven clothes were carried across the Indian Ocean as cultural memories. With the passage of time, the cultural practices of the Indian Diaspora and African Diaspora got intermixed with the native local cultures of South Africa and India, respectively, and gave birth to porous, fluid, multi-rooted, and creolized cultural practices. This book brings forth some of the creolized culinary, spiritual, and musical practices of these communities, and how these performances can expand the archives of creolized cultural practices of Diaspora communities in the Indian Ocean World.

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Graphic Memories is a plugin that allows you to automate the creation of all types of graphic memories through legend views, especially carpentry memories. This plugin is designed to combine automation with customization, with it, you can automate your graphic memories without leaving aside total customization of your plans. You can define your own templates and generate from them your memories in a few clicks. Or if you prefer, you can start from one of the templates we provide you and generate the carpentry memory of your project in a few seconds.

Free Download Audrey at Home: Memories of My Mother’s Kitchen by Luca Dotti
English | February 27th, 2024 | ISBN: 0062284703 | 258 pages | True PDF | 71.87 MB
Enter Audrey Hepburn’s private world in this unique biography compiled by her son that combines memories, anecdotes, excerpts from her personal correspondence, drawings, and recipes for her favorite dishes written in her own hand, and more than 250 previously unpublished personal family photographs.

Free Download Tilly Rose, "Stitched Memories: Telling a Story Through Cloth and Thread"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1782215654 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 22.1 mb
Learn to create unique textile art using vintage embroidery and cloth to preserve treasured memories!