Tag: Pasts

Free Download P. Ashton, H. Kean, "People and their Pasts: Public History Today"
English | 2008 | pages: 319 | ISBN: 0230546692 | PDF | 3,2 mb
In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present.Chapters explore forms of public history in which people’s experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

Free Download Angela Carter’s Pasts: Allegories and Intertextualities
by Sarah Gamble and Anna Watz
English | 2025 | ISBN: 135034351X | 227 Pages | True PDF | 11.8 MB

Free Download Science in the Archives: Pasts, Presents, Futures edited by Lorraine Daston
English | April 4, 2017 | ISBN: 022643236X | True EPUB | 392 pages | 7.8 MB
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by geneticists; weather diaries trawled by climate scientists; libraries visited by historians. These are the vital collections, assembled and maintained over decades, centuries, and even millennia, which define the sciences of the archives.

Free Download Germany’s Ancient Pasts: Archaeology and Historical Interpretation Since 1700 by Brent Maner
English | November 27, 2018 | ISBN: 022659291X, 022659307X | True EPUB | 336 pages | 1.7 MB
In Germany, Nazi ideology casts a long shadow over the history of archaeological interpretation. Propaganda, school curricula, and academic publications under the regime drew spurious conclusions from archaeological evidence to glorify the Germanic past and proclaim chauvinistic notions of cultural and racial superiority. But was this powerful and violent version of the distant past a nationalist invention or a direct outcome of earlier archaeological practices? By exploring the myriad pathways along which people became familiar with archaeology and the ancient past-from exhibits at local and regional museums to the Descriptionlines of popular historical novels-this broad cultural history shows that the use of archaeology for nationalistic pursuits was far from preordained.

Free Download Claire Norton, "Plural Pasts: Power, Identity and the Ottoman Sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle "
English | ISBN: 1472485343 | 2017 | 202 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Through a study of a variety of Ottoman and modern Turkish accounts of the Ottoman-Habsburg sieges of Nagykanizsa Castle (1600-01) including official documents, correspondence, histories, and more literary genres such as gazavatnames [campaign narratives], Plural Pasts explores Ottoman literacy practices. By considering the diverse roles that the various accounts served – construction of identities, forging of diplomatic alliances and legitimization of political ideologies and geo-political imaginations – it explores the cultural and socio-political significance the various accounts had for different audiences. In addition, it interweaves theoretical reflection with textual analysis. Using the sieges of Nagykanizsa as a case study, it offers a sophisticated contribution to ongoing historiographical arguments: namely, how historians construct hierarchies of primary sources and judge some to be more truthful, or more valuable, than others; how texts are assigned to particular genres based on perceived epistemological status – as story or history, fact or fiction; and the circular role that historians and their histories play in constructing, reflecting and reinforcing cultural and political imaginaries.

Free Download Maria M. Delgado, "Staging Difficult Pasts"
English | ISBN: 1032326034 | 2023 | 294 pages | PDF | 15 MB
This collection of original essays brings together museum, theatre, and performance case studies with a focus on their distinctive and overlapping modes of producing memory for transnational audiences.

Free Download The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D1J3V661 | 2024 | 14 hours and 33 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 416 MB
Author: Daniel Schlozman, Sam Rosenfeld
Narrator: Tom Beyer
America’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, locked in a polarized struggle for power and unrooted as civic organizations. The Hollow Parties takes listeners from the rise of mass party politics in the Jacksonian era through the years of Barack Obama and Donald Trump. Today’s parties, overbearing and ineffectual, have emerged from the interplay of multiple party traditions that reach back to the Founding. Daniel Schlozman and Sam Rosenfeld paint unforgettable portraits of figures such as Martin Van Buren, whose pioneering Democrats invented the machinery of the mass political party, and Abraham Lincoln and other heroic Republicans of that party’s first generation who stood up to the Slave Power.

Free Download Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire by Jennifer Finn
English | April 18th, 2022 | ISBN: 0472133039 | 245 pages | True PDF | 2.42 MB
Taking as a key turning point the self-fashioning of the first Roman emperor Augustus, author Jennifer Finn revisits the idea of "universal history" in Polybius, Justin, and Diodorus, combined with the Stoic philosophy of determinism present in authors like Plutarch and Arrian. Finn endeavors to determine the ways in which Roman authors manipulated narratives about Alexander’s campaigns-and even other significant events in Mediterranean history-to artificially construct a past to which the Romans could attach themselves as a natural teleological culmination.

Free Download Arthur Alfaix Assis, "Plural Pasts: Historiography between Events and Structures "
English | ISBN: 1009462520 | 2023 | 75 pages | PDF | 6 MB
What is history about? This Element shows that answers centred on the keyword ‘past events’ are incomplete, even if they are not simply wrong. Interweaving theoretical and historical perspectives, it provides an abstract overview of the thematic plurality that characterizes contemporary academic historiography. The reflection on different sorts of pasts that can be at focus in historical research and writing encompasses events as well as non-events, especially recursive social structures and cultural webs. Some consequences of such plurality for discussions concerning historical methodology, explanation, exemplification, and representation are also outlined. The basic message, reinforced throughout, is that the great relevance of non-event-centred approaches should prompt us to talk more about "histories" in the plural and less about "history" in the singular.

Free Download Christopher Leffler, "Plastic Pasts: Sited Memory in Paris, Algiers and Marseille"
English | ISBN: 9819956153 | 2023 | 309 pages | EPUB, PDF | 530 KB + 7 MB
This book uses plasticity as a metaphor for understanding how the past endures and evolves within the landscape, and the ways in which remembering shapes the sites we occupy and use. The plastic site is characterised both by its resilience, its form never entirely altered from an earlier mould, and by its malleability, which ensures that whatever persists is inevitably transformed. Embodied in its present configuration are the many moments that have produced it over time, and these are continually supplemented and modified.