The Pelland and Moe Site Blades: Paleo-Indian Culture History in the Upper Midwest
In: Plains anthropologist, Volume 27, Issue 96, p. 125-135
ISSN: 2052-546X
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In: Plains anthropologist, Volume 27, Issue 96, p. 125-135
ISSN: 2052-546X
In: Journal of Vietnamese studies, Volume 3, Issue 2, p. 222-224
ISSN: 1559-3738
In: Articulating Citizenship, p. 55-96
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Origin of the Gypsy: Immigration to the New World -- 2. Social Structure: The Family -- 3. Gypsy Work Ethics and Occupation -- 4. Vacation in the Mountains -- 5. The Gypsy Tours in New Hampshire -- Appendix: Gypsy Folk Tales -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- About the Author.
In: Journal of the economic and social history of the Orient: Journal d'histoire économique et sociale de l'orient, Volume 37, Issue 4, p. 349
ISSN: 1568-5209
In: Zeit - Sinn - Kultur 6
This book presents new developments in Scandinavian memory cultures related to World War II and the Holocaust by combining this focus with the perspective of history didactics. The theoretical framework of historical consciousness offers an approach linking individual and collective uses and re-uses of the past to the question how history can and should be taught. It also offers some examples of good practice in this field.The book promotes a teaching practice which, in taking the social constructivist notions of historical consciousness as a starting point, can contribute to self-reflecting and critical thinking - being fundamental for any democratic political culture.
In: Journalism quarterly: JQ ; devoted to research in journalism and mass communication, Volume 67, Issue 4, p. 645-648
ISSN: 0196-3031, 0022-5533
In: History workshop journal: HWJ, Volume 72, Issue 1, p. 222-239
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Social history of medicine, Volume 18, Issue 2, p. 225-243
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: International journal of urban and regional research: IJURR, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 911-914
ISSN: 0309-1317
In: Journal of world-systems research, Volume 26, Issue 1
ISSN: 1076-156X
No copper, no Industrial Revolution. Although accountants listed it in the very last position in the table of "value added" per sector in 1831, the British copper industry was essential for the Industrial Revolution, the period of British hegemony over the world-economy. In this article, I use the figure-ground method proposed by Terence K. Hopkins to show that the copper industry played key roles in the ecological regime of the 1700-1840 period, due to its material properties and related historical contingencies and cultural valuations. By focusing in on particular production processes, historical contingencies, and cultural phenomena in which copper played an important and unique role, and then zooming out again to the world-economy as a whole, I show that an Industrial Revolution would not have happened without copper. From sugar production in the Caribbean to textile printing, from the slave trade to the Battle of Saintes, from the development of the steam engine to gin and rum production, from the telegraph to buckles and buttons, copper was conspicuous. This demonstrates the ecological regime of the period, in which the removal of a single commodity from the picture—i.e., copper—disrupts the whole constellation of relations. This study also shows that a "copper boom" immediately before and at the start of the Industrial Revolution (~1700-1800), instrumental in the British struggle against France for the hegemony over the world-economy, has been overlooked in the literature. Additionally, the article includes a reflection on method.
Bogspeak [or code] was a little known argot developed by a crimialised community of men who used public toilets for same sex encounters in New Zealand. The language form subsumed into itself elements of prison cant, pig Latin, back slang, Polari, gay slang and localised dialect. Using a chronological framework this paper discusses changes in bogspeak that ran parallel to changes in the architecture of public toilets, legislation relating to issues of privacy and homosexuality, and social attitudes prevalent in New Zealand society up until the close of the1960s.
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