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THE AUTHOR EXAMINES THE TREND AMONG MOSCOW AND LENINGRAD HISTORIANS TO DE-POLITICIZE HISTORY; SEEKING AUTONOMY FROM THE STATE, THEY FOCUS ON CIVILIZING SOCIETY. HE PONDERS THE FLIPSIDE--A DEHISTORIZATION OF POLITICS WHICH HE FEELS MUST ACCOMPANY THIS TREND IF CIVIL SOCIETY IS TO ESTABLISH A SENSE OF POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, AND SIMULTANEOUSLY ELIMINATE ORTHODOXY. HE PROPOSES THAT THE NATIONALITY QUESTION IS A WAY OF NATURALLY IMPOSING LIMITS ON THESE TWO PROCESSES. A MEANS FOR SOVIET HISTORIANS TO REWRITE THE HISTORY OF THE U.S.S.R. INCLUSIVE THROUGH 2 REGIONAL MEMORY OF RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS, LINGUISTIC POLICY, AND THE HISTORIES OF NATIVE INTELIGENTISIAS, BOTH CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL IS ALSO INHERENT.

"The first edition of Southeast Asia : an introductory history was published in 1979 and immediately filled a need for travellers and students interested in a tantalisingly different part of the world. Subsequent editions ... have continued to document with great perception the enormous changes and dramatic growth experienced in the region. Dr Milton Osborne has been a resident, student and fascinated observer of Southeast Asia for over 50 years. This familiarity has resulted in a highly readable and lively chronicle. While giving due regard to the early history of the region, Osborne concentrates on the changes that have taken place since the eighteenth century: the impact of colonial rule, economic transformations of the 19th and 20th centuries, the emergence and triumph of the independence movements, the impact of social change and the pivotal roles played by religion, ethnic minorities and immigrant groups. He also provides an introduction to the art of the region and a comprehensive guide to literature about Southeast Asia"--Back cover

Examines the political agendas, actions, and religious beliefs of individuals and groups who, throughout history, have resorted to violent actions in order to generate fear and gain their objectives

This article examines Weimar Germany's public controversy about the Republic's place in German history. In a period that was seen by many contemporaries as a time deprived of historical context, all political parties tried to legitimise their actions and aims through the construction of very different historical traditions. Based on a wide range of primary sources, the article seeks to analyse this 'battle over the past' within the broader context of Weimar's political culture and the Republic's struggle for survival.

Agriculture - that is, using and managing natural resources - has a long and complex history. For thousands of years, societies have relied on plants and animals for food and other items, making agriculture as vital to their survival as it is to ours. The cultivation of various crops and livestock over time and throughout the world are examined, revealing the history behind and importance of much of the food we eat today. Also covered are the techniques and equipment that have been developed over time to facilitate agricultural production.

"In the same series as the New Children's Encyclopedia and DK Visual Encyclopedias of Science, Art, and Geography (among others), this brand new history encyclopedia will help children, parents, and educators grasp the events, personalities, and inventions that have changed the world. From the earliest civilizations in Mesopotamia and India to the rise of populism in the US and China's growth as a global power, this ebook gives you the facts about all major historical periods. Illustrated with over 1,500 photographs, artifacts, and maps, History: A Visual Encyclopedia is a way in to understanding the diversity of world history, from the African kingdoms that predated colonialism and the cultures of the pre-Colombian Americas to the dynasties that have ruled China for thousands of years and the many empires that have come and gone over the centuries in Asia and Europe. At a time in history when we are overwhelmed by information, this encyclopedia is a trustworthy e-guide to the past for young readers."-- Amazon

"This sweeping survey of the history of work, from hunter-gatherers to dotcom telecommuters, deftly compresses thousands of years of human evolution into an incisive volume that the Toronto 'Globe & Mail' calls "a page turner of a book". It is a book about work, about the organization and management of work, but it is also a book about people"--

This article analyzes the presentation of the Second World War in the multimedia "history parks" of the Russian educational project "Russia My History." In these exhibition complexes, modern digital technologies offer visitors a "revolutionary" way to discover Russian history. The article first explores the history and conception of the Russia My History project, as a pedagogical tool, a digital museum, a historical narrative, and a response to current memory policies. Next, I focus on the exhibition dedicated to the Second World War (specifically, on its technical, visual, structural, lexical, and historical aspects) and assess the impact of the digitalization and commodification of history on the traditionally rigid official Russian memory of the war. I attempt to show that instead of exploiting digital technologies to develop new approaches to the history of the war, the exhibition neglects the potential of multimedia and provides a narrative close to the one used in Soviet and post-Soviet textbooks.

Statement of responsibility: by L.S. Shimmell . Includes index.Add'l physical form: Also available online as part of PA's Past: Digital Bookshelf at Penn State. Reproduction: Microfilm. University Park, Pa., Pennsylvania State University, 1993. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Pennsylvania history on microfilm) Filmed with: History and civil government of Pennsylvania / B.A. Hinsdale and Mary L. Hinsdale. Chicago : Werner School Book Co., c1899.

Introduction -- The prehistory of entrepreneurship -- Early French contributions -- The English school of thought -- The German tradition -- Early neoclassical perspectives -- The view from America -- Joseph Schumpeter -- Beyond Schumpeter -- The entrepreneur and the firm.

In this book, Jill Hedges analyses the modern history of Argentina from the adoption of the 1853 constitution until the present day, exploring political, economic ,and social aspects of Argentina?s recent past in a study which will be invaluable for anyone interested in South American history and politics

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This essay takes the last pages of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time at its word: at the moment the narrator achieves a definitive conception of the work he intends to write, he sees society composed, not of people of flesh and blood, but of monsters fit for a museum of natural history. As the novel culminates in images and concepts that are essentially nonhuman, inhuman, or posthuman in character, it demonstrates an exacting knowledge of what the present is only now beginning to realize: after two world wars and humanity's recent entry into what is called the age of the Anthropocene, certain fundamental relations (between subject and object, between nature and history, between past, present, and future) must be rethought to account for both the eclipse of the human as well as nature's ultimate survival. This essay seeks to develop a philosophical form that would approximate the novel's discovery of this posthuman natural history.