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Author | : Winona L. Fletcher |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2003-11-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780916968304 |
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"While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Jeannette A. Bastian |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2003-08-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0313052379 |
Download Owning Memory Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book examines the relationships between archives, communities and collective memory through both the lens of a postcolonial society, the United States Virgin Islands, a former colony of Denmark, now a United States territory, and through an archival perspective on the relationship between communities and the creation of records. Because the historical records of the Virgin Islands reside primarily in Denmark and the United States, Virgin Islanders have had limited access to the primary sources of their history and this has affected both their ability to write their own history and to construct their collective memory. But while a strong oral tradition, often in competition with the written tradition, influences the ways in which this community remembers, it also underlines the dilemma of interpreting the history of the colonized through the records of the colonizer. The story of the Virgin Islands and its search for its memory includes an exploration of how this community, through public commemorations and folk tradition has formed its memory to date, and the role that archives play in this process. Interwoven throughout is a broader analysis of the place of archives and archivists in helping communities find their history. The book is exceptionally well written and will appeal to historians, archivists and those interested in the Carribean.
Author | : Aleksander Łupienko |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2024-08-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 104011105X |
Download Urban Communities and Memories in East-Central Europe in the Modern Age Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume studies the logic of community formation and the common view of the past to show how various social bonds of communities functioned during the modern national era of East-Central Europe from the late eighteenth century until today and how multifaceted this group-building really was. Through an overview of selected examples of communities in East-Central European urban centres, mainly the territories of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor empires, the volume shows the potential of re-interpretation or adaptation of the past as a crucial tool for assuring social cohesion and for strengthening the image of group boundaries. It studies not only textual sources but also the cultural construction of local historical writings such as oral tradition and municipal publications, as well as symbolic objects such as epitaphs, plaques, monuments and public edifices. The contributors explore the actual creativity employed by these communities to envision their past and their future in homage to the ideals of centralised nationalism or regionalism and how these strongly ethnically marked historic spaces can be interpreted, celebrated or neglected. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of regional urban history and cultural diversities, memory cultures and community formation.
Author | : Lois Lowry |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 054434068X |
Download The Giver Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centers on twelve-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. This movie tie-in edition features cover art from the movie and exclusive Q&A with members of the cast, including Taylor Swift, Brenton Thwaites and Cameron Monaghan.
Author | : Tom Bradbury |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018-10 |
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ISBN | : 9780977494323 |
Download Our Beloved Barbara Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Remembrances and stories of Barbara Bush from members of the Kennebunk/Kennebunkport communities.
Author | : Pereira Alexius A |
Publisher | : World Scientific |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2016-12-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9813109610 |
Download Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes And Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams offers insight into the Singapore Eurasian community, one of Singapore's minority communities. Though small, the Eurasian community has undoubtedly played a big part in Singapore's nation-building. This book is the definitive record of Eurasian history and heritage in Singapore, and serves to educate the younger generation of Eurasians about their roots, the community's achievements and its collective hopes and dreams for the future, as well as provide a useful resource for others to learn more about the Eurasian community. In addition, Singapore Eurasians: Memories, Hopes and Dreams also covers the growth and developments of the Eurasian community within the last 25 years, and how the Eurasian Association (EA), as a Self-Help Group since 1994, has been helping the less fortunate through its programmes, as well as being the main force in driving the preservation and sharing of the Eurasian culture for its future generations. In preserving the history and heritage, as well as expressing the hopes and dreams of the Singapore Eurasian community, this book is an effort in contributing to the country's continued multiracial harmony and appreciation of the many elements that make up Singapore's story.
Author | : A. Reading |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1137032723 |
Download Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
If societies have only memories of war, of cruelty, of violence, then why are we called humankind? This book marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles from ten countries. The book reminds us of the enduring cultural scripts for human agency, solidarity, resilience and human kindness.
Author | : Winona L. Fletcher |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780916968311 |
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"While this is a glimpse of Frankfort's African American community, it has much in common with other Black communities, especially those in the South. Although much in the collection that produced this work - both photographic and oral history - is nostalgic, it ultimately demonstrates that change is constant, producing both negative and positive results."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Philip A. Seaton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317558715 |
Download Local History and War Memories in Hokkaido Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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. This book argues that Hokkaido’s experiences of war and its militarized post-war constitutes a local case study with a much greater national and international significance on both theoretical and empirical grounds than first impressions might suggest. Using Japanese-language sources presented for the first time in English and a number of detailed local history case studies, it offers a fascinating and hitherto little-known perspective on the Second World War. It also combines a comprehensive theory of how war memories operate at the local level within a broad historical context that explains Hokkaidoʼs pivotal role within Japanese imperial history. Demonstrating that understanding local history and memories is essential for a nuanced understanding of national history and memories, the book will be highly valuable to students and scholars of Japanese history, Second World War history, and Asian history.
Author | : Aaron M. Seider |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-09-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107292522 |
Download Memory in Vergil's Aeneid Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Tracing the path from Troy's destruction to Rome's foundation, the Aeneid explores the transition between past and future. As the Trojans struggle to found a new city and the narrator sings of his audience's often-painful history, memory becomes intertwined with a crucial leitmotif: the challenge of being part of a group that survives violence and destruction only to face the daunting task of remembering what was lost. This book offers a new reading of the Aeneid that engages with critical work on memory and questions the prevailing view that Aeneas must forget his disastrous history in order to escape from a cycle of loss. Considering crucial scenes such as Aeneas' reconstruction of Celaeno's prophecy and his slaying of Turnus, this book demonstrates that memory in the Aeneid is a reconstructive and dynamic process, one that offers a social and narrative mechanism for integrating a traumatic past with an uncertain future.