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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften Family Memory of History. Patriotic Attitudes in
Book SynopsisPatriotism is founded on the natural human need for lasting interpersonal bonds and is thus anchored in personal identity. Throughout Polish history, there has emerged a specific understanding and experience of patriotism. During World War II, the generation that grew up in the interwar period demonstrated the value of patriotism being able to prioritize the good of the homeland and being ready to die for one's country. The egodocuments collected in this book (secret messages and letters, official correspondence, and camp and prison documents) relate to the Koz?don family from Chwalowice and the Kupiec brothers from Poronin and serve as a representative sample of the significance of Polish patriotism under the challenging circumstances of World War II. These two families are emblematic of the sacrifice of individuals who fought for Poland's independence and displayed an uncompromising attitude towards the Nazi occupier.
£41.40
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften The Origins and Development of Roger J. Williams
Book SynopsisThis book reconstructs and discusses the research of Roger J. Williams, exploring the development of his concept of Biochemical Individuality. As a pioneer in the emerging field of biochemistry, Williams examined the biochemical differences among individuals and analyzed how these differences impact science, politics, and society. The analysis traces the evolution of Williams' ideas from inception to conclusion, chronologically reviewing his publications and personal documents from 1919 to 1956. It contextualizes these works within their historical, political, cultural, and scientific frameworks, investigating the terminology, bibliographical data, and scientific content to illustrate how Williams' theories evolved over time, while acknowledging both internal and external influences on this process.
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Lit Verlag Sustainable History and the Dignity of Man: A
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Hatje Cantz Schule des Sehens (German Edition): Bilder von
Book SynopsisIn its complexity, modern art can be intimidating and incomprehensible for some viewers. Without detailed knowledge of Greek and Roman mythology or Christian theology—once so vivid in the minds of both artists and viewers—some of the works of the Old Masters now seem meaningless, for the secret to understanding the masterpieces of art history often lies in a system rife with symbols, themes, and motifs that are frequently opaque to today’s viewers. Patrick de Rynck and Jon Thompson decipher the mysteries, using more than two hundred paintings as examples. Brief, succinct descriptions are accompanied by more than five hundred color pictures that illuminate the images and awaken interest in these and other works of art. An attractive overview of the most beautiful paintings from the Renaissance to the present day!
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Gebruder Mann Verlag Bauen in West-Berlin 1949 - 1963: Die Rolle Der
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Schnell & Steiner Hildesheims Weltliche Eliten Im Hochmittelalter
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Constitutio Antoniniana: L'Universalisation de la
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Die Schweiz Auf Dem Messtisch: 175 Jahre
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V&R unipress GmbH Die Komplexität des kompetenzorientierten
Book SynopsisDer Paradigmenwechsel der Kompetenzorientierung erfordert neue Forschungen zu den Prozessen historischen Denkens und Lernens und zu den komplexen Zusammenhängen zwischen Akteuren, Medien und Konzepten des Geschichtsunterrichts. Welche Vorstellungen haben Jugendliche von gelungenem Geschichtsunterricht? Wie verhalten sich Fachwissen, fachdidaktisches Wissen und Professionswissen von Lehrkräften zueinander? Welche Chancen birgt die Archäologiedidaktik? Vertiefende Analysen widmen sich einzelnen Aspekten des Unterrichtsgeschehens. So beleuchten die Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger aus verschiedenen Blickwinkeln etwa auch die Rolle der Sprache im Fach Geschichte. Nicht zuletzt gilt es, das Spannungsfeld der normativen Ansprüche zu vermessen, denen der Geschichtsunterricht ausgesetzt ist./ The paradigm shift towards the focus on competence training calls for new research regarding the processes of historical thinking and learning as well as the complex interaction between players, media and concepts of history as a school subject. What concepts do teenagers have of a successful history lesson? How do expertise, didactic methodology and professional knowledge of teachers interact? Which possibilities does a didactic of archeology offer? Detailed analyses focus on separate aspects of the teaching process. However, several internal interrelations arise between the research projects. For instance, the function of language in history lessons is highlighted from multiple perspectives. Not least, the fields of conflicts of normative claims which history as a school subject is exposed to need to be charted.
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V&R unipress GmbH Historisches Lernen im Förderschwerpunkt geistige
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V&r Academic Regesten Zu Den Briefregistern Des Deutschen
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V&r Academic Das Studium Kaiser Friedrichs III. an Der
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V&R unipress Historische Bildung regional
Book SynopsisLernpotenziale durch regional- und lokalgeschichtliche Perspektiven ausschÃpfen
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Elsinor Verlag e.K. Rewriting the Troubles: War and Propaganda,
Book SynopsisIn this timely and meticulously researched book, Patrick Anderson compares and contrasts Algeria's anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain's colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS counter-terrorists', Anderson dissects, with devastating effect, the approach of constitutional' politicians and the respective media portrayals in an analogy that for critics will be too close for comfort.About the book, historian Dr Brian Feeney, in the Irish News, said, Unionists, including academics, have been aware of the striking analogies between Algeria and the north for decades: they all reject the uncanny similarities as dangerous It's easy to see why Accepting any analogy or similarity means accepting that the north is illegal, a temporary arrangement, and that Britain will eventually leave Ireland as the French did Algeria.'
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Die Vorromische Einheimische Toponymie Des
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Dr Ludwig Reichert Lexikon Der Iberischen Inschriften / Lexico de
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Dr Ludwig Reichert SEI Mutig Wie Ein Leopard...: Bildgewordener
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Planeta Publishing Cuenta Regresiva: 1945
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Historical Diversities: Society, Politics &
Book SynopsisFeatures essays by some of the most eminent historians which cut across boundaries of time and space that highlight the diversified and multidimensional nature of historical studies, encompassing the fascinating themes in history from ancient to contemporary times. This volume is in honour of the distinguished Professor V N Datta.
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Oslo Academic Press Ambiguities of History: The Problem of
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Milenio Publicaciones S.L. Historia moderna historia en construcción.
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Aarhus University Press Doctoral Supervision: Organization and Dialogue
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Brill Publishing Karl Marxs Le Capital 18711875
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Peeters Publishers Cultures of Conversions
Book SynopsisIn the terms of Durkheimian sociology, conversion is a A"fait socialA". Although they are rarely treated as a cultural phenomenon, conversions can obviously be examined for the norms, values and presuppositions of the cultures in which they take place. Thus conversion can help us to shed light on a particular culture. At the same time, the term evokes a dramatic appeal that suggests a kind of suddenness, although in most cases conversion implies a more gradual process of establishing and defining a new - religious - identity. From 21-24 May, 2003, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'Cultures of Conversion'. The contributions have been edited in two volumes, which pay special attention to the modes of language and idiom in conversion literature, the meaning and sense of religious-ideological discourse, the variety of rhetorical tropes, and the effects of the conversion narrative with allusions to religious or political conventions and idealizations. The present volume offers in-depth studies of conversion that are mainly taken from the history of India, Islam and Judaism, ranging from the Byzantine period to the new Muslimas of the West. The other volume, A"Paradigms, Poetics and Politics of ConversionA", in addition to stimulating case studies, contains theoretical contributions on the theory of conversion, with special attention to the rational choice theory and to the history of research into conversion.
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Peeters Publishers Paradigms, Poetics and Politics of Conversion
Book SynopsisIn the terms of Durheimian sociology, conversion is a "fait social". Although they are rarely treated as a cultural phenomenon, conversions can obviously be examined for the norms, values and presuppositions of the cultures in which they take place. Thus conversion can help us to shed light on a particular culture. At the same time, the term evokes a dramatic appeal that suggests a kind of suddenness, although in most cases conversion implies a more gradual process of establishing and defining a new - religious - identity.From 21-24 May 2003, the University of Groningen hosted an international conference on 'Cultures of Conversion'. The contributions have been edited in two volumes, which pay special attention to the modes of language and idiom in conversion literature, the meaning and sense of religious-ideological discourse, the variety of rhetorical tropes, and the effects of the conversion narrative with allusions to religious or political conventions and idealizations. The present volume contains theoretical contributions on the theory of conversion, with special attention to the rational choice theory, and on the history of research into conversion. It also offers stimulating case studies, ranging from the late Middle Ages to present times and taken from Germany, Great Britain and The Netherlands.The other volume, "Cultures of Conversion", offers in-depth studies of conversion that are mainly taken from the history of India, Islam and Judaism, ranging from the Byzantine period to the new Muslimas of the West.
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Peeters Publishers Relics @ the Lab: An Analytical Approach to the
Book SynopsisThe book Relics @ the Lab, an Analytical Approach to the Study of Relics includes a series of studies presented at the first international workshop Relics @ the Lab organized by the Royal Institute of Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA) in Brussels, Belgium (27-28 October 2016). The papers cover a large variety of themes as well as analytical methods. Some papers focus on the primary relics while others deal with the nature and origin of secondary as well as tertiary relics. The first group of papers emphases on the archaeological authenticity of the relics, the second group elucidate the use, additions and manipulations of the relics through the ages. The applied analytical techniques are very divers. Radiocarbon and physical anthropology are the main tools to study the primary relics, while dye analysis, imaging techniques, textile analysis and dendrochronology are used to study the secondary and tertiary relics. Sometimes unexpected techniques, like the analysis of writing ink or the determination of plants and excrements, complete the wide range of analytical methods used to understand the origin, nature and context of the relics. br />Academics as well as professionals working in archaeology, art history, museum labs and conservation sciences will find this an invaluable reference source.
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European Interuniversity Press London - Berlin: Authenticity, Modernity, and the
Book SynopsisIn the 19th century, the metropolis became the soothsayer of societies. Here, probabilities of progress could be perceived, felt and smelt; here was the showcase of each nation's prime productions and representations. Travellers took to the metropolis in order to unravel the foreign society, in order to understand and learn about social characteristics and future developments, about cultural distinctions and commonalities, about banalities and extraordinary events. Travel writers mapped the development of Europe's metropolises and wrote for a large market using the form of a highly popular and established genre. In travel writing, popular sentiments, market-driven imaginations of the audience's interests, and on-the-spot analysis of cultural and political conditions are bound together in one account. This book surveys the history of cultural perception in Western Europe from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the National Socialists' party rallies in the Berlin of the 1930s. Travel writings are used as source material to enter the intricate discourses on national stereotypes, the metropolis and on the usage as well as the perception of authenticity.ÿ
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Leiden University Press World History for International Studies
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy
Book SynopsisThis first Volume is devoted to the oldest period of Indian Philosophy from the begening to the end of the first millennium after Christ. It embraces the philosophy of the Veda and the epic, the Buddha and Jina, the Sankhya and the classical Yoga system. Volume II sets forth the presentation of the nature--philosophical schools--the Vaisesika and Jaina systems and the systems of Lokayatas, Kautilya and other materialist.
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Philosophy of
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Sankara School of
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Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: The Philosophy of
Book SynopsisThe work covers Buddhist, Jaina, and Hindu philosophies across five volumes. It includes discussions on various Hindu systems like Samkhya, Yoga, Nyaya, Vedanta, and others, as well as the philosophies of Sankara, Bhagavadgita, and different schools of Vedanta, Saivism, and Puranas.
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Amsterdam University Press Writing History!: A Companion for Historians
Book SynopsisHistorians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of the historical craft? Broad in scope, Writing History! also addresses historians’ traditional support of policy makers and their activity in fields of public history, such as museums, the media, and the leisure sector, and offers support for developing the necessary skills for this wide range of professions.
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Amsterdam University Press The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History
Book SynopsisThis book addresses a wide range of philosophical problems about history and the semantics of time. The point of departure is the distinction between events under the description of past witnesses and their contemporaries and events under the description of historians. Its main claim is that a thesis on the past is exemplified rather than being justified by the available evidence. Such thesis, the book argues, retroactively becomes concrete in the past under consideration. This book will not only appeal to philosophers and historians, but to students and scholars across the humanities.Trade Review"Chiel van der Akker's 2018 The Exemplifying Past: A Philosophy of History is an ambitious attempt to break new ground in developing a philosophy of history that builds on the ideas of narrative and retroaction central to the earlier work of Arthur Danto, Louis Mink and Frank Ankersmit. It is a book that should be of great interest to all concerned with the philosophical underpinnings and status of historical knowledge and understanding. One of its advantages is having packed a dense and detailed argument into a volume of only 150 pages - a commendable achievement."- David Weberman, Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (2021)Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction: Retroaction, Indeterminacy, and Seeing-in 2. Periods and Other Minds 3. Mink's Riddle of Narrative Truth 4. Resemblance, Substitution, Expression 5. Exemplification 6. Danto's End of Art Bibliography Index
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Amsterdam University Press Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity: Localized
Book SynopsisThis collection focuses on difficult memories and diverse identities related to conflicts and localized politics of memories. The contemporary and history-oriented case studies discuss politicized memories and pasts, the frictions of justice and reconciliation, and the diversity and fragmentation of difficult memories. Friction, Fragmentation, and Diversity: Localized Politics of European Memories brings together methodological discussions from oral history research, cultural memory studies and the study of contemporary protest movements. The politicization of memories is analyzed in various contexts, ranging from everyday interaction and diverse cultural representations to politics of the archive and politics as legal processes. The politicization of memories takes place on multiple analytical levels: those inherent to the sources; the ways in which the collections are utilized, archived, or presented; and in the re-evaluation of existing research.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Approaching Localized Politics of European Memories (Kirsti Salmi-Niklander, Ulla Savolainen, Riikka Taavetti, Sofia Laine , and Päivi Salmesvuori) I Politicized Memories and Pasts 1 Mitigating the Difficult Past? On the Politics of Renaming the Estonian Museum of Occupations (Kirsti Jõesalu and Ene Kõresaar) 2 Remembering the ’68 Movement in Germany: A Left Counter-Memory? (Priska Daphi and Jens Zimmermann) 3 Queering Victimhood: Soviet Legacies and Queer Pasts in and around Jaanus Samma’s “NSFW. A Chairman’s Tale” (Riikka Taavetti) 4 Social Memories of Transformative Events in Post-Communist Latvia: Ethnic and Generational Dimensions (Laura Ardava-Abolina and Jurijs Nikisins) 5 Ishans and Murids before, in and after the Gulag: Strategies of Adaptation to the 1948 Repressions in the Perm Region (Gulsina Selyaninova) II Friction and Diversity 6 Between Closure and Redemption: Internment Memory and the Reception of the Compensation Law (Ulla Savolainen) 7 Imprisonment Trauma in the Period of the Stalinist Repressions (Anna Koldushko) 8 Fragmented Construction of Cultural Memories in Turkey: How Women Acting in Civil Society Perceive the Kurdish Issue (Serpil Açikalin Erkorkmaz and Dilek Karal) 9 Survival Strategies Constructed through Material Aspects of Everyday Life in Postwar Soviet Society (Anastasia Kucheva) 10 Living Together: Memory Diversity in Latvia (Zane Radzobe and Didzis Berzins) About the Authors Index List of Images and Tables
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Amsterdam University Press The Humanities and the Modern Politics of
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the shifting status of the humanities through a national case study spanning two centuries. The societal function of the humanities is considered from the flexible perspective of knowledge politics in order to historicize notions of impact and intellectual organization that tend to be taken for granted. The focus on modern Sweden enables an extended but still empirically coherent historical analysis, inviting critical comparisons with the growing literature on the history of the humanities from around the world. In the Swedish case, the humanities were instrumental to the construction of modern societal institutions, political movements, and professional education in the second half of the 19th century, while in the 20th century, the sense of future-making shifted towards science and medicine, and later technology and economy. The very rationale of the humanities was thus put under pressure as their social contract required novel negotiations. Their state and connections to society were nevertheless of a complex and ambiguous character, as is demonstrated by this volume whose contributions explore the many faces and places of the modern humanities.Table of Contents1. (Anders Ekström and Hampus Östh Gustafsson) Introduction: Politics of Knowledge and the Modern History of the Humanities Emerging Disciplinary Divides 2. (Isak Hammar) Measuring Up To the Humanities: Navigating the Epistemological Advantage of Classical Humanism in Nineteenth-Century Scholarly Periodicals. 3. (Martin Jansson) Into the Present: On the Modern Historicity of the Philologist Bible 4. (Joakim Landahl and Anna Larsson) Pedagogy and the Humanities: Changing Boundaries in the Academic Map of Knowledge 1860s–1960s 5. (Johannes Siapkas) Contested Classicism: Reconciling Classical Studies in Twentieth-Century Sweden Places of the Humanities in the Postwar World 6. (Hampus Östh Gustafsson) Gadfly or Guide of Souls? The Challenge of Democracy to the Twentieth-Century Humanities 7. (Johan Östling, Anton Jansson and Ragni Svensson) Public Arenas of the Humanities: The Circulation of Knowledge in the Postwar Period 8. (Sven Widmalm) The Place of the Humanities in a World of Science: Nobel Symposium 14 and the Vanishing Humanist Impact, Policy, and Humanities Futures 9. (Jenny Andersson and David Larsson Heidenblad) Thinking the Human System: The Application of Humanities and Social Science Reasoning to Societal Problems 10. (Fredrik Bertilsson) Borderline Humanities: Culture, History, Language, and Beliefs in Swedish Defense Research 11. (Anna Tunlid) ‘Humanities 2000’: The Legitimizing Discourses of the Humanities in Public Debate and Research Policy at the Turn of the Century 12. (Anders Ekström) Forging the Integrative Humanities: Policies and Prospects
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Sidestone Press Stories of the Past: Viewing History through
Book SynopsisThis study contends that the creation and consumption of fiction has not been looked at in a holistic way in terms of an overall process that takes us from author to consumer with all of the potential intermediate steps. It proposes and describes just such a process model, which begins with the author, who interacts with elements of his or her contemporary world and incorporates them into the imagined world of the novel. It describes how at each stage in the process other actors engage with the novel in various forms, and create artefacts such as critical reviews, filmed adaptations and tourist interpretations that comprise further imagined worlds that can be compared to the author’s original imagined world, and by extension, the original past world.Using a number of case studies of English novels of the period from 1800 to 1930, the study looks at what evidence of the process in action tells us about the ability of a novel to act as an adjunct to contemporary records in providing insights into that original real world. These studies incorporate analyses of the novels themselves, and of subsequent artefacts such as film and television adaptations, curated literary places and guidebooks, and reviews. The study concludes that fiction in its various forms, and especially in its adapted and interpreted forms, whilst not a pure historical document as such, can provide us with a vivid image of a past world. It contends that the process model could be used as an aid in the teaching of History or English Literature, or as an aid to the general reader, to help remove the layers of imagined worlds that potentially lie between us and a past historical world, thereby reducing the ability of that layering to create a misleading view of history.Table of Contents1 Introduction 1.1 Stories of the Past 1.2 History and Fiction 1.3 Beyond the Novel 1.4 A Fiction ‘Process’ 1.5 Overall Structure 2 The Literary Tourism Process 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Thomas Hardy – Wessex and Dorset 2.3 Jane Austen – Interpretation through Association 2.4 Conclusion: Literary Tourism and the Classic Fiction Process Model 3 The Adaptation Process 3.1 Introduction 3.2 The ‘Classic’ Novel Canon and Film and TV adaptations 3.3 Far from the Madding Crowd – Recreating Wessex 3.4 North and South – Consumer Perceptions of Milton 3.5 Conclusion: Adaptation and the Classic Fiction Process Model 4 The Critical Process 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Thomas Hardy and the London Critics 4.3 Elizabeth Gaskell and William Rathbone Greg 4.4 Conclusion: Criticism and the Classic Fiction Process Model 5 The Writing Process 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Jane Austen and Hampshire 5.3 Elizabeth Gaskell and Manchester 5.4 Conclusion: Writing and the Classic Fiction Process Model 6 J.B. Priestley’s The Good Companions – Discerning History 6.1 Introduction 6.2 J.B. Priestley and The Good Companions 6.3 Mind Mapping the World of The Good Companions 6.3.1 Mind Maps as a technique 6.3.2 Mind Mapping – Analysis and Summary 6.4 Textual Interpretation of the Yorkshire of The Good Companions 6.4.1 Interpretive Footnotes as a technique 6.4.2 Textual interpretation – Analysis and Summary 6.5 Analysing Adaptations of the World of The Good Companions 6.5.1 The Good Companions on Film 6.5.2 Comparing adaptations – Faithfulness to the Novel 6.5.3 Comparing Adaptations – Faithfulness to the Period 6.5.4 Comparing Adaptations – Summary 6.6 Visiting Priestley’s World 6.6.1 Priestley and Bradford 6.6.2 Visiting the Bradford of The Good Companions and Bright Day 6.6.3 Visiting Priestley’s World – Summary 6.7 Conclusion: The Good Companions as a Historical Resource 7 Stories of the Past: Conclusions
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