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Potomac Books Inc How the Cold War Ended
Book SynopsisThe Cold War continues to shape international relations almost twenty years after being acknowledged as the central event of the last half of the twentieth century. Interpretations of how it ended thus remain crucial to an accurate understanding of global events and foreign policy.
£45.00
University Press of Florida Teaching Haiti: Strategies for Creating New
Book SynopsisApproaching Haiti’s history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspectiveThis volume is the first to focus on teaching about Haiti’s complex history and culture from a multidisciplinary perspective. Making broad connections between Haiti and the rest of the Caribbean, contributors provide pedagogical guidance on how to approach the country from different lenses in course curricula. They offer practical suggestions, theories on a wide variety of texts, examples of syllabi, and classroom experiences.Teaching Haiti dispels stereotypes associating Haiti with disaster, poverty, and negative ideas of Vodou, going beyond the simplistic neocolonial, imperialist, and racist descriptions often found in literary and historical accounts. Instructors in diverse subject areas discuss ways of reshaping old narratives through women’s and gender studies, poetry, theater, art, religion, language, politics, history, and popular culture, and they advocate for including Haiti in American and Latin American studies courses.Portraying Haiti not as “the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere” but as a nation with a multifaceted culture that plays an important part on the world’s stage, this volume offers valuable lessons about Haiti’s past and present related to immigration, migration, locality, and globality. The essays remind us that these themes are increasingly relevant in an era in which teachers are often called to address neoliberalist views and practices and isolationist politics.Contributors:Cécile Accilien Jessica Adams Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken Anne M. François Régine Michelle Jean-Charles Elizabeth Langley Valérie K. Orlando Agnès Peysson-Zeiss John D. Ribó Joubert Satyre Darren Staloff Bonnie Thomas Don E. Walicek Sophie WattTrade ReviewA timely effort to overcome stereotypes and decolonize knowledge. . . . This unparalleled contribution inserts seldom-heard Haitian voices and a much-needed postcolonial perspective into scholarly and personal narratives of Haiti. . . . Essential." —ChoiceTable of Contents List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Ayiti se tè glise: Intersectionalities of History, Politics, and Culture Cécile Accilien and Valérie K. Orlando I. Teaching About Haitian Art, Literature, and Language 1. Getting Around the Poto Mitan: Reconstructing Haitian Womanhood in the Classroom Régine Jean-Charles 2. Teaching Haiti Through the Work of Rodney Saint-Eloi, écrivain engage Bonnie Thomas 3. Teaching Haitian Theater: Franck Fouché's Bouqui au paradis Joubert Satyre 4. Engaging Haiti Through Art and Religion Cécile Accilien 5. Creating Interdisciplinary Knowledge About Haiti's Creole Language Don E. Walicek II. Teaching About Haitian History and Politics 6. Haiti in the Presidencies of John Adams and John Quincy Adams: Lesson Plans and Course Modules Darren Staloff and Alessandra Benedicty-Kokken 7. Teaching the 2004 Coup in Haiti from a French Perspective: Insights into Global Neo-Imperial Culture and Practices Sophie Watt 8. Peck's Fatal Assistance: A Filmic Lesson on the Failures of Aid Agnès Peysson-Zeiss III. Teaching About Haiti in American Studies, Latin American Studies, and General Studies Contexts 9. Rendering Haiti Visible in an Introductory American Studies Course Elizabeth Langley 10. Race and Culture on the Thrift Store Shift: Teaching About Haiti Inside and Outside the Academy Jessica Adams 11. Rethinking Latinx Studies from Hispaniola's Borderlands John Ribó 12. Teaching Haiti and the Dominican Republic: Cultural Representations of Haitian Immigrant Experiences Anne M. François Index Contributors
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Te Papa Press Essential Audrey Eagle, The
Book SynopsisIn 2006, the award-winning Eagle's Complete Trees and Shrubs of New Zealand was published to widespread acclaim and quickly became a modern classic for New Zealand botanists, gardeners and art-lovers. By popular demand, this accessible, affordable new edition presents a beautiful selection of 163 full-colour, full-page reproductions of Audrey Eagle's botanical paintings for new readers to discover and existing fans to savour. Every plant is depicted in full colour, including Eagle's many detailed enlargements which show the flowers, leaves and seeds of each plant in technically superb detail, while an appendix containing comprehensive notes, drafted in consultation with expert botanists, gives information on every plant. A fresh introduction gives new insights into Audrey Eagle and her life's work, and sets her place in the prestigious history of the botanical illustration of New Zealand's unique native flora.Trade ReviewMeticulous and detailed a work of art' The Dominion.'An outstanding contribution to the literature of New Zealand Botany' New Zealand Journal of Botany.'Each colour plate [is] a work of art and a labour of love' Evening Post.'A book such as this comes only once or twice in a lifetime. Audrey Eagle's achievement is magnificent' Christchurch Star.'Audrey Eagle's meticulous and beautiful renditions of our native flora are acclaimed, but it is her insistence on accuracy that makes her works on native trees and shrubs such respected reference books' The Press."
£31.19
Kohlhammer Werkzeuge Der Historiker: Innen: Antike
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Bohlau Verlag Academic Showcases: The Collections at the
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V&R unipress Historische Bildung regional
Book SynopsisLernpotenziale durch regional- und lokalgeschichtliche Perspektiven ausschÃpfen
£47.69
Motilal Banarsidass, History of Indian Philosophy: Sankara School of
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£28.49
Taylor & Francis Ltd Biography
Book SynopsisBiography: An Historiography examines how Western historians have used biography from the nineteenth century to the present considering the problems and challenges that historians have faced in their biographical practice systematically.This volume analyses the strategies and methods that historians have used in response to seven major issues identified over time to do with evidence, including but not limited to the problem of causation, the problem of fact and fiction, the problem of other minds, the problem of significance or representativeness, the problems of perspective, both macro and micro, and the problem of subjectivity and relative truth.This volume will be essential for both postgraduates and historians studying biography.Trade Review"A hugely enjoyable read, deeply researched and knowledgeable, with an effective mix of structure, theory, and personality, as befits its subject. Very wide-ranging, it’s peppered with names and connections. In squaring a number of circles, Biography: a Historiography is a single-handed refutation of any misgivings historians may have as to the biographer and their craft." Dr Martin Farr, Newcastle University, UK"[I]t’s a big, authoritative work with a dazzling range of research and reference, and passionate engagement with ideas and issues. A book to think with!" Professor Richard Holmes, FRSL, FBA, OBE, Hon. Fellow of Churchill College Cambridge"This is a most welcome addition to the literature on biography which will be attractive to readers in several different disciplines. Historians will like its very firm grounding in the development of historical writing since the nineteenth century; students of literature will learn much from its studies of the Bloomsbury biographers and life writing today; while social scientists will find much to explore and applaud in its confident discussion of concepts and methodology. The discussion of biography is integrated with the discussion of general historiography. Our pre-existing historiographical familiarity helps us to appreciate the novelty of the author’s biographical arguments all the more."Professor Lawrence Goldman, Oxford University, UK"There are numerous monographs on biography as a genre but no single text dealing with historians and biography, and yet historians are a major producer of biographies. Melanie Nolan’s Biography: A Historiography provides the first systematic and focussed consideration of historians’ biographical approaches and practices. It is a far ranging and much needed work, competently executed and underpinned by an impressive array of research." Professor Douglas Munro, University of Queensland, AustraliaTable of Contents1. Introduction: "It’s Just a Biography": historicising historians’ biographical debates 2. Victorians’ debate over heroism: the role of the significant individual in history 3. Post-Victorian debates over artistic and scientific approaches to biography 4. Historians and the problem of other minds in biography 5. Cold War debates over individuals in history; counterfactuals, contingency and causation in biography 6. Postwar debates over atomizing lives 7. Late Twentieth Century debate over microhistory and the singularization of history 8. Current debates about life writing and historians’ ego histoire 9. Conclusion: Trevelyan’s empiricism and historians’ biographical practices
£33.99
Dover Publications Inc. The Philosophy of History
Book SynopsisHegel wrote this classic as an introduction to a series of lectures on the philosophy of history. With this work, he created the history of philosophy as a scientific study. He reveals philosophical theory as neither an accident nor an artificial construct, but as an exemplar of its age.
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