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C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd Among the Ruins: Syria Past and Present
Book SynopsisAs a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. Among the Ruins blends history, memoir and reportage, drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of Syria in ancient, medieval, and modern times, as well as his experiences living in the Levant on the eve of the war and in the midst of the 'Arab Spring'. These plotlines converge in a rich narrative of a country in constant flux -- a place renewed by the very shifts that, in the near term, are proving so destructive. Sahner focuses on five themes of interest to anyone intrigued and dismayed by Syria's fragmentation since 2011: the role of Christianity in society; the arrival of Islam; the rise of sectarianism and competing minorities; the emergence of the Ba'ath Party; and the current pitiless civil war. Among the Ruins is a brisk and illuminating read, an accessible introduction to a country with an enormously rich past and a tragic present. For anyone seeking to understand Syria, this book should be their starting point.Trade ReviewIn his beautiful patchwork of recent experience and academic history, [Sahner] gives a truly original portrait of contemporary Syria without shirking the social problems, physical ugliness or political realities many Westerners often want to deny ... Sahner gives a long historical arc, going back to pre-Islamic, Byzantine Syria, before going on to produce a moving and highly readable account of the country today. His close attention to the buildings and geography of Syria, together with accounts of his many friendships, bring the country into sharper focus than textual sources alone can do. -- The Times Literary Supplement[E]rudite historical analysis ... [Sahner's] perspective is rewarding indeed, both in questioning and shaking many of the narratives supplied to us by sensationalist media reports, and in providing a deeper understanding of the origins of the current conflict ... While Sahner's historical knowledge is evident, so too is his compassion for the people he meets ... [A] considerate treatment of a topic that has been widely misconstrued elsewhere. -- Insight TurkeyAmong the Ruins is a uniquely vivid evocation of the past of Syria and a prescient record of its present state. Deeply humane and drawing on subjects from all walks of life, Sahner has a gift for presenting them against a past that is as varied and as ancient as the country itself. We are brought to the edge of the precipice over which, alas, a magnificently diverse society appears to have stumbled. We will be both better informed and wiser for reading it. -- Peter Brown, Rollins Professor Emeritus of History at Princeton UniversityThis book greets the reader through the lens of a medieval Islamic historian well-versed in the historical treasures and antiquities of Syria. His appreciation of Syria's long and important history in the region provides a useful backdrop for understanding today's tragic conflict, much of which is unfortunately erasing that physical history. Sahner aims to make sure this history is not forgotten in an accessible work that makes important connections between Syria's past, present and future in a way that will satisfy the non-specialist and specialist alike. -- David W. Lesch, Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of Middle East History at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and author of Syria: The Fall of the House of AssadAmong the Ruins is a veritable pleasure to read, despite the poignancy of its subject matter. Combining an account of its author's travels through a Syria now largely destroyed by the ravages of war with a reflection on the causes and course of the Syrian revolution which began in March 2011, the Baathist regime's ruthless response, and the country's subsequent descent into civil war, it is both elegantly written and judicious in its opinions. Informed by Christian Sahner's deep knowledge of classical and medieval history, eastern Christianity and Islam, and enlivened by his travel writer's eye for the telling detail, it will make a useful primer for those seeking to place Syria's current predicament in historical perspective. -- Andrew Arsan, University Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History, St John's College, CambridgeCompact and to the point, [Among the Ruins] documents the long history of Syria's cultural and religious past in concise but approachable language ... Sahner's work illustrates not only why the current sociopolitical upheaval came about but also why it is important to all countries. -- Library JournalWith an academic expertise in late antiquity in the Middle East, Sahner gives even the seventh and eighth centuries important proximity. In light of the re-emergence of nihilistic and extremist language from the likes of the Islamic State, which promotes a distorted version of Islam's past, Sahner's history is all the more important. -- The Cairo ReviewSahner's writing engages all the reader's senses without wasting a word. His precision keeps the story moving at breakneck speed, leaving the reader with essential insights while eliding potentially distracting factual minutiae. The combination is sheer brilliance. The book is especially impressive given the magnitude of Sahner's intellectual task and the grace with which he accomplishes it. -- Brock Dahl, The Witherspoon InstituteThis excellent little book, a mixture of "deep" history and travelogue, is essential reading for anyone who wants to gain a better understanding of the current situation in Syria and the Middle East, beyond newspaper headlines. -- LSE Review of BooksAmong the Ruins is a readable and interesting account of Syria's history for non-specialists. ... [T]he importance of this book and the historical and cultural diversities which it recognises and explains are placed in an even more acute, modern perspective when one considers the recent wanton destruction of historical and cultural sites by Islamic State forces. -- Asian AffairsProvides a snapshot of Syria on the eve of war, through the eyes of a young American traveling through the Middle East. -- Publishers Weekly
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University of California Press Past and Present
Book SynopsisWritten as a response to the economic crisis of the 1840s - closure of factories, loss of jobs, the growth of slums in industrial centers, the starving poor, this title provides a trenchant articulation of the political, social, religious, and economic climate of the mid-nineteenth century and a prophetic vision of the future.
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Lexington Books Enacting Past and Present
Book SynopsisThis far-reaching study of women''s literature sheds new light onto the ways we think about memory, modernism, postmodernism, feminism. In Enacting Past and Present, author Michaela M. Grobbel discusses novels by Djuna Barnes, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Marguerite Duras. According to the author, these works show us that fascinating shifts in memory texts have been taking place in the twentieth century, indicating the need for different approaches to understanding memory. Through a discussion of Walter Benjamin, Sigmund Freud, and the work of contemporary scholars in feminism and cultural studies, Grobbel focuses on these texts as types of performance that lead to interesting forms of re-presenting memory. These theaters of memory foreground the present but also critically demonstrate the complex relationship of the present to the past. Grobbel offers her readers new ways to think about autobiography, performance, and the process of memory, enriching currrent scholarship on feminism and liTrade ReviewMichaela Grobbel's careful and insightful readings of modernist prose texts by Djuna Barnes (Nightwood 1936), Ingeborg Bachmann (Malina 1971), and Marguerite Duras (Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein 1964) explore a 'new feminist art of memory,' that—in contrast to the classical rhetorical art of memory—is centered on the return of the (female) body within the production of memory and writing. . . . This study is particularly relevant in light of the fact that neither the 'gender of memory' nor the aesthetic transposition of memory as inflected by gender have been the focus of recent research. . . . Enacting Past and Present is an insightful, provocative, and discerning contribution to the evolving field of writing, memory, and culture. -- Susanne Baackmann * The German Quarterly *Enacting Past and Present invites us to reconsider memory as process and performance; it does so through insightful commentary on three important women's texts; and it makes a convincing case for the importance of restoring the materiality of gender to any such consideration. -- Karen Kaivola * Biography *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Setting the Scene: The Art of Memory as Writing and Performance Chapter 2 In Memory of the Lost Body: Performance of Resistance in Djuna Barnes Nightwood Chapter 3 The Memory Theater of Ingeborg Bachmann's "Malina" Chapter 4 Strolling Through the Memory Palace of Oblivion: "Le Ravissement de Lol V. Stein" by Marguerite Duras Chapter 5 Memory Performances in Literature and the Arts
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Oxford University Press Past Present and Future
Book SynopsisSurveys and extens work that has been done in the past two years on 'tense logic' and is a sequel to the author's book, Time and Modality.Trade Review...Prior's work definitely deserves to reach a wider audience than the one it currently has, and one only hopes that the recent reprint of PPF will help in this respect. * Fabrice Correia Humana.Mente *
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