Search results for ""Author Witold Kula""
Siglo XXI de España Editores, S.A. Medidas y los hombres las
La metrología histórica se ocupa de los antiguos sistemas de medición, como conjuntos internamente estructurados, y de sus relaciones con el todo social del que surgen y en cuyo marco adquieren sentido.?Los estudios metrológicos, ingratos sólo superficialmente, se transforman, en manos del investigador inteIigente, en herramientas de investigación capaces de revelar las grandes corrientes civilizadoras? (Marc Bloch).Toda medida, como institución social, es expresión de ciertas categorías de relaciones entre los hombres, y sobre estas relaciones puede proporcionarnos mucha información. Las interdependencias de las medidas, su desplazamiento, el cambio de sus denominaciones, pueden ser fuentes de conocimiento de las asociaciones culturales entre países y civilizaciones. La creciente unificación metrológica a lo largo de los tiempos constituye un claro índice de uno de los más importantes procesos históricos: el proceso de unificación de la humanidad. Durante el período jacobino, el
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Princeton University Press Measures and Men
Measures and Men, considers times and societies in which weighing and measuring were meaningful parts of everyday life and weapons in class struggles. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Writing Home – Black Writing in Britain Since the War
When the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning of the post-war migrations to Britain that would form part of modern, multi-cultural Britain. A significant role in this social transformation would be played by the literary and non-literary output of writers from the Caribbean. These writers in exile were responsible not just for the establishment of the West Indian novel, but, by virtue of their location in the Mother Country, were also the pioneers of black writing in Britain. Over the next fifty years, this writing would come to represent an important body of work intimately aligned to the evolving and contentious notions of home" as economic migration became a permanent presence. In this book, David Ellis provides in-depth analyses of six key figures whose writing charts the establishment of black Britain. For Sam Selvon, George Lamming and E R Braithwaite, writing home represents a literature of reappraisal as the myths of empire -- the gold-paved streets of London -- conflict with the harsh realities of being designated an immigrant. The unresolved consequences of this reappraisal are made evident in the works of Andrew Salkey, Wilson Harris and Linton Kwesi Johnson where radicalism in both political and literary terms can be read as a response to the rejection of the black communities by an increasingly divided Britain in the 1970s. Finally, the novels of Caryl Phillips, Joan Riley and David Dabydeen mark an increasingly reflective literature as the notion of home shifts more explicitly from the Caribbean to Britain itself. Containing both contextual and biographical information throughout, Writing Home represents a literary and social history of the emergence of black Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.
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