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  • thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose  (1,571)
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    B C, Before Computers (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-14
    Description: "The idea that the digital age has revolutionized our day-to-day experience of the world is nothing new, and has been amply recognized by cultural historians. In contrast, Stephen Robertson’s BC: Before Computers is a work which questions the idea that the mid-twentieth century saw a single moment of rupture. It is about all the things that we had to learn, invent, and understand – all the ways we had to evolve our thinking – before we could enter the information technology revolution of the second half of the twentieth century. Its focus ranges from the beginnings of data processing, right back to such originary forms of human technology as the development of writing systems, gathering a whole history of revolutionary moments in the development of information technologies into a single, although not linear narrative. Treading the line between philosophy and technical history, Robertson draws on his extensive technical knowledge to produce a text which is both thought-provoking and accessible to a wide range of readers. The book is wide in scope, exploring the development of technologies in such diverse areas as cryptography, visual art and music, and the postal system. Through all this, it does not simply aim to tell the story of computer developments but to show that those developments rely on a long history of humans creating technologies for increasingly sophisticated methods of manipulating information. Through a clear structure and engaging style, it brings together a wealth of informative and conceptual explorations into the history of human technologies, and avoids assumptions about any prior knowledge on the part of the reader. As such, it has the potential to be of interest to the expert and the general reader alike."
    Keywords: history of computer developments ; digital age ; computer ; information technology revolution ; data processing ; cryptography ; visual art ; music ; postal system ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GP Research and information: general::GPF Information theory ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JN Education::JNV Educational equipment and technology, computer-aided learning (CAL) ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::U Computing and Information Technology::UB Information technology: general topics
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    The Road to Batemans Bay (2024)
    ANU Press | ANU Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-11
    Description: The Road to Batemans Bay is the story of competing ventures to create 'the Great Southern Township' on the South Coast of New South Wales in the early 1840s. The idea of developing the furthest reaches of settlement was linked to the hopes of southern woolgrowers for a road from their properties to the coast, over the Great Dividing Range. The township proponents dreamed that having a quicker and cheaper connection to Sydney would allow them to open a port second only to Port Jackson. The scene begins with the proposed coastal township of St Vincent, in an age of optimism: settlement is expanding, exports are growing and land prices are soaring, generating Australia’s first land boom. Before long, however, the colony experiences a catastrophic economic depression whose ‘pestilential breath’ infects those with a stake in the coastal townships. Alastair Greig follows the fate of these individuals, while also speculating on the broader fate of South Coast development during the mid-nineteenth century. Greig gives a unique insight into many aspects of colonial life—including the worlds of Sydney’s merchants, auctioneers, land speculators, surveyors, map-makers and lawyers—as well as its maritime challenges. The Road to Batemans Bay is a chronicle of how Australia first developed its land-gambling habit and how land speculation led to the road to ruin.
    Keywords: south coast history ; land speculation ; colonial biography ; Batemans Bay ; 1840s depression ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
    Language: English
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    Rabbis and their Community (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-08
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    Keywords: bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HR Religion & beliefs::HRJ Judaism ; bic Book Industry Communication::B Biography & True Stories ; bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRJ Judaism ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Empty Spaces (2021)
    University of London Press | University of London Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-07
    Description: How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining ‘nothingness’? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically and discursively) empty space, and by which processes is emptiness discovered, visualised and reimagined? This volume draws together contributions from authors working on landscapes and rurality, along with national and imperial narratives, from Brazil to Russia and Ireland. It considers the visual, including the art of Edward Hopper and the work of the British Empire Marketing Board, while concluding with a section that examines constructions of emptiness in relation to capitalism, development and the (re)appropriation of urban space. In doing so, it foregrounds the importance of emptiness as a productive prism through which to interrogate a variety of imperial, national, cultural and urban history. Published as part of the IHR Conference Series by the Institute of Historical Research.
    Keywords: space ; place ; absence ; Edward Hopper ; Connemara ; rural ; urban ; air ; sea ; empire ; territory ; Empire Marketing Board ; Biography & True Stories ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
    Language: English
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    The Atheist's Bible (2021)
    Open Book Publishers
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: "‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. In this timely volume, Warman establishes the place of Diderot’s Éléments in the trajectory of materialist theories of nature and the mind stretching back to Epicurus and Lucretius, and explores the fascinating reasons behind scholarly neglect of this seminal work. In turn, Warman outlines the hitherto unacknowledged dissemination and reception of Diderot’s Éléments, demonstrating how Diderot’s Éléments was circulated in manuscript-form as early as the 1790s, thus showing how the text came to influence the next generations of materialist thinkers. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist’s Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond. "
    Keywords: Diderot ; philosophy ; man ; matter ; mind ; body ; emotion ; perception ; human ; soul ; materialism ; nature ; Naigeon ; enlightenment ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day
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    Aino Kallas (2021)
    Finnish Literature Society / SKS
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-05
    Description: "The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript “Bathseba”, the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas’ engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today’s leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia. "
    Keywords: modernization ; diaries ; ageing ; mourning ; poetry ; biography ; Aino Kallas ; Estonia ; Estonian language ; Finland ; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Young Estonia ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AG The Arts: treatments and subjects::AGH Human figures depicted in art::AGHF Portraits and self-portraiture in art ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
    Language: English
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    Traduire en langue française en (2021)
    Artois Presses Université
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: L’année 1830 a marqué l’histoire de l’Europe et de la France : indépendance de la Grèce et de la Belgique, avènement d’un régime monarchique constitutionnel autour du roi Louis-Philippe (Monarchie de Juillet), prise d’Alger, bataille d’Hernani autour de V. Hugo à Paris, publication du roman de Stendhal Le Rouge et le Noir, etc. Cette riche actualité tant politique que littéraire, placée sous le signe du romantisme, va de pair, en France, avec une intense activité éditoriale (libéralisation des lois sur la presse) et une ouverture vers l’étranger qui se reflète tout particulièrement dans la publication de traductions. Que/qui traduit-on en langue française en 1830 ? Quelles sont les langues les mieux représentées ? Les traducteurs les plus actifs ? Incluant les pays francophones frontaliers (Suisse, Belgique) mais aussi les pays européens (voire extra-européens) ayant eu des liens linguistiques avec la France, ce sondage sur l’année 1830 effectué dans divers supports éditoriaux allant des revues aux anthologies en passant par les manuels scolaires, permet de dresser une première esquisse du paysage traductologique de langue française à un moment charnière du XIXe siècle. Le colloque « Traduire en langue française en 1830 » a été organisé par Christine Lombez, Professeur de Littérature comparée à l’Université de Nantes, dans le cadre du projet HTLF (Histoire des Traductions en Langue française, à paraître aux éditions Verdier).
    Keywords: P ; D1-2009 ; traduction ; histoire ; activité éditoriale ; paysage traductologique ; traductologie ; langue française ; romantisme ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science
    Language: French
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    Manuscript Albums and their Cultural Contexts (2024)
    De Gruyter | De Gruyter
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume’s contributors – who come from musicology, European history, English literary studies, and Islamic art history – explore a set of these challenging manuscripts while addressing questions of manuscript studies through their respective disciplinary lenses. The albums under investigation range from Early Modern Stammbücher, or alba amicorum, to albums assembled jointly by nineteenth-century cultural elites, and from muraqqaʿs of the Persianate world to English and North American friendship albums, including some kept by women. This book is the first contribution to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their materiality and analysing the practices of all those involved in making and using them. Moreover, the collection introduces this hard-to-grasp type of written artefact to the field of cross-disciplinary manuscript studies and suggests albums as a touchstone for manuscriptological theories and terminologies.; Manuscript albums are oftentimes contradictory objects: ephemeral yet monumental, coherent yet inviting change. Collecting items made by others, owners form their albums as representations of their selves, their worlds, and their traditions. The volume’s contributors – who come from musicology, European history, English literary studies, and Islamic art history – explore a set of these challenging manuscripts while addressing questions of manuscript studies through their respective disciplinary lenses. The albums under investigation range from Early Modern Stammbücher, or alba amicorum, to albums assembled jointly by nineteenth-century cultural elites, and from muraqqaʿs of the Persianate world to English and North American friendship albums, including some kept by women. This book is the first contribution to the comparative study of manuscript albums, focusing on their materiality and analysing the practices of all those involved in making and using them. Moreover, the collection introduces this hard-to-grasp type of written artefact to the field of cross-disciplinary manuscript studies and suggests albums as a touchstone for manuscriptological theories and terminologies.
    Keywords: Frühe Neuzeit ; Handschriftenkunde ; Album ; Sammlung ; Manuscript Studies ; Early Modern Times ; albums ; collections ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AF The Arts: art forms::AFF Drawing and drawings ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DND Diaries, letters and journals ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies::JBCC2 Material culture
    Language: English
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    Le Romanesque aux xive et xve siècles (2021)
    Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: L’automne du Moyen Age est flamboyant : la richesse des productions artistiques, le nombre des manuscrits superbement illustrés, les rituels des cours et des villes, le foisonnement des textes littéraires, dans une synchronie embrassant les xive et xvie siècles jusqu’à l’aube de la Renaissance, témoignent d’un dynamisme remarquable. La passion des bibliophiles anime les commandes de livres, et les témoignages de leurs lectu­res révèlent des goûts et un souffle nouveaux. Face aux héritages des siècles passés, qu’en est-il du Romanesque à la fin du Moyen Age ? Ce volume rassemble les questions débattues, au cours d’une rencontre pluridisciplinaire, par des spécialistes du livre manuscrit et imprimé, par des historiens d’une littérature dont les richesses restent à découvrir. Idéal et émotions héroïques, imaginaire chevaleresque et modèles de comportement, emprises et pas d’armes puisent leurs schèmes dans l’écrit littéraire. Ainsi la vie se dessine-t-elle comme un roman. Faire resurgir des figu­res légendaires dans des contextes inattendus, allier l’épique et le roman, investir de nouveaux rêves : les normes culturelles engendrent leurs écarts, dans la dynamique d’un miroir et de la mémoire. La tradition remise en question démythifie l’héritage courtois, mais la littérature du passé est fécondée par une esthétique nouvelle et des remotivations surprenantes. L’image désormais s’inscrit puissamment dans le texte, dont la perception visuelle sollicite l’interprétation. Réécritu­res et mouvances littéraires témoignent d’un goût pour un style romanesque, qui remodèle l’espace social.
    Keywords: P ; D1-2009 ; culture de cour ; réminiscence ; Moyen Âge ; politique ; pas d’armes ; modèle de comportement ; emprise chevaleresque ; héritage ; culture romanesque ; compilation ; éducation ; allégorie ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science
    Language: French
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    Historien (2021)
    Presses de l’enssib
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-04
    Description: Que change, pour un historien, et pour l’écriture de l’histoire, l’entrée dans l’ordre informatique ? Quels changements sont probables dans un futur proche ? Les outils de l’intellect mis à la disposition des historiens s’imposent à eux, et exigent qu’ils en connaissent le fonctionnement : l’ère des réseaux, des portails, des big data, de la numérisation de masse entraîne une connaissance accrue de ces techniques et une agilité intellectuelle nouvelle.
    Keywords: P ; D1-2009 ; apprentissages ; pratiques documentaires ; technologies ; histoire ; cyberhistorien ; écritures informatiques ; archive ; Internet ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science
    Language: French
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    Crisis and Legitimacy in Atlantic American Narratives of Piracy, 1678-1865 (2021)
    Palgrave Macmillan
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-27
    Description: The book traces the construction and function of the pirate in transatlantic American literature from the late 17th century to the Civil War, exploring in what ways the cultural imaginary teased out the pirate’s ambivalent potential as a figure of both identification and Othering, and how it has been used to negotiate ideas of legitimacy. The study recasts piracy as a discursive category moving in a continuum between the propagation of (post-)colonial adventure and accumulation on the one hand and critical commentary on exploitation and oppression on the other. Reading piracy narratives as symptomatic of various crisis scenarios in the US context, the book examines how the pirate was imbued with (de)legitimatory meaning during such periods in both elite and popular texts.
    Description: Die Studie zeichnet die Konstruktion und Funktion des Piraten in der transatlantisch-amerikanischen Erzählliteratur vom späten 17. Jahrhundert bis zum Sezessionskrieg nach und untersucht, wie das ambivalente Potential der Figur zwischen Identifikation und Alterisierung genutzt wurde, um Vorstellungen von Legitimität und Macht zur Verhandlung zu stellen. Das Buch begreift Piraterie als diskursive Kategorie im Kontinuum zwischen Propagierung (post-)kolonialen Abenteuers und Akkumulation einerseits und kritischem Kommentar zu Ausbeutung und Unterdrückung andererseits. Piratenerzählungen werden als symptomatisch im Kontext verschiedener kolonialer und nationaler Krisenszenarien verstanden, die u.a. Sklaverei, Geschlecht oder Identität zur Diskussion stellen.
    Keywords: Piraten, Atlantik, Literatur, Legitimität ; ÖFOS 2012, Amerikanistik ; ÖFOS 2012, Literaturgeschichte ; ÖFOS 2012, Kulturwissenschaft ; ÖFOS 2012, Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft ; piracy, Atlantic, literature, legitimacy ; ÖFOS 2012, American studies ; ÖFOS 2012, History of literature ; ÖFOS 2012, Cultural studies ; ÖFOS 2012, Comparative literature studies ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1K The Americas::1KB North America (USA and Canada)::1KBB United States of America, USA ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FJ Adventure / action fiction::FJH Historical adventure fiction ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FJ Adventure / action fiction::FJM War, combat and military adventure fiction ; thema EDItEUR::X Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons::XA Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions ; thema EDItEUR::X Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons::XA Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: styles / traditions::XAK American style / tradition comic books ; thema EDItEUR::X Graphic novels, Comic books, Manga, Cartoons::XQ Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: genres::XQK Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Superheroes and super-villains ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FV Historical fiction ; thema EDItEUR::F Fiction and Related items::FY Fiction: special features::FYB Short stories ; thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1Q Other geographical groupings: Oceans and seas, historical, political etc::1QS Oceans and seas::1QSA Atlantic Ocean::1QSAN North Atlantic
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    Methods in Dating and Other Applications using Luminescence (2021)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Trapped charge dating is a commonly used chronological tool in Earth Sciences and Archaeology. The two principle methods are luminescence dating and electron spin resonance. Both are based on stored energy produced by the absorption of natural radioactivity in common minerals such as quartz and feldspars, and in some biological materials such as tooth enamel. Methodological developments in the last 20 years have substantially increased the accuracy and precision of these methods. This compilation offers a taste of the recent research into both method and applications.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    A Century of Parks Canada, 1911-2011 (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: "... a diverse and fascinating array of perspectives on the history of Canada's national parks, illuminating many less well-understood aspects of the evolving place of people in and near these parks." - Stephen Bocking, Professor and Chair, Environmental and Resource Studies Program, Trent University When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada's diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Canada manages over forty parks and reserves totalling over 200,000 square kilometres and featuring a dazzling variety of landscapes, and is recognized as a global leader in the environmental challenges of protected places. Its history is a rich repository of experience, of lessons learned - critical for making informed decisions about how to sustain the environmental and social health of our national parks. A Century of Parks Canada is published in partnership with NiCHE (Network in Canadian History and Environment; http://niche-canada.org/).
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    So Far and Yet so Close (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: So Far and Yet So Close provides a comparative study of frontier cattle ranching in two societies on opposite ends of the globe. It is also an environmental history that at the same time centres on both the natural and frontier environments. There are many points at which the western Canadian and northern Australian cattle frontiers evoke comparisons. Most obviously they came to life at about the same time: late 1870s-early 1880s. In both cases corporations were heavy investors and utilized an open range system in which tens of thousands of cattle roamed over thousands of square acres. Ranchers shared similar problems such as predators, disease, and weather, as well as markets. Ultimately, a nearly indistinguishable "country" culture developed in these geographically disparate and distant lands, which is still apparent today. Many similarities were in one way or another a reflection of frontier environmental conditions that is, conditions associated with the very "newness" of society. They included a lack of infrastructure (ie. fences), institutions (ie. police), and population (ie. consumers). However, the ranching people in these two societies had their differences too. In the end, the natural environment pushed agricultural development in these two regions along very different paths.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFU Animals and society ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy
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    Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World (2021)
    ANU Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Australian lives are intricately enmeshed with the world, bound by ties of allegiance and affinity, intellect and imagination. In Transnational Ties: Australian Lives in the World, an eclectic mix of scholars—historians, literary critics, and museologists—trace the flow of people that helped shape Australia’s distinctive character and the flow of ideas that connected Australians to a global community of thought. It shows how biography, and the study of life stories, can contribute greatly to our understanding of such patterns of connection and explores how transnationalism can test biography’s limits as an intellectual, professional and commercial practice.
    Keywords: cosmopolitanism ; australia ; ethnology ; internationalism ; biography ; Sydney ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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    The Anglo-Norman Historical Canon (2022)
    Cambridge University Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Contributes to the ongoing debate on what it meant to publish a book in manuscript. Offers case-studies of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman historians. Argues that their contemporary success was a result of successfully conducted publishing activities. This Element is also available as Open Access.
    Keywords: publishing ; literature ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHD European history ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500 ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTB Social and cultural history ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNT Media, entertainment, information and communication industries::KNTP Publishing industry and journalism::KNTP1 Publishing and book trade
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    Dyes in History and Archaeology 41 (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: This reprint features contributions from the conference DHA41. Dyes in History and Archaeology (DHA) is an annual international conference that focuses on the academic discussion of dyes and organic pigments which have been used in the past. Every year since 1982, this meeting has drawn together conservators; curators; (technical) art historians; craftspeople; artists; independent scholars; and scientists and academics from museums, universities, research centers, and other public or private institutions. Their common interest is to delve deeply into the history, production, application, and properties of organic colorants, as well as their analytical characterization and identification, often in textile objects, but also in other substrates as well as painted surfaces. In the autumn of 2022, the 41st DHA conference was hosted by the Swedish National Heritage Board in Visby. The abstracts are published on the DiVA portal (Digitala Vetenskapliga Arkivet), and many of the presented posters are available for download from the conference program. We are very grateful to the authors of the following 16 articles for submitting their manuscripts and allowing us to put together a publication that presents the fascinating breadth of research into Dyes in History and Archaeology.
    Keywords: 18th century ; consumer goods ; consumer society ; colorant ; dye ; import ; mordant ; Norway ; pigments ; positive feedback loop ; Korean art ; textiles ; dye analysis ; HPLC-DAD-MS/MS ; reflectance spectroscopy ; natural dyes ; early synthetic dyes ; liquid chromatography ; identification ; shirts ; Romania ; 6-bromoindigo ; thermochromic ; dyeing ; wool ; Tyrian purple ; indigo ; woad ; Isatis tinctoria ; woad balls ; couched woad ; woad and indigo vat ; HPLC ; indigoid colorants ; indigo-reducing bacteria ; Etienne Ferrières’s Register ; Antoine Janot ; Paul Gout ; 18th century memoirs on dyeing ; reconstitution of dyeing processes ; syngenite ; yellow lake ; safflower ; organic colourants ; organic colorants ; dyer’s madder ; luteolin ; unknown orange compounds ; HPLC-PDA ; wool textiles ; Medieval period ; Engelbert Jörlin ; Swedish dye plants ; traded dyeing materials ; Carl Linnaeus ; Age of Utility ; indigoids ; indirubinoids ; dibromoindigo ; molluscan purple pigments and dyes ; Muricidae ; Hexaplex trunculus ; Di-Mono Index (DMI) ; ternary diagram ; synthetic dyes ; industrial heritage ; ESI-mass spectrometry ; FTIR spectroscopy ; Iron Age ; goethite ; madder ; Gordion ; King Midas ; Anatolia ; weaving ; dyes ; City Mound ; Phrygia ; khipu ; Wari ; dyestuffs ; heritage science ; multiband imaging ; X-ray fluorescence ; high-performance liquid chromatography ; mass spectrometry ; Flemish tapestries ; hyperspectral imaging ; non-invasive dye analysis ; brazilwood ; yellow dyes ; fading ; dyeing procedure ; old traditional recipes ; natural dyes tradition ; color superstitions ; Greek manuscripts ; Cupressus sempervirens L. ; Helichrysum stoechas (L.) Moench ; Rytiphloea tinctoria (Clemente) C.Agardh ; 19th-century manufacture ; Winsor & Newton ; multi-analytical characterisation ; heritage preservation ; non-invasive analysis ; textile ; mass spectrometry imaging ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    Mineralogical Approaches to Archaeological Materials (2022)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Archaeometry is based on the necessary interdisciplinary relationship between diverse branches of the natural and social sciences. This relationship is essential in archaeology, since, from physical materials (objects), scholars have to face questions that go beyond the limits of the tangible and pertain instead to abstract and social concerns. Currently, archaeometric studies are fundamental to the accurate classification and characterization of archaeological materials, providing relevant data, among other aspects, about their production, function and social meaning. In this book, we present a set of papers that show the potential of mineralogical studies (e.g. petrography, mineral geochemistry, X-ray Diffraction) and multiproxy approaches to characterize the composition of a wide diversity of archaeological materials such as ceramics, terracotta, tiles, metals, glazes, glass and mortars related to several periods (Bronze Age, Roman, Middle Age, Modern period). In this sense, this book can be of interest for specialized researchers who seek specific case studies and are mainly concerned with certain kinds of materials, but also for those students, researchers and professionals who look for a practical overview of the chief methods that can be followed in the study of material culture.
    Keywords: carreaux de pavement ; medieval pottery ; archaeometry ; mineralogical analysis ; plumbiferous glaze ; silicoaluminate engobe ; reddish paste ; ancient mortars ; analytical characterization ; Sorrento Peninsula ; glass production ; Spain ; 16th century ; µPIXE ; glass kiln ; production remains ; objects ; Italy ; military equipment ; bronze ; pXRF ; museum collections ; non-destructive analysis ; Roman mortars ; aqueduct ; microanalysis ; red pozzolan ; Sabatini Volcanic District ; copper minerals ; micro-XRF ; petrographic analysis ; rock fragment ; pottery ; ceramics ; Early Bronze Age ; Thrace ; Almohad period ; Al-Andalus ; lead glazes ; tin glazes ; SEM-EDS ; defensive structure ; stone masonry bedding mortar ; rammed earth ; air lime ; architectural heritage ; architectural terracottas ; production technology ; Alba Fucens ; technological choices ; petrography ; SEM-EDX ; WDXRF ; PXRD ; heat transfer properties ; fracture strength ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    Reading the Entrails (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: Before the fall of Imperial Rome, priests cast the guts of sacrificial animals on the temple floor, claiming to be able to divine the future from these entrails. By probing the remains of Alberta's past sacrifices (reading the entrails), the author believes we might dimly see an apparition of Alberta's future. This controversial book vividly portrays the history of land and life in Alberta from the Ice Ages to the present. Making no apologies for his criticism of government, regulators, and large corporations, Conrad aims to strike a discussion at all levels by presenting his arguments intensely. For those interested in natural history, the environment, and the future of Alberta's ecological resources, this provocative book is essential reading.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics
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    A Common Hunger (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: Geographically, demographically, and politically, South Africa and Canada are two countries that are very far apart. What they have in common are indigenous populations, which, because of their historical and ongoing experience of colonization and dispossession, share a hunger for land and human dignity. Based on extensive research carried out in both countries, A Common Hunger is a comparative work on the history of indigenous land rights in Canada and post-apartheid South Africa. Joan Fairweather has constructed a balanced examination of the impact of land dispossession on the lives of indigenous peoples in both countries and their response to centuries of European domination. By reclaiming rights to the land and an equitable share in the wealth-producing resources they contain, the first peoples of Canada and South Africa are taking important steps to confront the legacies of poverty that characterize many of their communities. A Common Hunger provides historical context to the current land claim process in these two former British colonies and examines the efforts of governments and the courts to ensure that justice is done.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: Clerical Ideology in a Revolutionary Age clearly delineates the role of the Catholic Church in the making of Mexico as a nation. It provides a nuanced sense of clerical thought during the turbulent years leading to and following Mexico's national independence. Connaughton delves deeply into various primary sources from Guadalajara between 1788 and 1853, including printed sermons of high clergymen, contemporaneous newspapers, pamphletry, and pastoral letters. Analyzing this literature in the broader context of the Enlightenment, Connaughton looks at the Enlightenment's potentially corrosive ideas, the rise of liberalism, the complex relationship between Church and State, and the spread of secular mentality. With a balanced approach to clerical discourse, this study of the substance, contradictions, and evolution of Church thinking and political posturing in the face of Bourbon Reforms and the rise of liberalism should be required reading for any student or scholar of Mexican history.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History
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    A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Gordon W. Smith, PhD, dedicated much of his life to researching Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic. A historian by training, his 1952 dissertation from Columbia University on "The Historical and Legal Background of Canada's Arctic Claims" remains a foundational work on the topic, as does his 1966 chapter "Sovereignty in the North: The Canadian Aspect of an International Problem," in R. St. J. Macdonald's The Arctic Frontier. This work is the first in a project to edit and publish Smith's unpublished opus - a manuscript on "A Historical and Legal Study of Sovereignty in the Canadian North and Related Law of the Sea Problems." Written over three decades (yet incomplete at the time of his death in 2000), this work may well be the most comprehensive study on the nature and importance of the Canadian North in existence. Volume 1: Terrestrial Sovereignty provides the most comprehensive documentation yet available on the post-Confederation history of Canadian sovereignty in the north. As Arctic sovereignty and security issues return to the forefront of public debate, this invaluable resource provides the foundation upon which we may expand our understanding of Canada's claims from the original transfers of the northern territories in 1870 and 1880 through to the late twentieth century. The book provides a wealth of detail, ranging from administrative formation and delineation of the northern territories through to other activities including government expeditions to northern waters, foreign whaling, the Alaska boundary dispute, northern exploration between 1870 and 1918, the background of Canada's sector claim, the question concerning Danish sovereignty over Greenland and its relation to Canadian interests, the Ellesmere Island affair, the activities of American explorers in the Canadian North, and the Eastern Arctic Patrol. The final chapter examines the Eastern Greenland case and its implications for Canada.
    Keywords: Law ; Northern Studies ; Politics ; History ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::L Law ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution
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    Wilderness and Waterpower (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: This engaging book explores how the need for electricity at the turn of the century affected and shaped Banff National Park. Today's conservationists and energy researchers will find much to think about in this tale of Alberta's early need for electricity, entrepreneurial greed, debates over aboriginal ownership of the river, moving park boundaries to accommodate hydro-electric initiatives, the importance of water for tourism, rural electrification, and the ultimate diversion to coal-produced electricity. It is also a lively national story, involving the irrepressible and impetuous Max Aitkin (later Lord Beaverbook), R.B. Bennett (local legal advisor and later prime minister), and a series of local politicians and bureaucrats whose contributions confuse and conflate issues along the way.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCV Economics of specific sectors::KCVG Environmental economics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    The Fast-Changing Arctic (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: In this timely new book, international scholars and military professionals come together to explore the strategic consequences of the thawing of the Arctic. Their analyses of efforts by governments and defence, security, and coast guard organizations to address these challenges make timely and urgent reading. Rather than a single national perspective, The Fast-Changing Arctic brings together circumpolar viewpoints from North America, Europe and Asia for an integrated discussion of strategic military, diplomatic, and security challenges in the high North. Thoughtful analyses are included of different regions, climate issues, institutions, and foreign and security policies. This is an important book for students of international studies, political science, and northern studies. With a Foreword by the Honorable Mead Treadwell and an Afterword by Lawson W. Brigham. With contributions by: Alun Anderson Caitlyn Antrim Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen Lawson W. Brigham Ian G. Brosnan Daniel Clausen LtJG Michael Clausen Lassi Kalevi Heininen Nong Hong Rob Huebert Maj. Henrik Jedig Jørgensen P. Whitney Lackenbauer Thomas M. Leschine James Manicom Edward L. Miles Barry Scott Zellen Katarzyna Zysk
    Keywords: Arctic ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Autofiction(s) et scandale (2022)
    Akademische Verlagsgemeinschaft München (AVM)
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: The reception history of the term autofiction, coined by Serge Doubrovsky in 1977 and strongly polarising since then, shows that autofictional writing has been used by numerous authors in the past decades as a possibility to give explosive insights into their lives on the one hand, but to refer to an indeterminable ""fictional"" part of their work on the other. The underlying interferences between fictional and factual narrative strategies seem to predestine autofiction for the representation and provocation of scandal. This volume brings together contributions that illuminate the relationship between autofiction and scandal from epistemological, literary-historical and reception-aesthetic perspectives and explore ethical questions of the demarcation between public and private space.
    Keywords: narratology; literary scandal; literary provocation; intertextuality; aesthetics of scandal; sociobiography; reception authorities; writer's stage design; close reading; distant reading; autobiography ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    The Reindeer Botanist (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: This well-researched book is the first biography of one of Canada's most remarkable botanists. Alf Erling Porsild (1901-1977) grew up on the Arctic Station in West Greenland and later served as curator of botany at the National Museum of Canada. He collected thousands of specimens, greatly enlarging the National Herbarium and making it a superb research centre. For nearly twenty years, Porsild studied reindeer activities in Alaska and the Northwest Territories as part of the Reindeer Project designed to encourage grazing animal husbandry among aboriginal peoples. He published extensively, and his meticulous research and observations have particular relevance today with the growing concern over global warming in the Arctic.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::P Mathematics and Science::PS Biology, life sciences::PST Botany and plant sciences
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    Neighbours and Networks (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Description: Neighbours and Networks explores the economic relationship that existed between the Blood Indian reserve and the surrounding region of southern Alberta between 1884 and 1939. The Blood tribe, though living on a reserve, refused to become economically isolated from the larger community and indeed became significant contributors to the economy of the area. Their land base was important to the ranching industry. Their products, especially coal and hay, were sought after by settlers, and the Bloods were encouraged not only to provide them as needed, but also to become expert freighters, transporting goods from the reserve for non-Native business people. Blood field labour in the Raymond area's sugar beet fields was at times critical to the functioning of that industry. In addition, the Bloods' ties to the merchant community, especially in Cardston and Fort Macleod, resulted in a significant infusion of money into the local economy. Keith Regular's study fills the gap left by Canadian historiography that has largely ignored the economic associations between Natives and non-Natives living in a common environment. His microhistory refutes the perception that Native reserves have played only a minor role in regional development, and provides an excellent example of a cross-cultural, co-operative economic relationship in the post-treaty period on the Canadian plains.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic history
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    Goodna Girls (2021)
    ANU Press | ANU Press
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    Description: Goodna Girls tells the story of children incarcerated in Wolston Park Hospital, an adult psychiatric facility in Queensland, Australia. It contains the personal testimonies of women who relate—in their own no-holds-barred style and often with irreverent humour—how they, as children, ended up in Wolston Park and how this affected their adult lives. The accounts of hospital staff who witnessed the effects of this heinous policy and spoke out are also included. The book examines the consequences of the Queensland Government's manipulation of a medical model to respond to 'juvenile delinquents’, many of whom were simply vulnerable children absconding from abusive conditions. As Australia faces the repercussions of the institutionalisation of its children in the twentieth century, brought about through a series of government inquiries, Goodna Girls makes a vital contribution to the public history of the Stolen Generations, Former Child Migrants and Forgotten Australians. Goodna Girls presents the research that informed a successful, collective campaign to lobby the Queensland Government to make long overdue and much-needed reparations to a group of courageous survivors. It holds contemporary resonance for scholars, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of public history, welfare, child protection, education, nursing, sociology, medicine and criminology.
    Keywords: Wolston Park Hospital ; Goodna Asylum ; Forgotten Australians ; Care Leavers ; Child abuse ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNX True stories: general::DNXH True stories of discovery ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
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    At Home in Exile (2021)
    ANU Press | ANU Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: This is a story of a girl's construction of her identity, and of her family’s search for a place in the world, for the Heimat that is so resonant for those of German background. We follow Helga through an adventurous childhood in Iran, whose vast open spaces her mother called 'my spiritual home’. Her engineer father worked on a grand scale, designing and laying roads and railways, and tunnelling through mountain ranges. Then came the invasions of World War II, and the family, half-German, half-Austrian, found themselves on a long voyage to Australia, designated enemy aliens. They were interned for nearly five years in the dusty Victorian countryside. On their release at the end of the War, stranded in Melbourne, they sought another home. The children were dispatched to convents, and at the Academy of Mary Immaculate, Helga found a temporary homeland, in faith. Everyday life in the Australia of the late 1940s and early 1950s is freshly seen by this feisty, loving migrant family. Through their eyes, we encounter a strange place, Australia, as if for the first time. Helga’s development from a thoughtful, sensitive child to a self-possessed young woman, wrestling with her faith and with how to live a decent life, is vividly recounted.
    Keywords: Internment ; World War II ; Persia ; Germany ; Exile ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNC Memoirs ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHM Australasian and Pacific history
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    Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” sets out to be the first extensive collection of data on royal iconography from the Middles Ages (476–1492). In particular, it aims to collect entries about the most important rulers or dynasties that reigned during this period, from the Iberian Peninsula to Levant and from the Scandinavian Peninsula to the Mediterranean Sea. Specifically, “Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” focuses on royal official images (namely, those representations that were commissioned at the behest of the ruler) and analyses them not only from an iconographic (namely, ‘static’) point of view but also as parts of a more general political communicative strategy (namely, in a ‘dynamic’ way) in order to better clarify their social functions and, consequently, their iconographic meanings. Thanks to this approach, “Encyclopedia of Medieval Royal Iconography” aims to offer a substantial overview on matters of medieval regal iconography and to be a useful tool for scholars who use royal images for their research.
    Keywords: royal images ; royal iconography ; kings of Sicily ; Norman dynasty ; William II of Hauteville ; Aragonese dynasty ; Frederick III of Aragon ; Swabian dynasty ; Frederick II of Hohenstaufen ; kings of Naples ; Angevin dynasty ; Robert of Anjou ; kings of Aragon ; Crown of Aragon ; Peter IV of Aragon ; Alphonse II of Aragon ; crown of Aragon ; Fernando II of Aragon ; James I of Aragon ; Kingdom of Sicily ; Naples ; Joanna of Anjou ; dynastic celebration ; Helen of Anjou ; Nemanide dynasty ; Sopoćani Monastery ; Gradac Monastery ; Queen Helen’s seal ; Vatican icon ; Gračanica Monastery ; King Milutin ; Serbian medieval kingdom ; King’s Church Studenica ; Monastery of Staro Nagorčino ; Monastery of Gračanica ; Nemanide’s Genealogical Tree ; king of Castile and Leon ; Henry II of Castile ; kings of Poland ; rulers of Lithuania ; Jagiellonian dynasty ; Ladislaus II Jagiełło ; Byzantium ; Komnenos ; John II Komnenos ; royal image ; Sasanian Empire ; Khosrow II ; rock relief ; coinage ; Louis XI ; liturgical objects ; Valois kings ; Capetian dynasty ; Order of Saint Michael ; Kingdom of Georgia ; Bagrationi dynasty ; Queen T’amar of Georgia ; legitimacy ; Byzantine imperial costume ; gender studies ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology ; thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3K CE period up to c 1500
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    The Autobiographical Triangle (2021)
    Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Critical revised edition and translation by Jean Ward This book presents a universal theory of autobiography, defined as a "triangular" form of utterance involving three different stances. It is a personal testimony to experiences lived through, a confession of intimate inner experience and a challenge addressed to the reader to engage in dialogue, enter into an argument or join in a game. The stances of witness, confession and challenge are always present, though usually one of them overshadows the other two. Polish memoirs, diaries and letters, as well as novels of a clearly personal character, are interpreted here in the context of the most important autobiographical texts of European literature. In the background, also, the historical events which have powerfully stamped Polish culture in the last two centuries are discreetly shown.
    Keywords: Autobiographical ; Centre and periphery ; Challenge ; Confession ; Czerminska ; Literature and history ; Literature and migration ; Literature and space ; Non-fiction prose ; Personal writing ; Triangle ; Witness ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
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    August Strindberg: The Occult Diary (2022)
    Stockholm University Press
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    Description: August Strindberg (1849–1912) kept a diary from February 1896 in Paris until the summer of 1908 in Stockholm. He referred to his diary from this period as his Occult Diary and used it to help him decipher the world as he experienced it. He read and reread his own notations, adding new interpretations, and deleting others. He also drew on the diary as material for creative expression, transforming isolated events and observations into groundbreaking works of literature. The Occult Diary is published here in its entirety in English translation for the first time, in a final revision by Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams and with an introduction by Per Stam. The Occult Diary is a key resource for international Strindberg scholars and theater professionals and more broadly for scholars focusing on drama, theater history, stage performance, and literary currents at the turn of the previous century. The diary initiates the reader into the writer’s inner world during a crucial transitional period in his personal and literary life. It documents his readings and observations and gives important clues and information about an ongoing process of artistic reorientation. Strindberg was exploring new ways of looking at, interpreting, and writing about nature, science, art, the occult, and his fellow human beings.
    Keywords: Theatre History; Alchemy; Occultism; Letters; Diaries; Biography; August Strindberg ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRY Alternative belief systems::QRYC Eclectic and esoteric religions and belief systems ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy ; thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRA Religion: general ; thema EDItEUR::A The Arts::AT Performing arts::ATD Theatre studies
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    Scattering Chaff (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Most Canadians know little, if anything at all, about the role of the Canadian Air Force in the 1999 Kosovo Air War. Yet lives were at put at stake as mission dedication and military skill were pushed to the limit. Some of Canada’s most prominent journalists attempted to report on the war, but came away virtually empty handed. Daily briefings given at the National Defence Headquarters provided so little information most Ottawa journalists simply stopped going. The decision of the military to choke Canada’s news media was deliberate and based on a tactical and strategic rationale. Scattering Chaff explores the role of the Canadian Air Force in the bombing campaigns of the Kosovo Air War while examining the military’s interference with the news media attempting to report to the Canadian public. It explores the ways in which the military has come to manage the media as an element of operational security, mission focus, and of popular opinion. Drawing on in-depth interviews with the war’s Canadian participants and a treasure-trove of unpublished documents and photographs, this book is an unprecedented investigation of a little-known conflict and the forces that prevented it from being better known.
    Keywords: Canadian Air Force ; Kosovo ; Censorship ; History ; Political Science ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution
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    Looking Back (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: When we think about women settlers on the Prairies, our notions tend to veer between the nostalgic image of the "cheerful helpmate" and the grim deprivation of the "reluctant immigrant." In this ground-breaking new study, Leigh Matthews shows how a critical approach to the life-writing of individual prairie women can broaden and deepen our understanding of the settlement era. Reopening for examination a substantial body of memoirs published after 1950 but now largely out of print, Matthews engages critical and feminist theory to close the gap between our polarized stereotypes and the actual lived experiences of rural prairie women. Addressing both the limitations and possibilities of life writing, Matthews presents a sound, well-developed and well-written case for memoir as reconciling female experience to the dominant historiography of the prairie west. Reading for "failures and incoherences," the memoirs considered here reveal women's voices that probe a community's most cherished values and beliefs, reveal its conflicts and contradictions, and call leaders to account. - Catherine Cavanaugh, Athabasca University
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups::JBSF1 Gender studies: women and girls::JBSF11 Feminism and feminist theory
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    Identities in Practice: A Trans-Atlantic Ethnography of Sikh immigrants in Finland and in California (2021)
    Finnish Literature Society / SKS
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: "Identities in Practice draws a nuanced picture of how the experience of migration affects the process through which Sikhs in Finland and California negotiate their identities. What makes this study innovative with regard to the larger context of migration studies is the contrast it provides between experiences at two Sikh migration destinations. By using an ethnographic approach, Hirvi reveals how practices carried out in relation to work, dress, the life-cycle, as well as religious and cultural sites, constitute important moments in which Sikhs engage in the often transnational art of negotiating identities. Laura Hirvi’s rich ethnographic account brings to the fore how the construction of identities is a creative process that is conditioned and infiltrated by questions of power. Identities in Practice will appeal to scholars who are interested in the study of cultures, identities, migration, religion, and transnationalism."
    Keywords: immigrants ; practice ; finland ; sikh ; california ; identity ; Gurdwara ; Helsinki ; India ; Sikhism ; Sikhs ; Turban ; Yuba City ; California ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences
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    Displacement and the Humanities: Manifestos from the Ancient to the Present (2023)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: This reprint brings together the work of practitioners, communities, artists and other researchers from multiple disciplines. Seeking to provoke a discourse around displacement within and beyond the field of humanities, it positions historical cases and debates, some reaching into the ancient past, within diverse geo-chronological contexts and current world urgencies. In adopting an innovative dialogic structure, between practitioners on the ground—from architects and urban planners to artists—and academics working across subject areas, the volume is a proposition to remap priorities for current research agendas; open up disciplines, critically analyse their approaches; address the socio-political responsibilities that we have as scholars and practitioners; and provide an alternative site of discourse for contemporary concerns about displacement. Ultimately, this volume aimed to provoke future work and collaborations—hence, manifestos—not only in the historical and literary fields, but wider research concerned with human mobility and the challenges confronting people who are out of place in terms of rights, protection and belonging.
    Keywords: displacement ; ancient history ; classics ; refugees ; refugeehood ; migration ; mobility ; place ; citizenship ; polis ; colonization ; biowarfare ; islands ; climate change ; Derrida ; Agamben ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHC Ancient history
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    Mapping Ultima Thule (2021)
    Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both works is to demonstrate the ambivalence in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit, and, through this, to prove the existence of common mechanisms and cultural practices connected to mapping of the Other in a situation of asymmetric power relations. Applying a textual approach founded on colonial discourse analysis, the reading proves that literary mappings of geography and identity can never be stable, as they are in the state of constant transformation, perpetually recontextualized and reinvented.
    Keywords: Accounts ; Arctic discourses ; Colonial discourse ; Danish literature ; ekspedycji ; Expedition ; Greenland ; Greenlandic Other ; Grenlandii ; Knud ; Knuda ; Kopernika ; Lubowicka ; Mapping ; Mikołaja ; Naukowe ; North ; Północnej ; Postcolonial theory ; Rasmussen ; Rasmussena ; relacjach ; Representation theory ; Representations ; Reprezentacje ; sercu ; Thule ; Ultima ; Uniwersytetu ; Wydawnictwo ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics::CFG Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
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    L'Alberta Autophage (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Cet ouvrage présente une analyse discursive des récits identitaires albertains développés par rapport aux ressources pétrolières de l'Alberta, au fil de l'histoire moderne de la province. Par le biais des théories d'analyse du discours, on examine comment les médias canadiens et albertains ont présenté les phénomènes historiques des booms et busts pétroliers, et plus particulièrement comment l'industrie pétrolière canadienne a su récupérer les paramètres de l'identité albertaine pour suggérer une étroite association d'intérêt entre la communauté de l'Alberta et les divers groupes exploitant son pétrole. Pour ce faire, l'auteure établit des comparaisons entre les discours de l'énergie issus du Québec et ceux de l'Alberta, en faisant référence à la culture populaire et à la littérature classique.
    Keywords: thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes ; thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KJ Business and Management::KJC Business strategy
    Language: French
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    From Kinshasa to Kandahar (2022)
    University of Calgary Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Failed or fragile states are those that are unable or unwilling to provide a socio-political framework for citizens and meet their basic needs. They are a source of terrorism and international crime, as well as incubators of infectious disease, environmental degradation, and unregulated mass migration. Canada's engagement with countries such as the Congo, East Timor, Bosnia, and Afghanistan underlines the commitment of successive Canadian governments to addressing the threats posed to Western security by state fragility. From Kinshasa to Kandahar: Canada and Fragile States in Historical Perspective brings together leading Canadian historians and political scientists to explore Canada's historic relationship with fragile states. The collection spans the period from the 1960s to the present and covers a geographical range that stretches from the Middle East to Latin America to Southeast Asia. Authors embrace a variety of approaches and methodologies, including traditional archival historical research, postmodern textual analysis, oral history, and administrative studies to chronicle and explain Canada's engagement with fragile and failed states. This collection reflects the growing public interest in the issue of failed states, which are of increasing concern to Canadian policymakers and are making headlines on the world stage. It helps explain the historic forces that have shaped Canadian policy towards failed and fragile states, and provides a platform for a national discussion about Canada's future role addressing state fragility.
    Keywords: International Relations ; History ; Political Science ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPS International relations ; thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTU Peace studies and conflict resolution
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    Defence Policy-Making: A Close-Up View, 1950-1980 (2021)
    ANU Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Sir Arthur Tange was perhaps the most powerful Secretary of the Australian Defence Department and one of the most powerful of the great ‘mandarins’ who dominated the Commonwealth Public Service between the 1940s and the 1970s. His strong, and often decisive, influence on both administration and policy was exerted by virtue of his intellectual capacity, his administrative ability and the sheer force of his personality. Controversies from his time in Defence, including those associated with ‘the Tange report’ and ‘the Tange reforms’, echo to this day, and it is still easy to identify both staunch admirers and vitriolic critics in defence and public service circles. Tange wrote this account in his last years. It is a memoir – based largely on memory supplemented by limited reference to documentary material – that focuses upon his career after he came to Defence in 1970. It records his own account of his part in those administrative reforms and policy shifts, as well as his involvement-or non-involvement or alleged involvement-in several of the political crises of the 1970s, including the downfall of John Gorton as Prime Minister and the dismissal of the Whitlam Government.
    Keywords: australia ; civil service ; history ; national security ; military policy ; biography ; Canberra ; Department of Defence (Australia) ; Gough Whitlam ; Malcolm Fraser ; Prime Minister of Australia ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHW Military history
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    Archaeological Remote Sensing in the 21st Century: (Re)Defining Practice and Theory (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Remotely sensed data from either air- or spaceborne platforms are often leveraged for archaeological or more general cultural heritage goals. However, despite the steady developments in remote sensing technology over the past three decades, the thoughtful integration of data sources and methods into theoretically aware archaeological practice remains relatively underdeveloped. This volume contains nine contributions which, each in their way, address different theoretical dislocations and practical shortcomings in the use of remote sensing products within archaeological practice. These contributions provide the reader with food for thought on these challenges, and so contribute to archaeological remote sensing as a more mature interdisciplinary field characterised by explicit, thoughtful, and theoretically engaged approaches to understanding the past.
    Keywords: relief mapping ; visualization ; blend modes ; digital elevation model ; airborne laser scanning ; lidar ; archaeological prospection ; deep learning ; citizen science ; The Netherlands ; archaeology ; arid environments ; satellite remote sensing ; lithological mapping ; lithic procurement ; chert sourcing ; Landsat 8 ; GIS ; ALS ; amplitude ; radiometric calibration ; reflectance ; Sicily ; transfer learning ; historic mining ; heritage management ; LiDAR ; hyperspectral data ; submerged areas ; cultural heritage monitoring ; anomaly detection ; MNF ; radiative transfer model ; Martin Heidegger ; technology ; mimesis ; remote sensing archaeology ; cultural context ; archaeological remote sensing ; satellite mission design ; satellite archaeology ; archaeological survey ; cropmarks ; empirical knowledge ; alluvial sediments ; geomorphological/pedological background ; soil spatial infrastructure ; statistical methods ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    Maya Anthropological Archaeology (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: This volume examines the intersection between archaeologists working in the Maya area of Central American and local communities and agencies. It highlights issues of past colonial practice as well as issues involving modern tourism. The archaeologists involved in this volume attempt to suggest ways of bettering both community relationships and standards of practice for the field of Maya archaeology.
    Keywords: archaeology ; community museums ; gender and sexuality ; Maya ; Maya k’an glyph ; Tynanthus guatemalensis eugenol ; antidiabetic activity ; cultural heritage ; Maya archaeology ; indigenous critique of anthropology ; settler colonialism ; conservation ; experimental archaeology ; identity ; education ; Puuc ; collaboration ; descendant communities ; Afro-Caribbean history ; Creole ; Belize ; heritage management ; collaborative research ; consolidation ; stabilization ; looting ; culinary heritage ; celebrity chefs ; foodways ; tourism ; Yaxunah ; archaeological heritage ; education outreach ; community participation ; culture and nature Conservation ; community based heritage and preservation ; anthropological archaeology ; Caste War of Yucatan ; community archaeology ; community development ; archaeological ethics ; world heritage ; continuity ; public outreach ; Guatemala ; microfinance ; historical archaeology ; Yucatan ; tangible heritage ; engaged archaeology ; inequality ; contradictions ; Belizean archaeology ; n/a ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
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    Le corps d'une reine : Histoire singulière d'Élisabeth de Valois (1546-1568) (2021)
    Presses universitaires de Rennes
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Le corps de la reine est celui d'Élisabeth de Valois, fille d'Henri II et de Catherine de Médicis, qui fut princesse de France puis reine d'Espagne de 1559 jusqu'à sa mort en 1568. À partir de sources diverses et originales, Sylvène Édouard propose une biographie du corps de la reine pour démontrer qu'il fut un et politique. En soulignant l'importance du langage des signes corporels dans les cours de France et d'Espagne à la fin de la Renaissance, le sujet se déplace d'une cour à l'autre, où les cultures du corps furent différentes, au point de devenir des frontières symboliques entre ces « nations ». Les signes éloquents du corps majestueux de la reine et son devoir d'enfanter un héritier révèlent aussi, de son baptême à sa mort, une pratique du don, celui de ces corps princiers qui furent éduqués pour se donner pleinement à leur dignité.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; Valois ; rois et souverains ; corps ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Akh Purattim 3 (2021)
    MOM Éditions
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Akk Purattim, ou « les rives de l'Eupkrate », est une des expressions utilisées au xviiie siècle av. J.-C. pour désigner le royaume de Mari, qui s'étendait de la confluence du Khabour au verrou de Baghouz, actuellement à la frontière syro-irakienne. La série ainsi dénommée, précisée par son sous-titre « Mémoires d'archéologie et d'histoire régionales interdisciplinaires », est destinée à devenir le point de rencontre des recherches historiques, archéologiques, épigraphiques ou archéométriques sur la région, en faisant en priorité appel aux travaux engagés par les diverses missions, françaises (comme Mari et Terqa) et étrangères, en particulier pour la publication de leurs rapports préliminaires. Mais le titre peut également être pris dans une acception géographique beaucoup plus vaste et héberger des études qui s'intéressent le plus largement possible au rôle de cette confluence dans le jeu syro-mésopotamien tout au long de l'Antiquité.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; dépôt funéraire ; urbanisme ; habitat ; dépôt ; maquette ; pigment ; prospection ; sepulture ; céramique ; temple ; archéobotanique ; ossement ; faune ; relief ; rapport de fouille ; architecture ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Allemagne 1974-1990 : De l’Ostpolitik (2021)
    Presses universitaires du Septentrion
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: « Le changement par le rapprochement » était le mot-clé de l’Ostpolitik de Willy Brandt, mais le retour à une unité étatique entre la RFA et la RDA, sous quelque forme que ce fût, paraissait hors d’atteinte dans les années 1970 et même 1980. La démocratie de Bonn n’était plus considérée comme un « État provisoire », elle semblait inscrite dans la durée. La RDA avait obtenu la reconnaissance internationale qu’elle avait tant convoitée et elle offrait une image de stabilité. On avait tout lieu de penser que les architectes de l’Ostpolitik avaient échoué. Malgré quelques ouvertures, un renforcement des relations commerciales, de nouvelles facilités pour des échanges et des rencontres entre Allemands de l’Ouest et de l’Est, le rideau de fer paraissait immuable et l’unification tributaire d’un processus dont la durée était imprévisible. Mais à partir de l’été 1989 le monde allait constater que l’Histoire n’avait pas dit son dernier mot dans la « question allemande ». En quelques semaines les manifestants de Berlin-Est, de Leipzig et d’autres villes est-allemandes provoquaient la chute du Mur et la fin du régime communiste. En un an à peine, l’Allemagne retrouvait son unité. À partir des résultats de la recherche récente cet ouvrage a pour objet d’analyser les convergences et les liens entre les deux Allemagnes dans les années 1970 et 1980, au-delà de la division, proposant ainsi des explications à deux aspects surprenants de l’unification, l’absence de violence apparente et la rapidité avec laquelle elle se fit.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; mur de Berlin ; Ostpolitik ; Guerre froide ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Diriger une grande entreprise au XXe siècle : L’élite industrielle française (2021)
    Presses universitaires François-Rabelais
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Qui sont les dirigeants des grandes entreprises industrielles françaises au XXe siècle ? On croit bien les connaître… à tort. Les historiens se sont penchés sur le patronat du XIXe siècle, tandis que les sociologues ont surtout étudié les élites industrielles à partir des années 1960. Ce livre s'intéresse au patronat de la période intermédiaire, celle qui marque la transition entre les entreprises familiales de la Révolution industrielle et les grandes bureaucraties façonnées par le pompidolisme industriel et les nationalisations. Tous les dirigeants ne peuvent se réduire à des concepts fourre-tout comme celui de « managers », qui mettrait plutôt l'accent sur les mérites professionnels, ou celui d'« héritiers » qui insisterait à l'inverse sur la reproduction du capital social ou scolaire si ce n'est économique. Il existe bien des profils différents, entre descendants de familles propriétaires ou cadres salariés sortis du rang, grands notables polyvalents ou professionnels des affaires, ingénieurs civils ou ingénieurs d'État. En comparaison de l'Allemagne, la France offre des spécificités bien marquées : profil généraliste, élitisme scolaire, poids des filières administratives. Les origines et les trajectoires des titulaires de 194 fonctions, dans les 21 principaux groupes industriels privés de 1914 à 1966, sont décortiquées. De nombreuses archives aussi bien publiques que privées sont mobilisées pour mettre en relation ce qu'ils sont et ce qu'ils font.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; elite ; entreprise ; industrie ; XXe siècle ; France ; patronat ; sociologie ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    De Socrate À Tintin (2021)
    Presses universitaires de Rennes
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: L’idée selon laquelle l’être humain est accompagné, durant sa vie et parfois jusque dans l’au-delà, par deux entités, l’une bénéfique, l’autre maléfique, traverse l’histoire, de l’Antiquité à nos jours. Quelles ont été la place et le rôle des anges gardiens et des démons familiers dans les cultures et les religions ? Dans quelle mesure ces notions se sont-elles construites l’une par rapport à l’autre ? Quelle est la nature des liens qui se sont tissés entre les individus et leurs interlocuteurs, angéliques, démoniques ou démoniaques ? Quelles relations entretiennent ces entités entre elles ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce recueil d’études s’efforce de répondre, en traitant le sujet dans la longue durée, en variant les approches et les sources, en étendant le regard de l’Orient musulman à l’Occident médiéval et moderne, du monde hellénistique aux productions culturelles contemporaines. Au cours de ce voyage dans le temps et l’espace, le lecteur rencontrera une grande diversité de figures de l’invisible, aux fonctions multiples, débordant bien souvent les normes définies par les autorités religieuses. Gardiens et compagnons, agents d’une révélation, assistants du magicien, porteurs d’une sagesse ou d’un pouvoir divinatoire, pôles spirituels ou génies inspirateurs, les anges, daimōnes, démons et djinns ont tissé une gamme de relations très étendue avec l’être humain, des plus élevées au moins avouables. Mais que l’on ne s’y trompe pas : par-delà les aspects pittoresques de ces relations, le présent ouvrage contribue à renouveler de manière originale l’histoire de la construction des notions d’individu et de conscience de soi. Les différentes conceptions relatives à ces êtres invisibles tendent à faire de l’homme un champ de forces en mouvement, un être ouvert sur des états supérieurs de la réalité, qui visent à structurer son esprit et son rapport au monde.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; individu ; ange gardien ; croyance ; histoire des mentalités ; conscience de soi ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Un médecin des Lumières : Michel Darluc, naturaliste provençal (2021)
    Presses universitaires de Rennes
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: En suivant le parcours biographique et en analysant les publications de Michel Darluc, ce livre dessine le portrait d’un médecin provençal du XVIIIe siècle. Né en 1717 à Grimaud, près de Saint-Tropez, mort à Aix en 1783, il n’aurait sans doute pas retenu l’attention s’il n’était l’auteur d’une monumentale Histoire naturelle de la Provence. Cet ouvrage reflète bien les goûts de l’homme cultivé du siècle des Lumières. Il ne traite pas seulement des plantes, son domaine professionnel puisqu’il était professeur de botanique à l’université d’Aix, mais aussi des animaux, surtout des oiseaux, et des minéraux et fossiles. Mais ce qui fait l’originalité de son Histoire naturelle, c’est la place importante accordée à l’homme, ses mœurs, ses pratiques agricoles, sa manière d’exploiter les mines, sa santé. Les descriptions contenues dans les trois volumes reposent sur l’observation directe de l’ensemble du territoire provençal que Darluc a pris la peine de visiter pour rédiger son ouvrage. En résulte un tableau très vivant et riche de renseignements de la Provence du XVIIIe siècle. Les nombreuses publications médicales de Michel Darluc sur des sujets variés, du traitement de la rage aux rapports sur diverses épidémies, selon une conception néo-hippocratique de la médecine, donnent une place importante à l’influence du milieu sur la santé et révèlent des préoccupations hygiéniques et même prophylactiques, comme la promotion de l’inoculation contre la variole. En confrontant les sources d’ordre biographique et ses écrits à la fois médicaux et naturalistes, on a tenté de replacer ce médecin botaniste provençal dans la communauté savante du siècle des Lumières.
    Keywords: D1-2009 ; naturaliste ; biographie ; médecine ; Provence ; Siècle des Lumières ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose
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    Racial Folly: A Twentieth-Centrury Aboriginal Family (2021)
    ANU Press
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: Briscoe’s grandmother remembered stories about the first white men coming to the Northern Territory. This extraordinary memoir shows us the history of an Aboriginal family who lived under the race laws, practices and policies of Australia in the twentieth century. It tells the story of a people trapped in ideological folly spawned to solve ‘the half-caste problem’. It gives life to those generations of Aboriginal people assumed to have no history and whose past labels them only as shadowy figures. Briscoe’s enthralling narrative combines his, and his contemporaries, institutional and family life with a high-level career at the heart of the Aboriginal political movement at its most dynamic time. It also documents the road he travelled as a seventeen year old fireman on the South Australia Railways to becoming the first Aboriginal person to achieve a PhD in history.
    Keywords: politics and government ; australia ; aboriginal australians ; history ; biography ; Alice Springs ; Bernard Smith (organ builder) ; Half-caste ; Indigenous Australians ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History ; thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
    Language: English
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    Water Engineering in Ancient Societies (2022)
    MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
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    Publication Date: 2024-03-26
    Description: The chapter ‘Water Engineering in Ancient Societies’ involves the use of modern hydraulic engineering principles to describe the design, construction and use of ancient World Heritage water-system structures in South America and the Middle East.
    Keywords: Petra ; Nabataean ; water systems ; hydraulic analysis ; CFD ; canals ; reservoirs ; pipelines ; flow stability ; pre-Columbian ; urban Tiwanaku ; Bolivia ; hydraulic/hydrological analysis ; surface canals ; perimeter drainage channel ; moat ; subterranean channels ; societal structure ; Roman ; Pont du Gard ; water engineering ; castellum ; aqueduct ; CFD analysis ; hydraulic design ; critical flow ; Machu Picchu ; Inca ; ancient water engineering ; hydraulics ; central-Andes ; engineered landscapes ; political ecology ; Prehispanic ; resilience ; water security ; wetland management ; Roman aqueducts ; inverted siphons ; static pressure ; pressure surges ; lead pipes ; stone conduits ; air entrapment ; Vitruvius ; Inka ; Tipon ; precolumbian ; flow rates ; fountain ; Peru ; Archaic period ; Caral ; CFD models ; beach ridges ; ENSO events ; landscape change ; site termination ; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose ; thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology
    Language: English
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