History is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. Stephen Dedalus's famous complaint articulates a characteristic modern attitude toward the perceived burden of the past. As Robert Spoo shows in this study, Joyce's creative achievement, from the time of his sojourn in Rome…
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Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …
Americans have always put the past to political ends. The Union laid claim to the Revolution--so did the Confederacy. Civil rights leaders said they were the true sons of liberty--so did Southern segregationists. This book tells the story of the centuries-long struggle over the …
Asserts that the Tea Party movement prefers to rewrite the history of the American Revolution as anti-intellectual and antipluralist.
L' idéologie allemande
by Engels, Friedrich, Marx, Karl, Marx, Karl
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"From an insider's perspective, Robert C. Post ... offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about the Smithsonian detailed the recent and dramatic shift from collection-driven shows, with artifacts meant to speak for …
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Using the sites on the island of Crete as an example, Duke first gives a brief overview of what is known of Cretan pre-history. He then explores how the sites have been observed by mostly European and American tourists from the early nineteenth century to the present. Duke is co…
Using the sites on the island of Crete as an example, Duke first gives a brief overview of what is known of Cretan pre-history. He then explores how the sites have been observed by mostly European and American tourists from the early nineteenth century to the present. Duke is co…
Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd -- The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming -- Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul -- Ripples in the …
Introduction : challenging history in the museum / Jenny Kidd -- The emotional museum : the case of National Museums Liverpool / David Fleming -- Telling hard truths and the process of decolonising indigenous representations in Canadian museums / Bryony Onciul -- Ripples in the …