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Engaging with the Past c.250-c.650

Engaging with the Past c.250-c.650

Between c. 250 and c. 650 the way the past was seen recorded and interpreted for a contemporary audience changed fundamentally. Only since the 1970s have the key elements of this historiographical revolution become clear with the recasting of the period across both east and west as ‘late antiquity’. Historiography however has struggled to find its place in this new scholarly world. No longer is decline and fall the natural explanatory model for cultural and literary developments but continuity and transformation. In addition the emergence of ‘late antiquity’ coincided with a methodological challenge arising from the ‘linguistic turn’ which impacted on history writing in all eras. This book is focussed on the development of modern understanding of how the ways of seeing and recording the past changed in the course of adjusting to emerging social religious and cultural developments over the period from c. 250 to c. 650. Its overriding theme is how modern historiography has adapted over the past half century to engaging with the past between c. 250 and c. 650. Now as explained in this book the newly dominant historiographical genres (chronicles epitomes church histories) are seen as the preferred modes of telling the story of the past rather than being considered rudimentary and naïve. | Engaging with the Past c. 250-c. 650

GBP 120.00
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Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

Organized by the National Association of Multicultural Education (NAME) this volume explores the organic relationship between the past present and future of the discipline. In particular the book addresses the various forms of recent social upheaval from educational inequities and growing economic divides to extreme ideological differences and immigration conflicts. Written by a group of eminent and emerging scholars chapters draw lessons from the past two decades and celebrate present accomplishments in order to ambition a better future through multicultural education. | Visioning Multicultural Education Past Present Future

GBP 38.99
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The Past in Contemporary Society: Then Now

The Past in Contemporary Society: Then Now

Changes or innovations which threaten `our heritage' arouse great hostility in those who want to preserve the past in its entirity. `The heritage' has become a commodity a device to sell everything from biscuits to country houses. Fowler skilfully examines the present relationship between the past and the present analysing the manner in which we mould and interpret the past to fit our current needs. He assesses the influence of our heritage in the last decade of the 20th century and with a wide range of examples judges the consequences of the increasing pressures of the heritage industry. As well as a diagnosis of where the past is being misused he provides prescriptions for responsible development and a thoughtful interpretation of a common past. As well as addressing the needs of the professional involved in the heritage industry he also considers the consumer - all those who visit museums enjoy a historic site or an art exhibition or who simply dislike the hijacking of our common heritage by commercial or vested interests. | The Past in Contemporary Society: Then Now

GBP 175.00
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Archaeology The Science of the Human Past

Archaeology The Science of the Human Past

Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past provides students with a thorough understanding of what archaeology is and how it operates and familiarizes them with fundamental archaeological concepts and methods. This volume introduces the basic components of archaeology including sites artifacts ecofacts remote sensing and excavation. It discusses how archaeologists obtain and classify information and how they analyze this information to formulate and test models of what happened in the past. Cultural resource management and the laws and regulations that deal with archaeology around the world are described. Archaeology is placed in the context of contemporary issues from environmental problems to issues affecting Indigenous populations. The sixth edition has been updated and simplified to create a more streamlined volume to meet the needs of the students and teachers for whom it is designed reflecting the latest developments in archaeological techniques and approaches. Allowing students to understand the theoretical and scientific aspects of archaeology and how various archaeological perspectives and techniques help us understand how and what we know about the past Archaeology: The Science of the Human Past is an ideal introduction to archaeology. | Archaeology The Science of the Human Past

GBP 99.99
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Ageism Past Present and Future

Ageism Past Present and Future

Ageism: Past Present and Future presents perspectives for understanding ageism and puts ageism in the context of specific social institutions. McNamara and Williamson uniquely provide a number of complementary ways to understand ageism including social and psychological theories of ageism economic development ageism as frame or lens and ageism at the intersection of various social categories such as gender and race. They then put ageism in the context of mass media h ealth care employment and public policy. This short text is an ideal addition to courses on sociology of aging social policy and social problems. | Ageism Past Present and Future

GBP 38.99
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History Politics and the American Past Essays on Methodology

History Politics and the American Past Essays on Methodology

History Politics and the American Past assesses the connection between historiography and politics in America on the basis of an important methodological distinction between the past and the history written about it. While necessarily interpreting the past professional historians and those with a general interest alike remain tempted consciously or not to make American history serve their own political and moral views. There is a tendency to impose our present values on the past and sometimes go so far as to believe the past can be changed by present action. In this volume Ari Helo analyzes examples of this including metahistorical narratives presidential speeches and the occasionally vague rhetoric of the Confederate statue campaigns before diagnosing the source of doing so and suggesting how we might avoid it. Taking America as its example the book illuminates essential methodological issues related to history writing while deciphering the complicated relationship of history and politics. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of American history historiography American studies and cultural studies providing a vivid account of how to make sense of American history. | History Politics and the American Past Essays on Methodology

GBP 24.99
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Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

Recomposing the Past is a book concerned with the complex but important ways in which we engage with the past in modern times. Contributors examine how media on stage and screen uses music and in particular early music to evoke and recompose a distant past. Culture popular and otherwise is awash with a stylise - sometimes contradictory - musical history. And yet for all its complexities these representations of the past through music are integral to how our contemporary and collective imaginations understand history. More importantly they offer a valuable insight into how we understand our musical present. Such representative strategies the book argues cross generic boundaries and as such it brings together a range of multimedia discussion on the subjects of film (Lord of the Rings Dangerous Liasions) television (Game of Thrones The Borgias) videogame (Dragon Warrior Gauntlet) and opera (Written on Skin Taverner English ‘dramatick opera’). This collection constitutes a significant and interdisciplinary contribution to a growing literature which is unpacking our ongoing creative dialogue with the past. Divided into three complementary sections grouped not by genre or media but by theme it considers: ‘Authenticity Appropriateness and Recomposing the Past’ ‘Music Space and Place: Geography as History’ and ‘Presentness and the Past: Dialogues between Old and New’. Like the musical collage that is our shared multimedia historical soundscape it is hoped that this collection is in its eclecticism more than the sum of its parts. | Recomposing the Past: Representations of Early Music on Stage and Screen

GBP 39.99
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Getting Dressed Conformity and Imitation in Clothing and Everyday Life

Getting Dressed Conformity and Imitation in Clothing and Everyday Life

Getting Dressed teaches sociology through the everyday decision of what to wear. It is about the rules that shape how we dress and how and why we conform. It is about how and why we imitate others. We may think about clothing as our personal style and identity. But our personal style is not so personal; it is social shaped and limited by countless social influences. We use clothes to rank and treat each other as better and worse. Yet we need each other to become who we are when getting dressed. This book is about what we wear why we wear it and why it matters. | Getting Dressed Conformity and Imitation in Clothing and Everyday Life

GBP 24.99
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Palaeoepidemiology The Measure of Disease in the Human Past

Palaeoepidemiology The Measure of Disease in the Human Past

How do we identify and measure human disease in the past? In the absence of soft tissue paleoepidemiologists have developed ingenious ways of assessing illness and mortality in archaeological populations. In this volume the key methods of epidemiology are outlined for non-specialists showing the importance of studying prevalence over incidence adjustments needed in studying past groups how to compare studies and the dangers of assessing occupation based upon bone evidence. A model for planning a proper paleoepidemiological study concludes the volume. Both as an introduction to epidemiology for archaeologists and as a primer on archaeological analysis for epidemiologists this book should serve the needs of both populations. | Palaeoepidemiology The Measure of Disease in the Human Past

GBP 35.99
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Cockney Past and Present A Short History of the Dialect of London

Cockney Past and Present A Short History of the Dialect of London

Although Cockney can be considered to be one of the most important non-standard forms of English there had been little to no scholarly attention on the dialect prior to William Matthews’s 1938 volume Cockney Past and Present. Matthews traced the course of the speech of London from the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth century by gathering information from many sources including plays novels music-hall songs the comments of critics and the speech and recollections of living Cockneys. This book will be of interest to students of language and linguistics. | Cockney Past and Present A Short History of the Dialect of London

GBP 36.99
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Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

Getting Ready to Learn describes how educational media have and are continuing to play a role in meeting the learning needs of children parents and teachers. Based on years of meaningful data from the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative chapters explore how to develop engaging playful and developmentally appropriate content. From Emmy-Award-winning series to randomized controlled trials this book covers the media production scholarly research and technological advances surrounding some of the country’s most beloved programming. | Getting Ready to Learn Creating Effective Educational Children’s Media

GBP 31.99
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Resource Communities Past Legacies and Future Pathways

Resource Communities Past Legacies and Future Pathways

This book provides an innovative approach to understanding the governance of resource communities by showcasing how the past and present informs the future. Resource communities have complicated relationships with the past and this makes their relationship with the future and the future itself also complicated. The book digs deeply into the myriad legacies left by a history of resource extraction in a community and makes use of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives to understand the complex issues being faced by a range of different communities that are reliant on different types of resources across the world. From coal and gold mining to fishing towns and logging communities the book explores the legacies of boom and bust economies social memory trauma and identity the interactions between power and knowledge and the implications for adaptive governance. Balancing conceptual and theoretical understandings with empirical and practical knowledge of resource communities natural resource use and social-ecological relationships the book argues that solutions for individual communities need to be embraced in the community and not just in the perspectives of visiting experts. Linking the past present and futures of resource communities in a new way the book concludes by providing practical recommendations for breaking open dependencies on the past including deepening awareness of the social economic and environmental contexts establishing strong governance and developing community strategies plans and policies for the future. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of natural resource governance and management extractive industries environmental policy community planning and development environmental geography and sustainable development as well as policymakers involved in supporting community development in natural resource-dependent communities across the world. | Resource Communities Past Legacies and Future Pathways

GBP 35.99
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The International Community and Statebuilding Getting Its Act Together?

The International Community and Statebuilding Getting Its Act Together?

This book brings together policymakers and academics to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. In the past twenty years statebuilding has emerged as a centerpiece of international efforts to stabilize violent conflicts. From the Balkans to Iraq to Afghanistan it has become widely accepted that statebuilding—defined as the development of transparent and accountable political institutions stable and sustainable economic structures professional public administrations and civilian-controlled security services—is essential to the long-term stability of post-conflict settlements. The International Community and Statebuilding brings together senior-level policymakers and academics in order to analyse the international community’s performance in post-war statebuilding projects. Filling an important gap in the existing body of work on this topic the contributors explore how international state builders have attempted to negotiate the intersections of multilateralism competing strategic priorities and agendas organizational complexity and domestic politics. This book will be of much interest to students of statebuilding peacebuilding war and conflict studies and International Relations in general. | The International Community and Statebuilding Getting Its Act Together?

GBP 42.99
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History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

Through a series of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary interventions leading international scholars of history and art history explore ways in which the study of images enhances knowledge of the past and informs our understanding of the present. Spanning a diverse range of time periods and places the contributions cumulatively showcase ways in which ongoing dialogue between history and art history raises important aesthetic ethical and political questions for the disciplines. The volume fosters a methodological awareness that enriches exchanges across these distinct fields of knowledge. This innovative book will be of interest to scholars in art history cultural studies history visual culture and historiography. | History and Art History Looking Past Disciplines

GBP 36.99
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Measuring African Development Past and Present

Measuring African Development Past and Present

The chief economist for the World Bank's Africa region Shanta Devarajan delivered a devastating assessment of the capacity of African states to measure development in his 2013 article Africa's Statistical Tragedy. Is there a statistical tragedy unfolding in Africa now? If so it becomes important to examine the roots of the problem as far as the provision of statistics in poor economies is concerned. This book on measuring African development in the past and in the present draws on the historical experience of colonial French West Africa Ghana Sudan Mauritania and Tanzania and the more contemporary experiences of Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The authors each reflect on the changing ways statistics represent African economies and how they are used to govern them. This book was published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Development Studies. | Measuring African Development Past and Present

GBP 44.99
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Science and Nature Past Present and Future

Science and Nature Past Present and Future

Science and Nature brings together the work and insights of historian Carolyn Merchant on the history of science environmental history and ethics. The book explores her ideas about the interconnections among science women nature and history as they have emerged over her academic lifetime. Focusing on topics such as The Death of Nature the Scientific Revolution women in the history of science and environment and partnership ethics it synthesizes her writings and sets out a vision for the twenty-first century. Anyone interested in the interactions between science and nature in the past present and future will want to read this book. It is an ideal text for courses on the environment environmental history history of science and the philosophy of science. | Science and Nature Past Present and Future

GBP 35.99
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Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

This ideal companion for business leaders heading into a milestone moment offers practical advice to help them take something that can seem amorphous and abstract – living an intentional purposeful life – and turn it into reality. Though it might seem counterintuitive this book demonstrates that to move forward in the right direction you must understand and integrate your past into your present. Readers will see how they too can step back and consider the flashpoints of their past in a way that will serve them as they take the next step of their life from navigating a significant life change to simply living each day feeling less stuck and more purposeful. Leading coach Tony Martignetti shares the most powerful lessons from over 200 Virtual Campfire podcast interviews he’s conducted with driven individuals who decided to live intentionally rather than by default. As no two interviewees have faced the same challenges or pursued the same goals readers will be inspired by these diverse insights to embark on – and sustain – their own unique transformations. Packed with questions journaling prompts and real-world exercises to help readers understand their past at a deeper level and integrate it into their present this book provides a valuable toolkit for business leaders and professionals in any industry who feel unfulfilled and uncertain about what’s next for them. | Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

GBP 31.99
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Dialogical Networks Using the Past in Contemporary Research

Dialogical Networks Using the Past in Contemporary Research

This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them though formulated in the abstract is affected by historical contingencies it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian connecting contemporary work to foregoing studies. As such this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities. | Dialogical Networks Using the Past in Contemporary Research

GBP 38.99
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Women Writing Across Cultures Present past future

Women Writing Across Cultures Present past future

This collection brings together an international multicultural multilingual and multidisciplinary community of scholars and practitioners in different media seeking to question and re-theorize the contested terms of our title: “woman ” “writing ” “women’s writing ” and “across. ” “Culture” is translated into an open series of interconnected terms and questions. How might one write across national cultures; or across a national and a minority culture; or across disciplines genres and media; or across synchronic discourses that are unequal in power; or across present and past discourses or present and future discourses? The collection explores and develops recent feminist queer and transgender theory and criticism and also aesthetic practice. “Writing across” assumes a number of orientations: posthumanist; transtemporal; transnationalist; writing across discourses disciplines media genres genders; writing across pronouns – he she they; writing across literature non-literary texts and life. This book was originally published as a special issue of Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities. | Women Writing Across Cultures Present past future

GBP 39.99
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Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

First published in 1999 this volume examines antiquarianism which had its roots in Renaissance thought and was a popular intellectual and cultural pursuit throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The antiquarian work of collecting compiling and presenting material which exposed the past was seminal to the formation of social and national identities. These essays evaluate the cultural and poltical implications of antiquarianism in the period 1700-1850. The volume also considers how the antiquarians laid the foundations of later museum culture and the discipline of history. With a preface by Stephen Bann and introduced by Martin Myrone and Lucy Peltz Producing the Past has contributions from Stephen Bending Alexandrina Buchanan Susan A. Crane David Haycock Maria Grazia Lolla Heather MacLennan Martin Myrone Lucy Peltz Annegret Pelz Sam Smiles and Johann Reusch. | Producing the Past Aspects of Antiquarian Culture and Practice 1700–1850

GBP 31.99
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