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The river of history : trans-national and trans-disciplinary perspectives on the immanence of the past /
The articles in this collection are dedicated to the proposition that human beings make history, not just in the sense of being agents of change in the here and now, but in the sense that we interpret, appropriate and make use of the past for our own purposes in the future. Covering topics that rang...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Calgary, Alta. :
University of Calgary Press,
Ã2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Navigating the river of history / Peter Farrugia
- The way we were?: History as infotainment in the age of history television / Robert Wright
- Teaching history: the future of the past / Leo Groarke
- The memory of property: the challenge of using the past to enlighten the lawyers of the future / John McLaren
- Reading the past: the dispossession of the poor and the aborigines in colonial New South Wales / Nancy E. Wright
- Understanding property in Australian history / A.R. Buck
- Historical fictions: the invention of historical events for political purposes / John S. Hill
- Being present, owning the past, and growing into the future: temporality, revelation and the therapeutic culture / Jeffrey Scott Brown
- Travessao: African diasporic migratory subjectivity and the making of history / Carol B. Duncan
- Canada's lost tradition of technological criticism / James Gerrie
- Linking the past to the future / M. Carleton Simpson
- Predictions of global catastrophe: just another chicken Little? / Stephen F. Haller.