Griffintown. Identity and Memory in an Irish Diaspora Neighbourhood, Paperback - Matthew Barlow

This vibrant biography of Griffintown, an inner-city Irish Catholic neighbourhood in Montreal, brings to life the history of Irish identity and col...

In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and...

An exploration of the portrait arts in China, from the dynastic to the contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video.Publisher: Reakt...

The Irish immigrants who arrived in Argentina between 1840 and 1890 were welcomed. Argentina was different from the English-speaking destinations f...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

Provides a view of Jewish experiences through history, literature, painting, anthropology, poetry, sociology, and politics. This title explores and...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

This interdisciplinary approach to postwar German memory politics charts the role of social movements in shaping public memory and democratic value...

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Reducere. What is history? How do we represent it? How do our notions of history change over time? The essays in The Historical Film: History and Memory in M...

Plecand de la experiente artistice si estetice, culegerea de fata ofera posibile raspunsuri la intrebarile legate de felul in care imaginea si sune...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

Reducere. "A thought-provoking piece of scholarship that sheds light on the complex history of slave breeding in America. Smithers's book will be hotly debat...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville commercialized and even thrived on New Orleans's longstanding reputation for sin and sexual ...

On the basis of a body of reggae songs from the 1970s and late 1990s, the author offers a sociological analysis of memory, hope and redemption in r...

Publisher: New York University PressNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 159 x 237 x 27Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Eric Werthei...

How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Lejla VoloderNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 144 x 222 x 22Cover type: Hardbac...

The Image of the Other. Memory and Representation of the Neighbourhood and the World) - Cristian Andrei, Florin Anghel

Reducere. In the tradition of James Loewen's Lies My Teacher Told Me, a deeply researched book that uncovers competing histories of how slavery is remembered...

Reducere. From 1897 to 1917 the red-light district of Storyville, located just outside of the French Quarter, hosted a diverse cast of characters who reflect...

Reducere. On March 1, 1995, at the time of the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps, ARTE (a French-German state-funded tel...

Explores identity formation and cultural home for generations of Chinese immigrants living in multicultural societies across the world.

Teaching Contested Narratives: Identity, Memory and Reconciliation in Peace Education and Beyond - Zvi Bekerman, Michalinos Zembylas

Publisher: Taylor & Francis IncIllustration(s): 29 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 29 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Now more than ever the role of icons and monuments in shaping a national identity is a subject of vital importance to scholars of both nationalism ...

Ireland is known worldwide as a country that produce emigrants. The existence of the Irish 'diaspora' is the subject of this fifth instalment of th...

Reducere. From a new star of American journalism, a riveting murder mystery that reveals the forces roiling today's Africa From Rwanda to Sierra Leone, Afric...

Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): Carlene O'ConnorNumber of pages: 336Collection: An Irish Village MysteryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 129 x 197 x 2...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 1 MapsNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 21Cover type: Hardback...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Christine BreenNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 161 x 241 x 28Cover type: Hardb...

Reducere. In a century marked by totalitarian regimes, genocide, mass migrations, and shifting borders, the concept of memory in Eastern Europe is often syno...

This volume examines the Italian peninsula in the early Middle Ages by focusing on research fields such as ethnic identity, memory, and use of the ...

This study provides a broad examination of historical memory of World War II. Focusing on the Asia Pacific region, the contributors analyze how the...

Reducere. Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang examines one of the least understood migrations in modern East Asia - the human exodus from China to Taiwan when Chiang Kai...

Socialism and the Diasporic 'Other' examines the relationship between the London-based Left and Irish and Jewish communities in the East End betwee...

This book traces the trajectory of the community archives movement, including development to sites such as historical societies, social movement or...

Reducere. Paulette Ramsay's study analyses cultural and literary material produced by Afro-Mexicans on the Costa Chica de Guerrero y Oaxaca, Mexico, to under...

Drawing on the intriguing interdisciplinary research on war commemoration, the book shows that war pervades the pages of the Bible because its auth...

Unlike earlier generations, Jewish American artists born between the 1930s and the early 1960s were among the first to overtly embrace and challeng...

DescriptionFrom his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race a...

Reducere. "Queen of the cozy police procedural (Publishers Weekly), " USA Today bestselling author Carlene O'Connor's seventh Irish Village Mystery brings a ...

DescriptionThe village of Kilbane in County Cork, Ireland, has a new garda--and her first case is a grave matter indeed . . . The O'Sullivan clan c...

Reducere. How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in...