Download or read book People and their Pasts written by P. Ashton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.
Download or read book History s People written by Margaret MacMillan and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of the CBC Massey Lectures Series In History’s People internationally acclaimed historian Margaret MacMillan gives her own personal selection of figures of the past, women and men, some famous and some little-known, who stand out for her. Some have changed the course of history and even directed the currents of their times. Others are memorable for being risk-takers, adventurers, or observers. She looks at the concept of leadership through Bismarck and the unification of Germany; William Lyon MacKenzie King and the preservation of the Canadian Federation; Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the bringing of a unified United States into the Second World War. She also notes how leaders can make huge and often destructive mistakes, as in the cases of Hitler, Stalin, and Thatcher. Richard Nixon and Samuel de Champlain are examples of daring risk-takers who stubbornly went their own ways, often in defiance of their own societies. Then there are the dreamers, explorers, and adventurers, individuals like Fanny Parkes and Elizabeth Simcoe who manage to defy or ignore the constraints of their own societies. Finally, there are the observers, such as Babur, the first Mughal emperor of India, and Victor Klemperer, a Holocaust survivor, who kept the notes and diaries that bring the past to life. History’s People is about the important and complex relationship between biography and history, individuals and their times.
Download or read book Faces of America written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the family trees and genealogical identity of twelve remarkable Americans: Stephen Colbert, Louise Erdrich, Eva Longoria, Yo Yo Ma, and others. Since 2007, the Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., has been helping African Americans find long-buried details about their ancestors by researching their family trees and then, when the paper trail ends, by analyzing their DNA and marrying that information to a wealth of historical data. Now, in Faces of America, Gates explores the family trees of twelve of America’s most recognizable and extraordinary citizens, individuals who learn that they are of Asian, English, French, German, Irish, Italian, Jamaican, Jewish, Latino, Native American, Swiss, and Syrian ancestry: Inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian and television personality Stephen Colbert, writer Louise Erdrich, writer Malcolm Gladwell, actress Eva Longoria, cellist Yo Yo Ma, writer and director Mike Nichols, former monarch of Jordan Queen Noor, surgeon and author Dr. Mehmet Oz, actress Meryl Streep, and Olympic gold medalist and figure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. In addition, each of the subjects in Faces of America underwent dense genotyping to trace their genetic ancestry on their father’s line, their mother’s line, and their percentages of European, Asian, Native American, and African ancestry. Readers will share in the surprise and delight, the shock and sadness of these twelve individuals themselves as Gates unveils their rich family stories, traced back to their arrival on America’s shores, and beyond, deep into the history of their ancestors’ countries of origin. In this compelling book, Gates demonstrates that where we come from profoundly and fundamentally informs who we are today.
Download or read book People of the Past written by Göran Burenhult and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tells the human story from the origins of humankind to the end of the Stone Age around 2000 BC. It explores our links with other primates and examines theories of evolution, the beginnings of language, the rise of art and religion, and the global expansion that precipitated remarkable adaption and diversity. Then follows a survey of the revolutionary upheaval associated with the development of agriculture - a story of dramatic climate change, the domestication of plants and animals, massive population increase, the founding of urban centres, and long-distance trade networks. This momemtous transition is followed from Europe to the highlands of New Guinea and lowland Maya farmers, from Africa to Asia and the New World.
Download or read book A People s History of the United States written by Howard Zinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2003-02-04 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its original landmark publication in 1980, A People's History of the United States has been chronicling American history from the bottom up, throwing out the official version of history taught in schools -- with its emphasis on great men in high places -- to focus on the street, the home, and the, workplace. Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History is the only volume to tell America's story from the point of view of -- and in the words of -- America's women, factory workers, African-Americans, Native Americans, the working poor, and immigrant laborers. As historian Howard Zinn shows, many of our country's greatest battles -- the fights for a fair wage, an eight-hour workday, child-labor laws, health and safety standards, universal suffrage, women's rights, racial equality -- were carried out at the grassroots level, against bloody resistance. Covering Christopher Columbus's arrival through President Clinton's first term, A People's History of the United States, which was nominated for the American Book Award in 1981, features insightful analysis of the most important events in our history. Revised, updated, and featuring a new after, word by the author, this special twentieth anniversary edition continues Zinn's important contribution to a complete and balanced understanding of American history.
Download or read book Foreword to The Past written by Endre Bojtar and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over time at least four meanings have been attributed to the term 'Baltic' - drawing on thirty years of extensive research, Foreword to the Past is the first modern introduction to the enigma of the Baltic origins and the self-identification of the Baltic people. The book is divided into three distinctive parts: the first part recounts the history of the Baltic peoples relying on archaeological sources; the second part provides an objective linguistic history and a description of the Baltic languages; the third part provides an original and fresh insight into mythology in the ancient history of the Baltic peoples.
Download or read book The Memory of the People written by Andy Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Memory of the People is a major study of popular memory in the early modern period.
Download or read book Faces from the Past written by James M. Deem and published by Houghton Mifflin Books for Children. This book was released on 2012 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the efforts of a scientific team to learn about the life and culture of a person whose skeletal remains are traced to prehistoric times, profiling the valuable technical achievements of artists who use special skills to reconstruct faces from archaeological remains. 10,000 first printing.
Download or read book Western Canadian People in the Past 1600 1900 D G written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-08-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only existant listing of historic Fur Trade and aboriginal personages with births, deaths and affiliations for western Canada and adjacent areasfrom 1600-1900.
Download or read book Western Canadian People in the Past 1600 1900 A C written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book WESTERN CANADIAN PEOPLE IN THE PAST 1600 1900 R Z written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only listing of historic persons and birth, deaths and affiliations for western Canadian native peoples and fur trade workers for the Fur Trade eras of 1600 to 1900.
Download or read book Western Canadian People In The Past 1600 1900 Genealogical Master Charts written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book PEOPLE OF THE PAST Gr 4 6 written by Judy Farrell and Georgina Kucherik and published by Rainbow Horizons Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-04 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Human Journey… People of the Past is a high-interest unit of study for Junior, Enrichment or Multi-Level learning groups. The activities can be incorporated into a whole language program, and they lend themselves to the application of co-operative learning strategies. Information and activities included to develop skills in: Creative Writing, Oral Language & Drama, Critical Thinking, and Research.
Download or read book Stories of the People of the Past written by IDP Research Division and published by Islamic Digital Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes mention about some other stories and incidents from the Qur'an and Ahadeeth that have taken place in previous times, apart from the lives of the Prophets. This includes those stories that took place between the time of Jesus and Muhammad (may peace be upon them), the Period of Ignorance (al-Jahiliyyah). These have all occurred before the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (S). Wherever necessary, the views and opinions of other notable scholars of Islam has also been recorded. This eBook is compiled utilizing some of the highest quality and best standards of formatting in order to preserve and distinguish the layout of the eBook. It is an excellent work which caters for a large audience of the English speaking world and can be read by virtually all age groups. Guaranteed to be enjoyed by all those who read it. Contents of the Book: About this Book 01 The Story of Dhul Qarnayn 02 The Story of the Companions of the Cave 03 The Story of a Believer and a Disbeliever 04 The Story of the Owners of the Garden 05 The Story of the Sabbath Breakers 06 The Story of Luqman 07 The Story of the Companions of the Pit 08 The Story of Three Infants who Spoke in the Cradle 09 The Story of Barsisa 10 The Story of Three Men who were Locked in a Cave 11 The Story of the Blind, the Leper and the Bald 12 The Story of the Genealogy of the Arabs 13 The Story of Saba' 14 The Story of Rabi'a and the Two Soothsayers 15 The Story of Sayf ibn Dhu Yazaan 16 The Story of Al-Saatirun 17 The Story of the Sons of Isma'eel (AS), and the Ka'bah 18 The Story of 'Amr ibn Luhayy 19 The Story of Khalid ibn Sinaan (the alleged prophet) 20 The Story of Haatim al-Ta'i 21 The Story of 'Abdullah ibn Jud'aan 22 The Story of Imru' al-Qays ibn Hujr al-Kindi 23 The Story of Umayya ibn Abu al-Salt al-Thaqafee 24 The Story of Quss ibn Sa'eeda al-Iyaadi 25 The Story of Ka'b ibn Lu'ayy 26 The Story of Zayd ibn 'Amr ibn Nufayl 27 The Story of As'ad Abu Karib 28 The Story of Abraha and Aryaat 29 The Story of 'Abdul-Muttalib, the Zamzam Well, and his Son's Marriage to Aamina Visit our eBook Store at: www.payhip.com/idpebooks Contact us at: [email protected]
Download or read book Empowering the Past Confronting the Future The Duna People of Papua New Guinea written by Andrew J. Strathern and published by Springer. This book was released on 2004-06-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with forces of change by redeploying their own mythological themes about the cosmos in order to make claims on outside corporations and by subtly combining features of their customary practices with forms of Christianity, attempting to empower their past as a means of confronting the future.
Download or read book The Presence of the Past written by Rupert Sheldrake and published by Park Street Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rupert Sheldrake's theory of morphic resonance challenges the fundamental assumptions of modern science. An accomplished biologist, Sheldrake proposes that all natural systems, from crystals to human society, inherit a collective memory that influences their form and behavior. Rather than being ruled by fixed laws, nature is essentially habitual. The Presence of the Past lays out the evidence for Sheldrake's controversial theory, exploring its implications in the fields of biology, physics, psychology, and sociology. At the same time, Sheldrake delivers a stinging critique of conventional scientific thinking. In place of the mechanistic, neo-Darwinian worldview he offers a new understanding of life, matter, and mind.
Download or read book Alberta History AFFILIATIONS GUIDE TO PEOPLE IN THE PAST written by Joachim Fromhold and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a listing of the tribal, band, group and/or geographic affiliations of persons recorded in western Canadian history. This coding is used in all our publications and in the Heritage Databank website www.inewhist.com. It is a shorthand that allows researchers to quickly identify where a person was, who he/she was affiliated with, and how these affiliations changed over time. It also allows for better identification of and distinction between peoples of the same name. For those who do extensive research, it is a mnemonic device that allows for quick recollection of facts associated with that person and that group.
