Search Results - "Memoir"

Broken Records / by Žabić, Snežana, 1974-

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A Silvan Tomkins Handbook : Foundations for Affect Theory by Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1850-1894

Table of Contents: “…Vailima letters: correspondence addressed to Sidney Colvin.--XVIII. Memoir of Fleming Jenkin. Records of a family of engineers.…”
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Biography of a hacienda : work and revolution in rural Mexico / by Newman, Elizabeth Terese, 1976-

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Sounding Like a No-No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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Sounding Like a No-No : Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era / by Royster, Francesca T.

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Ecocritical theory new European approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Passing glories and romantic retreivals: avant-garde nostalgia and hedonist renewal / Kate Soper -- Green things in the garbage: ecocritical gleaning in Walter Benjamin's arcades / Catriona Sandilands -- Raymond Williams: materialism and ecocriticism / Martin Ryle -- Sense of place and lieu de mémoire: a cultural memory approach to environmental texts / Axel Goodbody -- From literary anthropology to cultural ecology: German ecocritical theory since Wolfgang Iser / Timo Müller -- The social theory of Norbert Elias and the question of the nonhuman world / Linda Williams -- From the modern to the ecological: Latour on Walden pond / Laura Dassow Walls -- Martin Heidegger, D.H. …”
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The past in the present : the construction of Polish history / by Traba, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Poles and Germans : theory -- "The other side of memory" : historical experiences and their remembrance in Central-Eastern Europe -- Realms of memory (lieux de mémoire) in the context of German-Polish relations -- Quo vadis regional history? …”
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Latina/os and World War II : mobility, agency, and ideology / by Rivas-Rodriguez, Maggie, Olguín, B. V., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Haney -- "Con dolor de corazon" : militarization and transracial recognition among Mexican Americans and Filipinos in the Bataan Death March / Jordan Beltran Gonzales -- Tejanas on the home front : women, bombs, and the (re)gendering of war in Mexican American World War II literature / Patricia Portales -- Interrogating the soldado razo : masculinity, soldiering, and ideology in Mexican American World War II memoir and theater / B.V. Olguin -- Seeking "America" : a Cuban journey through the United States and beyond during the World War II era / Gerald E. …”
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Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi /

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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

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Rumba under Fire: The Arts of Survival from West Point to Delhi /

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Models of charitable care Catholic nuns and children in their care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 / by Heijst, Annelies van

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- History of the problem -- A history of care -- Charity as a historical care practice -- History and ethics -- Care and faith -- Method and purpose -- Definitions of care -- Caring for roosje -- Reconstruction of a life story -- Tribute to a mother -- Construction of a complaint -- An appropriate and yet contestable judgement on care -- Men in association : class and charity -- Catholic care provision in Amsterdam -- Bishop van Vree -- Father Frentrop, Doctor Cramer and their association of municence -- Father Hesseveld, a secular priest -- Activities of the in terms of care -- An instrumental model of charity -- Ladies and housemaids : gender and charity Catholic caring women in historiography -- Education for girls -- The servants' issue -- Beyond the thesis of the 'civilisation offensive' -- Gender, class, and religion -- Powerful and empowering care : confession and charity -- Approach and definitions -- Benevolence as both care and power -- Humanising Protestantism -- Prison reform by Fry -- Butler's dedication to prostitutes -- Influence of Fry and Butler on the Netherlands -- The inner mission movement -- Conceptual comments -- From the viewpoint of care receivers -- Evelina's memoirs -- The very beginning -- The arrival of Mietje Stroot -- A controversial first communion -- Institutional expansion -- Nursemaids become real sisters -- A charitable care practice experienced from within -- Civilisation offensive, charitable solidarity, or caring power -- Tronto's fourth phase revised : two responses to care -- Care leavers and their opposite judgements -- The care vision in the normative texts -- Normative writings and daily life -- History of the church and history of religion -- Principles and a name -- The rule -- Instructions for the upbringing of the children -- The constitutions of 1882 -- The sisterly care vision : a referential and a replacement view -- The purpose of the congregation in terms of care solidarity with strangers because of metaphorical kinship -- Caring for the children of God.…”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Nachman of Breslov / Roni Bar Lev -- Jewish homesteader memoir : a woman's story -- Mara W. Cohen Ioannides -- "He wanted to make them into educated, enlightened people" : Jewish immigrants, acculturation, and gender stereotypes in A. …”
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Jews and Gender /

Table of Contents: “…Nachman of Breslov / Roni Bar Lev -- Jewish homesteader memoir : a woman's story -- Mara W. Cohen Ioannides -- "He wanted to make them into educated, enlightened people" : Jewish immigrants, acculturation, and gender stereotypes in A. …”
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The Real, the True, and the Told : Postmodern Historical Narrative and the Ethics of Representation / by Berlatsky, Eric L., 1972-

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Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology by Alexander, Jonathan

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Creep: A Life, A Theory, An Apology by Alexander, Jonathan

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Orthodox Christianity in imperial Russia : a source book on lived religion /

Table of Contents: “…Freeze -- Petitions to the Holy Synod regarding miracle-working icons / Vera Shevzov -- Missionary priests' reports from Siberia / Aileen Friesen -- Petitions to "brother Ioann" Churikov, 1914 / Page Herrlinger -- Archimandrite Toviia (Tsymbal), prior of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra: memoirs and diaries (selections) / Scott M. Kenworthy -- "From ignorance to truth": a baptist conversion narrative / Heather J. …”
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A new critical approach to the history of Palestine : Palestine history and heritage project 1 /

Table of Contents: “…Thompson -- "To Be an Israelite and a Judean as I Want You to Be": Material Culture and Ethnicity during the Iron Age / Hani Nur El-Din -- Theoretical Perspectives on Landscape and Memory, and the Case of Lubya as Lieu De Memoire / Bo Dahl Hermansen -- Community Archaeology in Palestine: Protection, Preservation and Promotion of Archaeological Heritage Sites in Palestine / Iman Saca -- The Al-Nuweima Mosque: An Archaeological Perspective on Modern History / Andrew Petersen -- Archaeology as Anthropology (Bioarcheology) / Issa Sarie -- Mapping Palestine: Biblical and Rabbinic Perspectives / Philip Davies -- Land, People, and Empire: The Bible through Palestinian Christian Eyes / Mitri Raheb -- Judaism's Response to the Invention of the Homeland / Shlomo Sand -- The History of Israel. …”
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New directions in American reception study

Table of Contents: “…Blair -- Learning from Philistines: suspicion, refusing to read, and the rise of dubious modernism / Leonard Diepeveen -- Reception and authenticity: Danny Santiago's Famous all over town / Marcial González -- Discourses in dialogue: the reception of Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an ex-prom queen / Charlotte Templin -- The power of recirculation: scrapbooks and the reception of the nineteenth-century press / Ellen Gruber Garvey -- Accuracy or fair play? …”
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