Contested Pasts
Contested Pasts

Author: Katharine Hodgkin

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-02

Total Pages: 508

ISBN-13: 1134448244

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This inter-disciplinary volume demonstrates, from a range of perspectives, the complex cultural work and struggles over meaning that lie at the heart of what we call memory. In the last decade, a focus on memory in the human sciences has encouraged new approaches to the study of the past. As the humanities and social sciences have put into question their own claims to objectivity, authority and universality, memory has appeared to offer a way of engaging with knowledge of the past as inevitably partial, subjective and local. At the same time, memory and memorial practices have become sites of contestation, and the politics of memory are increasingly prominent.

Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History
Spanish Romanticism and the Uses of History

Author: Derek Flitter

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1040281311

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Flitter examines those narratives within the intellectual parameters that defined them, probing the conceptual strategies by which writers represented history.

An Englishwoman in the Philippines
An Englishwoman in the Philippines

Author: Mrs. Campbell Dauncey

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-06

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13:

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The author shares letters written during a nine-month stay in the Philippines, offering a faithful impression of the country and its people. Politics and unrest are impossible to avoid, and the author strives to provide an impartial account, without bias towards either the Americans or the Filipinos. Written shortly after observation, these scenes and conversations convey an accurate depiction of the Philippines as experienced by the author