Historie og samfunn

Reconstructing Exhibitions in Art Institutions spans exhibition histories as anti-apartheid activism within South African community arts; Civil Rights movements and Black communities in Baltimore; reframing feminisms in USA; revisiting Cold War Modernisms in Eastern Europe among other themes.

"If there is debate on some of the finer points of Ulysses S. Grant's inland campaign, few dispute its brilliance and no one can argue with the results: Grant arrived victorious at the exact place he sought: the high ground east of Vicksburg where he had access to both the city and an open and unchallenged supply route via the Yazoo River to the north. It was the very ground Grant had wanted for months. He could finally begin the process of actually capturing Vicksburg. In the entire nine-month-long campaign, there was no more tension and drama than in these seventeen days when Grant's Army of the Tennessee marched through the wilds of Mississippi to victory after victory, tearing the heart out of the State of Mississippi and the Confederacy. This is the fifth and final of Tim's Vicksburg volumes to launch, but chronologically not the last in the five-volume series. It falls between Bayou Battles for Vicksburg (January 1 to April 30, 1863) and The Siege of Vicksburg (May 23 to July 4, 1863)"--

Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how colonialty has operated around the world in its myriad forms between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries while calling for a decolonial politics that would delink from all forms of Western knowledge.

With the latest scholarship in mind, this book provides a deft and highly readable analysis that is certain to help readers better understand the characteristics and important products of Gilded-Age politics.

On War is a book on military strategy by Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz, written mostly after the Napoleonic wars, between 1816 and 1830. It is one of the most important books on political-military analysis and strategy ever written.

Olivier's ambitious work, newly translated into English from the French, brilliantly explicates the new approach to archaeological remains based on the theory that archaeology is the science of constantly reconstituted memory.

Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away . . .This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, who survived not just one, but three very close separate encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.

Under 2. verdenskrig var det nærmere 40?000 nordmenn som høstet personlige erfaringer med innsiden av nazistenes fengsler, fangeleirer og konsentrasjonsleirer. De ble arrestert på bakgrunn av mistanke om motstandsrelatert virksomhet, for sin politiske- og religiøse overbevisning, for avvikende seksuell legning, eller for at de var jøder eller rom. Mange ble politiske fanger på ubestemt tid - overlatt til tysk justis og en skjebne de ikke lenger var herre over. Nærmere 7000 mennesker ble satt inn i tyskernes politiske sentralfengsel i Møllergata 19. Vegard Sæther belyser deres historie i et bredt perspektiv - veien til fengsling, tortur og videre skjebne. En av dem som skulle stifte bekjentskap med råskapen til dette tyske systemet var den unge jusstudenten Viggo Aagaard. Som politisk fange skrev han flere brev som ble smuglet ut fra nr. 19. Brevene representerer en unik historisk kilde og synliggjør sentrale sider ved fangetilværelsen i fengselet. De er gjengitt i sin helhet - med tilleggskommentarer av Aagaard. I løpet av fem vanskelige år ble nr. 19 et viktig symbol på norsk motstandskamp. Således kommer boken også tett på overgriperne. Hvem var de?

The Sun of Knowledge (Shams al-Ma'arif) is one of the most revered historical grimoires of the Arabic corpus. Feared by some, hallowed by others, it is one of the most famous - or infamous - books in the Arabic-speaking and Islamicate world. Written in Egypt in the thirteenth century by a Sufi mystic and mage of Algerian origin, the Shams presents the fundamentals of Arabic-Islamic occult work - from spiritual cosmology and astrology (including various particularly lunar magics) to working with spirits and jinn, magical employment of letters and numbers, and the occult applications of the Qur'an - thereby comprising a veritable encyclopedia of Islamicate magical wisdom and formulae. Images and descriptions of amulets and talismans adorn it. Numerous beautiful manuscripts of the Sun of Knowledge have survived, various of which have been used as a basis for this present work.Never before published in English, this selected translation includes sections of the Sun of Knowledge on the mysteries of the letters, astrological timings, lunar mansions, the ancient Arab beliefs surrounding the stars, planetary matters, astronomy, the angels for and workings pertaining to the four seasons, summoning the jinn, the employment of the names of God for many and varied purposes, the construction of the famed ring of Solomon, and a miscellany of tried-and-true talismans. This selected translation takes a general approach to a much vaster text, and features illustrations, original artwork, and commentary to assist those unfamiliar with Islamic magic and culture. This edition is also ideal for any student of magic or the occult, classical Arabic astrology and astronomy, Islamic esotericism, or Sufism.

Sørlandsk skipsfart 1920-2020 er andre del av tobindsverket Sørlandsk skipsfart. Første bind er skrevet av Berit Eide Johnsen og Gustav Sætra og dekker perioden fra 1600 til 1920. Dette bindet tar for seg de påfølgende hundre årene med skipsfart i sør.For å forstå hvordan det var mulig å drive en så konkurranse- og risikopreget, kapitalkrevende og verdensomspennende virksomhet som shipping fra små, bortgjemte steder på sørlandskysten, er det lagt inn så vel lokale som internasjonale perspektiver. I tillegg har et nasjonalt perspektiv trengt seg på, et behov for å knytte opp sørlandsk skipsfart mot den generelle norske skipsfartsutviklingen. Et behov for å sammenlikne for å identifisere. Dette bunner paradoksalt i at skipsfart er blitt gjennomglobalisert. I dag kan det være vanskelig å identifisere et norsk skip, og enda vanskeligere å si hva som er genuint sørlandsk.Beretningen om disse siste hundre årene av sjøfartshistorien er bygd opp som et drama i sju akter der den sagnomsuste, men skadeskutte og akterutseilte sørlandske skipsfartsnæringen gjenoppstår og moderniseres i mellomkrigstidens kriseår, blir rammet brutalt av andre verdenskrig, for så å reise seg på ny og seile videre og ekspandere kraftig på en tjuefem år lang medvindsbølge. Det som kjennetegner denne seilasen var massiv, nesten ensidig satsing på store oljetankskip og etter hvert bulkskip. 1928-1978 er oljetankskipstiden i sørlandsk skipsfart. Lykken snur og fortellingen vender under shippingkrisen 1976-1987, karakterisert som en nær-døden-opplevelse for sørlandsk skipsfart. Nordsjøen og oljeeventyret blir redningen for de få som overlevde. Så hvor blir det av den sørlandske handelsflåten i det som blir kalt verdens mest globaliserte næring? På Sørlandet synes tradisjonell skipsfart, kanskje med unntak av Grimstad, å seile inn i solnedgangen. Etter tusenårsskiftet går det maritime Sørlandet fra å være en tradisjonell skipsfartsregion til å bli en spesialisert klynge for leveranser til olje- og gassvirksomheten, og i shipping overtar offshorerederiene hegemoniet.

A magisterial, essential history of the struggle between whites and Native Americans over the fate of the West.

Den meningsløse sporten beskriver i sentrale kapitler om den olympiske bevegelsen, Tour de France og TV-fotball sportens utvikling fra 1800-tallet til å bli den dominerende massekultur i dagens samfunn. «Den korrupte fotballen som øyeblikksreligion» heter bokens avslutningskapittel.Også konstellasjonen Munch og Nietzsche har sin plass i denne fremstillingen. Munchs Nietzsche-portrett (1906) markerer en gjenoppdagelse av kroppen hos Munch, men viser også hen til Nietzsche som kroppsfilosof - Nietzsche blir en sportsfilosof.På sporet av en nasjon og Den meningsløse sporten er reviderte utgaver av (Sporten) - en idéhistorisk studie (2008).

A major reassessment of the vikings and their legacyThe Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by myth. It is true that they pillaged, looted, and enslaved. But they also settled peacefully and traveled far from their homelands in swift and sturdy ships to explore. The Age of the Vikings tells the full story of this exciting period in history. Drawing on a wealth of written, visual, and archaeological evidence, Anders Winroth captures the innovation and pure daring of the Vikings without glossing over their destructive heritage. He not only explains the Viking attacks, but also looks at Viking endeavors in commerce, politics, discovery, and colonization, and reveals how Viking arts, literature, and religious thought evolved in ways unequaled in the rest of Europe. The Age of the Vikings sheds new light on the complex society, culture, and legacy of these legendary seafarers.

'As powerfully intimate as it is politically incendiary' VOGUE'Private Revolutions could be a Netflix series, for family, violence and romance abound' IRISH TIMES 'A portrait of China through four women who refused to accept the life laid out for them. Incredible' SUNDAY TIMES 'A revelatory, moving and tender tale of hopes, fears and change' PETER FRANKOPAN*A Sunday Times, Observer & BBC Highlight for 2024*This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, in a society about to change beyond recognition.It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the factory floor. It is about June, who at fifteen sets what her family thinks is an impossible goal: to attend university rather than raise pigs. It is about Siyue, ranked second-to-bottom of her English class, who decides to prove her teachers wrong. And it is about Sam, who becomes convinced that the only way to change her country is to become an activist - even as the authorities slowly take her peers from the streets. With unprecedented access to the lives, hopes, homes, dreams and diaries of four ordinary women over a period of six years, Private Revolutions gives a voice to those whose stories go untold. At a time of rising state censorship and suppression, it unearths the identity of modern Chinese society - and, through the telling, something of our own.

Vil du forstå dagens konflikter i Midtøsten, må du kjenne regionens historie. Dette er en lettlest og spennende innføring i historien til et område som stadig stjeler verdenspressens oppmerksomhet, full av utrolige fortellinger og interessante fakta. Krigen i Syria, fremveksten av IS, den arabiske våren, Israel-Palestina-konflikten - alt dette får ny dybde og mening med denne boken. Bli med bak nyhetene, til de bakenforliggende sammenhengene og maktstrukturene som forklarer mye av stormaktenes spill i Midtøsten den dag i dag. Journalist og forfatter Odd Karsten Tveit har dekket Midtøsten i over førti år og skrevet flere prisbelønte bøker om regionen.

Illich suggests radical reforms for the education system to stop its headlong rush towards frustrated expectations and inequalities.

Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods. At the same time the Protestant Reformation attempted to take the magic out of religion, and scientists were developing new explanations of the universe. Keith Thomas's classic analysis of beliefs held on every level of English society begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the changing intellectual atmosphere around 1700, when science and rationalism began to challenge the older systems of belief.

'A wonderful piece of polemic against everything that's wrong with the way we deal with time today.' Independent

The biography of Jane Digby, an 'enthralling tale of a nineteenth-century beauty whose heart - and hormones - ruled her head.' Harpers and QueenA celebrated aristocratic beauty, Jane Digby married Lord Ellenborough at seventeen. Their divorce a few years later was one of England s most scandalous at that time. In her quest for passionate fulfilment she had lovers which included an Austrian prince, King Ludvig I of Bavaria, and a Greek count whose infidelities drove her to the Orient. In Syria, she found the love of her life, a Bedouin nobleman, Sheikh Medjuel el Mezrab who was twenty years her junior.Bestselling biographer Mary Lovell has produced from Jane Digby's diaries not only a sympathetic and dramatic portrait of a rare woman, but a fascinating glimpse into the centuries-old Bedouin tradition that is now almost lost.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

Written following the collapse of Rome's secular control over western Europe, the History of Gregory (c. AD 539-594) is a fascinating exploration of the events that shaped sixth-century France. This volume contains all ten books from the work, the last seven of which provide an in-depth description of Gregory's own era, in which he played an important role as Bishop of Tours. With skill and eloquence, Gregory brings the age vividly to life, as he relates the exploits of missionaries, martyrs, kings and queens - including the quarrelling sons of Lothar I, and the ruthless Queen Fredegund, third wife of Chilperic. Portraying an age of staggering cruelty and rapid change, this is a powerful depiction of the turbulent progression of faith at a time of political and social chaos.

Tantra-often associated with Kundalini Yoga-is a fundamental dimension of Hinduism, emphasizing the cultivation of "divine power" (shakti) as a path to infinite bliss. Tantra has been widely misunderstood in the West, however, where its practices are often confused with eroticism and licentious morality. Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy dispels many common misconceptions, providing an accessible introduction to the history, philosophy, and practice of this extraordinary spiritual tradition. The Tantric teachings are geared toward the attainment of enlightenment as well as spiritual power and are present not only in Hinduism but also Jainism and Vajrayana Buddhism. In this book, Georg Feuerstein offers readers a clear understanding of authentic Tantra, as well as appropriate guidance for spiritual practice and the attainment of higher consciousness.

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Classic of economic and social theory offers satiric examination of the hollowness and falsity suggested by the term "conspicuous consumption," exposing the emptiness of many standards of taste, education, dress, and culture.

In this book, 20 religionists and environmentalists examine Buddhism's understanding of life's web. In noting the cultural diversity of Buddhism, they highlight aspects of the tradition that may help formulate an effective environmental ethics, citing examples from Asia and the U.S. of socially engaged Buddhist projects to protect the environment.

In A Discourse on Inequality Rousseau sets out to demonstrate how the growth of civilization corrupts man s natural happiness and freedom by creating artificial inequalities of wealth, power and social privilege. Contending that primitive man was equal to his fellows, Rousseau believed that as societies become more sophisticated, the strongest and most intelligent members of the community gain an unnatural advantage over their weaker brethren, and that constitutions set up to rectify these imbalances through peace and justice in fact do nothing but perpetuate them. Rousseau s political and social arguments in the Discourse were a hugely influential denunciation of the social conditions of his time and one of the most revolutionary documents of the eighteenth-century.

'Bright, breezy and unpretentious' Guardian'A loving and faithful portrait of Almina and her world' Countryfile magazine* * * * * *The story of the real Downton Abbey, told by Lady Fiona Carnarvon, chatelaine of Highclere Castle where the phenomentally successful TV series was filmed.Lady Fiona Carnarvon became the chatelaine of Highclere Castle - the setting of the hit series Downton Abbey - eight years ago. In that time she's become fascinated by the rich history of Highclere, and by the extraordinary people who lived there over the centuries. One person particularly captured Fiona's imagination - Lady Almina, the 5th Countess of Carnarvon. Almina was the illegitimate daughter of banking tycoon Alfred de Rothschild. She was his only daughter and he doted on her. She married the 5th Earl of Carnarvon, at 19, with an enormous dowry. At first, life at Highclere was a dizzying mix of sumptuous banquets for 500 and even the occasional royal visitor. Almina oversaw 80 members of staff - many of whom came from families who had worked at Highclere for generations. But when the First World War broke out, life at Highclere changed forever. History intervened and Almina and the staff of Highclere were thrown into one of the most turbulent times of the last century. Almina was forced to draw on her deepest reserves of courage in order to ensure her family, the staff and the castle survived. This is the remarkable story of a lost time. But Highclere remains and in this book, Fiona weaves Almina's journey and those of her family into the heritage and history of one of England's most exquisite Victorian castles.