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The Culture of History

English Uses of the Past 1800-1953

By: Billie Melman

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The Culture of History

English Uses of the Past 1800-1953

By: Billie Melman

In this original and widely researched book, Billie Melman explores the culture of history during the age of modernity. Her book is about the production of English pasts, the multiplicity of their representations and the myriad ways in which the English looked at history (sometimes in the most literal sense of 'looking') and made use of it in a social and material urban world, and in their imagination. Covering the period between the Napoleonic Wars and the Coronation of 1953, Melman recoups the work of antiquarians, historians, novelists and publishers, wax modellers, cartoonists and illustrators, painters, playwrights and actors, reformers and educationalists, film stars and their fans, musicians and composers, opera-fans, and radio listeners. Avoiding a separation between 'high' and 'low' culture, Melman analyses nineteenth-century plebeian culture and twentieth-century mass-culture and their venues - like Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, panoramas, national monuments like the Tower of London, and films - as well as studying forms of 'minority' art - notably opera. She demonstrates how history was produced and how it circulated from texts, visual images, and sounds, to people and places and back to a variety of texts and images. While paying attention to individuals' making-do with culture, Melman considers constrictions of class, gender, the state, and the market-place on the consumption of history. Focusing on two privileged pasts, the Tudor monarchy and the French Revolution, the latter seen as an English event and as the framework for narrating and comprehending history, Melman shows that during the nineteenth century, the most popular, longest-enduring, and most highly commercialized images of the past represented it not as cosy and secure, but rather as dangerous, disorderly, and violent. The past was also imagined as an urban place, rather than as rural. In Melman's account, City not green Country, is the centre of a popular version of the past whose central Images are the dungeon, the gallows, and the guillotine.

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OUP Oxford

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0191538027

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9780191538025

Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918

Sexuality, Religion and Work

By: Billie Melman

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Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918

Sexuality, Religion and Work

By: Billie Melman

In this highly acclaimed study, Billie Melman recovers the unwritten history of the European experience of the Middle-East during the colonial era. She focuses on the evolution of Orientalism and the reconstruction - through contact with other cultures - of gender and class. Beginning with the eighteenth century Billie Melman describes the many ways in which women looked at oriental people and places and developed a discourse which presented a challenge to hegemonic notions on the exotic and 'different'. Through her examination of the writings of famous feminist writers, travellers, ethnographers, missionaries, archaeologists and Biblical scholars, many of which are studied here for the first time, Billie Melman challenges traditional interpretations of Orientalism, placing gender at the forefront of colonial studies. 'This book provides a real extension to Edward Said's writing not only in the sense of challenging Edward Said's perspective, but also by adding a significant empirical and conceptual element to the discussion on orientalism. Those interested in women's history, in the cultural politics of cross-cultural encounters and in feminist or cultural theory will find much to engage them, inform them and challenge them in Melman's book.' - Joanna De Groot, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Using the perspectives of both gender and class Melman sets an alternative view of the Orient against that of Said... a much less monolithic and much more complex and heterogenous than that of Said' - Francis Robinson, Times Literary Supplement 'Women's Orients is an important contribution to our understanding of Orientalism. Melman's work is characterized by a fruitful bringing together of the skills of the historian with the sensitive reading of the British women writers...' - Catherine Hall, The Feminist Review 'An excellent work... This book is a must for anyone interested in women's history, both English and Middle Eastern. It is well written and well argued and effectively does what it promises to do' - Afaf Lutfi Al-Sayyid Marsot, The International History Review 'Women's Orients, a project of recovery and analysis, is an important consideration of European women traveller's writing on the Middle East. It provides a rich and detailed interpretation of a feminine version of the Orient' - Sherifa Zuhur, MESA Bulletin 'The book raises provocative issues and suggests complexities that deepen our understanding of colonial changes and representations' - Dorothy O.Helly, American Historical Review.

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439

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Springer

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1349101575

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9781349101573

Oklahoma Heritage

By: Billie Joan English,Sharon Cooper Calhoun

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Oklahoma Heritage

By: Billie Joan English,Sharon Cooper Calhoun

HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA FROM EARLIEST TIMES TO PRESENT DAY.

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456

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0961949600

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9780961949600

Empires of Antiquities

Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950

By: Billie Melman

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Empires of Antiquities

Modernity and the Rediscovery of the Ancient Near East, 1914-1950

By: Billie Melman

Empires of Antiquities is a history of the rediscovery of civilizations of the ancient Near East in the imperial order that evolved between the outbreak of the First World War and the 1950s. It explores the ways in which Near Eastern antiquity was redefined and experienced, becoming the subject of new regulation, new modes of knowledge, and international and local politics. A series of globally publicized spectacular archaeological discoveries in Iraq, Egypt, and Palestine, which the book follows, made antiquity visible, palpable and accessible as never before. The new uses of antiquity and its relations to modernity were inseparable from the emergence of the post-war world order, imperial collaboration and collisions, and national aspirations. Empires of Antiquities uniquely combines a history of the internationalization of a new "regime of archaeology" under the oversight of the League of Nations and its web of institutions, a history of British passions for Near Eastern antiquity, on-the-ground colonial mechanisms and nationalist claims on the past. It points to the centrality of the mandate system, particularly mandates classified A, in Mesopotamia/Iraq, Palestine and Transjordan, formerly governed by the Ottoman Empire, and of Egypt, in a new culture of antiquity. Drawing on an unusually wide range of archives in several countries, as well as on visual and material evidence, the book weaves together imperial, international, and local histories of institutions, people, ideas and objects and offers an entirely new interpretation of the history of archaeological discovery and its connections to empires and modernity.

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549

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Oxford University Press

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0192558013

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9780192558015

The New Boxer

By: Billie McFadden

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The New Boxer

By: Billie McFadden

Examines the origin, history, development, showing, training, and breeding of boxer dogs.

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264

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Howell Books

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0876050623

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9780876050620

Participant Observation

A Guide for Fieldworkers

By: Kathleen Musante DeWalt,Billie R. DeWalt

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Participant Observation

A Guide for Fieldworkers

By: Kathleen Musante DeWalt,Billie R. DeWalt

Participant Observation is a central and defining method of research in cultural anthropology, as well as a common feature of qualitative research in other disciplines--sociology, education, health sciences. The authors provide the basic guide to the participant observation field methods of collection of systematic data in naturalistic settings--communities in many different cultures. It is a valuable primer for the beginning researcher, as well as a reference for the experienced ethnographer.

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300

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Rowman Altamira

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0759100454

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9780759100459

Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Reflections and New Perspectives

By: Billie Wright Dziech,Michael Hawkins

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Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Reflections and New Perspectives

By: Billie Wright Dziech,Michael Hawkins

Originally published in 1998, Sexual Harassment in Higher Education addresses the problem of sexual harassment on college campuses. This work reflects on a variety of aspects of sexual harassment, its litigation and law, as well as how the issues they demonstrate often have as much to do with linguistics or jurisprudence as with negative action, though there is a great deal of evidence of the latter. The book provides a clear-eyed and detailed assessment of the 'harassment' controversies now plaguing America's universities and colleges.

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Routledge

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0429824475

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9780429824470

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The Culture of History

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Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918

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Oklahoma Heritage

Empires of Antiquities

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The New Boxer

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Participant Observation

Participant Observation

Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

Sexual Harassment in Higher Education

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