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The Multiple Perspective

Wilhelm Raabe's Third-person Narratives of the Braunschweig Period

By: Irene Stocksieker Di Maio

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The Multiple Perspective

Wilhelm Raabe's Third-person Narratives of the Braunschweig Period

By: Irene Stocksieker Di Maio

In this study the works of Wilhelm Raabe (1831 1910) are being discussed, taking into account the emerge of the perspectival narration, culminating in the Braunschweig period (1870-1920). The book starts with a survey of the point of view theory, including the concept of multiple perspective, and then focusses on the works of Raabe in which these various techniques will be demonstrated. Special attention is paid to three works of the Braunschweig period; "Der Draumling, Das Horn von Wanza" and "Kloster Lugau.

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John Benjamins Publishing

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9027240043

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9789027240040

The Moment of Racial Sight

A History

By: Irene Tucker

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The Moment of Racial Sight

A History

By: Irene Tucker

The Moment of Racial Sight overturns the most familiar form of racial analysis in contemporary culture: the idea that race is constructed, that it operates by attaching visible marks of difference to arbitrary meanings and associations. Searching for the history of the constructed racial sign, Irene Tucker argues that if people instantly perceive racial differences despite knowing better, then the underlying function of race is to produce this immediate knowledge. Racial perception, then, is not just a mark of acculturation, but a part of how people know one another. Tucker begins her investigation in the Enlightenment, at the moment when skin first came to be used as the primary mark of racial difference. Through Kant and his writing on the relation of philosophy and medicine, she describes how racialized skin was created as a mechanism to enable us to perceive the likeness of individuals in a moment. From there, Tucker tells the story of instantaneous racial seeing across centuries—from the fictive bodies described but not seen in Wilkie Collins’s realism to the medium of common public opinion in John Stuart Mill, from the invention of the notion of a constructed racial sign in Darwin’s late work to the institutionalizing of racial sight on display in the HBO series The Wire. Rich with perceptive readings of unexpected texts, this ambitious book is an important intervention in the study of race.

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290

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University of Chicago Press

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0226922952

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9780226922959

Becoming a Citizen

Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada

By: Irene Bloemraad

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Becoming a Citizen

Incorporating Immigrants and Refugees in the United States and Canada

By: Irene Bloemraad

Becoming a Citizen is a terrific book. Important, innovative, well argued, theoretically significant, and empirically grounded. It will be the definitive work in the field for years to come."—Frank D. Bean, Co-Director, Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy "This book is in three ways innovative. First, it avoids the domestic navel-gazing of U.S .immigration studies, through an obvious yet ingenious comparison with Canada. Second, it shows that official multiculturalism and common citizenship may very well go together, revealing Canada, and not the United States, as leader in successful immigrant integration. Thirdly, the book provides a compelling picture of how the state matters in making immigrants citizens. An outstanding contribution to the migration and citizenship literature!"—Christian Joppke, American University of Paris

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386

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Univ of California Press

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0520248996

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9780520248991

We, the Students and Teachers

Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom

By: Robert W. Maloy,Irene S. LaRoche

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We, the Students and Teachers

Teaching Democratically in the History and Social Studies Classroom

By: Robert W. Maloy,Irene S. LaRoche

We, the Students and Teachers shows history and social studies educators how to make school classrooms into democratic spaces for teaching and learning. The book offers practical strategies and lesson ideas for transforming democratic theory into instructional practice. It stresses the importance of students and teachers working together to create community and change. The book serves as an essential text for history and social studies teaching methods courses as well as professional development and inservice programs for history and social studies teachers at all grade levels.

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258

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State University of New York Press

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1438455607

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9781438455600

Troubled Pasts in Europe

Strategies and Recommendations for Overcoming Challenging Historic Legacies

By: Rok Zupančič,Faris Kočan,Kenneth Andresen,Katarzyna Bojarska,Ricardo Dacosta,Seamus Farrell,Anke Fiedler,Abit Hoxha,Nikandros Ioannidis,Niamh Kirk

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Troubled Pasts in Europe

Strategies and Recommendations for Overcoming Challenging Historic Legacies

By: Rok Zupančič,Faris Kočan,Kenneth Andresen,Katarzyna Bojarska,Ricardo Dacosta,Seamus Farrell,Anke Fiedler,Abit Hoxha,Nikandros Ioannidis,Niamh Kirk

Based on the findings of a major research project, this book investigates how European societies confront their troubled pasts today. In particular, the text explores what kinds of measures can be taken and which strategies endorsed to facilitate the process of overcoming difficult historic legacies in seven European states: Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Cyprus and Poland. The book is written by an international team of experts and examines strategies and actions in both policy making and civil society of European countries, as well as throughout the EU as a collective.

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217

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Policy Press

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152923364X

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9781529233643

Geodesy? What's That?

My Personal Involvement in the Age-old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth with a Running Commentary on Life in a Government Research Office

By: Irene K. Fischer

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Geodesy? What's That?

My Personal Involvement in the Age-old Quest for the Size and Shape of the Earth with a Running Commentary on Life in a Government Research Office

By: Irene K. Fischer

Geodesy (the measurement of the size and shape of the earth), fascinating since the time of Erathosenes, became a basic science for the space program. Irene Fischer was a leader in the construction of the World Geodetic System (has an Earth reference ellipsoid named in her honor) when it was still being done by surveyors, piecing together terrestrial, gravitational and astronomical data. By the 1970s, satellite geodesy and marine geodesy were just coming into their own. Using her career, Fischer revels in explaining how the science unfolded, and how misunderstandings occur across scientific fields, e.g., why the "standard ocean" and the geoid do not easily translate across the fields of oceanography and geodesy. Her account should appeal to those writing the history of women in science. Government science, too, is less well studied than academic science even though some fields, such as geodesy, were always government led. Fischer provides food for thought, as well, to those who claim to study the management of science in bureaucratic settings different from those of industry or academia. Peppered among these themes are Fischer's solutions to historical mysteries such as why Columbus' used a figure for the size of the earth's circumference that was so much smaller than Erastothenes' or Posidonius' (with the added benefit of making it easier to persuade his patrons).

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398

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iUniverse

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0595363997

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9780595363995

Felony Disenfranchisement in America

Historical Origins, Institutional Racism, and Modern Consequences

By: Katherine Irene Pettus

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Felony Disenfranchisement in America

Historical Origins, Institutional Racism, and Modern Consequences

By: Katherine Irene Pettus

State felony disenfranchisement laws that date back to Reconstruction fracture the American electorate into those who are citizens in the fullest sense of the term, in Aristotles words, and those who, deprived of political voice, still have the status of slaves. The existence of this "invisible constituency"approximately 5.8 million or 2.5% of the national voting populationwho live alongside the ruling enfranchised electorateis one of the scandals of our generation. In this second edition of Felony Disenfranchisement in America, Katherine Irene Pettus draws on philosophy, history, law, and punishment theory to make the compelling argument that state disenfranchisement policies have collective moral and political significance that transcends the personal tragedy of being legally deprived of full citizenship status. Pettus argues that the war on drugs, mass incarceration, and racially unbalanced disenfranchisement rates distort and disfigure the body politic as a whole, and undermine the legitimacy of the domestic and foreign policies promulgated by our elected representatives.

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298

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SUNY Press

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1438447205

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9781438447209

In Conflict No Longer

Self and Society in Contemporary America

By: Irene Taviss Thomson

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In Conflict No Longer

Self and Society in Contemporary America

By: Irene Taviss Thomson

Drawing on social-criticism, self-help manuals, and the social scientific analysis of American character, In Conflict No Longer examines American thinking about individualism, conformity, and community from 1920 through 1995. Taviss-Thomson's analysis reveals a basic shift in American culture: from a belief that the individual is necessarily in conflict with society and that the self chafes against the constraints imposed by society, to a belief that the self is expressed in the groups, relationships, and subcultures that help shape it. Taviss-Thomson contends that this new model of a relational or 'embedded' self arose due to a weakening of traditional identities based on occupation, social class, gender and age which left individuals freer to construct their own identities. In an age where Americans increasingly abandon the traditional mythology of an individual struggling against social constraints, In Conflict No Longer forecasts a picture of American culture for the next millennium.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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084769707X

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9780847697076

Frauen Konnen Mehr

By: Irene Fiedler

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Frauen Konnen Mehr

By: Irene Fiedler

While the author was still a student at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda (1968/69), she realized how important women are, in the society and in the church. After Makerere, she worked for seven years in the Kania la Biblia in Southern Tanzania. While living in Matemanga, she established the church's Women's Ministry, which she continued to lead from Songea and Mbinga. In this book she looks back on her life, work and thinking in those years, based on her diaries and correspondence. This she augments by information on related developments over the last 50 years, which show what women can achieve. Irene Fiedler (*1942), after training as a domestic worker, as a kindergarten teacher and then as a primary school teacher, studied at Makerere University in Kampala and after that worked for seven years as a missionary of the Kanisa la Biblia in South Tanzania. Returning to Germany in 1976, she trained as a child and adolescent psychotherapist and received her PhD in Education from Dortmund University in 1984. She worked as a psychotherapist in private practice and as an instructor in psychotherapy. Mother of three children, two of them born in Tanzania. Editor of the Old Testament section of the Swahili Bible Concordance (Itifaki ya Biblia) published in 1990 in Dodoma (Central Tanganyika Press) and in Nairobi (Uzima Press).

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African Books Collective

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9996066827

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9789996066825

The Beach Book

A Teachers' Guide

By: Clifford J. Anastasiou,Irene Gutmann,Jackie Geiger,Western Education Development Group,British Columbia. Ministry of Environment

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The Beach Book

A Teachers' Guide

By: Clifford J. Anastasiou,Irene Gutmann,Jackie Geiger,Western Education Development Group,British Columbia. Ministry of Environment

Grade level: 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t.

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Pacific Educational Press

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0888650027

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9780888650023

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The Multiple Perspective

The Multiple Perspective

The Moment of Racial Sight

The Moment of Racial Sight

Becoming a Citizen

Becoming a Citizen

We, the Students and Teachers

We, the Students and Teachers

Troubled Pasts in Europe

Troubled Pasts in Europe

Geodesy? What's That?

Geodesy? What's That?

Felony Disenfranchisement in America

Felony Disenfranchisement in America

In Conflict No Longer

In Conflict No Longer

Frauen Konnen Mehr

Frauen Konnen Mehr

The Beach Book

The Beach Book

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