Myths and Memories

Myths and Memories
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9781443875790
ISBN-13 : 1443875791
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Myths and Memories by : Cindy Lane

Download or read book Myths and Memories written by Cindy Lane and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the perceptions of European travelling writers about southern Western Australia between 1850 and 1914. Theirs was a narrow vision of space and people in the region, shaped by their individual personalities, their position in society, and the prevailing discourses and ideologies of the age. Christian, Enlightenment, and Romantic philosophies had a major influence on their responses to the land – its cultivation and conservation, and its aesthetic qualities – and on their views of both indigenous and settler colonial society – their class and assumptions of race and ethnicity. The travelling men and women perpetuated an idealised view of a colonised landscape, and a “pioneer” community that eliminated class struggle and inequality, even though an analysis of their observations suggests otherwise. Nevertheless, although limited, their narratives are invaluable as a reflection of opinions, attitudes and knowledge prevalent during an age of imperialism. Their perspectives reveal unique viewpoints that differ from those of immigrants who wrote about their hopes and fears in making a new life for themselves. These travellers were economically secure, literate and educated; foundations which provide an insight into the way power and privilege, implicit in their writings, governed the way they imagined Western Australia in the colonial and immediate post-federation period. The tinted lenses through which European travelling writers narrowly observed space and people, presented a mythical, imagined sense of southern Western Australia.

Train

Train
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 420
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ISBN-10 : 9780698151390
ISBN-13 : 0698151399
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Train by : Tom Zoellner

Download or read book Train written by Tom Zoellner and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic and revelatory narrative of the most important transportation technology of the modern world In his wide-ranging and entertaining new book, Tom Zoellner—coauthor of the New York Times–bestselling An Ordinary Man—travels the globe to tell the story of the sociological and economic impact of the railway technology that transformed the world—and could very well change it again. From the frigid trans-Siberian railroad to the antiquated Indian Railways to the Japanese-style bullet trains, Zoellner offers a stirring story of this most indispensable form of travel. A masterful narrative history, Train also explores the sleek elegance of railroads and their hypnotizing rhythms, and explains how locomotives became living symbols of sex, death, power, and romance.

South Park's Gunnison Division

South Park's Gunnison Division
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 0976128829
ISBN-13 : 9780976128823
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Book Synopsis South Park's Gunnison Division by : Tom Klinger

Download or read book South Park's Gunnison Division written by Tom Klinger and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

On the Wings of Memory

On the Wings of Memory
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Publisher : Prowess Publishing
Total Pages : 397
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ISBN-10 : 9788194580249
ISBN-13 : 8194580242
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis On the Wings of Memory by : Ahmed. M

Download or read book On the Wings of Memory written by Ahmed. M and published by Prowess Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A periodic autobiographical narrative from Independence to millennium, a bildungsroman, ‘a coming of age stories’ of formation, education culture; covers important events during fifty tumultuous years of post independence India; the scenes of turmoil during Hyderabad liberation in 1948 and the harrowing scenes of immigrants returning to Madras composite state from Nizam’s territory; the reorganization of states on lingual base; life in Kurnool and years of father-bereft family of a widow mother, siblings; back to Hyderabad, an event filled life.

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 454
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ISBN-10 : 9781469606750
ISBN-13 : 1469606755
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Forgeries of Memory and Meaning by : Cedric J. Robinson

Download or read book Forgeries of Memory and Meaning written by Cedric J. Robinson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans. Robinson grounds his study in contexts that illuminate the parallel growth of racial beliefs and capitalism, beginning with Shakespearean England and the development of international trade. He demonstrates how the needs of American commerce determined the construction of successive racial regimes that were publicized in the theater and in motion pictures, particularly through plantation and jungle films. In addition to providing new depth and complexity to the history of black representation, Robinson examines black resistance to these practices. Whereas D. W. Griffith appropriated black minstrelsy and romanticized a national myth of origins, Robinson argues that Oscar Micheaux transcended uplift films to create explicitly political critiques of the American national myth. Robinson's analysis marks a new way of approaching the intellectual, political, and media racism present in the beginnings of American narrative cinema.

Memories and Music

Memories and Music
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Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105042976154
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Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Memories and Music by : Sir Dan Godfrey

Download or read book Memories and Music written by Sir Dan Godfrey and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway

Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway
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Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
Total Pages : 703
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ISBN-10 : 9781526778420
ISBN-13 : 1526778424
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Book Synopsis Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway by : Peter Steer

Download or read book Alfred Raworth's Electric Southern Railway written by Peter Steer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 703 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Railway between 1923 and 1939 was the only British company to carry out a sustained programme of electrification which became known as the Southern Electric. Unlike many recent projects, each incremental step was completed on time and within budget. This successful project was more impressive as it was achieved during a period of economic stagnation (including the ‘great depression’) and despite government disapproval of the method of electrification. The driving force behind this endeavor was the railway’s general manager, Sir Herbert Walker, but at his side was his electrical engineer, Alfred Raworth, the man one journalist described as an ‘electrification genius’. Alfred Raworth’s career began working with his father the eminent consulting engineer and entrepreneur, John Smith Raworth. Following the collapse of his father’s business Alfred joined the railway industry and devised an ambitious and innovative electrification design. This was discarded when the railways of southern England were ‘grouped’ into the Southern Railway after which he took responsibility for the implementation of the electrification schemes. With Walker’s retirement in 1937, those who continued to support steam traction took the policy lead. A marginalised Raworth retired but was later to witness the fruition of many of his discarded ideas.