Judith M. Brown, one of the leading historians of South Asia, provides an original and thought-provoking strategy for conducting and presenting historical research in her latest book, Windows into the Past. Brown looks at how varieties of "life history" that focus on the lives of institutions and families, as well as individuals, offer a broad and rich means of studying history. Her distinctively creative approach differs from traditional historical biography in that it explores a variety of "life histories" and shows us how they become invaluable windows into the past. Following her introduction, "The Practice of History," Brown opens windows on the history of South Asia. She begins with the life history of an educational institution, Balliol College, Oxford, and tracks the interrelationship between Britain and India through the lives of the British and Indian men who were educated there. She then demonstrates the significance of family life history, showing that by observing patterns of family life over several generations, it is possible to gain insight into the experiences of groups of people who rarely left historical documents about themselves, particularly South Asian women. Finally, Brown uses the life history of two prominent individuals, Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, to examine questions about the nature of Indian nationalism and the emergent Indian state. "This book provides an example of the historian's craft at its best. Known throughout the world for her balanced and influential interpretation of modern India, Mahatma Gandhi, and Nehru, Judith Brown has excelled herself by opening windows into India's recent past that hitherto have remained closed. The elegance of style adds to the power of the argument. Read it: you will enjoy the experience." --Anthony Parel, University of Calgary "Once again, Judith Brown has amazed us with something truly remarkable. Her latest book, so exquisitely well crafted, is a gem. It gives us fresh glimpses into facets of India's (or South Asia's) recent past, of things never before seen, or imagined. Reflecting brilliance of imagination and insight, it shows us new ways of 'doing history.' By focusing upon dynastic 'lives' of specific institutions--cohorts and families of Balliol College, as well as individuals in their 'public' and 'private' worlds--this work turns our understandings around. Never again will we look at the Raj, or at Gandhi and Nehru, in quite the same way." --Robert Eric Frykenberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Utilizing Balliol College records, personal photographs, life histories, and more traditional sources such as autobiographies and private papers, Judith Brown incisively explores multiple themes in the history of colonial and independent India. They range from the graduates of Balliol College who formed 'dynasties' within an imperial administration to how the iconic Indian leaders, Gandhi and Nehru, confronted public and private challenges while creating an Indian nation. Her fascinating narrative of family histories will stimulate both professional historians and popular audiences to reconsider how such histories can illuminate broader topics such as imperial dominance, nation-building, and globalization." --Barbara Ramusack, Charles Phelps Taft Professor, University of Cincinnati "Judith Brown provides an insightful demonstration of the diverse uses historians can make of biography as a means of interrogating the past and of communicating with a wider public outside academia. In taking 'life history' beyond the study of individuals to explore family, group, and institutional trajectories over several generations, Brown's innovative analyses extend from the lives of powerful and well-documented figures central to the evolution of modern India, particularly Gandhi and Nehru, to British family 'dynasties' and educational institutions that decisively shaped the Raj to the lives of ordinary Indian women and men who left few written traces. Her work positions South Asia and its peoples, particularly its imperial and international migrants and diasporas, within a suggestively global framework." --Elizabeth Buettner, University of York

Windows into the Past: Life Histories and the Historian of South Asia (Critical Problems in History)

History

Brown, Judith

Asia

University of Notre Dame Press

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Diets & Weight Loss

Cengage Learning'

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"I Only Want What's Best for You": a Parent's Guide to Raising Well Adjusted Children

Random House Children's Books (A Division of Random House Group)

Judith Brown explores Nehru as a figure of power and provides an assessment of his leadership at the head of a newly independent India with no tradition of democratic politics.

Nehru (Profiles in Power Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

Routledge

I Only Want What's Best for You: A Parent's Guide to Raising Well-adjusted Children

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Glamour is an alluring but elusive concept. We most readily associate it with fashion, industrial design, and Hollywood of the Golden Age, and yet it also shaped the language and interests of high modernism. In Glamour in Six Dimensions, Judith Brown looks at the historical and aesthetic roots of glamour in the early decades of the twentieth century, arguing that glamour is the defining aesthetic of modernism. In the clean lines of modernism she finds the ideal conditions for glamour-blankness, polish, impenetrability, and the suspicion of emptiness behind it all.Brown focuses on several cultural products that she argues helped to shape glamour's meanings: the most significant perfume of the twentieth century, Chanel No. 5; the idea of the Jazz Age and its ubiquitous cigarette; the celebrity photograph; the staging of primitivism; and the invention of a shimmering plastic called cellophane. Alongside these artifacts, she takes up the development, refinement, and analysis of glamour in Anglo-American poetry, film, fiction, and drama of the period. Glamour in Six Dimensions thus asks its reader to see the proximity between the vernacular and elite cultures of modernism, and particularly how glamour was animated by artists working at the crossroads of the mundane and the extraordinary: Wallace Stevens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker, D. H. Lawrence, Gertrude Stein, Nella Larsen, and others.

Glamour in Six Dimensions: Modernism and the Radiance of Form

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Cornell University Press

"Choices" Welcome to the world of decisions. Upon entering the transitional period of adolescent to adult hood. Tiffany's unrealistic look on life hadn't prepared her for life's mission. Living in the doubts of victory, she found it hard to maintain her sharp and bubblingly personality. When she discovers a true bond with her new girl friends, they create their own classification of the way a girl should act. Through the discovery of life, walk with Tiffany Diana Green as she takes you deep inside the scattered minds of our younger generation. Based off true events, Choices gives you a raw look at cause and effect. Will Tiffany survive the high statics of failure? Will she ever end her search for the love she never had? Or will she shatter under pressure? Hold on tight and get ready to be blown out of your mind. With unexpected turns, life changing realities and vividly scripted passion. It no wonder these girls are the life of the party. Follow them, as they take it all the way, with no hesitation, and no regrets. Were they really as bad as they thought? You make the choice. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Choices: Welcome to the world of decisions

Religion & Spirituality

Charisma House

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