Looks at minorities and outsiders, the prejudice and discrimination faced by them, at national identity and the competition with alternative and more personal forms of belonging. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in British history and cultural studies.

Patriotism: Volume 2: Minorities and Outsiders (History Workshop)

History

Samuel, Raphael

Europe

Taylor & Francis Books Ltd

Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity : Minorities and Outsiders (History Workshop Series)

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Explores the changing notion of patriotism in British life from the thirteenth century to the present day in an attempt to come to terms with the power of the national idea. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers in British history and cultural studies.

Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity : National Fictions (History Workshop Series)

Americas

"The myths we live by" uses recorded life stories in a novel way offering a rare view of how memory and tradition are continually reshaped and recycled to make sense of the past from the standpoint of the present. Focused primarily on recent memory, the examples stretch from the transcient myths of contemporary Italian school children on strike, back to the legends of classical Greece, and the traditional storytelling of Canadian Indians. Their range is international - German Dutch maids, Puerto Rican mothers in New York, Australian soldiers, Swedish concentration camp survivors. Cumulatively, they advocate a transformed history, which actively relates subjective and objective, past and present, politics and poetry - history as living force in the present.

The Myths We Live By (History Workshop Series)

Routledge

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. A good, clean and sound copy with previous owners inscription dated 1985. Slightly faded on spine with some rubbing.

Theatres of the Left, 1880-1935: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America (HISTORY WORKSHOP SERIES)

Cosgrove, Stuart

MacColl, Ewan

Village Life and Labor

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The idea that the past is a plaything of the present, or a ‘metafiction’, is only now beginning to disturb the tranquillity of professional historians, but for some twenty years it has been a commonplace of epistemological criticism, and a mainspring of experimental work in literature and the arts. Thus in ‘magic realism’ or ‘modern Gothic’ the fairy tale can appear as the latest thing; while in the visual arts, futurist installations offer themselves as parodies of Old Masters. ‘Back to the Future’ is also a leitmotiv in commodity and marketing design—something discussed here under the heading of ‘Retrochic’—while in Britain, as in other advanced capitalist societies, conservation has been the cutting edge of the business recolonization of the inner city.According to critics of the heritage industry the current obsession with the past signals not a return to tradition but the exhaustion of history’s grand narratives. The postmodern condition, so the argument runs, is one where the future has spectacularly parted company from the past. Nostalgia is the sigh of the historically orphaned, heritage a symptom of national decay.In this book—the first of a trilogy—Raphael Samuel takes issue with the heritage baiters. He offers an alternative genealogy of resurrectionism, relating it to the environmentalist movements of our time. He argues that we live in an expanding historical culture, one which is newly alert to the evidence of the visual, and which is reconnecting the study of landscape and townscape to that of the natural world. It is also, he argues, more democratic than earlier versions of the national past, and much more hospitable to hitherto stigmatized minorities. The volume is prefaced with a long essay on unofficial knowledge and has an Afterword on ‘allegories of the real’.

Theatres of Memory: Past and Present in Contemporary Culture

Verso

Industrial discipline in mining, quarrying, brickmaking and other classes of mineral work was very different to that in nineteenth-century factories and mills. First published in 1977, this book deals with mineral workers of every class and discusses the peculiarities and common features of their work. It offers three detailed local studies: pit life in County Durham, slate quarrying in North Wales, and saltworkers in Cheshire alongside an introductory section on mineral workers in general. The author is concerned with the family and community setting; the social relationships at the point of production itself; job control and trade unionism; and with material culture, wages and earnings.

Routledge Revivals: Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers (1977) (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series)

Theatres of the Left 1880-1935: Workers' Theatre Movements in Britain and America (Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series)

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

A fascinating account of life as a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain The Lost World of British Communism is a vivid account of the Communist Party of Great Britain. Raphael Samuel, one of post-war Britain’s most notable historians, draws on novels of the period and childhood recollections of London’s East End, as well as memoirs and Party archives, to evoke the world of British Communism in the 1940s. Samuel conjures up the era when the movement was at the height of its political and theoretical power, brilliantly bringing to life an age in which the Communist Party enjoyed huge prestige as a bulwark for the struggles against fascism and colonialism.

The Lost World of British Communism

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