Recovered Roots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recovered Roots write by Yael Zerubavel. This book was released on 1995. Recovered Roots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because new nations need new pasts, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition. In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. Zerubavel focuses on the nationalist reinterpretation of the defense of Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135; and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into a national myth. Zerubavel demonstrates how, in each case, Israeli memory transforms events that ended in death and defeat into heroic myths and symbols of national revival. Drawing on a broad range of official and popular sources and original interviews, Zerubavel shows that the construction of a new national tradition is not necessarily the product of government policy but a creative collaboration between politicans, writers, and educators. Her discussion of the politics of commemoration demonstrates how rival groups can turn the past into an arena of conflict as they posit competing interpretations of history and opposing moral claims on the use of the past. Zerubavel analyzes the emergence of counter-memories within the reality of Israel's frequent wars, the ensuing debates about the future of the occupied territories, and the embattled relations with Palestinians. A fascinating examination of the interplay between history and memory, this book will appeal to historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, and folklorists, as well as to scholars of cultural studies, literature, and communication.
Recovered Roots
Recovered Roots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recovered Roots write by Yael Zerubavel. This book was released on 2007-12. Recovered Roots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Because new nations need new paths, they create new ways of commemorating and recasting select historic events. In Recovered Roots, Yael Zerubavel illuminates this dynamic process by examining the construction of Israeli national tradition. In the years leading to the birth of Israel, Zerubavel shows, Zionist settlers in Palestine consciously sought to rewrite Jewish history by reshaping Jewish memory. She focuses on the nationalist interpretation of the defense of the Masada against the Romans in 73 C.E. and the Bar Kokhba revolt of 133-135, and on the transformation of the 1920 defense of a new Jewish settlement in Tel Hai into national myth.
Roots Recovered!
Roots Recovered! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Roots Recovered! write by James E. White. This book was released on 2004. Roots Recovered! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The authors provide valuable information specific for African travel and tracing African genealogy using traditional methods, the Internet and DNA technology.
Recovering History, Constructing Race
Recovering History, Constructing Race - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Recovering History, Constructing Race write by Martha Menchaca. This book was released on 2002-01-15. Recovering History, Constructing Race available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “An unprecedented tour de force . . . [A] sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans.” —Antonia I. Castañeda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary’s University Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programs for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from preHispanic times to the present. Menchaca uses the concept of racialization to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. authorities constructed racial status hierarchies that marginalized Mexicans of color and restricted their rights of land ownership. She traces this process from the Spanish colonial period and the introduction of slavery through racial laws affecting Mexican Americans into the late twentieth-century. This re-viewing of familiar history through the lens of race recovers Blacks as important historical actors, links Indians and the mission system in the Southwest to the Mexican American present, and reveals the legal and illegal means by which Mexican Americans lost their land grants. “Martha Menchaca has begun an intellectual insurrection by challenging the pristine aboriginal origins of Mexican Americans as historically inaccurate . . . Menchaca revisits the process of racial formation in the northern part of Greater Mexico from the Spanish conquest to the present.” —Hispanic American Historical Review
Root Methods
Root Methods - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Root Methods write by A.L. Smit. This book was released on 2000-07-26. Root Methods available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive review of all modern methods for plant root research, both in the field and in the laboratory. It covers the effects of environmental interactions with root growth and function, focussing in particular on the assessment of root distribution and dynamics. It also describes and discusses the processing of root observations, analysis and modelling of root growth and architecture, root-image analysis, computer-assisted tomography and magnetic resonance imaging. Furthermore, a survey of the application of isotope techniques in root physiology is given.
