Tag: Histories

April 26, 2024

Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion

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Free Download Fredrik Norén, "Nordic Media Histories of Propaganda and Persuasion"
English | ISBN: 303105170X | 2023 | 345 pages | PDF | 8 MB
This open access edited volume shines new light on the history of propaganda and persuasion during the Nordic welfare epoch. A common analytical framework is developed that highlights transnational and transmedial perspectives rather than national or monomedial histories. The return of propaganda in contemporary debate underlines the need to historically contextualize the role and function of persuasive communication activities in the Nordic region and beyond. Building on an empirically situated approach, the chapters in this volume break new ground by covering a range of themes, from cultural diplomacy and nation branding to media materiality and information infrastructures. In doing so, the book stresses that the Nordic welfare epoch, with its associated epithet the "Nordic Model", was built not only on governance, social security and economic productivity, but also on propaganda and persuasion.

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April 25, 2024

Industrial Craft in Australia Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival

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Free Download Jesse Adams Stein, "Industrial Craft in Australia: Oral Histories of Creativity and Survival "
English | ISBN: 3030872424 | 2021 | 268 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This book is the first of its kind to investigate the ongoing significance of industrial craft in deindustrialising places such as Australia. Providing an alternative to the nostalgic trope of the redundant factory ‘craftsman’, this book introduces the intriguing and little-known trade of engineering patternmaking, where objects are brought to life through the handmade ‘originals’ required for mass production.

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April 25, 2024

Ayurveda made modern political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955

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Free Download Ayurveda made modern : political histories of indigenous medicine in North India, 1900-1955 By Berger, Rachel
2013 | 232 Pages | ISBN: 0230284558 | PDF | 2 MB
This book explores the ways in which Ayurveda, the oldest medical tradition of the Indian subcontinent, was transformed from a composite of ‘ancient’ medical knowledge into a ‘modern’ medical system, suited to the demands posed by apparatuses of health developed in colonial India. It examines the shift between an entrenched colonial reticence to consider the Indigenous Medical Systems as legitimate scientific medicine, to a growing acceptance of Ayurvedic medicine following the First World War. Locating the moment of transition within the implementation of a dyarchic system of governance in 1919, the book argues that the revamping of the ‘Medical Services’ into an important new category of regional governance ushered in an era of health planning that considered curative and preventative medicine as key components of the ‘health’ of the population. As such, it illuminates the way in which conceptions of power, authority and agency were newly configured and consolidated as politics were revamped in the late colonial India.

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March 7, 2024

The Histories Penguin Classics [Audiobook]

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Free Download The Histories: Penguin Classics (Audiobook)
English | July 15, 2021 | ASIN: B08TX2BKLM | M4B@64 kbps | 27h 8m | 739 MB
Author: Herodotus | Translator: Tom Holland | Narrator: Frank Laverty
This Penguin Classic of Tom Holland’s ‘stirring new translation’ (Telegraph) of Herodotus’ Histories, one of the great books in Western history, is narrated by Frank Laverty.

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February 4, 2024

Twilight Histories Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel

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Free Download Camilla Cassidy, "Twilight Histories: Nostalgia and the Victorian Historical Novel "
English | ISBN: 9004526501 | 2022 | 241 pages | PDF | 16 MB
Twilight Histories explores the relationship between nostalgia and the Victorian historical novel, arguing that both responded to the turbulence brought by accelerating modernisation. Nostalgia began as a pathological homesickness, its first victims seventeenth-century soldiers serving abroad. Only gradually did it become the sentimental memory we understand it as today. In a striking parallel to nostalgia’s origin, the historical novel emerged in the tumultuous early-years of the nineteenth century, at a time when the Napoleonic Wars once again set troops on the move, creating a new wave of homesick soldiers. In the historical novels of Gaskell, Thackeray, Dickens, Eliot and Hardy, nostalgia offered a language in which to describe the experience of living through changing times as a homesickness for history.

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