Eyewitness
Author : Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Seno Gumira Ajidarma
Publisher :
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Marcus Graham Bull
Publisher : Crusading in Context
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2020-06-19
Category : Crusades
ISBN : 9781783275373
Eyewitness" is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustworthiness and particular proximity to the lived experience of historical actors. But it is a surprisingly little studied category of analysis. This book seeks to open up discussion of what we mean when we label a historical source in this way. Using as case studies histories about the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades, all of which were written by people caught up in the events they describe, it draws upon some of the lessons of narratology to argue that the most significant determinant of the eyewitness quality of texts such as these does not reside in what the authors as historical actors may or may not have seen, but in the terms in which they situate their narratorial personas within the storyworlds that their narratives call forth. Ultimately, historians must recognize that the eyewitness quality of histories such as these is a function of their textual effects, not the extra-textual circumstances of their authors.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 630 pages
File Size : 30,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786707478
Takes a snapshot view of history from 2700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. and offers a collection of eyewitness accounts of the most memorable historical and social events taken from memoirs, diaries, letters and journals. Original.
Author : David Colbert
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,45 MB
Release : 1998-07-28
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 067976724X
Thomas Jefferson complains about haggling over the Declaration of Independence ... Jack London guides us through the rubble of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake ... Langston Hughes visits the Scottsboro Boys on death row ... Andy Warhol paints the scene at Studio 54 ... John Seabrook receives e-mail from Bill Gates. Three hundred eyewitnesses -- some famous, some anonymous -- give their personal accounts of the great moments that make up our past, from Columbus to cyberspace, and infuse them with a freshness and urgency no historian can duplicate. David Colbert has brought together a multitude of voices to create a singularly rich American narrative. Here are the vivid impressions of men and women who were witnesses to and participants in these and other dramatic moments: the first colony in Virginia, the Salem witch trials, the Boston Tea Party, the Oklahoma land rush, the Scopes Trial, the bombing of Nagasaki, the lunch-counter sit-ins at the outset of the civil rights movement, New York City's Stonewall Riot, the fall of Saigon, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots. With unparalleled and thrilling immediacy, these excerpts from diaries, private letters, memoirs, and newspapers paint a fascinating picture of the evolving drama of American life.
Author : Richard Bauckham
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 2008-09-22
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 0802863906
Noted New Testament scholar Bauckham challenges the prevailing assumption the accounts of Jesus circulated as "anonymous community traditions," instead asserting that they were transmitted in the name of the original eyewitness.
Author : Beth C. Spacey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 12,98 MB
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 1783275189
First comprehensive study of miracles in Crusade narrative, showing how and why they were deployed by their authors.
Author : Robert Guillain
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,83 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Major-General Ernest D. Swinton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 20,48 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786255596
Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos. Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent by the war Minister Lord Kitchener in 1914, his reporting home was the only way for the British people to follow the war as journalists were at that time banned at the front. In these dispatches from the front Swinton told the public of the bloody fighting in Flanders and the heroic efforts of the Allies to stop the German Juggernaut. So even handed and realistic they were brought together in a series of books under the pseudonym “Eyewitness” for further publication. Swinton was not a “château” general by any means and visited the front with dangerous regularity write of the fighting with real authority, often including anecdotes of the ordinary soldiers that he interviewed. The miserable conditions and bloody siege warfare of the trenches left a lasting impression on him and he looked to a scientific solution to the muddy stalemate of the Western Front. He would gain lasting fame as the architect of the “tank” project that was to revolutionize warfare in the First World War and for many years thereafter.
Author : Major-General Ernest D. Swinton
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 35,15 MB
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1786255588
Includes The First World War On The Western Front 1914-1915 Illustrations Pack with 101 maps, plans, and photos. Major-General Ernest Swinton had already had a long and illustrious career in the British Army before the advent of the First World War in 1914. Appointed as the official war correspondent by the war Minister Lord Kitchener in 1914, his reporting home was the only way for the British people to follow the war as journalists were at that time banned at the front. In these dispatches from the front Swinton told the public of the bloody fighting in Flanders and the heroic efforts of the Allies to stop the German Juggernaut. So even handed and realistic they were brought together in a series of books under the pseudonym “Eyewitness” for further publication. Swinton was not a “château” general by any means and visited the front with dangerous regularity write of the fighting with real authority, often including anecdotes of the ordinary soldiers that he interviewed. The miserable conditions and bloody siege warfare of the trenches left a lasting impression on him and he looked to a scientific solution to the muddy stalemate of the Western Front. He would gain lasting fame as the architect of the “tank” project that was to revolutionize warfare in the First World War and for many years thereafter.
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Page : pages
File Size : 40,31 MB
Release : 1915
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