History Of People Research Articles

Review: The Darker Nations: a people's history of the Third World By VIJAY PRASHAD (New York and London, The New Press, 2007), 384 pp. Cloth $26.95, Paper $19.95

Review: The Darker Nations: a people's history of the Third World By VIJAY PRASHAD (New York and London, The New Press, 2007), 384 pp. Cloth $26.95, Paper $19.95

A people's history of poverty in America

A people's history of poverty in America

Learning to be An American

As a white, American wife of an Iranian, I spent several months in Iran in 1979 and again in 1987. My experiences on these trips to my husband's home were profound and devastating. These experiences deeply troubled my understanding of what it meant to be a citizen of the United States. In this autoethnographic narrative, I work between experience, people's history, published history, theory, and poetry to trouble my position as an American.

The Development of Labor History in UK Museums and the People's History Museum

Labor history in UK museums is constantly in a state of change. A hundred-year-old tradition of displaying and interpreting the history of the common people has seen a shift from the folk life museum to a much more all-encompassing model. The academic trend for and acceptance of working-class history began this process, and museums followed, albeit at a much slower pace. Young curators actively involved in the History Workshop, Oral History, and Women's History movements brought their new philosophies into the museum sphere. This internally driven change in museums has been matched with demand for change from above. Museums have been given a central role in the current Labour government's wide-ranging strategies to promote an understanding of diversity, citizenship, cultural identity, and lifelong learning as part of a broader social inclusion policy. The zenith of this plan would be a museum devoted to British national history, though whether this will take place is yet to be seen. The transformation of the People's History Museum makes an interesting case study. The museum, originally an institution on the fringes of academic labor history and actively outside the museum community, is now at the forefront of labor history display, interpretation, textile conservation, and working-class historical research.

Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War- Edited by Sandra Koa Wing

HistoryVolume 94, Issue 313 p. 129-130 Our Longest Days: A People's History of the Second World War - Edited by Sandra Koa Wing RICHARD TOYE, RICHARD TOYE University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author RICHARD TOYE, RICHARD TOYE University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author First published: 19 January 2009 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229X.2009.444_57.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL No abstract is available for this article. Volume94, Issue313January 2009Pages 129-130 RelatedInformation

Contract and Domination The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Contract and Domination The Darker Nations: A People's History of the Third World

Loyalty, Dissent, and Betrayal: Modern Lithuania and East-Central European Moral Imagination by Leonidas Donskis (review)

754 SEER, 86, 4, OCTOBER 2008 explanation of the GDR's collapse is not only eloquendy written, but the combination of historical research and sociological theoryprovides fora high ly original and compelling study,which yields invaluable insight into the unique nature of theGDR's collapse. It is a significantpublication within this field, and one which will doubtless inspire fruitfuldebate. School of Modern Languages AnnaSaunders Universityof Wales, Bangor Donskis, Leonidas. Loyalty, Dissent, andBetrayal: Modern Lithuania andEast-Central EuropeanMoral Imagination.On the Boundary of Two Worlds: Identity, Freedom, and Moral Imagination in the Baltics, 4. Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, 2005. xiii + 164 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. 38.00: $48.00 (paperback). Donskis here offers a positive critique of post-modern or liberal nationalism. The latter is not, of course, to be confused with conservative, blood-and-soil ethnic nationalism which he condemns as militant, doctrinaire and exclusion ary. For the conservative nationalist, loyalty means accepting that nothing can be wrong inwhat the nation did in itspast and, in case of controversy, always being on the side of your country. Dissent from thisposition raises the cry of betrayal and treason. Liberal nationalists, on the other hand, argue that the human individual ethically precedes the nation as a collective individual, and that there are values more important than the nation. It ispossible, they argue, to derive a critique of society and culture from the ethic of nationalism. Moreover, nationalism of this sort offers a potent alternative to global ideologies that reject nationalism as an obstacle tohistorical progress or to 'the creation of a "new human being", free of history, religion and tradition' (p. 84). Donskis argues that the post-Communist experience of East Central Europe illustrates and clarifies this contest in a unique way. He uses the term 'faster than history' to make the point that in this region two centuries of other people's history have been telescoped into a couple of decades. He believes that the area may serve as a laboratory inwhich the struggles still awaiting most of the planet are currently being rehearsed by trial and error. Only where the speed of change reaches itsclimax, he asserts, can history be properly understood. Donskis develops his argument by analysing thewritings of three expatriate Lithuanians, Vytautas Kavolis, Aleksandras Shtromas and Tomas Venclova. It seems that one of his aims is to bring to the attention of aWestern readership the distinction of their contributions, from different disciplinary perspectives, to an understanding of nationalism, and to place them among the world's leading social and cultural critics of the last half century. Their contributions to explicating the ethic of liberal nationalism are both suggestive and persuasive. Kavolis, a philosopher, livedmost of his life in theUnited States, having left Lithuania when it was incorporated into the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Donskis's discussion of Kavolis's work is, for a non-philosopher, reviews 755 difficult to understand and would have benefited from the author's own rather surprised comment on Venclova's style,namely thathe formulated his thought inan exceptionally clear and understandable way. What does become clear, however, is thatKavolis advocated modernizing nationalism by opening up its liberal and inclusive traitsand by distinguishing it clearly from ethnic nationalism. Shtromas, who was one of the leading human rights activists in the Soviet Union alongside Sakharov, Siniavskii, Daniel' and Bukovskii, was forced to leave in 1973.Though tenacious of the ideals of cosmopolitan tolerance, liberal democracy and ethical universalism, he was generous in his approach to nationalism and identitypolitics. Itwas, he believed, the right of people to have a collective identity and be rooted in their histories and cultures. But this right should be combined with a sympathetic understanding of theOther. This theme of ethical universalism was taken up and furtherdeveloped by Venclova. His cosmopolitanism and internationalism are anathema to most Lithuanians who regard them as a threat toLithuanian identityand culture. It is clear that Venclova refuses to engage in moral compromise for the sake of national culture and its survival. Human rights have preference over national rights.On the other hand he is a supporter of Lithuanian liberal nationalism which, he believes, is compatible with ethical universalism. The acid test for...

Book Review: Reformation Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 5

Book Review: Reformation Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 5

Schooling and Looked after Children: Exploring Contexts and Outcomes in Standard Attainment Tests (SATS)

Dolores Davey and Andrew Pithouse outline the findings from a longitudinal case study which ran from 2002 to 2006 and explored the educational achievement of all the young people looked after (in foster and residential care) in one local authority in South Wales. Among this group were 14 young people at a point one year before taking their Standard Attainment Tests (SATS), which are applied universally in UK schools. They were then followed up to the age at which they could complete any General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) exams. Hence, the young people's school history was tracked from the beginning of school Year 9 (sample age 13 years), at the end of which they took their SATS, through to the end of school Year 11 (sample age 15 years), at which point GCSEs are normally taken. This article focuses mainly on the outcome of the SATS and the looked after arrangements of the 14 young people in the year leading to these important tests. The authors' concluding comments refer briefly to their Year 11 outcomes in order to indicate continuities and changes in attainment. The SATs results are presented in a context of school attendance, the type and stability of care placements and education moves. Associations between schooling and separation are explored using an analysis of trajectories and outcomes that reveal how and why some young people clearly achieve while others do not. In doing so, the article seeks to add to studies and policy pronouncements in this field that too often represent looked after children by their collective statistical failure rather than by notable differences in educational outcomes and related circumstances.

Fields Of Power, Forests Of Discontent: Culture, Conservation, and The State In Mexico

Enduring differences between protected areas and local people have produced few happy compromises, but at the Calakmul Biosphere Reserve in the southern Mexican state of Campeche, government agents and thousands of local people collaborated on an expansive program to alleviate these tensions a conservation-development agenda that aimed to improve local people's standard of living while preserving natural resources. Calakmul is home to numerous endangered species and raises a common question: How can environmental managers and citizens reconcile competing ecological desires? For a brief time in the 1990s, collaborations at Calakmul were heralded as a vital example of melding local management, forest and economic development. In Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent, Nora Haenn questions the rise and fall of this conservation program to examine conservation at the intersection of national-international agendas and local political-economic interests. While other assessments of such programs have typically focused on why they do or do not succeed, Haenn instead considers conservation's encounter with people's everyday lives and how those experiences affect environmental management. Haenn explores conservation and development from two perspectives: first regionally, to look at how people used conservation to create a new governing entity on a tropical frontier once weakly under national rule; then locally, focusing on personal histories and aspects of community life that shape people's daily lives, farming practices, and immersion in development programs even though those programs ultimately fail to resolve economic frustrations. She identifies how key political actors, social movements, and identity politics contributed to the instability of the Calakmul alliance. Drawing on extensive interviews with Reserve staff, including its director, she connects regional trends to village life through accounts of disputes at ejido meetings and the failure of ejido development projects. In the face of continued difficulty in creating a popular conservation in Calakmul, Haenn uses lessons from people's lives history, livelihood, village organization, expectations to argue for a sustaining conservation, one that integrates social justice and local political norms with a new, more robust definition of conservation. In this way, Fields of Power, Forests of Discontent goes beyond local ethnography to encourage creative discussion of conservation's impact on both land and people.

Exil et nostalgie chez les Arméniens

Armenians were victims of the 20th century's first genocide. This article begins with a brief report about these people's history, the circumstances to this tragedy and the exodus that followed. The authors then undertake an analysis of the psychopathological features of this nostalgia in the Armenian Diaspora among the survivors and their exiled descendants.

The British Labour Party, “Parliamentary Socialism” and Thatcherism, 1979–1990: A Visual Perspective

This article examines the British Labour Party's interaction with Thatcherism during the 1980s, harnessing posters from the People's History Museum and cartoons from the British Cartoon Archive that provide a unique insight into a political era dominated by visual communication and media‐generated imagery. The posters and cartoons illuminate the Labour Party's response to the breakdown of the postwar settlement, the crisis of social democracy, the decline of class‐based voting, the erosion of industrial militancy and the pre‐eminence of market forces. Contending that the Labour Party's adoption of a media‐led communications strategy fatally undermined the pursuit of parliamentary socialism, the article concludes that Margaret Thatcher's restructuring created the preconditions for the removal of socialist ideology from mainstream British politics.

The Contribution of the National Banner Survey to Debates on Nineteenth‐Century Popular Politics

The People's History Museum in Manchester has the largest extant collection of historic banners and has expertise in their conservation and interpretation. In 1999 it undertook the National Banner Survey, which created a detailed inventory of both the 400 in the museum's collection and over 2,000 in other museums in the United Kingdom. By looking at a broad sample of these, this article will suggest how they can be used as evidence in the debates on nineteenth‐century political processes and especially those related to popular participation. Such complex and contested concepts as “radicalism” and “patriotism” can be interpreted in banners from working‐class organizations. The article will also discuss how the National Banner Survey can be accessed, and indicate future avenues for research.

Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross, "By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth" (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006) and Joe William Trotter Jr., "Black Milwaukee: The Making of an Industrial Proletariat 1915-1945," Second Edition (Urbana, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2007)

Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method.

Is Merit in the Milk Powder? Pursuing Puñña in contemporary Sri Lanka

This article examines merit making in contemporary Sri Lankan practice. Exploring the role of emotions, most generally defined as “happiness in the heart/mind,” in this important Buddhist activity, this article seeks not only to move beyond a more mechanical view of merit making as generalized exchange, but also to introduce an affective quality to the notion of intention (cetanā). Finally, this article questions the tendency to judge Buddhist behavior and appearance solely against the norms set forth in the Buddhist monastic code by investigating how people's histories, experiences, and backgrounds shape their own understandings of who constitutes an ideal monastic.

A people's history of the European Court of Human Rights

Introduces American audiences to the judicial arm of the Council of Europe - a group distinct from the European Union, and much larger - whose mission is centered on interpreting the European Convention on Human Rights. In the battle for the world's conscience, this title shows how the court in Strasbourg may be pulling ahead.

Success, coping and social exclusion in transitions of young Finns

Using analytical concepts of success, coping and social exclusion, this article attempts to describe young people's life histories and various ways of transition into adulthood; transitions that I claim to be classed, gendered and culturally diverse. This article draws from several research projects, mainly Social and Spatial Transitions in Young People's Life Course. In this study, 61 young people around 20 years old were interviewed. Pierre Bourdieu's notions of social and cultural capital are applied in the reading of young people's life histories. Also their sense of agency and strategies of coping are examined. Bourdieu's theory of capitals has been developed further in the context of youth studies. In the article I introduce the notion of subcultural social capital, which refers to social networks and groupings and resources in certain youth cultural fields. In this article, five cases of young people are examined through narratives of success, coping and social exclusion. I suggest that these stories are embedded in specific cultures, which are classed and gendered.

Byzantine Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 3, Derek Krueger, Editor, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. 252 pp. $35.00

Byzantine Christianity: A People's History of Christianity, Vol. 3, Derek Krueger, Editor, Minneapolis: Fortress, 2006. 252 pp. $35.00

By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth. By Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) 336 pp. $18.95

By the Ore Docks: A Working People's History of Duluth. By Richard Hudelson and Carl Ross (Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 2006) 336 pp. $18.95

Clifford D. Conner. A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and “Low Mechanicks.” xiii + 554 pp., bibl., index. New York: Nation Books, 2005. $17.95 (paper).

Clifford D. Conner. <i>A People's History of Science: Miners, Midwives, and “Low Mechanicks.”</i> xiii + 554 pp., bibl., index. New York: Nation Books, 2005. $17.95 (paper).