Au début de cette aventure, vous voici devenu, trois siècles en arrière, naturaliste amateur, envoyé en mission par l'Académie e des Sciences pour observer, expérimenter et voyager. Votre objectif : la découverte des mécanismes de l'évolution. Vos interlocuteurs : Buffon, Cuvier, Lamarck, Darwin, et bien d'autres personnalités qui ont marqué l'histoire naturelle et contribué à ...(展开全部)

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? And how do we grappl...(展开全部)

Carlo Ginzburg's brilliant and timely new essay collection takes a bold stand against naive positivism and allegedly sophisticated neo-skepticism. It looks deeply into questions raised by decades of post-structuralism: What constitutes historical truth? How do we draw a boundary between truth and fiction? What is the relationship between history and memory? And how do we grappl...(展开全部)

Au début de cette aventure, vous voici devenu, trois siècles en arrière, naturaliste amateur, envoyé en mission par l'Académie e des Sciences pour observer, expérimenter et voyager. Votre objectif : la découverte des mécanismes de l'évolution. Vos interlocuteurs : Buffon, Cuvier, Lamarck, Darwin, et bien d'autres personnalités qui ont marqué l'histoire naturelle et contribué à ...(展开全部)

Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memoriesincluding history textbook controversies, ...(展开全部)

Lisa Yoneyama is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies and Cultural Studies in the Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego.

The innovative approach to the study of Kuchean Buddhism presented in this book examines the material remains in order to identify the type of Buddhism practiced in the region, which left its traces in the rock- and surface monasteries. In addition to drawing upon as yet unpublished data from in situ fieldwork, this study also undertakes a detailed reading of the records and ph...(展开全部)

Remembering Hiroshima, the city obliterated by the world's first nuclear attack, has been a complicated and intensely politicized process, as we learn from Lisa Yoneyama's sensitive investigation of the "dialectics of memory." She explores unconventional texts and dimensions of culture involved in constituting Hiroshima memoriesincluding history textbook controversies, ...(展开全部)

In the early 1990s, Israeli television began dedicating Memorial Day airtime to videos produced by the grieving families of soldiers killed in the line of duty. When these videos first appeared, during a period of growing Israeli discontent with the occupation of southern Lebanon, they were widely perceived as a challenge to the state, reclaiming the dead from Israel’s militari...(展开全部)