Composing Useful Pasts

Composing Useful PastsArgues that history is written from the present tense, meaning that its purpose is to construct convincing political arguments about who or what caused a current problem and how that problem should be addressed. Composing Useful Pasts discusses how history is not a settled record of the dead past, but a poetic or imaginative creation stimulated by and focused on contemporary interests. Historical investigation is always and necessarily a selective

Perl’s epistolary novel was the opening literary salvo in the battle of the Jewish Enlightenment against the pietistic revival movement known as Hasidism

First published in 1916

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Written by subject

K Chesterton is a collection of essays and stories that features philosophical theories of happiness

Originally published in Turkish by Nevval Sevindi

the reference offers all pertinent laboratory and imaging studies needed to confirm a diagnosis

This question is at the heart of a three year project by experienced archivist and records managers on private sector legal records at risk in England at Wales

and art from the late-1980s to the mid-1990s has been replaced by a retreat to artisitic invisibility

and the modern metaphysics of race

From unreported gambling winnings and inflated claims of the value of clothing donated to charity to money hidden in Swiss bank accounts and high-profile tax schemes plotted by celebrities and business leaders

Freeman attempts to elucidate not only the many musical influences that formed Jobim's musical output