1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910821694203321

Titolo

Silence, screen, and spectacle : rethinking social memory in the age of information and new media / / edited by Lindsey A. Freeman, Benjamin Nienass, and Rachel Daniell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York ; ; Oxford, England : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78533-355-0

1-78238-281-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Collana

Remapping Cultural History ; ; Volume 14

Classificazione

AP 13800

Altri autori (Persone)

FreemanLindsey A

NienassBenjamin

DaniellRachel

Disciplina

302.23

Soggetti

Mass media and history

Collective memory

Memorialization

Mass media - Technological innovations - Social aspects

Information technology - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information; Part I - Spectacular Memory: Memory and Appearance in the Age of Information; Chapter 1 - Haunted by the Spectre of Communism: Spectacle and Silence in Hungary's House of Terror; Chapter 2 - Making Visible: Reflexive Narratives at the Manzanar U.S. National Historic Site; Chapter 3 - The Everyday as Spectacle: Archival Imagery and the Work of Reconciliation in Canada; Part II - Screening Absence: New Technology, Affect, and Memory

Chapter 4 - Viral Affiliations: Facebook, Queer Kinship, and the Memory of the Disappeared in Contemporary ArgentinaChapter 5 - Learning by Heart: Humming, Singing, Memorizing in Israeli Memorial Videos; Chapter 6 - Arcade Mode: Remembering, Revisiting, and Replaying the American Video Arcade; Part III - Silence and Memory: Erasures,



Storytelling, and Kitsch; Chapter 7 - Remembering Forgetting: A Monument to Erasure at the University of North Carolina; Chapter 8 - The Power of Conflicting Memories in European Transnational Social Movements

Chapter 9 - Memories of Jews and the Holocaust in Post-Communist Eastern EuropeChapter 10 - 1989 as Collective Memory ""Refolution"": East-Central Europe Confonts Memorial Silence; Conclusion - Comments on Silence, Screen, and Spectacle; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed. This volume addresses the tension between loud and often spectacular histories and those forgotten pasts we strain to hear. Employing social and cultural analysis, the essays within examine mnemonic technologies both new and old, and cover subjects as diverse as U.S. internment camps for Japanese Americans in WWII, the Canadian Indian Residential School system, Israeli memorial videos, and the desaparecidos in Argentina. Through these cases, the contributors argue for a re-inte

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910158945803321

Autore

Townsend Col. James W

Titolo

Bones Behind The Blood

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Golden Springs Publishing, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

9781782899471

1782899472

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (35 pages)

Disciplina

973.71

Soggetti

Military campaigns

Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885

Economic history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ABSTRACT -- I. Introduction -- II.



Theory -- III. The Historical Stage -- IV. Analysis: Peeling the Historical Skin -- V. Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph explores the economic foundations behind General Ulysses S. Grant's 1864-1865 campaign, the final campaign of the American Civil War. This paper will compare and contrast the economic conditions in the Union and the Confederacy with respect to manpower, social systems, finance infrastructure and industrial capacity. This will result in calculus of relative strategic power to analyze the strength and protracted military capability of the two belligerents.The campaign was long and bloody-truly a campaign that destroyed vast resources in people and national treasure. While the fighting was both protracted and vicious, the outcome was never in doubt. Based upon a strategic calculus of power, particularly industrial capacity and economic power it was clear that the Union had a decisive advantage. While the South was primarily a traditional society with an agriculturally based economy, the North was in the stage of precondition for take-off fully on the road to industrialization. Simply stated the South could ill afford to use up resources in manpower, military equipment and treasure at a rate near equal to the North. General Grant's final campaign was successful because it flowed from conditions set by a strong, vibrant economy and was guided by a strategy that thrived on this productive strength. Pressed into a corner due to Grant's final campaign, the South was sure to lose.