Cómo se escribe la historia

Cómo se escribe la historia
Author: Barbara Wertheim Tuchman
Publisher: Gredos Editorial S.A.
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2009
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9788424935917

Veinte años después de su muerte, y con una larga lista de libros de historia convertidos en superventas, la obra renovadora y la personalidad rompedora de Barbara W. Tuchman siguen fascinando a nuevos y viejos lectores. La historiadora que dio un nuevo rumbo a la manera de contar la historia, y supo llegar al gran público con la narración de la Peste Negra del siglo XIV (en Un espejo lejano) o de la Primera Guerra Mundial (en El telegrama Zimmermann oLos cañones de agosto), escribió también un libro programático, Cómo se escribe la historia, inédito hasta ahora en castellano e insólito en su especialidad, una auténtica declaración de principios sobre el oficio de escribir historia y una aguja de marear imprescindible para todo historiador de nuestro tiempo. No en balde el libro es una suerte de manual que contiene las claves para entender la escritura de la historia: la diferencia entre historia (verdad) y poesía (invención), el recurso a las fuentes primarias, el contraste de la información, la selección de los materiales, la investigación como motor de la historia, el material inédito y, sobre todo, "la narración como alma de la historia". Así, Cómo se escribe la historia es también una autobiografía intelectual de una mujer que nos enseña el compromiso del historiador consigo mismo, con su materia y con sus lectores; y todo ello a través de un panorama general de los acontecimientos decisivos que jalonan el siglo XX, desde la Primera Guerra Mundial hasta el final de la Guerra Fría.

Age of discrepancies

Age of discrepancies
Author: Olivier Debroise
Publisher: UNAM
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2006
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9789703238293

"The first exhibition to offer a critical assessment of the artistic experimentation that took place in Mexico during the last three decades of the twentieth century. The exhibition carefully analyzes the origins and emergence of techniques, strategies, andmodes of operation at a particularly significant moment of Mexican history, beginning with the 1968 Student Movement, until the Zapatista upraising in the State of Chiapas. Theshow includes work by a wide range of artists, including Francis Alys, Vicente Rojo, Jimmie Durham, Helen Escobedo, Julio Galán, Felipe Ehrenberg, José Bedia,Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Francisco Toledo, Carlos Amorales, Melanie Smith, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, among many others. The edition is illustrated with 612 full-colorplates of the art produced during these last three decades of the twentieth century reflect the social, political and technical developments in Mexico and ranged from painting andphotography to poster design, installation, performance, experimental theatre, super-8 cinema, video, music, poetry and popular culture like the films and ephemeral actionsof 'Panic' by Alejandro Jodorowsky, Pedro Friedeberg's pop art, the conceptual art, infrarrealists and urban independent photography, artists books, the development ofcontemporary political photography, the participation of Mexican artists in Fluxus in the seventies and the contribution of Ulises Carrión to the international artist book movement and popular rock music, the pictorial battles of the eighties and the emergence of a variant of neo-conceptual art in 1990. The exhibition is curated by Olivier Debroise, Pilar García de Germenos, Cuauhtémoc Medina, Álvaro Vázquez Mantecón"--Provided by vendor.

Raising Standards in History Education

Raising Standards in History Education
Author: Alaric Keith Dickinson
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2001
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780713002249

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period

Writers of the Spanish Colonial Period
Author: David William Foster
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 456
Release: 1997
Genre: Spanish American literature
ISBN: 9780815326786

"These critical studies propose innovative readings and overall reformulations of the texts and authors that stand as representative of the period for the contemporary reader. The first group of articles refers to reports, chronicles, and Renaissance epics, a vast block of texts that fall in most cases halfway between history and narrative fiction, and examine the experiences of the discovery, the conquest, and the colonization of the new territories. The second group concentrates on regionally marked texts from the Baroque period, especially those of the central figure of the Mexican nun poet and intellectual, Sor Juana In s de la Cruz. Finally, there are some essays on representative texts of the latter part of the colonial period."--Publisher's description.

International Review of History Education

International Review of History Education
Author: Alaric Dickinson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 261
Release: 2013-05-13
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1134723105

The third volume in this international review takes "raising standards" as its central theme. Raising standards is no simple matter, either conceptually or empirically, whatever politicians might think. If it is to happen, it must draw on research and practical experience from other countries.