Interesting History Of Djibouti And The Surrounding Areas
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| Author | : Daoud Aboubaker Alwan |
| Publisher | : Scarecrow Press |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780810838734 |
Established as a country a little more than a century ago, born as an independent republic in June 1977, Djibouti is among the youngest as well as the smallest states in Africa. Yet its strategic location at the crossroads of the maritime trade routes between Africa, Asia and Europe turned this tiny spot on the world map into a vital player in twentieth century geopolitics. This historical dictionary has been conceived not as a history book but as a reading grid for the major historical items that are still molding the country's social, political and economic life.
| Author | : Nigel Redman |
| Publisher | : A&C Black |
| Total Pages | : 499 |
| Release | : 2009-05-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0713665416 |
The first field guide to the birds of this varied and fascinating region and a companion to Birds of East Africa by two of the same authors.
| Author | : Eelco Runia |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2014-05-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0231537573 |
Historians go to great lengths to avoid confronting discontinuity, searching for explanations as to why such events as the fall of the Berlin Wall, George W. Bush's invasion of Iraq, and the introduction of the euro logically develop from what came before. Moved by the Past radically breaks with this tradition of predating the past, incites us to fully acknowledge the discontinuous nature of discontinuities, and proposes to use the fact that history is propelled by unforeseeable leaps and bounds as a starting point for a truly evolutionary conception of history. Integrating research from a variety of disciplines, Eelco Runia identifies two modes of being "moved by the past": regressive and revolutionary. In the regressive mode, the past may either overwhelm us—as in nostalgia—or provoke us to act out what we believe to be solidly dead. When we are moved by the past in a revolutionary sense, we may be said to embody history: we burn our bridges behind us and create accomplished facts we have no choice but to live up to. In the final thesis of Moved by the Past, humans energize their own evolution by habitually creating situations ("catastrophes" or sublime historical events) that put a premium on mutations. This book therefore illuminates how every now and then we chase ourselves away from what we were and force ourselves to become what we are. Proposing a simple yet radical change in perspective, Runia profoundly reorients how we think and theorize about history.
| Author | : Anthony Grafton |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674307605 |
In this engrossing account, footnotes to history give way to footnotes as history, recounting in their subtle way the curious story of the progress of knowledge in written form.
| Author | : Rachel Jones |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 94 |
| Release | : 2019-03-06 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781794559417 |
Are you moving to Djibouti? Coming for a relaxing or exciting vacation? Finding up-to-date information and contact details for schools to tour guides in this beautiful country can be a challenge. Welcome to Djibouti is the best place to start. This edition includes maps, downloadable through Google Maps, suggested itineraries, updated information about the train and the new shopping mall, websites and contact info for tour guides, and the latest on hotels, restaurants, schools, and more. Welcome to Djibouti is compiled by Rachel Jones, of the Djibouti Jones website, the go-to site for English speakers. She aims to be relentlessly helpful as people explore this country and establish their families here.
| Author | : Scott A. Sandage |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 396 |
| Release | : 2006-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780674015104 |
What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark side of success, how economic striving reshaped the self and soul of America. From colonial days to the Columbine tragedy, Scott Sandage explores how failure evolved from a business loss into a personality deficit, from a career setback to a gauge of our self-worth. From hundreds of private diaries, family letters, business records, and even early credit reports, Sandage reconstructs the dramas of real-life Willy Lomans. He unearths their confessions and denials, foolish hopes and lost faith, sticking places and changing times. Dreamers, suckers, and nobodies come to life in the major scenes of American history, like the Civil War and the approach of big business, showing how the national quest for success remade the individual ordeal of failure. Born Losers is a pioneering work of American cultural history, which connects everyday attitudes and anxieties about failure to lofty ideals of individualism and salesmanship of self. Sandage's storytelling will resonate with all of us as it brings to life forgotten men and women who wrestled with The Loser--the label and the experience--in the days when American capitalism was building a nation of winners.
| Author | : Gwen Westerman |
| Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
| Total Pages | : 531 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0873518837 |
An intricate narrative of the Dakota people over the centuries in their traditional homelands, the stories behind the profound connections that hold true today.
| Author | : James Rodger Fleming |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 2010-08-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0231144121 |
Weaving together stories from elite science, cutting-edge technology, and popular culture, Fleming examines issues of health and navigation in the 1830s, drought in the 1890s, aircraft safety in the 1930s, and world conflict since the 1940s.
| Author | : Evelyn Gonzalez |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 298 |
| Release | : 2007-01-05 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0231121156 |
The Bronx is a fascinating history of a singular borough, mapping its evolution from a loose cluster of commuter villages to a densely populated home for New York's African American and Hispanic populations. In recounting the varied and extreme transformations this community has undergone, Evelyn Gonzalez argues that racial discrimination, rampant crime, postwar liberalism, and big government were not the only reasons for the urban crisis that assailed the Bronx during the late 1960s. Rather, a combination of population shifts, public housing initiatives, economic recession, and urban overdevelopment caused its decline. Yet she also proves that ongoing urbanization and neighborhood fluctuations are the very factors that have allowed the Bronx to undergo one of the most successful and inspiring community revivals in American history. The process of building and rebuilding carries on, and the revitalization of neighborhoods and a resurgence of economic growth continue to offer hope for the future.
| Author | : Alison Landsberg |
| Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
| Total Pages | : 228 |
| Release | : 2015-06-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0231539460 |
Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and politics. Viewers experience these representations personally, cognitively, and bodily, but, as this book reveals, not just by identifying with the characters portrayed. Some of the works considered in this volume include the films Hotel Rwanda (2004), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), and Milk (2008); the television dramas Deadwood, Mad Men, and Rome; the reality shows Frontier House, Colonial House, and Texas Ranch House; and The Secret Annex Online, accessed through the Anne Frank House website, and the Kristallnacht exhibit, accessed through the Unites States Holocaust Museum website. These mass cultural texts cultivate what Alison Landsberg calls an "affective engagement" with the past, tying the viewer to an event or person and fostering a sense of intimacy that does more than transport the viewer back in time. Affect, she suggests, can also work to disorient the viewer, forcibly pushing him or her out of the narrative and back into his or her own body. By analyzing these specific popular history formats, Landsberg shows the unique way they provoke historical thinking and produce historical knowledge, prompting a reconsideration of what constitutes history and an understanding of how history works in the contemporary mediated public sphere.
