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Baulking at the tradition of architect-centric architectural history, Gutman explores a century of building as compelling evidence in the history of childhood. Because it brings back such vivid memories of my own childhood, I enjoyed the exhibition catalogue Architecture and National Identity: The C...

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Published in:Times Higher Education 2014-12 (2183)
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Libraries
Algorithms
Antisocial Behavior
Architectural Education
Architecture
Autobiographies
Democracy
Education
Employed Women
Exercise
Females
Feminism
History
Humanities
Library collections
Nationalism
Oral History
Resistance (Psychology)
Social mobility
Tales
Teacher Improvement
United States History
Upward mobility
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Summary:Baulking at the tradition of architect-centric architectural history, Gutman explores a century of building as compelling evidence in the history of childhood. Because it brings back such vivid memories of my own childhood, I enjoyed the exhibition catalogue Architecture and National Identity: The Centennial Projects 50 Years On (Dalhousie Architectural Press). In Family Politics: Domestic Life, Devastation and Survival, 1900-1950 (Yale University Press), Paul Ginsborg explains this anomaly, and his innovative approach provides a wealth of other surprises. Since the end of the USSR in 1991 and the "archival revolution" that followed, historians have been able to challenge established Western narratives, as shown in the illuminating and sometimes shocking studies collected by editors Michael David-Fox, Peter Holquist and Alexander M. Martin, The Holocaust in the East: Local Perpetrators and Soviet Responses (University of Pittsburgh Press). Allyson Pollock, professor of public health research and policy, Queen Mary University of London Belief in markets may be crumbling but as platoons of mercenaries, lawyers, accountants and management consultants continue to plunder the world's resources on behalf of unaccountable corporations, the tipping point has not yet been reached. Jane Shaw, professor of religious studies and dean for religious life, Stanford University David Bromwich's finely crafted essays in Moral Imagination: Essays (Princeton University Press) investigate justice, sympathy, imagination and the importance of treating strangers as friends (when we act as individuals and as nations) through sensitive yet provocative readings of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt Whitman, Reinhold Niebuhr and Martin Luther King Jr, among others.
ISSN:0049-3929