Sideways in Time

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Alternate History ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Science Fiction Studies

This book is the first collection of scholarly essays on alternate history in over a decade and features contributions from a mixture of major figures and rising stars in the field of science fiction studies. Alternate history is a genre of fiction which, although connected to the genres of utopian, dystopian and science fiction, has its own rich history and lineage. With roots in the writings of ancient Rome, alternate history matured into something close to its current form in the essays and novels of the nineteenth century. In more recent years a number of highly acclaimed novels have been published as alternate histories, by authors ranging from science fiction bestsellers to Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icons. The success and popularity of the genre is reflected in its success on television with original concepts being developed alongside adaptations of iconic texts. This important collection of essays seeks to redress an imbalance between the importance and quality of alternate history texts and the available scholarship and critical readings of texts, providing chapters by both leading scholars in the field and rising stars. The chapters in this book acknowledge the long and distinctive history of the genre whilst also revelling in its vitality, adaptability, and contemporary relevance, with many of the chapters discussing late-twentieth and early-twenty-first century contemporary fiction texts which have received little or no sustained critical analysis elsewhere in print.

Doing Things with Legal History

2018 ◽  
pp. 922-940
Author(s):  
Alfred L. Brophy
Keyword(s):  
Property Rights ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
First Century ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Alternative Vision ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Support Property ◽  
Late Twentieth

This chapter discusses the role of historical analysis in property law. The history of property has been used to offer support for property rights. Their long history makes the distribution of property look normal, indeed natural and something that cannot or should not be challenged. However, historically in the U.S there have been competing visions of property. From the Progressive era onward especially, the history of property has been used to show the unequal distribution of property and to offer an alternative vision that expands the rights of non-owners of property. In the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the history of opposition to feudalism and protection of the rights of non-owners was used to protect the rights of non-owners. Thus, the history of property has been a tool of judges and legislators to support property rights and it has also been, less frequently, a tool of critique.

Essays on the Political history of the Countries of Central and south-Eastern Europe. From the Late Twentieth to the Early Twenty-First Centuries

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Political Development ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
South Eastern ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
Late Twentieth

This collective monograph is a comprehensive study of the causes, evolution and outcomes of complex processes in the contemporary history of the countries of Central and South-Eastern Europe, and aims in particular to identify common and special characteristics in their socio-economic and political development. The authors base their work on documentary evidence; both published and unpublished archival materials reveal the specifics of the development of the political landscapes in these countries. They highlight models combining both European and nationally oriented (and even nationalist) components of the political spheres of particular countries; identify markers which allow the stage of completion (or incompletion) of the establishment of a new political system to be estimated; and present analyses of the processes of internal political struggle, which has often taken on ruthless forms. The analysis of regional and country-specific documentary materials illustrates that the gap in the development of the region with “old Europe” in general has not yet been overcome: in the post-Socialist period, the situation of the region being “ownerless” and “abandoned”, characteristic of the period between the two world wars, is reoccurring. The authors conclude that during the period from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, the region was quite clearly divided into two parts: Central (the Visegrad Four) and South-Eastern (the Balkans) Europe. The authors explore the prevailing trends in the political development of Hungary and Poland related to the leadership of nationally and religiously oriented parties; in the Czech Republic and Slovakia the pendulum-like change in power of the left and right-wing parties; and in Bulgaria and Romania the domestic political processes permanently in crisis. The authors pay special attention to the contradictory nature of the political evolution of the states that emerged in the space of the former Yugoslavia. For the first time, Greece and Turkey are included in the context of a regional-wide study. The contributors present optimal or resembling transformational models, which can serve as a prototype for shaping the political landscape of other countries in the world. The monograph substantiates the urgency of the new approach needed to study the history and current state of the region and its countries, taking into account the challenges of the time, which require strengthening national and state identity. The research also offered prognostic characteristics of transformational changes in the region, the Visegrad Four, and the Balkans.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Thomas Albert Howard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Action ◽  
Interreligious Dialogue ◽  
Interfaith Dialogue ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Ethical Significance

This chapter begins with discussion of the three organizations drawn from numerous comparable ones established in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the interfaith center of New York, the Interreligious Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID). The chapter seeks to understand where interreligious dialogue came from and where is it headed. It also evaluates its broader historical, social, and ethical significance. The chapter hazards answers to these questions through an inquiry into several major turning points in the history of interreligious dialogue, for even as many today extol, practice, theorize, and/or theologize about interreligious dialogue, few have attended carefully to its genesis and past. The chapter takes the premodern world as a starting point, where it examines several harbingers of interreligious dialogue. Canvassing the premodern world for harbingers helps us to see that while contemporary interfaith dialogue is in some respects a novelty, it is nonetheless not altogether discontinuous with the past. Ultimately, the chapter recognizes the distinction between interfaith dialogue and interfaith social action.

GLASS MUSIC OF THE TWENTIETH AND TWENTY-FIRST CENTURIES

Tempo ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (289) ◽  
pp. 30-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hunter Coblentz
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twenty First Century

AbstractThis article serves as an introduction to the twentieth- and twenty-first-century musical practices that have made use of glass instruments and objects. Emphasis is placed on those practices that use glass in a raw, acoustic manner, and those that take advantage of the precision with which glass can be tuned. First, a general history of glass music is presented, followed by an overview of the physical and acoustic aspects pertaining to the material that are relevant to those composers wishing to integrate glass into their works. Finally, the composers, performers and instrument builders who have made significant use of glass in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries are surveyed.

Health, Work, and Environment: A Hippocratic Turn in Medical History

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Sellers
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Medical History ◽  
Health Work ◽  
Health History ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Industrial Health ◽  
And Control

The changing ways in which human surroundings interact with human bodies have yielded some of the field's most innovative scholarship. These developments reflect trends in health and medicine from the late twentieth into the early twenty-first centuries. This article concentrates on a few representative areas where this intermeshing of socio-cultural with Hippocratic history has proven especially fruitful. It begins with the changing consideration of industrial health history. It discusses that fuller range of social and political contexts and contingencies have shaped the recognition and control of the industrial hazards and have brought new depth and realism to our understanding of the health history of industrial workplaces. The assertions and conclusions about worker influence on the outcome of struggles over occupational health have helped generate greater interest in just how workers themselves perceived and experienced these ailments.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karissa Haugeberg
Keyword(s):  
Republican Party ◽  
New Right ◽  
Consciousness Raising ◽  
Multiple Strategies ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Abortion Politics ◽  
State Subsidies ◽  
Roe V Wade

This chapter traces the history of anti-abortion activism before Roe v. Wade. It also considers how the rise of the New Right transformed American abortion politics and remade the Republican Party. The introduction introduces readers to the key women profiled in the book, including Marjory Mecklenburg, Joan Andrews, Juli Loesch, Mildred Jefferson, and Shelley Shannon. It offers that women have engaged multiple strategies to end abortion, ranging from consciousness-raising campaigns to violence against providers and clinics. It concludes with a discussion of the federal and state subsidies that enabled antiabortion activism to flourish during the late twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries.

The Archival Revisionism of Mass Digitization

2021 ◽  
pp. 46-78
Author(s):  
Adam Crymble
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Computing ◽  
User Experience ◽  
First Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Mass Digitization

By the twenty-first century, billions of historical sources were digitized, with many historians actively involved in this unprecedented archival revisionism. Understanding the history of mass digitization is fundamental to understanding the environment of historians in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, as well as one of the key ways that historians applied computers to their cause. Charting the history of the archive through waves of interest in hypertext, multimedia, the Internet, Web 2.0, user experience, and mobile computing, this chapter argues that changes in technology-enabled historians to revise the nature of the archive, first by bringing primary sources into the classroom and then into the streets.

Conclusion

2019 ◽  
pp. 275-278
Author(s):  
Emma Cole
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Contemporary Theatre ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Twenty First Century

Postdramatic receptions of ancient tragedy represent a growing trend in contemporary theatre. This conclusion draws together the three core styles of postdramatic theatre considered in Postdramatic Tragedies, and considers future directions surrounding the combination of ancient tragedy and postdramatic theatre. The chapter reaffirms the significance of the political to postdramatic classical receptions. It claims that postdramatic tragedies have pushed both the tragic genre and the postdramatic style in new directions, and that an appreciation of them is key to understanding the history of theatre and of tragedy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.

Liberalization Of Ideological Threats In Europe In The Late Twentieth And Early Twenty-First Centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (02) ◽  
pp. 13-18
Author(s):  
Muminkhujaev Abrorkhuja Muksumkhodjaevich ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
European Countries ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
Lgbt Movement

The article discusses the history of liberalism and the reasons why is it playing a key role in the politics of European countries. The article also analyzes the practical and vital role of liberalism in the political and social life of European countries. In particular, the positive results of the liberal approach to threats that contradict European culture, mentality, ideology (Nazism, nationalism, LGBT movement, local separatism) are illustrated with examples. Through the article the author tries to proove liberalism is the most apt way to solve political and social problems for the time being.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Alan D. Roe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Protection ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
National Parks ◽  
First Century ◽  
Socialist Republic ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
History Of ◽  
Late Twentieth

The history of the Russian national park movement spans from the pre-Revolutionary era to the early twenty-first century. The establishment of national parks in the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic beginning in 1983 demonstrated environmentalists’ ability to push the Soviet government to make reforms in an era that is frequently misunderstood as one of stagnation. However, since that time, Russian national parks have almost always fallen short of the ambitious goals of their founders and have provided Russian environmentalists with a painful reminder of their state’s weak commitment to environmental protection. More so than any other work in the field of Russian environmental history, this story places Russian environmental protection firmly within the larger story of international environmental protection networks and organizations in the late twentieth century. It contributes to the growing literature on Russian tourism, the international history of national parks, and social movements in the Soviet Union’s last decades.

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