Author: George Seldes
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
Witness to a Century
Author: George Seldes
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
Publisher: Ballantine Books
ISBN: 0307775429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
"This extraordinary book . . . is a reminder . . . of the sins of suppression and untruth that have been and can be committed in the name of American journalism . . . One of the last first-person statements from a generation that included Hitler, Nehru, and Mao . . . and Seldes too." --Columbia Journalism Review
Disappearing Witness
Author: Gretchen Garner
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871672
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801871672
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
In documenting this transformation in American photography, Disappearing Witness forcefully rethinks the history of photography itself.
Witness Against History
Author: Yomi Braester
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
This study offers fresh readings of milestones in twentieth-century Chinese fiction, film, and drama and argues that they have questioned the faith in historical progress and in the viability of a sphere of free debate.
Pedro Arrupe
Author: Pedro Miguel Lamet
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947617087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781947617087
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
A Twentieth-century Witness
Author: Elizabeth J. Nydegger
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian biography
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
Poetry of Witness: The Tradition in English, 1500-2001
Author: Carolyn Forché
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393347664
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
A groundbreaking anthology containing the work of poets who have witnessed war, imprisonment, torture, and slavery. A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance—while their authors awaited execution, endured imprisonment, fought on the battlefield, or labored on the brink of breakdown or death. All bear witness to historical events and the irresistibility of their impact. Alongside Shakespeare, Milton, and Wordsworth, this volume includes such writers as Anne Askew, tortured and executed for her religious beliefs during the reign of Henry VIII; Phillis Wheatley, abducted by slave traders; Samuel Bamford, present at the Peterloo Massacre in 1819; William Blake, who witnessed the Gordon Riots of 1780; and Samuel Menashe, survivor of the Battle of the Bulge. Poetry of Witness argues that such poets are a perennial feature of human history, and it presents the best of that tradition, proving that their work ranks alongside the greatest in the language.
Against Forgetting
Author: Carolyn Forché
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393309768
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Modern poems deal with genocide, wars, revolutions, the Holocaust, political repression, apartheid, and the democracy movement in China
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393309768
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
Modern poems deal with genocide, wars, revolutions, the Holocaust, political repression, apartheid, and the democracy movement in China
Child Witnesses in Twentieth Century Australian Courtrooms
Author: Robyn Blewer
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030697916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the relevant law was – or was not - applied throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the impact ‘safeguards’ like corroboration and closed court rules had on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear – of children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform – influenced the criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same’.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030697916
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
This book considers the law, policy and procedure for child witnesses in Australian criminal courts across the twentieth century. It uses the stories and experiences of over 200 children, in many cases using their own words from press reports, to highlight how the relevant law was – or was not - applied throughout this period. The law was sympathetic to the plight of child witnesses and exhibited a significant degree of pragmatism to receive the evidence of children but was equally fearful of innocent men being wrongly convicted. The book highlights the impact ‘safeguards’ like corroboration and closed court rules had on the outcome of many cases and the extent to which fear – of children, of lies (or the truth) and of reform – influenced the criminal justice process. Over a century of children giving evidence in court it is `clear that the more things changed, the more they stayed the same’.
The Era of the Witness
Author: Annette Wieviorka
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801443312
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
What is the role of the survivor testimony in Holocaust remembrance? In this book, a concise, rigorously argued, and provocative work of cultural and intellectual history, the author seeks to answer this surpassingly complex question.
Traces of War
Author: Colin Davis
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1786948249
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.