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Transtemporal sport histories; or, rethinking the ‘invention’ of American basketball
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The predominant narrative on the history of basketball assumes that James Naismith "invented" the game in 1891 as discussed by the authors, and this narrative argues the game emerged as a modern sport different in design and sign...Abstract:
The predominant narrative on the history of basketball assumes that James Naismith ‘invented’ the game in 1891. This narrative argues the game emerged as a modern sport different in design and sign...read more
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Can the Subaltern Speak
TL;DR: In this paper, a research has been done on the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, which has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references.
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Silencing the past: power and the production of history
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The content of the Form: narrative discourse and historical representation
TL;DR: Hayden White as mentioned in this paper put together essays on Droysen, Foucault, Jameson and Ricoeur to give an encompassing account of a problematic issue that has been one of the major concerns of historical studies as well as of many other areas of the human sciences: that of the importance of narrative representation in the description or explanation of the "object" of study of human sciences.
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Manliness & Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880–1917. By Gail Bederman. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. xiv, 307 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-226-04138-7.)
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The Routledge Companion to Historical Studies
TL;DR: The authors provided a critical introduction to historical studies, examining the key issues, the historians and philosophers, and the concepts, ideas and theories which have prompted the rethinking of history which has been gathering momentum in the 1990s.
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The Wretched of the Earth
TL;DR: Fanon's The Wretched of the Earth as mentioned in this paper is a classic of post-colonization political analysis, and it is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers.
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The Invention of Tradition
Eric Hobsbawm,Terence Ranger +1 more
TL;DR: This article explored examples of this process of invention -the creation of Welsh Scottish national culture, the elaboration of British royal rituals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the origins of imperial ritual in British India and Africa, and the attempts by radical movements to develop counter-traditions of their own.
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Can the Subaltern Speak
TL;DR: In this paper, a research has been done on the essay "Can the Subaltern Speak" by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, which has been explained into much simpler language about what the author conveys for better understanding and further references.