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2 books match the query 'Jobs, Sebastian'

cover of Unsettling History: Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Unsettling History

Archiving and Narrating in Historiography

Edited by Sebastian Jobs and Alf Lüdtke

Campus Verlag, 2010

In recent decades, scholars working in postcolonial history have successfully challenged the primacy of Western historiography and its Eurocentric worldview. With Unsettling History, a group of historians extend that challenge to two central components of work in history: archiving and narrating. Archival resources, they argue, despite their air of impartiality, are the product of established interests and subject to various practices of selection, cataloguing, and preservation. Narrating, too, is more complicated than it might at first seem, especially as the range of genres available to the historians for presenting their findings has expanded in recent years.

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cover of Welcome Home, Boys!: Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Welcome Home, Boys!

Military Victory Parades in New York City 1899-1946

Sebastian Jobs

Campus Verlag, 2012

During the first half of the twentieth century military victory parades in New York became an iconic part of the American cultural memory—ticker tape and soldiers returning to their sweethearts symbolized the joy of a nation at peace. In this incisive new study, Sebastian Jobs approaches these events as political street theater. Focusing on organizers, spectators, and soldiers, Jobs explores each group’s participation in the action, as well as the ways in which they interacted with each another. This book also demonstrates how abstract concepts, like the nation-state, were embodied in these events, and how these political performances made an impact on American culture and society.

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