Author: William Henry Davenport AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Buried Cities of Campania
Author: William Henry Davenport AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Herculaneum (Extinct city)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mercantile Library of the City of Brooklyn
Author: The British Quarterly Review
Author: Henry AllonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
The British Quarterly Review
Author: Nature
Author: Sir Norman LockyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
The Dial
Author: Francis Fisher BrownePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 812
Book Description
A Cultural Encyclopedia of Lost Cities and Civilizations
Author: Michael Shally-JensenPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 533
Book Description
This volume explores the span of human history-and plenty of prehistory-searching out prominent and fascinating examples of cities or broader civilizations that shifted from a position of influence to a lack thereof. The accelerating threat of climate change challenges us to analyze our own communities' relationships with the wider world and to contemplate their very existence. This single-volume cultural encyclopedia examines lost cities and civilizations from every region of the globe and dated throughout human history. Arranged alphabetically, the compilation allows both students and general readers easy access to detailed entries on specific lost cities and civilizations. Throughout the geographically and chronologically diverse entries, such themes as colonization, migration, and especially climate change are developed and analyzed. Supplementing the main entries are sidebars detailing mythological cities and Investigative Boxes examining present-day cities on the brink of extinction. These round out the book's focus on disappearing cultural centers and reveal the robust relevance this material has to a world facing the crisis of climate change.
A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical
Author: John Ramsay McCullochPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Catalogue of the Public Library of the City of Taunton, Mass
Author: Taunton (Mass.). Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Pompeii's Ashes
Author: Eric MoormannPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 1614519188
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
Although there are many works dealing with Pompeii and Herculaneum, none of them try to encompass the entire spectrum of material related to its reception in popular imagination. Pompeii’s Ashes surveys a broad variety of such works, ranging from travelogues between ca. 1740 and 2010 to 250 years of fiction, including stage works, music, and films. The first two chapters provide an in-depth analysis of the excavation history and an overview of the reflections of travelers. The six remaining chapters discuss several clearly-defined genres: historical novels with pagan tendencies, and those with Christians and Jews as protagonists, contemporary adventures, time traveling, mock manuscripts, and works dedicated to Vesuvius. “Pompeii’s Ashes” demonstrates how the eternal fascination with the oldest still-running archaeological projects in the world began, developed, and continue until now.