Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Easter Island's Silent Sentinels
Author: Kenneth TreisterPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826352642
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.
Adventure
Author: Teachable Monuments
Author: Sierra RooneyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501356933
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
Monuments around the world have become the focus of intense and sustained discussions, activism, vandalism, and removal. Since the convulsive events of 2015 and 2017, during which white supremacists committed violence in the shadow of Confederate symbols, and the 2020 nationwide protests against racism and police brutality, protesters and politicians in the United States have removed Confederate monuments, as well as monuments to historical figures like Christopher Columbus and Dr. J. Marion Sims, questioning their legitimacy as present-day heroes that their place in the public sphere reinforces. The essays included in this anthology offer guidelines and case studies tailored for students and teachers to demonstrate how monuments can be used to deepen civic and historical engagement and social dialogue. Essays analyze specific controversies throughout North America with various outcomes as well as examples of monuments that convey outdated or unwelcome value systems without prompting debate.
Whitewashed Adobe
Author: William F. DeverellPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520932536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Chronicling the rise of Los Angeles through shifting ideas of race and ethnicity, William Deverell offers a unique perspective on how the city grew and changed. Whitewashed Adobe considers six different developments in the history of the city—including the cementing of the Los Angeles River, the outbreak of bubonic plague in 1924, and the evolution of America's largest brickyard in the 1920s. In an absorbing narrative supported by a number of previously unpublished period photographs, Deverell shows how a city that was once part of Mexico itself came of age through appropriating—and even obliterating—the region's connections to Mexican places and people. Deverell portrays Los Angeles during the 1850s as a city seething with racial enmity due to the recent war with Mexico. He explains how, within a generation, the city's business interests, looking for a commercially viable way to establish urban identity, borrowed Mexican cultural traditions and put on a carnival called La Fiesta de Los Angeles. He analyzes the subtle ways in which ethnicity came to bear on efforts to corral the unpredictable Los Angeles River and shows how the resident Mexican population was put to work fashioning the modern metropolis. He discusses how Los Angeles responded to the nation's last major outbreak of bubonic plague and concludes by considering the Mission Play, a famed drama tied to regional assumptions about history, progress, and ethnicity. Taking all of these elements into consideration, Whitewashed Adobe uncovers an urban identity—and the power structure that fostered it—with far-reaching implications for contemporary Los Angeles.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents
Author: United States. PresidentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
My End Is My Beginning
Author: Moris FarhiPublisher: Saqi Books
ISBN: 0863561357
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Civilisation is on the brink of collapse. The people are controlled with Big Lies, mass surveillance and brutal suppression. What price would you pay for freedom? Oric and his lover Belkis are part of a rebel band devoted to liberating people all over the world from totalitarian oppression. When Belkis is brutally murdered, Oric's world is torn apart. Haunted by the thought that he could have done more to save her, he continues the fight for freedom that they began together. But Oric knows he doesn't have long left before his nemeses, the self-professed Saviours, return for him too. As the Saviours forge new alliances and grow ever stronger, Oric must stay one step ahead to complete the mission he was born to fulfill. Here, in the darkest hour, Oric will discover that even the smallest of gestures can bring the greatest gift to humankind – hope.
A Gathering of Angels
Author: EllemphriemPublisher: BookCountry
ISBN: 146300804X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491
Book Description
This part one of two books. Erin Maher is an academic mage, freshly arriving in the white city of Istham in order to study a curse that has been decapitating angels for centuries. Her research makes her a target and she is forced to flee the country in the company of a menacing scarred man. During her hiding she falls in love with the most improbable character and she prays for her life to be spared....or was she never in real danger, whilst someone else was?
Tourists at the Taj
Author: Tim EdensorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134705492
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Clearly written and fascinatingly illustrated, Tourists at the Taj describes the conflicting narratives which surround the site. For some the Taj is an evocative symbol of the colonial past. For others it is a symbolic centre of Islamic power. For many of the thousands of tourists that visit it each year it is simply a monument of love. The author shows how tourism can be seen as a performance and the tourist site as a stage on which tourists are directed and rehearsed but also able to improvise their own cultural rituals.
Mine Safety and Health
Author: Bulletin
Author: Holmes Safety AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description