Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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Reports of Committees
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1218
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House documents
Author: Congressional Record
Author: My Southern Home
Author: William Wells BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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At the Court of the Amīr
Author: John Alfred GrayPublisher:
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Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 564
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London’s Urban Landscape
Author: Christopher TilleyPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787355608
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
London’s Urban Landscape is the first major study of a global city to adopt a materialist perspective and stress the significance of place and the built environment to the urban landscape. Edited by Christopher Tilley, the volume is inspired by phenomenological thinking and presents fine-grained ethnographies of the practices of everyday life in London. In doing so, it charts a unique perspective on the city that integrates ethnographies of daily life with an analysis of material culture. The first part of the volume considers the residential sphere of urban life, discussing in detailed case studies ordinary residential streets, housing estates, suburbia and London’s mobile ‘linear village’ of houseboats. The second part analyses the public sphere, including ethnographies of markets, a park, the social rhythms of a taxi rank, and graffiti and street art. London’s Urban Landscape returns us to the everyday lives of people and the manner in which they understand their lives. The deeply sensuous character of the embodied experience of the city is invoked in the thick descriptions of entangled relationships between people and places, and the paths of movement between them. What stories do door bells and house facades tell us about contemporary life in a Victorian terrace? How do antiques acquire value and significance in a market? How does living in a concrete megastructure relate to the lives of the people who dwell there? These and a host of other questions are addressed in this fascinating book that will appeal widely to all readers interested in London or contemporary urban life.
Spaces of Experience
Author: Charlotte KlonkPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300151961
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
This fascinating study of art gallery interiors examines the changing ideals and practices of galleries in Europe and North America from the 18th to the late 20th century. It offers a detailed account of the different displays that have been created—the colors of the background walls, lighting, furnishings, the height and density of the art works on show—and it traces the different scientific, political and commercial influences that lay behind their development. Charlotte Klonk shows that scientists like Hermann von Helmholtz and Wilhelm Wundt advanced theories of perception that played a significant role in justifying new modes of exhibiting. Equally important for the changing modes of exhibition in art galleries was what Michael Baxandall has called “the period eye,” a way of seeing informed by the impact of new fashions in interior decoration and by department store and shop window displays. The history of museum interiors, she argues, should be appreciated as a revealing chapter in the broader history of experience.
The Revolutionary War in the Hackensack Valley
Author: Adrian Coulter LeibyPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 9780813508986
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
After November 1776, the Hackensack Valley--located in northeastern New Jersey and Rockland County, New York--lay between the invading British army in New York City and the main Continental defense forces in the Hudson Highlands. Jersey Dutch patriot and Tory troops carried on a five-year war of neighbors between the lines, while the grand armies of Britain and America maneuvered on either side of them for a chance to strike a blow at the other. Adrian Leiby offers an exciting narrative of the people of Dutch New Jersey and New York during this conflict. Historians will find colorful details about the Revolutionary War, and genealogists will find much previously unpublished material on hundreds of men and women of Dutch New Jersey and New York in the 1700s.
The Colorado Magazine
Author: Colonial Men and Times
Author: Lillie Du Puy Van Culin HarperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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