Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Sessional Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
Troy on Display
Author: Abigail BakerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350114294
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
This book explores what visitors saw at the Trojan exhibition and why its contents, including treasure, plain pottery and human remains captured imaginations and divided opinions. When Schliemann's Trojan collection was first exhibited in 1877, no-one had seen anything like it. Schliemann claimed these objects had been owned by participants in the Trojan War and that they were tangible evidence that Homer's epics were true. Yet, these objects did not reflect the heroic past imagined by Victorians, and a fierce controversy broke out about the collection's value and significance. Schliemann invited Londoners to see the very unclassical objects on display as the roots of classical culture. Artists, poets, historians, race theorists, bankers and humourists took up this challenge, but their conclusions were not always to Schliemann's liking. Troy's appeal lay in its materiality: visitors could apply analytical techniques (from aesthetic appreciation to skull-measuring) to the collection and draw their own conclusions. This book argues for a deep examination of museum exhibitions as a constructed spatial experience, which can transform how the past is seen. This new angle on a famous archaeological discovery shows the museum as a site of controversy, where hard evidence and wild imagination came together to form a lasting image of Troy.
Tables and Indexes
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Journals of the House of Lords
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of LordsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 738
Book Description
Appendices accompany vols. 64, 67-71.
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Joseph WhitakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, English
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Albert Houtum Schindler: A Remarkable Polymath in Late-Qajar Iran
Author: D.T. PottsPublisher: Mage Publishers
ISBN: 1949445682
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Widely regarded in his lifetime as the greatest living authority on all things Iranian, across an enormous range of disciplines, Albert Houtum Schindler lived and worked in Iran from 1868 to 1911. All who either met or corresponded with him came away praising his encyclopaedic knowledge and remarkable insight. A member of numerous learned societies in Europe, he sustained a wide web of intellectual contacts and was insatiably curious. As an employee of the Indo-European Telegraph Department, the Imperial Bank of Persia and the Persian Bank Mining Rights Corporation, he experienced firsthand the ups and downs of Iran’s slow but inexorable movement towards modernity. Yet when he died in 1916 his obituaries were frustratingly brief. Private when it came to the details of his personal life, Albert Houtum Schindler gave little away. This book is the first full-scale examination of the life and legacy of an extraordinary witness to the late-Qajar period and the land, people and history of Iran.
The parliamentary remembrancer, conducted by T. Smith
Author: Joshua Toulmin SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Journals of the House of Commons
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of CommonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description