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Book A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens  1882 1942

Download or read book A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1882 1942 written by Louis Eleazer Lord and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Download or read book A History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens written by Louis E. Lord and published by . This book was released on 1947-11-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the founding of the ASCSA in 1881 to the outbreak of war in 1939 and the subsequent involvement of School members in military life, this surprisingly outspoken book describes the early history of one of the most important American cultural institutions overseas. The book is organized chronologically, divided into the regimes of four Chairmen of the Managing Committee—the School's governance body. Appendixes describe an early member's first year at the School and the experiences of another member as a captain in the Greek army. Also included are lists of excavations conducted, publications issued, funds received and expended, and a directory of all Trustees, Managing Committee members, Faculty, and Students.

Book History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens  1939 1980

Download or read book History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1939 1980 written by Lucy Shoe Meritt and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 1984 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of the second 50 years in the life of the American School (originally founded in 1881). Conceived as a companion volume to Louis Lord's 1947 history of the first half century, the text outlines the activities of the School both in Greece and in the United States, beginning with an absorbing account of the affairs of the School during World War II and continuing through the Centennial in 1981, with chapters on the Summer Session, the School's excavations, its publications, and the Gennadeion. The extensive appendixes include lists of all the Trustees, Cooperating Institutions, members of the Managing Committee, staff, fellows, and members of the School since its inception in 1881, and add greatly to the usefulness of this volume. The author's first-hand knowledge of the people and events of the period discussed contributes materially to its depth and detail.

Book Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

Download or read book Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens written by Archaeological Institute of America and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Classical Spies

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  • Author : Susan H Allen
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 0472027662
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book Classical Spies written by Susan H Allen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Classical Spies will be a lasting contribution to the discipline and will stimulate further research. Susan Heuck Allen presents to a wide readership a topic of interest that is important and has been neglected.” —William M. Calder III, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Classical Spies is the first insiders’ account of the operations of the American intelligence service in World War II Greece. Initiated by archaeologists in Greece and the eastern Mediterranean, the network drew on scholars’ personal contacts and knowledge of languages and terrain. While modern readers might think Indiana Jones is just a fantasy character, Classical Spies discloses events where even Indy would feel at home: burying Athenian dig records in an Egyptian tomb, activating prep-school connections to establish spies code-named Vulture and Chickadee, and organizing parachute drops. Susan Heuck Allen reveals remarkable details about a remarkable group of individuals. Often mistaken for mild-mannered professors and scholars, such archaeologists as University of Pennsylvania’s Rodney Young, Cincinnati’s Jack Caskey and Carl Blegen, Yale’s Jerry Sperling and Dorothy Cox, and Bryn Mawr’s Virginia Grace proved their mettle as effective spies in an intriguing game of cat and mouse with their Nazi counterparts. Relying on interviews with individuals sharing their stories for the first time, previously unpublished secret documents, private diaries and letters, and personal photographs, Classical Spies offers an exciting and personal perspective on the history of World War II.

Book Life writing in the History of Archaeology

Download or read book Life writing in the History of Archaeology written by Gabriel Moshenska and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2023-07-10 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life-writing is a vital part of the history of archaeology, and a growing field of scholarship within the discipline. The lives of archaeologists are entangled with histories of museums and collections, developments in science and scholarship, and narratives of nationalism and colonialism into the present. In recent years life-writing has played an important role in the surge of new research in the history of archaeology, including ground-breaking studies of discipline formation, institutionalisation, and social and intellectual networks. Sources such as diaries, wills, film, and the growing body of digital records are powerful tools for highlighting the contributions of hitherto marginalised archaeological lives including many pioneering women, hired labourers and other ‘hidden hands’. This book brings together critical perspectives on life-writing in the history of archaeology from leading figures in the field. These include studies of archive formation and use, the concept of ‘dig-writing’ as a distinctive genre of archaeological creativity, and reviews of new sources for already well-known lives. Several chapters reflect on the experience of life-writing, review the historiography of the field, and assess the intellectual value and significance of life-writing as a genre. Together, they work to problematise underlying assumptions about this genre, foregrounding methodology, social theory, ethics and other practice-focused frameworks in conscious tension with previous practices.

Book The History of Archaeology

Download or read book The History of Archaeology written by Paul Bahn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Archaeology: An Introduction provides global coverage with chapters devoted to particular regions of the world. The regional approach allows readers to understand the similarities and differences in the history of and approach to archaeology in various parts of the world. Each chapter is written by a specialist scholar with experience of the region concerned. Thus the book focuses on the earliest beginnings of archaeology in different parts of the world, and how it developed from being a pastime for antiquarians and collectors to a serious attempt to obtain information about past societies. Woven into the text are various boxes that explore key archaeologists, sites and important discoveries in the history of archaeology enriching the story of the discipline’s development. With such far ranging coverage, including an exploration of the little covered development of Russian and Chinese archaeology, The History of Archaeology is the perfect introduction to the history of archaeology for the interested reader and student alike.

Book Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens   1882 1883

Download or read book Papers of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1882 1883 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens

Download or read book Bulletin of the School of Classical Studies at Athens written by American School of Classical Studies at Athens and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CONTENTS.--I. Report of William W. Goodwin ... director of the school in 1882-1883. 1883.--II. Memoir of Lewis R. Packard ... director of the school in 1883-1884. With the resolutions of the committee and a report on the school for 1883-1884. 1885.--III. Excavations at the Heraion of Argos, 1892, by Charles Waldstein. 1892.--IV. Report of John Williams White ... professor of the Greek language and literature at the school in 1893-94. 1895.--V. The first twenty years of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, by Thomas D. Seymour ... chairman of the managing committee of the school from 1887 to 1901. 1902.

Book History

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  • Author : John Higham
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2016-04-14
  • ISBN : 1317247116
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book History written by John Higham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the historians of the late eighteenth century. The author concentrates on those writers whose works fit into a specific category of writing, or who have inlfuence the course of later historical writing, though he does deal with some of the more specialist forms of medieval historiography such as the crusading writers, and chivalrous historians like Froissart. He maintains that ‘modern’ history did not develop until the 18th Century.

Book New Perspectives in Seleucid History  Archaeology and Numismatics

Download or read book New Perspectives in Seleucid History Archaeology and Numismatics written by Roland Oetjen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dedicated to Getzel M. Cohen, a leading expert in Seleucid history, this volume gathers 45 contributions on Seleucid history, archaeology, numismatics, political relations, policy toward the Jews, Greek cities, non-Greek populations, peripheral and neighboring regions, imperial administration, economy and public finances, and ancient descriptions of the Seleucid Empire. The reader will gain an international perspective on current research.

Book History of Intellectual Culture 2 2023

Download or read book History of Intellectual Culture 2 2023 written by Charlotte A. Lerg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-10-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second issue of the yearbook History of Intellectual Culture (HIC) dedicates a thematic section to modes of publication. This volume addresses recent advances in publication studies and stresses the cultural formation of knowledge. By exploring and analyzing layers of presenting, sharing, and circulating knowledge, we invite readers to critically engage with questions of media uses and publishing practices and structures, both historically and in our contemporary digital age. The articles in this volume attest to the great variety of publication modes and perspectives, from the potential and limits of digitizing newspapers such as the New York Times to questions of positionality in building and using Wikipedia, from translation policies and female participation to the genre of university histories.

Book Archaeology at the Millennium

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  • Author : Gary M. Feinman
  • Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
  • Release : 2007-09-27
  • ISBN : 0387726101
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Archaeology at the Millennium written by Gary M. Feinman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-09-27 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, internationally distinguished contributors consider hot topics in turn-of-the-millennium archaeology and chart an ambitious agenda for the future.

Book Routledge Library Editions  Historiography

Download or read book Routledge Library Editions Historiography written by Various and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-23 with total page 8677 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest problem in historical scholarship, theoretically and practically, is the relation between historians and their subject matter. The past is gone and historians can only study its remnants. On what basis do scholars select certain facts from the mass of data left from the past? How do they explain the interrelationship of the facts they select? What criteria do they use to evaluate their subject? The 35 volumes in this set, originally published between 1926 and 1990 discuss and answer these essential questions faced by historians. The development of historical understanding during the 18th and 19th centuries was one of the most striking features of Western culture. Both historiography and historical thinking advanced as never before. The historial movment of the 19th century was perhaps second only to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century in transforming Western thought. One consequence was extensive organisation and professionalization of research, which the volumes in this set reflect.

Book Archaeology  Sexism  and Scandal

Download or read book Archaeology Sexism and Scandal written by Alan Kaiser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson compiled during that dig, as well as her personal correspondence and materials from major university archives, to paint a fascinating picture of gender, power, and archaeology in the early twentieth century. Using Ellingson’s photographs and letters as a guide, Kaiser brings alive the excavations led by David Robinson and recounts how the unearthing of private homes—rather than public spaces—emerged as a means to examine the day-to-day of ancient life in Greece. But as Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal clearly demonstrates, a darker story lurks beneath the smiling faces and humorous tales: one where Robinson stole Ellingson’s words and insights for his own, and where fellow academ

Book Breaking Ground

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  • Author : Getzel M. Cohen
  • Publisher : University of Michigan Press
  • Release : 2010-06-02
  • ISBN : 0472025368
  • Pages : 616 pages

Download or read book Breaking Ground written by Getzel M. Cohen and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-06-02 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity. Breaking Ground highlights the remarkable careers of twelve pioneers-a compelling narrative of personal, social, intellectual, and historical achievement." -Claire Lyons, The Getty Museum "Behind these pioneering women lie a wide range of fascinating and inspiring life stories. Though each of their tales is unique, they were all formidable scholars whose important contributions changed the field of archaeology. Kudos to the authors for making their stories and accomplishments known to us all!" -Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This book presents twelve fascinating women whose contributions to the development and progress of Old World archaeology---in an area ranging from Italy to Mesopotamia---have been immeasurable. Each essay in this collection examines the life of a pioneer archaeologist in the early days of the discipline, tracing her path from education in the classics to travel and exploration and eventual international recognition in the field of archaeology. The lives of these women may serve as models both for those interested in gender studies and the history of archaeology because in fact, they broke ground both as women and as archaeologists. The interest inherent in these biographies will reach well beyond defined disciplines and subdisciplines, for the life of each of these exciting and accomplished individuals is an adventure story in itself