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Book Astronomical Notices

Download or read book Astronomical Notices written by and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Centenary of Science in Manchester  In a Series of Notes

Download or read book A Centenary of Science in Manchester In a Series of Notes written by Robert Angus Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Book The Simplicity of the Creation

Download or read book The Simplicity of the Creation written by William Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Making Public Pasts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Gordon
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780773522541
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Making Public Pasts written by Alan Gordon and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It conscripts historical events in a bid to guide shared memories into a coherent narrative that helps individuals negotiate their place in broader collective identities." "The contest over public memories involves an exclusiveness that packages "other" according to the ideological preferences of the dominant cultures. Gordon shows that in Montreal ethnic, class, and gender voices strove to stake their own claims to legitimacy."--BOOK JACKET.

Book A History of the Royal Society

Download or read book A History of the Royal Society written by Charles Richard Weld and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Allure of Empire

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  • Author : Todd Burke Porterfield
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780691059594
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Allure of Empire written by Todd Burke Porterfield and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From monumental battle paintings to the public display of archaeological spoils to the decoration of urban vistas, visual culture promoted modern French imperialism. So argues Todd Porterfield in this provocative look at the forces of art and politics in France's military conquest of the Near East. In challenging the conventional wisdom that France happened into imperial venture, Porterfield explores interactions among artists, generals, journalists, curators, and politicians from the time of Napoleon's Egyptian campaign to the invasion of Algeria during the Restoration and July Monarchy. Together they forged an official culture that provided a rationale for imperialism--based on images of France's moral and technological superiority--and an enduring project for Frenchmen of all political persuasions during an era of domestic instability. The allure of empire derived in part from its function as an alternative, surrogate, mask, and displacement of the Revolution. Porterfield reveals the interlocking strategies, the historical, scientific, moralistic, and gendered judgments, that imperial art conveyed in a strikingly rich variety of media: the obelisk at the Place de la Concorde, battle paintings of the Egyptian campaign, the first Egyptian Museum in the Louvre, and Delacroix's Women of Algiers. Not only do his analyses engage a wide range of urgent debates within cultural studies, but they also shed light on a troubling question. How in the age oflibert,, egalit,, and fraternit, was visual culture enlisted to fabricate a sense of national superiority that led to the subjugation of others?

Book At Memory s Edge

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  • Author : James Edward Young
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2000-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780300094138
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book At Memory s Edge written by James Edward Young and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How should Germany commemorate the mass murder of Jews once committed in its name? In 1997, James E. Young was invited to join a German commission appointed to find an appropriate design for a national memorial in Berlin to the European Jews killed in World War II. As the only foreigner and only Jew on the panel, Young gained a unique perspective on Germany's fraught efforts to memorialize the Holocaust. In this book, he tells for the first time the inside story of Germany's national Holocaust memorial and his own role in it. In exploring Germany's memorial crisis, Young also asks the more general question of how a generation of contemporary artists can remember an event like the Holocaust, which it never knew directly. Young examines the works of a number of vanguard artists in America and Europe--including Art Spiegelman, Shimon Attie, David Levinthal, and Rachel Whiteread--all born after the Holocaust but indelibly shaped by its memory as passed down through memoirs, film, photographs, and museums. In the context of the moral and aesthetic questions raised by these avant-garde projects, Young offers fascinating insights into the controversy surrounding Berlin's newly opened Jewish museum, designed by Daniel Libeskind, as well as Germany's soon-to-be-built national Holocaust memorial, designed by Peter Eisenman. Illustrated with striking images in color and black-and-white, At Memory's Edge is the first book in any language to chronicle these projects and to show how we remember the Holocaust in the after-images of its history.

Book Public Monuments

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  • Author : Sergiusz Michalski
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 1998-12
  • ISBN : 9781861890252
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book Public Monuments written by Sergiusz Michalski and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1998-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public monuments to significant individuals or to political concepts are familiar to most of us, but the notions underlying them may not be so obvious. This book traces the history of the public monument, from the 1870s to the present day.

Book Annual Report of the Committee

Download or read book Annual Report of the Committee written by Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings (London, England) and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book De magnis coniunctionibus

Download or read book De magnis coniunctionibus written by Abū Maʻshar and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the Arabic, Latin and English text of the major work on historical astrology of the Middle Ages. The text is attributed either to Abū Ma'šar (787-886) or to his pupil Ibn al-Bāzyār, and was translated into Latin in the mid-twelfth century. In eight books (parts) it provides the scientific basis for predictions concerning kings, prophets, dynasties, religions, wars, epidemics etc., by means of conjunctions of planets, comets and other astronomical factors. It is cited frequently by both Arabic and Latin authors. These editions will provide, for the first time, the context of these citations. Aside from its intrinsic interest for cultural history and the history of science, this work provides several details. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004117334).

Book The Transits of Venus  1874 and 1882

Download or read book The Transits of Venus 1874 and 1882 written by George Biddell Airy and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Geometrical and Graphical Essays  Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry  Civil and Military Surveying  Levelling  and Perspective

Download or read book Geometrical and Graphical Essays Containing a General Description of the Mathematical Instruments Used in Geometry Civil and Military Surveying Levelling and Perspective written by George Adams and published by . This book was released on 1803 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A New Theory of the Solar System

Download or read book A New Theory of the Solar System written by Thomas Job and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Statutes of the Royal Society

Download or read book Statutes of the Royal Society written by [Anonymus AC10343480] and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Undulatory Theory of Optics

Download or read book On the Undulatory Theory of Optics written by George Biddell Airy and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: