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Book A Field Guide to the Mammals

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Henry Burt
  • Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780395910986
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book A Field Guide to the Mammals written by William Henry Burt and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1976 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides information about mammals in North America and north of Mexico.

Book Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran

Download or read book Contributions to the Anthropology of Iran written by Henry Field and published by New York : Kraus Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1968 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Races of Mankind

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  • Author : Marianne Kinkel
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2011
  • ISBN : 0252036247
  • Pages : 294 pages

Download or read book Races of Mankind written by Marianne Kinkel and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History commissioned sculptor Malvina Hoffman to produce three-dimensional models of racial types for an anthropology display called the Races of Mankind. In this exceptional study, Marianne Kinkel measures the colossal impact of the ninety-one bronze and stone sculptures on perceptions of race in twentieth-century visual culture, tracing their exhibition from their 1933 debut and nearly four decades at the Field Museum to numerous reuses, repackagings, reproductions, and publications that reached across the world. Employing a keen interdisciplinary approach, Kinkel taps archival sources and period publications to construct a cultural biography of the Races of Mankind sculptures. She examines how Hoffman's collaborations with curators and anthropologists transformed the commission from a traditional physical anthropology display to a fine art exhibit. She also tracks influential exhibitions of statuettes in New York and Paris and photographic reproductions in atlases, maps, and encyclopedias. The volume concludes with the dismantling of the exhibit at the Field Museum in the late 1960s and the redeployment of some of the sculptures in new educational settings. Kinkel demonstrates how the Races of Mankind sculptures participated in various racial paradigms by asserting fixed racial types and racial hierarchies in the 1930s, promoting the notion of a Brotherhood of Man in the 1940s, and engaging Afrocentric discourses of identity in the 1970s. Despite the enormous role the sculptures played in representing race in American visual culture, their history has been largely unrecognized until now. The first sustained examination of this influential group of sculptures, Races of Mankind: The Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman examines how the veracity of race is continually renegotiated through collaborative processes involved in the production, display, and circulation of visual representations.

Book The Story of Henry Field

Download or read book The Story of Henry Field written by Frances Hope Field and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson

Download or read book Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson written by Keith Jeffery and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2006-03-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, an Irishman who in June 1922 was assassinated on his doorstep in London by Irish republicans, was one of the most controversial British soldiers of the modern age. Before 1914 he did much to secure the Anglo-French alliance and was responsible for the planning which saw the British Expeditionary Force successfully despatched to France after the outbreak of war with Germany. A passionate Irish unionist, he gained a reputation as an intensely 'political' soldier, especially during the 'Curragh crisis' of 1914 when some officers resigned their commisssions rather than coerce Ulster unionists into a Home Rule Ireland. During the war he played a major role in Anglo-French liaison, and ended up as Chief of the Imperial General Staff, professional head of the army, a post he held until February 1922. After Wilson retired from the army, he became an MP and was chief security adviser to the new Northern Ireland government. As such, he became a target for nationalist Irish militants, being identified with the security policies of the Belfast regime, though wrongly with Protestant sectarian attacks on Catholics. He is remembered today in unionist Northern Ireland as a kind of founding martyr for the state. Wilson's reputation was ruined in 1927 with the publication of an official biography, which quoted extensively and injudiciously from his entertaining, indiscreet, and wildly opinionated diaries, giving the impression that he was some sort of Machiavellian monster. In this first modern biography, using a wide variety of official and private sources for the first time, Keith Jeffery reassesses Wilson's life and career and places him clearly in his social, national, and political context.

Book Henry Field s Seed Book  1930

Download or read book Henry Field s Seed Book 1930 written by Henry Field Seed Company and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book LIFE

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1943-10-18
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-10-18 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States

Download or read book Cases Decided in the Court of Claims of the United States written by United States. Court of Claims and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry Field s Seed Book  Spring 1931

Download or read book Henry Field s Seed Book Spring 1931 written by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1967
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1428 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Post Office and Civil Service and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bone Rooms

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  • Author : Samuel J. Redman
  • Publisher : Harvard University Press
  • Release : 2016-03-14
  • ISBN : 0674969731
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book Bone Rooms written by Samuel J. Redman and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Smithsonian Book of the Year A Nature Book of the Year “Provides much-needed foundation of the relationship between museums and Native Americans.” —Smithsonian In 1864 a US Army doctor dug up the remains of a Dakota man who had been killed in Minnesota and sent the skeleton to a museum in Washington that was collecting human remains for research. In the “bone rooms” of the Smithsonian, a scientific revolution was unfolding that would change our understanding of the human body, race, and prehistory. Seeking evidence to support new theories of racial classification, collectors embarked on a global competition to recover the best specimens of skeletons, mummies, and fossils. As the study of these discoveries discredited racial theory, new ideas emerging in the budding field of anthropology displaced race as the main motive for building bone rooms. Today, as a new generation seeks to learn about the indigenous past, momentum is building to return objects of spiritual significance to native peoples. “A beautifully written, meticulously documented analysis of [this] little-known history.” —Brian Fagan, Current World Archeology “How did our museums become great storehouses of human remains? Bone Rooms chases answers...through shifting ideas about race, anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology and helps explain recent ethical standards for the collection and display of human dead.” —Ann Fabian, author of The Skull Collectors “Details the nascent views of racial science that evolved in U.S. natural history, anthropological, and medical museums...Redman effectively portrays the remarkable personalities behind [these debates]...pitting the prickly Aleš Hrdlička at the Smithsonian...against ally-turned-rival Franz Boas at the American Museum of Natural History.” —David Hurst Thomas, Nature

Book Henry Williamson and the FWW

Download or read book Henry Williamson and the FWW written by Anne Williamson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2004-02-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Williamson is perhaps best known for his Hawthornden Prize-winning "Tarka the Otter", yet he devoted a major part of his life to fiction which drew closely on his experiences during World War I, including his sequence of novels "A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight". His time in the trenches affected him profoundly and, like many young soldiers, he was changed utterly by what he saw. This book draws closely on his letters, diaries, photographs and notebooks written at the time to give an account of life in the trenches of World War I. It also affords an insight into the making of a novelist.

Book Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals

Download or read book Reports of the United States Board of Tax Appeals written by and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 1598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shadow War Against Hitler

Download or read book The Shadow War Against Hitler written by Christof Mauch and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with revelations and replete with telling detail, this riveting book lifts the curtain on the United States' secret intelligence operations in the war against Nazi Germany.

Book The English Reports

Download or read book The English Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1972 with total page 1602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Everglades Providence

Download or read book An Everglades Providence written by Jack E. Davis and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles the suffragist, feminist, and environmentalist who fought for the preservation and protection of the Everglades and won the battle that turned it into a national wilderness area.