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Book Mexican Memories

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  • Author : Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1892
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 178 pages

Download or read book Mexican Memories written by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mexican Memories

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  • Author : Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
  • Publisher : Andesite Press
  • Release : 2015-08-09
  • ISBN : 9781298617187
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Mexican Memories written by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Mexican Memories

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  • Author : Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9781293728178
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book Mexican Memories written by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Mexican Memories: The Record Of A Slight Sojourn Below The Yellow Rio Grande Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue G.M. Allen Co., 1892 Mexico

Book Mexican Memories  the Record of a Slight Sojourn Below the Yellow Rio Grande

Download or read book Mexican Memories the Record of a Slight Sojourn Below the Yellow Rio Grande written by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER THE FOURTH. CONCERNING POLITICS AND THE PEOPLE. In our northern houses the general requirement is gorgeousness, not to say giddiness, of exterior, with plenty of big plate-glass windows and no wall spaces whatever, together with a certain parvenu degree of comfort within, which, unfortunately, does not as yet seem compatible with true beauty, but the Mexican scorns all this and his first requisite seems to be not gorgeousness so much as an effect of picturesqueness without; this is certainly very kind of him, as it appeals much more to the wayfarer than to the S dweller within. Nearly all the poorer class habitations are in reality little more than one or two rectangular boxes of varying size, placed one against another. "Not so very picturesque a description," you say? Well! in a measure you are right, and yet the peons, for they never employ an architect for such buildings as these, of course, seem to have just that innate sense of what goes to make true beauty, that never errs: while one trained in such matters might waste days or weeks in straining after effects which they arrive at almost unconsciously. Why ! the meanest one of them will throw his zarape or shawllike blanket over his shoulder at just such an angle and proportion of length, and with such regard for color combination, as to render him irresistible to the artist. Mr. F. Hopkinson Smith has portrayed him so cleverly that it seems daring, indeed, to add one line, and yet I cannot resist introducing a sketch of one of my friends here. Perhaps he isn't handsome according to the canons which obtain with us, and yet this may be the fault of the drawing, added to the untranslatability of some of his most glowing characteristics, the humorous sparkle of his black...

Book The Material Unconscious

Download or read book The Material Unconscious written by Bill Brown and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the ephemera of the everyday--old photographs, circus posters, iron toys--lies a challenge to America's dominant cultural memory. What this memory has left behind, Bill Brown recovers in the "material unconscious" of Stephen Crane's work, the textual residues of daily sensations that add up to a new history of the American 1890s. As revealed in Crane's disavowing appropriation of an emerging mass culture--from football games and freak shows to roller coasters and early cinema--the decade reappears as an underexposed moment in the genealogy of modernism and modernity. Brown's story begins on the Jersey Shore, in Asbury Park, where Crane became a writer in the shadow of his father, a grimly serious Methodist minister who vilified the popular amusements his son adored. The coastal resorts became the stage for debates about technology, about the body's visibility, about a black service class and the new mass access to leisure. From this snapshot of a recreational scene that would continue to inspire Crane's sensational modernism, Brown takes us to New York's Bowery. There, in the visual culture established by dime museums, minstrel shows, and the Kodak craze, he exhibits Crane dramatically obscuring the typology of race. Along the way, Brown demonstrates how attitudes toward play transformed the image of war, the idea of childhood and nationhood, and the concept of culture itself. And by developing a new conceptual apparatus (with such notions as "recreational time," "abstract leisure," and the "amusement/knowledge system"), he provides the groundwork for a new politics of pleasure. A crucial theorization of how cultural studies can and should proceed, The Material Unconscious insists that in the very conjuncture of canonical literature and mass culture, we can best understand how proliferating and competing economies of play disrupt the so-called "logic" and "work" of culture.

Book A Catalogue of Old  Rare and Curious Books

Download or read book A Catalogue of Old Rare and Curious Books written by George E. Littlefield (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illusion of Ignorance

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  • Author : Janice Lee Jayes
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2011-02-16
  • ISBN : 0761853553
  • Pages : 265 pages

Download or read book The Illusion of Ignorance written by Janice Lee Jayes and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Illusion of Ignorance examines the cultural politics of the American encounter with Porfirian Mexico as a precursor and model for the twentieth-century American encounter with the world. Detailed discussions of the logistics of conducting diplomacy, doing business, or traveling abroad in the era give readers a vivid picture of how Americans experienced this age of international expansion, while contrasting Mexican and American visions of the changing relationship. In the end, Mexico's efforts to promote Mexico as a partner in progress with the U.S. was lost to an American illusion schizophrenically divided between fantasies of American leadership toward, and refuge from, modernity. The Illusion of Ignorance argues that American ignorance of the experience of other nations is not so much a barrier to better understanding of the world, but a strategy Americans have chosen to maintain their vision of the U.S. relationship with the world.

Book Pride in Modesty

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  • Author : Michelangelo Sabatino
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2011-05-21
  • ISBN : 1442667370
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Pride in Modesty written by Michelangelo Sabatino and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2011-05-21 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction practices over a period of sixty years and a number of different political regimes. This surprising continuity allows Sabatino to reject the division of Italian history into sharply delimited periods such as Fascist Interwar and Democratic Postwar and to instead emphasize the long, continuous process that transformed pastoral and urban ideals into a new, modernist Italy.

Book Disorder and Progress

Download or read book Disorder and Progress written by Paul J. Vanderwood and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1992 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I. The balance of order and disorder -- 1. Ambitious bandits: disorder equals progress -- 2. The aura of the king -- 3. The spoils of independence -- 4. Bent on being modern -- 5. Bandits into police, and vice versa -- Part II. Toward the Western model -- 6. Order, disorder, and development -- 7. The limits to dictatorship -- 8. A kind of peace -- Part III. A political police performance -- 9. Constabulary of campesinos and artisans -- 10. The president's police -- 11. It's the image that counts -- Part IV. Demons of revolution unleashed -- 12. The rollercoaster called capitalism-- 13. Unraveling the old regime -- 14. Disorder in search of order.

Book Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico

Download or read book Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico written by William H. Beezley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio D�az, from 1876 to 1911. At that time Mexico underwent modernization, which produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new and exacerbating class antagonisms. In these pages, the noted historian William H. Beezley illuminates many facets of everyday Mexican life lying at the heart of this conflict and change, including sports, storytelling, healthcare, technology, and the traditional Easter-time Judas burnings that became a primary focus of the strife during those years. This second edition features a new preface by the author as well as updated and expanded text, notes, and bibliography.

Book Book Chat

Download or read book Book Chat written by William George Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book News

Download or read book Book News written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book California Vieja

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  • Author : Phoebe S. Kropp
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520931653
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book California Vieja written by Phoebe S. Kropp and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The characteristic look of Southern California, with its red-tiled roofs, stucco homes, and Spanish street names suggests an enduring fascination with the region’s Spanish-Mexican past. In this engaging study, Phoebe S. Kropp reveals that the origins of this aesthetic were not solely rooted in the Spanish colonial period, but arose in the early twentieth century, when Anglo residents recast the days of missions and ranchos as an idyllic golden age of pious padres, placid Indians, dashing caballeros and sultry senoritas. Four richly detailed case studies uncover the efforts of Anglo boosters and examine the responses of Mexican and Indian people in the construction of places that gave shape to this cultural memory: El Camino Real, a tourist highway following the old route of missionaries; San Diego’s world’s fair, the Panama-California Exposition; the architecturally- and racially-restricted suburban hamlet Rancho Santa Fe; and Olvera Street, an ersatz Mexican marketplace in the heart of Los Angeles. California Vieja is a compelling demonstration of how memory can be more than nostalgia. In Southern California, the Spanish past became a catalyst for the development of the region’s built environment and public culture, and a civic narrative that still serves to marginalize Mexican and Indian residents.

Book List of Authors and Titles and Catalogue of Maps

Download or read book List of Authors and Titles and Catalogue of Maps written by Army War College (U.S.). Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Publishers Weekly

Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year

Download or read book Bulletin of Books in the Various Departments of Literature and Science Added to the Public Library of Cincinnati During the Year written by Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: