Download or read book The Book of Dumbartonshire written by Joseph Irving and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beatrix Farrand s Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks written by Diane K. McGuire and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1980 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared as a resource for those charged with maintenance of the gardens following their acquisition by Harvard University in 1941. Beatrix Farrand here explains the reasoning behind her plan for each of the gardens and stipulates how each should be cared for in order that its basic character remain intact. Her resourceful suggestions for alternative plantings, her rigorous strictures concerning pruning and replacement, her exposition of the overall concept that underlies each detail, and the plant lists that accompany her discussion of each garden make this a volume of interest to every student, practitioner, and lover of landscape design.

Download or read book The Book of Dumbartonshire County written by Joseph Irving and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Dumbartonshire Parishes written by Joseph Irving and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dumbarton Oaks written by Robert C. Hilderbrand and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilderbrand explains why, with the Second World War moving toward an Allied victory in the summer of 1944, the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China began to give greater priority to protecting their own sovereignty than to preventing

Download or read book The History written by Michael Attaleiates and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half the size, menaced by enemies on all sides. The History of Michael Attaleiates is our main source for this astonishing reversal. This translation, based on the most recent critical edition, includes notes, maps, and glossary.

Download or read book Byzantium a World Civilization written by Angeliki E. Laiou and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These seven chapters, originally given as lectures honoring the fiftieth anniversary of Dumbarton Oaks, cover a wide range of topics, from the relationship of Byzantium with its Islamic, Slavic, and Western European neighbors to the modern reception of Byzantine art.

Download or read book A Dumbarton Childhood written by Joseph Mcloughlin and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal memoir by a genuine "Son of the Rock"Born on 24th December 1951 in Overtoun Nursing Home in Dumbarton, Scotland the author was educated at West Bridgend Primary School and St Patricks Secondary Schools.Lived in Clyde Street, Castlehill and Brucehil.This book chronicles the life of a Dumbartonian and follows his transition from childhood in the 1950's, through his teens in the swinging 60's and finally to the early 70's and adulthood.Overflowing with nostalgic memories of the town and its people, this engrossing book is a poignant, sad and often hilarious collection of true stories and experiences.Written in an autobiographical style, it illustrates the humour, warmth and character of people of this close-knit community in a small, historic town on Clydeside in Scotland.

Download or read book Perspectives on Garden Histories written by Michel Conan and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 1999 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprising ten papers which critically examine the field of garden history, presented at the twenty-first Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture. Topics include changes in approaches to garden history and architectural studies over time and new historical investigations and discoveries in Italian and Mughal gardens. Good

Download or read book The Glasgow Effect written by Ellie Harrison and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would your career, social life, family ties, carbon footprint and mental health be affected if you could not leave the city where you live? Artist Ellie Harrison sparked a fast-and-furious debate about class, capitalism, art, education and much more, when news of her year-long project The Glasgow Effect went viral at the start of 2016. Named after the term used to describe Glasgow's mysteriously poor public health and funded to the tune of £15,000 by Creative Scotland, this controversial 'durational performance' centred on a simple proposition – that the artist would refuse to travel beyond Glasgow's city limits, or use any vehicles except her bike, for a whole calendar year.

Download or read book Military Landscapes written by Anatole Tchikine and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military Landscapes seeks to develop a nuanced definition of military landscapes under the framework of landscape theory. It moves beyond discussions of infrastructure and battlefields, shifting the focus instead to often overlooked factors, highlighting the historical character of militarized environments as inherently gendered and racialized.

Download or read book Dumbarton Oaks Papers 75 written by Colin M. Whiting and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 75 includes: Sihong Lin, "Justin under Justinian: The Rise of Emperor Justinian II Revisited"; Anna Chrysostomides, "John of Damascus's Theology of Icons in the Context of Eighth-Century Palestinian Iconoclasm"; Levente László, "Rhetorius, Zeno's Astrologer, and a Sixth-Century Astrological Compendium"; and many more.

Download or read book San Marco Byzantium and the Myths of Venice written by Henry Maguire and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Maguire, emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University, works on Byzantine and related cultures. He has written extensively on Venetian art and the church of San Marco.

Download or read book Dumbarton Oaks Papers 72 written by Elena Boeck and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dumbarton Oaks Papers was in founded in 1941 to publish articles on Byzantine civilization. In this issue: Zellmann-Rohrer, "Psalms Useful for Everything"; Caner, "Not a Hospital but a Leprosarium"; Botley, "The Books of Andronicus Callistus"; Busine, "The Dux and the Nun: Hagiography and the Cult of Artemios and Febronia"; and many more.

Download or read book The Conquered written by Eleni Kefala and published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Conquered probes issues of collective memory and cultural trauma in three sorrowful poems composed soon after the conquest of Constantinople and Tenochtitlán. These texts describe the fall of an empire as a fissure in the social fabric and an open wound on the body politic, and articulate, in a familiar language, the trauma of the conquered.

Download or read book The Book of British Topography A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical Works in the Library of the British Museum Relating to Great Britain and Ireland written by John Parker Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book Richer of Saint Remi written by Justin Lake and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building upon, but also moving beyond, previous scholarship that has focused on Richer's political allegiances and his views of kingship, this study by Justin Lake provides the most comprehensive synthesis of the History, examining Richer's use and abuse of his sources, his relationship to Gerbert, and the motives that led him to write.