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Book The Family Magazine  Or  Weekly Abstract of General Knowledge

Download or read book The Family Magazine Or Weekly Abstract of General Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Family Magazine  Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge

Download or read book The Family Magazine Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Family Magazine  Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge

Download or read book The Family Magazine Or Monthly Abstract of General Knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family magazine or monthly abstract of general knowledge

Download or read book Family magazine or monthly abstract of general knowledge written by and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Family Magazine

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  • Release : 1840
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  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book Family Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Year book of the St  Paul Institute

Download or read book Year book of the St Paul Institute written by Saint Paul Institute and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Illusions in Motion

Download or read book Illusions in Motion written by Erkki Huhtamo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.

Book Barbecue

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  • Author : Tim Miller
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2014-08-07
  • ISBN : 1442227540
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Barbecue written by Tim Miller and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Barbecue: A History examines barbecue's history and place in American society using both historical and contemporary sources. The book examines all aspects of barbecue: Outdoor grilling and traditional slow cooking Restaurant and home cooking International forms of barbecue The specific foods involved in a barbecue The concept of the barbecue as a gathering Historical and contemporary recipes for main and side dishes Readers are treated here to a delightful and thorough history of barbecue, including its appearance in music, television, and film, and a consideration of how we think of and enjoy barbecue today.

Book Coral Lives

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  • Author : Michele Currie Navakas
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-11
  • ISBN : 0691240094
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Coral Lives written by Michele Currie Navakas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, coral specimens featured prominently in cabinets of curiosity, and in literary work by writers from Herman Melville to Lydia Huntley Sigourney. Children sang of coral in popular songs. Women, both free and enslaved, wore coral beads. Reef samples drew crowds to galleries and museums. And coral's unique qualities as animal, vegetable, and mineral inspired countless Americans to praise the "coral insect" for creating what one author called "the most wonder-provoking of all natural objects." In this account of coral's history as material and metaphor, Michele Navakas argues that coral shaped the nation's thinking and became deeply entwined with the histories of slavery, wage labor, and women's reproductive and domestic work. European slave traders used red coral to purchase persons along the coast of West Africa from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries, while enslaved people performed the labor that brought raw coral from Caribbean, Mediterranean, and Pacific waters to European naturalists and coral traders. In the nineteenth-century U.S., Black and white women frequently compared their bodies to reef-building polyps that silently and continually produced new beings and forged intergenerational bonds. The book traces the global flows of labor, production, manufacture, and trade that brought coral into the daily lives of nineteenth-century Americans, and discusses the cultural traditions surrounding coral in four major geographic regions-Africa, the Pacific, the Caribbean, and Europe-that shaped early American understandings of coral. It then examines works of literature and of natural history by a cross-section of U.S. authors who used the analogy of coral to describe a system in which the labors of each individual enrich all, but also as a body that grows only by silently entombing the living bodies of its most essential workers. A coda addresses the value of historically oriented environmental humanities scholarship at a time of climate crisis"--

Book A History of American Magazines  Volume V  1905 1930

Download or read book A History of American Magazines Volume V 1905 1930 written by Frank Luther Mott and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939 Frank Luther Mott received a Pulitzer Prize for Volumes II and III of his History of American Magazines. In 1958 he was awarded the Bancroft Prize for Volume IV. He was at work on Volume V of the projected six-volume history when he died in October 1964. He had, at that time, written the sketches of the twenty-one magazines that appear in this volume. These magazines flourished during the period 1905-1930, but their "biographies" are continued throughout their entire lifespan--in the case of the ten still published, to recent years. Mott's daughter, Mildred Mott Wedel, has prepared this volume for publication and provided notes on changes since her father's death. No one has attempted to write the general historical chapters the author provided in the earlier volumes but which were not yet written for this last volume. A delightful autobiographical essay by the author has been included, and there is a detailed cumulative index to the entire set of this monumental work. The period 1905-1930 witnessed the most flamboyant and fruitful literary activity that had yet occurred in America. In his sketches, Mott traces the editorial partnership of H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, first on The Smart Set and then in the pages of The American Mercury. He treats The New Republic, the liberal magazine founded in 1914 by Herbert Croly and Willard Straight; the conservative Freeman; and Better Homes and Gardens, the first magazine to achieve a circulation of one million "without the aid of fiction or fashions." Other giants of magazine history are here: we see "serious, shaggy...solid, pragmatic, self-contained" Henry Luce propel a national magazine called Time toward its remarkable prosperity. In addition to those already mentioned, the reader will find accounts of The Midland, The South Atlantic Quarterly, The Little Review, Poetry, The Fugitive, Everybody's, Appleton's Booklovers Magazine, Current History, Editor & Publisher, The Golden Book Magazine, Good Housekeeping, Hampton's Broadway Magazine, House Beautiful, Success, and The Yale Review.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin  First  to fifth  supplements   Additions from 1873 1887

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin First to fifth supplements Additions from 1873 1887 written by State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Library and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes titles on all subjects, some in foreign languages, later incorporated into Memorial Library.

Book Catalogue of the library of the State historical society of Wisconsin  by D S  and I  Durrie

Download or read book Catalogue of the library of the State historical society of Wisconsin by D S and I Durrie written by Daniel Steele Durrie and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book ACLCP Union List of Periodicals

Download or read book ACLCP Union List of Periodicals written by Associated College Libraries of Central Pennsylvania and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue

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  • Author : Michigan State Library
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  • Release : 1873
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  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Catalogue written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Library of Wabash College

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Wabash College written by Wabash College. Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Pursuing Melville  1940 1980

Download or read book Pursuing Melville 1940 1980 written by Merton M. Sealts and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuing Melville collects fourteen representative chapters and essays out of nearly fifty pieces written between 1940 and 1980 by this influential Melville scholar, drawing also on his extensive correspondence of those years concerning Melville and Melvilleans. The selections range from a previously unpublished graduate seminar paper of 1940 through later articles and books to an authoritative study of Melville and the Platonic tradition composed especially for this volume. Presented chronologically, these writings reflect not only the development of Professor Sealts's own thinking but also the direction taken by Melville scholarship generally over a period of forty years. The book conveys its author's evident love of his subject and the enthusiasm with which he has shared his findings, in his classroom and in his publications. A variety of readers can consult it with pleasure and profit--those making their first acquaintance with Melville and his works, more advanced students who are learning the methodology of literary study, and those scholars who deal professionally with American literature, American literary scholarship, and the cultural history of both the nineteenth and the twentieth centuries. As his Preface observes, Professor Sealts has been an explorer of five recurrent themes: Melville's reading, first in philosophy and then in general literature; his shorter fiction, from his magazine writing of the 1850s through Billy Budd, Sailor, the fruit of his last years; his three seasons of lecturing between 1857 and 1860; his relations with certain relatives, friends, and early biographers; and, along with all the rest, his distinctive temperament and personality, which are as enigmatic and alluring as the books he wrote.

Book Catalogue of the Michigan State Library

Download or read book Catalogue of the Michigan State Library written by Michigan State Library and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: