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Bombing Pompeii

Author : Nigel Pollard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472127292
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Bombing Pompeii written by Nigel Pollard and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-11-18 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bombing Pompeii examines the circumstances under which over 160 Allied bombs hit the archaeological site of Pompeii in August and September 1943, and the wider significance of this event in the history of efforts to protect cultural heritage in conflict zones, a broader issue that is still of great importance. From detailed examinations of contemporary archival document, Nigel Pollard shows that the bomb damage to ancient Pompeii was accidental, and the bombs were aimed at road and rail routes close to the site in an urgent attempt to slow down the reinforcement and supply of German counter- attacks that threatened to defeat the Allied landings in the Gulf of Salerno. The book sets this event, along with other instances of damage and risk to cultural heritage in Italy in the Second World War, in the context of the development of the Allied Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives – the “Monuments Men.”

Bombing Pompeii

Author : Nigel Pollard
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472132202
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945

Author : Claudia Baldoli
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441185682
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Bombing, States and Peoples in Western Europe 1940-1945 written by Claudia Baldoli and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

The Last Days of Pompeii

Author : Victoria C. Gardner Coates
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606061151
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The Last Days of Pompeii written by Victoria C. Gardner Coates and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destroyed yet paradoxically preserved by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79, Pompeii and other nearby sites are usually considered places where we can most directly experience the daily lives of ancient Romans. Rather than present these sites as windows to the past, however, the authors of The Last Days of Pompeii: Decadence, Apocalypse, Resurrection explore Pompeii as a modern obsession, in which the Vesuvian sites function as mirrors of the present. Through cultural appropriation and projection, outstanding visual and literary artists of the last three centuries have made the ancient catastrophe their own, expressing contemporary concerns in diverse media--from paintings, prints, and sculpture, to theatrical performances, photography, and film. This lavishly illustrated volume--featuring the works of artists such as Piranesi, Fragonard, Kaufmann, Ingres, Chass�riau, and Alma-Tadema, as well as Duchamp, Dal�, Rothko, Rauschenberg, and Warhol--surveys the legacy of Pompeii in the modern imagination under the three overarching rubrics of decadence, apocalypse, and resurrection. Decadence investigates the perception of Pompeii as a site of impending and well-deserved doom due to the excesses of the ancient Romans, such as paganism, licentiousness, greed, gluttony, and violence. The catastrophic demise of the Vesuvian sites has become inexorably linked with the understanding of antiquity, turning Pompeii into a fundamental allegory for Apocalypse, to which all subsequent disasters (natural or man-made) are related, from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hiroshima, Nagasaki, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina. Resurrection examines how Pompeii and the Vesuvian cities have been reincarnated in modern guise through both scientific archaeology and fantasy, as each successive cultural reality superimposed its values and ideas on the distant past. An exhibition of the same name will be on view at the Getty Villa from September 12, 2012, through January 7, 2013; at the Cleveland Museum of Art from February 24 through May 19, 2013; and at the Mus�e national des beaux-arts du Qu�bec from June 13 through November 8, 2013.

Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage

Author : Veysel Apaydin i
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787354849
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage written by Veysel Apaydin i and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Perspectives on Cultural Memory and Heritage focuses on the importance of memory and heritage for individual and group identity, and for their sense of belonging. It aims to expose the motives and discourses related to the destruction of memory and heritage during times of war, terror, sectarian conflict and through capitalist policies. It is within these affected spheres of cultural heritage where groups and communities ascribe values, develop memories, and shape their collective identity.

Garden History

Author : Tom Turner
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415317495
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Garden History written by Tom Turner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly illustrated to present and explain in a most appealing way, the historic styles of gardens with particular emphasis on the philosophy of garden design. This carefully structured overview makes the large subject of garden history accessible to a wide range of readers. The sections on history and philosophy are written as succinct essays, illustrated with photographs or perspective drawings. The essays deal with the ideas and historical conditions, which led to the making of particular types of gardens. The section on styles will focus on plan analysis and will be illustrated. Diagrams illu.

I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived #10)

Author : Lauren Tarshis
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545662869
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79 (I Survived #10) written by Lauren Tarshis and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2014-08-26 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beast beneath the mountain is restless... No one in the bustling city of Pompeii worries when the ground trembles beneath their feet. The beast under the mountain Vesuvius, high above the city, wakes up angry sometimes -- and always goes back to sleep.But Marcus is afraid. He knows something is terribly wrong -- and his father, who trusts science more than mythical beasts, agrees. When Vesuvius explodes into a cloud of fiery ash and rocks fall from the sky like rain, will they have time to escape -- and survive the epic destruction of Pompeii?

Forgotten Blitzes

Author : Claudia Baldoli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441147519
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Forgotten Blitzes written by Claudia Baldoli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: France and Italy account for fully one third of all Allied bombs dropped on Europe between 1940 and 1945. Italy received some 370,000 tons of bombs, nearly five times the total dropped on Britain by the Luftwaffe; France, over 570,000, nearly eight times the British figure. In each country, over 55,000 civilians died. Until now, studies of bombing in World War 2 have focused largely on the British and German experiences; few cover France or Italy. Forgotten Blitzes aims to remedy this. It explains the reasons for the Allied offensives, and uses political, social and cultural approaches to explore the challenges faced by states and peoples as the bombs fell. Massive research in local and national archives across four countries, complemented by diaries and personal memoirs, has allowed the authors to build a detailed, comparative picture of the impact of bombing on states, local authorities and individuals.

Neapolitan Volcanoes

Author : Stefano Carlino
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319928775
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book Neapolitan Volcanoes written by Stefano Carlino and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book serves as a guide to discovering the most interesting volcano sites in Italy. Accompanied by some extraordinary contemporary images of active Neapolitan volcanoes, it explains the main volcanic processes that have been shaping the landscape of the Campania region and influencing human settlements in this area since Greek and Roman times and that have prompted leading international scientists to visit and study this natural volcanology laboratory. While volcanology is the central topic, the book also addresses other aspects related to the area’s volcanism and is divided into three sections: 1) Neapolitan volcanic activity and processes (with a general introduction to volcanology and its development around Naples together with descriptions of the landscape and the main sites worth visiting); 2) Volcanoes and their interactions with local human settlements since the Bronze Age, recent population growth and the transformation of the territory; 3) The risks posed by Neapolitan Volcanoes, their recent activity and the problem of forecasting any future eruption.

LIFE

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-03-25 with total page 136 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.

Bombers over Sand and Snow

Author : Alun Granfield
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844687082
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)

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Download or read book Bombers over Sand and Snow written by Alun Granfield and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 205 Group RAF provided the only mobile force of heavy night bombers in the Mediterranean theater in the Second World War. It operated mainly from bases in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Italy, with occasional excursions to Malta, Greece and Iraq, attacking tactical and strategic targets according to the demands of the wider war in the theater. The force was relatively small when compared with the numbers of aircraft available to Bomber Command in the Western European theater, and it carried on using the venerable Vickers Wellington long after this aircraft had been relegated to the training role in the United Kingdom.Like their UK-based counterparts the night bombers were intended to operate in a strategic role, bombing targets away from the immediate battlefront. However, the demands of the war in the Middle East and Mediterranean soon diverted the bombers from their strategic role and saw them operating much closer to the front line in support of the hard pressed ground forces.The bomber squadrons in North Africa usually operated from Advanced Landing Grounds scraped out of the bare desert, with only a few tents for shelter. In Italy they did have more or less permanent bases, but they still lived in tents (if they were lucky) often surrounded by a sea of mud. There were no pubs, often no beer, and the only contact with their families were the eagerly awaited letters from home. Also the squadrons in England did not have Rommel continually knocking on their door. Thus, the operations of the night bombers in the Middle East and Mediterranean were often governed by the general progress of the war in the theater. The ebb and flow of the land battles not only determined the activities of the night bombers, but also determined their location. This book tells their story.

The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii

Author : Penelope M. Allison
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191514667
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii written by Penelope M. Allison and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-01-04 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains catalogues, analyses, photographs and drawings of some 2,000 archaeological artefacts excavated from the Insula of the Menander in Pompeii. The catalogues, and analyses are organized by provenance - buildings, rooms, and location within rooms - so that the reader can understand the artefacts as household assemblages. The functions of artefacts and groups of artefacts are discussed, as are the Latin names which are often given to these artefacts, and the relationships of these assemblages to the state of occupancy of the buildings in the Insula during the last years of Pompeii. This study, therefore, provides a wealth of information, not only on the range and use of artefacts in Pompeian houses but also on Roman artefacts, and Roman society, more generally.

The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii

Author : Roger Ling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199263124
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii written by Roger Ling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Insula of the Menander is one of the most completely excavated city blocks in Pompeii, with buildings ranging from small shops to large aristocratic houses. This volume, the third in a series of five volumes examining the Insula, is the first ever comprehensive study of the contents of Pompeian houses and buildings within their original contexts. It provides a great insight into living conditions in Pompeii during the final years of the city.

Pompeis Difficile Est

Author : James L. Franklin
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472110568
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Pompeis Difficile Est written by James L. Franklin and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructs the tenuous political fortunes of citizens of ancient Pompeii

Library of Congress Subject Headings

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Library of Congress Subject Headings

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1704 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 1704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023

Author : Manuel Bragança
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100382739X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Memories of the Second World War in Neutral Europe, 1945–2023 written by Manuel Bragança and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is a sequel to, and a development of, The Long Aftermath: Cultural Legacies of Europe at War, 1936-2016 (2016). It focuses on the six major European countries and states that remained officially neutral throughout the Second World War, namely Ireland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the Vatican. Its transnational, comparative and interdisciplinary approach addresses complex questions pertaining to collective remembrance, national policies and politics, and intellectual as well as cultural responses to neutrality during and after the conflict. The contributions are from a broad range of scholars working across the disciplines of history, literature, film, media, and cultural studies. Their thought-provoking chapters challenge many assumptions about neutrality in the post-war European and global context, thereby filling a gap in the existing scholarship. Common themes that run through the volume include the intertwined and dynamic links between neutrality and moral responsibility during and after the Second World War, the importance of memory politics and popular culture in shaping collective memories, and the impact of the Holocaust in shifting traditional perspectives on neutrality since the 1990s. This volume will be of interest to undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars interested in the field of memory studies, as well as non-specialist readers.