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Total Pages : 2 pages
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Download or read book Commemorative Naming in the United States written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Gobel
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813934338
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Commemoration in America written by David Gobel and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Commemoration lies at the poetic, historiographic, and social heart of human community. It is how societies define themselves and is central to the institution of the city. Addressing the complex ways that monuments in the United States have been imagined, created, and perceived from the colonial period to the present, Commemoration in America is a wide-ranging volume that focuses on the role of remembrance and memorialization in American urban life. The volume’s contributors are drawn from a spectrum of disciplines—social and urban history, urban planning, architecture, art history, preservation, and architectural history—and take a broad view of commemoration. In addition to the making of traditional monuments, the essays explore such commemorative acts as building preservation, biography, portraiture, ritual performance, street naming, and the planting of trees. Providing an overview of American memorialization and the impulses behind it, Commemoration in America emphasizes a universal tendency for individuals and groups to use monuments to define their contemporary social identity and to construct historical narratives. The volume shows that while commemorative acts and objects affect the community in fundamental ways, their meaning is always multivalent and conflicted, attesting to both triumphs and tragedies. Constituting a vital part of both individual and national identity, commemoration’s contradictions strike at the core of American identity and speak to the importance of remembrance in the construction of our diverse national cultural landscape. Contributors: Jhennifer A. Amundson, Judson University * Catherine W. Bishir, North Carolina State University Libraries * Thomas J. Campanella, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Glenn T. Eskew, Georgia State University * Glenn Forley, Parsons / The New School for Design * Sally Greene, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * Alison K. Hoagland, Michigan Technological University * Lynne Horiuchi, University of California, Berkeley * Ellen M. Litwicki, SUNY Fredonia * David Lowenthal, University College London * Mark A. Peterson, University of California, Berkeley * Richard M. Sommer, University of Toronto * Dell Upton, University of California, Los Angeles
Author : John W. Van Cott
Publisher : University of Utah Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874803457
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Utah Place Names written by John W. Van Cott and published by University of Utah Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Utah toponyms, or place names. Where are they? What istheir history? Their importance? Over thousand toponyms are listed alphabetically, marking the passagesof peoples and cultures from earliest times.
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Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Conferencia de Las Naciones Unidas Sobre la Normalización de Los Nombres Geográficos written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elbert Luther Little
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Total Pages : 388 pages
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Download or read book Checklist of United States Trees (native and Naturalized) written by Elbert Luther Little and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set includes revised editions of some issues.
Author : George R. Stewart
Publisher : Praeger
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Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book U.S. 40: Cross Section of the United States of America written by George R. Stewart and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1973 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John R. Gillis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691029252
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Commemorations written by John R. Gillis and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-10-06 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Memory is as central to modern politics as politics is central to modern memory. We are so accustomed to living in a forest of monuments, to having the past represented to us through museums, historic sites, and public sculpture, that we easily lose sight of the recent origins and diverse meanings of these uniquely modern phenomena. In this volume, leading historians, anthropologists, and ethnographers explore the relationship between collective memory and national identity in diverse cultures throughout history. Placing commemorations in their historical settings, the contributors disclose the contested nature of these monuments by showing how groups and individuals struggle to shape the past to their own ends. The volume is introduced by John Gillis's broad overview of the development of public memory in relation to the history of the nation-state. Other contributions address the usefulness of identity as a cross-cultural concept (Richard Handler), the connection between identity, heritage, and history (David Lowenthal), national memory in early modern England (David Cressy), commemoration in Cleveland (John Bodnar), the museum and the politics of social control in modern Iraq (Eric Davis), invented tradition and collective memory in Israel (Yael Zerubavel), black emancipation and the civil war monument (Kirk Savage), memory and naming in the Great War (Thomas Laqueur), American commemoration of World War I (Kurt Piehler), art, commerce, and the production of memory in France after World War I (Daniel Sherman), historic preservation in twentieth-century Germany (Rudy Koshar), the struggle over French identity in the early twentieth century (Herman Lebovics), and the commemoration of concentration camps in the new Germany (Claudia Koonz).
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Total Pages : 338 pages
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Download or read book Names written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journal of the American Name Society.
Author : United States Board on Geographic Names
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Total Pages : 47 pages
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Download or read book Principles, Policies, and Procedures written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jani Vuolteenaho
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351947265
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Critical Toponymies written by Jani Vuolteenaho and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While place names have long been studied by a few devoted specialists, approaches to them have been traditionally empiricist and uncritical in character. This book brings together recent works that conceptualize the hegemonic and contested practices of geographical naming. The contributors guide the reader into struggles over toponymy in a multitude of national and local contexts across Europe, North America, New Zealand, Asia and Africa. In a ground-breaking and multidisciplinary fashion, this volume illuminates the key role of naming in the colonial silencing of indigenous cultures, canonization of nationalistic ideals into nomenclature of cities and topographic maps, as well as the formation of more or less fluid forms of postcolonial and urban identities.
Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317020707
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Political Life of Urban Streetscapes written by Reuben Rose-Redwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Streetscapes are part of the taken-for-granted spaces of everyday urban life, yet they are also contested arenas in which struggles over identity, memory, and place shape the social production of urban space. This book examines the role that street naming has played in the political life of urban streetscapes in both historical and contemporary cities. The renaming of streets and remaking of urban commemorative landscapes have long been key strategies that different political regimes have employed to legitimize spatial assertions of sovereign authority, ideological hegemony, and symbolic power. Over the past few decades, a rich body of critical scholarship has explored the politics of urban toponymy, and the present collection brings together the works of geographers, anthropologists, historians, linguists, planners, and political scientists to examine the power of street naming as an urban place-making practice. Covering a wide range of case studies from cities in Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Asia, the contributions to this volume illustrate how the naming of streets has been instrumental to the reshaping of urban spatial imaginaries and the cultural politics of place.
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Total Pages : 1092 pages
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Download or read book The Advocate of Peace written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 558 pages
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Download or read book Advocate of Peace and Universal Brotherhood written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reuben Rose-Redwood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000404250
Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Naming Rights, Place Branding, and the Cultural Landscapes of Neoliberal Urbanism written by Reuben Rose-Redwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-07 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent decades, urban policymakers have increasingly embraced the selling of naming rights as a means of generating revenue to construct and maintain urban infrastructure. The contemporary practice of toponymic commodification has its roots in the history of philanthropic gifting and the commercialization of professional sports, yet it has now become an integral part of the policy toolkit of neoliberal urbanism more generally. As a result, the naming of everything from sports arenas to public transit stations has come to be viewed as a sponsorship opportunity, yet such naming rights initiatives have not gone uncontested. This edited collection examines the political economy and cultural politics of urban place naming and considers how the commodification of naming rights is transforming the cultural landscapes of contemporary cities. Drawing upon case studies ranging from the selling of naming rights for sports arenas in European cities and metro stations in Dubai to the role of philanthropic naming in the "Facebookification" of San Francisco’s gentrifying neighborhoods, the contributions to this book draw attention to the diverse ways in which toponymic commodification is reshaping the identities of public places into time-limited, rent-generating commodities and the broader implications of these changes on the production of urban space. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Urban Geography.
Author : Alleen Pace Nilsen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866854
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature written by Alleen Pace Nilsen and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-07-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how authors of young adult literature use the creation of names for people, places, events, inventions, animals, and imaginary concepts as one of their most important literary techniques. Chapters address how authors use names to stretch readers' emotions, to reveal ethnic values and differences, to create 'other worlds,' and to establish tone. Other chapters focus on how authors use names to help readers remember who is who, such as J. K. Rowling in the Harry Potter books, or to communicate separate messages to adults and to young readers, as exemplified by Richard Handler in the Lemony Snicket books. Names and Naming in Young Adult Literature equips readers with the interest and the skill to make similar observations about names and naming when they read other books. Looking at the names an author has chosen to use is a wonderful first step in introducing readers to the concept of literary criticism as something to help readers get more pleasure and information from their reading. Public and school librarians, college instructors of young adult literature, teachers of creative writing, high school English teachers, and anyone else who is interested in young adult literature will find this book extremely interesting.
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Total Pages : 298 pages
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Download or read book Educators Guide to Free Social Studies Materials written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Hughes
Publisher : NTC
ISBN 13 : 9780844204499
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Crossroads, U. S. A. written by Robert Hughes and published by NTC. This book was released on 2000-10-10 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles selected to improve reading skills while learning about life in the United States. Exercises help to understand the main points, vocabulary, and idioms. The tapes feature readings of the articles to build listening comprehension and pronunciation skills.
