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Book Synopsis Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe by : Angela Vanhaelen
Download or read book Making Space Public in Early Modern Europe written by Angela Vanhaelen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Broadening the conversation begun in Making Publics in Early Modern Europe (2009), this book examines how the spatial dynamics of public making changed the shape of early modern society. The publics visited in this volume are voluntary groupings of diverse individuals that could coalesce through the performative uptake of shared cultural forms and practices. The contributors argue that such forms of association were social productions of space as well as collective identities. Chapters explore a range of cultural activities such as theatre performances; travel and migration; practices of persuasion; the embodied experiences of lived space; and the central importance of media and material things in the creation of publics and the production of spaces. They assess a multiplicity of publics that produced and occupied a multiplicity of social spaces where collective identity and voice could be created, discovered, asserted, and exercised. Cultural producers and consumers thus challenged dominant ideas about just who could enter the public arena, greatly expanding both the real and imaginary spaces of public life to include hitherto excluded groups of private people. The consequences of this historical reconfiguration of public space remain relevant, especially for contemporary efforts to meaningfully include the views of ordinary people in public life.
Book Synopsis Sguardi Globali. Mappe Olandesi, Spagnole E Portoghesi Nelle Collezioni Del Granduca Cosimo III De' Medici. Catalogo Della Mostra (Firenze, 6 Novembre 2019-29 Maggio 2020). Ediz. Inglese by : Angelo Cattaneo
Download or read book Sguardi Globali. Mappe Olandesi, Spagnole E Portoghesi Nelle Collezioni Del Granduca Cosimo III De' Medici. Catalogo Della Mostra (Firenze, 6 Novembre 2019-29 Maggio 2020). Ediz. Inglese written by Angelo Cattaneo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Travel Writing by : Nandini Das
Download or read book The Cambridge History of Travel Writing written by Nandini Das and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together original contributions from scholars across the world, this volume traces the history of travel writing from antiquity to the Internet age. It examines travel texts of several national or linguistic traditions, introducing readers to the global contexts of the genre. From wilderness to the urban, from Nigeria to the polar regions, from mountains to rivers and the desert, this book explores some of the key places and physical features represented in travel writing. Chapters also consider the employment in travel writing of the diary, the letter, visual images, maps and poetry, as well as the relationship of travel writing to fiction, science, translation and tourism. Gender-based and ecocritical approaches are among those surveyed. Together, the thirty-seven chapters here underline the richness and complexity of this genre.
Download or read book Crackpot written by John Waters and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outrageous collection from the uniquely legendary John Waters, updated with new material—including Waters’s 2002 New York Times article, “Finally, Footlights on the Fat Girls.” Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters’s brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinating people, places, and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan’s colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation’s public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental.
Book Synopsis Description of the Aegean and Other Islands by : Cristoforo Buondelmonti
Download or read book Description of the Aegean and Other Islands written by Cristoforo Buondelmonti and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A facsimile, edition & translation of Germanus' copy of Buondelmonti's "Description of the Archipelago, the Cyclades, & the Other Islands" from the James Ford Bell Library, Univ of Minnesota. This 15-century description is illustrated with maps from Corfu through the Aegean to Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica & Britain.
Download or read book Carsick written by John Waters and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The visual artist behind such cult films as Hairspray traces his haphazard cross-country hitchhiking journey at the sides of a motley group of unsuspecting drivers, including a gentle farmer, an indie band and the author's unexpected hero. 75,000 first printing.
Download or read book Apollo's Eye written by Denis Cosgrove and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-10-17 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning science history explores our evolving image of the globe—and how it has shifted our relationship to the world. Long before we had the ability to photograph the earth from space—to see our planet as it would be seen by the Greek god Apollo—images of the earth as a globe had captured popular imagination. In Apollo’s Eye, geographer Denis Cosgrove examines the historical implications for the West of conceiving and representing the earth as a globe: a unified, spherical body. Cosgrove traces how ideas of globalism and globalization have shifted historically in relation to changing images of the earth, from antiquity to the Space Age. He connects the evolving image of a unified globe to politically powerful conceptions of human unity. Winner of the Association of American Publishers Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award in Geography & Earth Sciences
Book Synopsis Perspectives on Travel Writing by : Glenn Hooper
Download or read book Perspectives on Travel Writing written by Glenn Hooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging from the early modern to the postcolonial, and dealing mainly with encounters in Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, Perspectives on Travel Writing is a collection of new essays by international scholars that examines some of the various contexts of travel writing, as well as its generic characteristics. Contributions examine the similarities between autobiography and memoir, fiction, and travel writing, and attempt to define travel writing as a genre. Utilising a variety of approaches, the essays display a shared concern with what travel writing does and how it does it. The effects of encounter and border-crossing on gender, 'race', and national identity are considered throughout. The collection begins with a review of some of the problems and issues facing the scholar of travel writing and moves on to a detailed discussion of the qualities of travel writing and its related forms. It then presents in chronological order a number of case studies, before closing with a critical discussion of approaches to the subject. An essay collection with broad historical and geographical coverage, this volume should appeal to students and researchers of travel and travel-related literatures from across the Humanities.
Book Synopsis A Voyage Into the Levant ... by : Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
Download or read book A Voyage Into the Levant ... written by Joseph Pitton de Tournefort and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Piri Reis & Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus by : Svatopluk Soucek
Download or read book Piri Reis & Turkish Mapmaking After Columbus written by Svatopluk Soucek and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ottoman naval commander and cartographer Piri Reis (c. 1475-1554) played a leading role in transmitting the discoveries made on Columbus's first voyage to the inhabitants of the Muslim lands around the Mediterranean. The Khalili Portolan Atlas is a fine, hand-drawn example of the cartographic tradition established by Piri Reis. It also contains a series of city views, including unprecedented depictions of Galata, on the northern shore of the Golden Horn, and of Candia in Crete, which reflect the vitality of Ottoman topographical painting in the late seventeenth century. Soucek's analysis shows how Reis's work represented a fusion of the Islamic world view with European map-making traditions.
Book Synopsis Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human by : Surekha Davies
Download or read book Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human written by Surekha Davies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giants, cannibals and other monsters were a regular feature of Renaissance illustrated maps, inhabiting the Americas alongside other indigenous peoples. In a new approach to views of distant peoples, Surekha Davies analyzes this archive alongside prints, costume books and geographical writing. Using sources from Iberia, France, the German lands, the Low Countries, Italy and England, Davies argues that mapmakers and viewers saw these maps as careful syntheses that enabled viewers to compare different peoples. In an age when scholars, missionaries, native peoples and colonial officials debated whether New World inhabitants could – or should – be converted or enslaved, maps were uniquely suited for assessing the impact of environment on bodies and temperaments. Through innovative interdisciplinary methods connecting the European Renaissance to the Atlantic world, Davies uses new sources and questions to explore science as a visual pursuit, revealing how debates about the relationship between humans and monstrous peoples challenged colonial expansion.
Book Synopsis The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500 by : Tony Campbell
Download or read book The Earliest Printed Maps, 1472-1500 written by Tony Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Making Publics in Early Modern Europe by : Bronwen Wilson
Download or read book Making Publics in Early Modern Europe written by Bronwen Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-07-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to connect with others in ways not rooted in family, rank or vocation, but rather founded in voluntary groupings built on the shared interests, tastes, commitments, and desires of individuals. By creating new forms of association, cultural producers and consumers challenged dominant ideas about just who could be a public person, greatly expanded the resources of public life for ordinary people in their own time, and developed ideas and practices that have helped create the political culture of modernity. Coming from a number of disciplines including literary and cultural studies, art history, history of religion, history of science, and musicology, the contributors develop analyses of a range of cases of early modern public-making that together demonstrate the rich inventiveness and formative social power of artistic and intellectual publication in this period.
Book Synopsis Maps as Prints in the Italian Renaissance by : David Woodward
Download or read book Maps as Prints in the Italian Renaissance written by David Woodward and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late 15th century to the mid 16th century, maps moved from being a specialised tool of the navigator or scholar to becoming part of everyday life. Woodward traces the trade in maps that grew up in Florence, Rome and Venice.
Book Synopsis The New Moon's Arms by : Nalo Hopkinson
Download or read book The New Moon's Arms written by Nalo Hopkinson and published by Grand Central Pub. This book was released on 2007-02-23 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A mainstream magical realism novel set in the Caribbean on the fictional island of Dolorosse. It tells the story of a 50-something grandmother whose mother disappeared when she was a teenager and whose father has just passed away as she begins menopause.
Book Synopsis From Graven Images by : Chandra Mukerji
Download or read book From Graven Images written by Chandra Mukerji and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begins in the 15th century, during what historians call the commercial revolution or a time when expanding trade changed the European economy, and traces the patterns of materialism through the late 1990's.
Book Synopsis A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 by :
Download or read book A Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-07-11 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Companion to Venetian History, 1400-1797 provides a single volume overview of the most recent developments. It is organized thematically and covers a range of topics including political culture, economy, religion, gender, art, literature, music, and the environment. Each chapter provides a broad but comprehensive historical and historiographical overview of the current state and future directions of research.