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Book Synopsis Expo 67 and Its World by : Craig Moyes
Download or read book Expo 67 and Its World written by Craig Moyes and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1967, Montreal hosted Man and His World/Terre des hommes. By far the most successful cultural event ever produced in Canada, it was embraced by the public at the same time as intellectuals from Marshall McLuhan to Umberto Eco hailed it as a new type of exhibition for a new global age. Because it was held where and when it was – on a man-made archipelago in the St Lawrence River seven years into Quebec’s Quiet Revolution – Expo 67 also provided a prism through which the idea of the nation could be refracted and recast in original ways. Misunderstood by some scholars as an expensive exercise in official patriotism, while maligned by Quebec intellectuals as a crypto-federalist distraction from the real business of national independence, the fair nevertheless showcased Montreal as the de facto capital of a suddenly modern Quebec engaging with a late-modern world. Expo 67 and Its World proposes a reappraisal of the 1967 Montreal International and Universal Exhibition across a range of political, social, and cultural spaces: from the dispossession of Indigenous Peoples and what was then known as the Third World, through the aspirations of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, to the increasingly global ambit of youth culture, medicine, film, and finance. A new approach to understanding Expo 67, the collection challenges assumptions about the significance of the event to Canadian, Québécois, and First Nations history.
Book Synopsis Impossible Engineering by : Chandra Mukerji
Download or read book Impossible Engineering written by Chandra Mukerji and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canal du Midi, which threads through southwestern France and links the Atlantic to the Mediterranean, was an astonishing feat of seventeenth-century engineering--in fact, it was technically impossible according to the standards of its day. Impossible Engineering takes an insightful and entertaining look at the mystery of its success as well as the canal's surprising political significance. The waterway was a marvel that connected modern state power to human control of nature just as surely as it linked the ocean to the sea. The Canal du Midi is typically characterized as the achievement of Pierre-Paul Riquet, a tax farmer and entrepreneur for the canal. Yet Chandra Mukerji argues that it was a product of collective intelligence, depending on peasant women and artisans--unrecognized heirs to Roman traditions of engineering--who came to labor on the waterway in collaboration with military and academic supervisors. Ironically, while Louis XIV and his treasury minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert used propaganda to present France as a new Rome, the Canal du Midi was being constructed with unrecognized classical methods. Still, the result was politically potent. As Mukerji shows, the project took land and power from local nobles, using water itself as a silent agent of the state to disrupt traditions of local life that had served regional elites. Impossible Engineering opens a surprising window into the world of seventeenth-century France and illuminates a singular work of engineering undertaken to empower the state through technical conquest of nature.
Book Synopsis Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada by : Royal Society of Canada
Download or read book Mémoires Et Comptes Rendus de la Société Royale Du Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 'La Découverte de l’Île Frivole' by Gabriel-François Coyer by : Jean-Alexandre Perras
Download or read book 'La Découverte de l’Île Frivole' by Gabriel-François Coyer written by Jean-Alexandre Perras and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) se présente comme un épisode inédit du Voyage autour du monde de l’amiral anglais George Anson et de son équipage. Le texte décrit leurs aventures sur une île étrange, dont les habitants, nommés Frivolites, sont tout entiers occupés de modes, de coiffures, de romans et de desserts historiés. Cette parodie chatoyante présente un tableau sévère mais enjoué de la France des premières années du siècle de Louis XV. Elle résonne avec les pages les plus critiques de Jean-Jacques Rousseau contre le luxe et la mollesse du siècle, ou celles, ironiques, que Voltaire fit paraître contre ses compatriotes. Elle n’épargne pas non plus les Anglais, alors que l’anglomanie bat son plein. Ce volume constitue la première édition critique bilingue d’un texte qui a fait en son temps beaucoup de bruit, tant en France qu’en Angleterre. La Découverte de l’île Frivole (1751) is presented as a supplement to George Anson’s Voyage Round the World, and recounts the adventures of the English admiral and his crew on a strange island whose inhabitants, the Frivolians, are devoted to fashion, hairstyles, novels, and fancy desserts. This tale is at once both playful and cynical and its biting irony spares neither the reputation of France nor that of England. It resonates with the most critical attacks by Jean-Jacques Rousseau against luxury and refinement, or those of Voltaire against his compatriots. This volume provides the first bilingual critical edition of a text that, in its time, caused a stir both in France and in England.
Book Synopsis Southern France by : Findlay Muirhead
Download or read book Southern France written by Findlay Muirhead and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Culture & Tradition written by and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Host Bibliographic Record for Boundwith Item Barcode 30112002644547 and Others by :
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Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada by : Royal Society of Canada
Download or read book Proceedings of the Royal Society of Canada written by Royal Society of Canada and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland by : Benjamin Colbert
Download or read book Travel Writing and Tourism in Britain and Ireland written by Benjamin Colbert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the mid-eighteenth century to the twentieth, tourism became established as a leisure industry and travel writing as a popular genre. In this collection of essays, leading international historians and travel writing experts examine the role of home tourism in the UK and Ireland in the development of national identities and commercial culture.
Book Synopsis ...The Complete French Class-book by : Louis and Van Norman Pujol (D.C.)
Download or read book ...The Complete French Class-book written by Louis and Van Norman Pujol (D.C.) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Household French written by Alfred Havet and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1868.
Book Synopsis Merchants and Marvels by : Pamela Smith
Download or read book Merchants and Marvels written by Pamela Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beginning of global commerce in the early modern period had an enormous impact on European culture, changing the very way people perceived the world around them. Merchants and Marvels assembles essays by leading scholars of cultural history, art history, and the history of science and technology to show how ideas about the representation of nature, in both art and science, underwent a profound transformation between the age of the Renaissance and the early 1700s.
Book Synopsis French for the Social Sciences by : Colette Dubois Brichant
Download or read book French for the Social Sciences written by Colette Dubois Brichant and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In the Matter of the Boundary Between the Dominion of Canada and the Colony of Newfoundland in the Labrador Peninsula, Between the Dominion of Canada of the One Part and the Colony of Newfoundland of the Other Part ... by : Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee
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Book Synopsis Biographie Universelle Classique. Biographie Universelle, Ou Dictionnaire Historique, Etc by :
Download or read book Biographie Universelle Classique. Biographie Universelle, Ou Dictionnaire Historique, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colbertina. Le Tricentenaire de Colbert À Seignelay, Etc. [With a Portrait of Colbert.]. by : Henri VILLETARD
Download or read book Colbertina. Le Tricentenaire de Colbert À Seignelay, Etc. [With a Portrait of Colbert.]. written by Henri VILLETARD and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brésil written by Ferdinand Denis and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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