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Total Pages : 594 pages
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Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Fisher Murray
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Total Pages : 308 pages
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Download or read book The world of London written by John Fisher Murray and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191504289
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations written by Adam Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition contains generous selections from all five volumes of The Wealth of Nations, and places Smith's inquiry into its historical, intellectual, and cultural context. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author : Sir Norman Lockyer
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Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Nature written by Sir Norman Lockyer and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bruegmann
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300229933
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Art Deco Chicago written by Robert Bruegmann and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive take on American Art Deco that explores Chicago's pivotal role in developing the architecture, graphic design, and product design that came to define middle-class style in the twentieth century Frank Lloyd Wright’s lost Midway Gardens, the iconic Sunbeam Mixmaster, and Marshall Field’s famed window displays: despite the differences in scale and medium, each belongs to the broad current of an Art Deco style that developed in Chicago in the first half of the twentieth century. This ambitious overview of the city’s architectural, product, industrial, and graphic design between 1910 and 1950 offers a fresh perspective on a style that would come to represent the dominant mode of modernism for the American middle class. Lavishly illustrated with 325 images, the book narrates Art Deco’s evolution in 101 key works, carefully curated and chronologically organized to tell the story of not just a style but a set of sensibilities. Critical essays from leading figures in the field discuss the ways in which Art Deco created an entire visual universe that extended to architecture, advertising, household objects, clothing, and even food design. Through this comprehensive approach to one of the 20th century’s most pervasive modes of expression in America, Art Deco Chicago provides an essential overview of both this influential style and the metropolis that came to embody it.
Author : Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio)
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Year Book written by Rowfant Club (Cleveland, Ohio) and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the President's address.
Author : Harry Quilter
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Total Pages : 1242 pages
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Download or read book What's what written by Harry Quilter and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1038 pages
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Download or read book The Graphic written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Barton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022655175X
Total Pages : 617 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)
Download or read book The X Club written by Ruth Barton and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-11-21 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine decided that collaborative action was required. The X Club tells their story. These six ambitious professionals and three wealthy amateurs—J. D. Hooker, T. H. Huxley, John Tyndall, John Lubbock, William Spottiswoode, Edward Frankland, George Busk, T. A. Hirst, and Herbert Spencer—wanted to guide the development of science and public opinion on issues where science impinged on daily life, religious belief, and politics. They formed a private dining club, which they named the X Club, to discuss and further their plans. As Ruth Barton shows, they had a clear objective: they wanted to promote “scientific habits of mind,” which they sought to do through lectures, journalism, and science education. They devoted enormous effort to the expansion of science education, with real, but mixed, success. For twenty years, the X Club was the most powerful network in Victorian science—the men succeeded each other in the presidency of the Royal Society for a dozen years. Barton’s group biography traces the roots of their success and the lasting effects of their championing of science against those who attempted to limit or control it, along the way shedding light on the social organization of science, the interactions of science and the state, and the places of science and scientific men in elite culture in the Victorian era.
Author : Ronnie Young
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 161148801X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Download or read book The Scottish Enlightenment and Literary Culture written by Ronnie Young and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-17 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the role played by imaginative writing in the Scottish Enlightenment and its interaction with the values and activities of that movement. Across a broad range of areas via specially commissioned essays by experts in each field, the volume examines the reciprocal traffic between the groundbreaking intellectual project of eighteenth-century Scotland and the imaginative literature of the period, demonstrating that the innovations made by the Scottish literati laid the foundations for developments in imaginative writing in Scotland and further afield. In doing so, it provide a context for the widespread revaluation of the literary culture of the Scottish Enlightenment and the part that culture played in the project of Enlightenment.
Author : John Timbs
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Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Club life of London written by John Timbs and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bruce L. Felknor
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ISBN 13 : 9781413483437
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Of Clubbable Nature written by Bruce L. Felknor and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the Prohibition era The idea of a private retreat for the clubbable (with liquor lockers) struck a group of bright Chicago professionals-who then set out to make it happen. The pioneers surveyed 100 potential members on the need for such a club and 99 signed up. Several of the originators were architects, others journalists, scholars, painters, musicians, a lawyer or two, several prominent merchants, many of them members of a well loved club, the Cliff Dwellers, that was taking Prohibition seriously. A couple of the architects were completing a new skyscraper with a panoramic view of Chicago from the floor at the base of its tower. This became the home of the new club, which they would name for the convivial inns of yore: The Tavern. When the plaster was dry great artists in the group set to work on the walls, one producing amusing whimsy, the other a famous mural. Committees were forming, creating charter and bylaws, engaging a decorator, buying kitchen equipment and furniture, signing up members. While this is going on, the book keeps us in touch with the site of the action: bustling Chicago, city of skyscraper builders and bootleggers, vibrant theater and music scene, speakeasys and bordellos, cops and politicians. Then in quick succession come the Great Depression and the World's Fair of 1933-34 (much of it built by club architects). After sensational super-parties, an entertainment style develops: 'Fireside Chats" with visiting celebrities, breakfasts with visiting theater stars and sometimes whole casts. World War II impacts the club heavily as hosts of members go off to war or off to Washington, and clubbable army and navy officers assigned to Chicago make it a haven.Several future members are shot down over Germany, three of them meeting in one POW camp. The vibrant postwar era brought changing patterns of working, commuting, and entertainment sending fault lines across the foundations of downtown clubs, which The Tavern Club managed to navigate, in part by new emphasis on hosting catered events. The club's art works, major murals in two large rooms and a rotating collection of paintings and sculpture by its artists over the years-plus a monthly art show always up on one long gallery wall--make it a comfortable resort for its members and an attractive venue for meetings of members or outsiders. New skyscrapers in the 1950s and later gradually encroached on three of The Tavern Club's fabulous views but the Chicago River and the Michigan Avenue Bridge preserve its striking north view along the 'Miracle Mile" all the way to the Oak Street Beach on Lake Michigan. But all has not been amity and smooth sailing. As one new skyscraper obscured The Tavern's southern vista it offered the club space on its top floor. This divided pros and cons into rival camps. An advisory vote went by a whisker to move but the board decided to stay, and the wounds gradually healed. A dissident faction arose a couple of decades later over issues of club management, but after a few years of diligent bridge building the club began (as the title of the last chapter reveals, 'pulling together again." An Epilogue reflects on the leaders of club and city over 75 years and their role in creating a unique social institution with a rich entertainment tradition, and deep ties to the history of the city and its cultural jewels.
Author : James Augustus Henry Murray
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Total Pages : 1360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (481 download)
Download or read book A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles written by James Augustus Henry Murray and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 1360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. Gevirtz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137386762
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Women, the Novel, and Natural Philosophy, 1660–1727 written by K. Gevirtz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how early women novelists from Aphra Behn to Mary Davys drew on debates about the self generated by the 'scientific' revolution to establish the novel as a genre. Fascinated by the problematic idea of a unified self underpinning modes of thinking, female novelists innovated narrative structures to interrogate this idea.
Author : Marc Lee Raphael
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231132239
Total Pages : 499 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America written by Marc Lee Raphael and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on a variety of important themes in the American Jewish and Judaic experience. It opens with essays on early Jewish settlers (1654-1820), the expansion of Jewish life in America (1820-1901), the great wave of eastern European Jewish immigrants (1880-1924), the character of American Judaism between the two world wars, American Jewish life from the end of World War II to the Six-Day War, and the growth of Jews' influence and affluence. The second half of the volume includes essays on Orthodox Jews, the history of Jewish education in America, the rise of Jewish social clubs at the turn of the century, the history of southern and western Jewry, Jewish responses to Nazism and the Holocaust, feminism's confrontation with Judaism, and the eternal question of what defines American Jewish culture. Original and elegantly crafted, The Columbia History of Jews and Judaism in America not only introduces the student to a thrilling history, but also provides the scholar with new perspectives and insights.
Author : Roger Howell
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719025037
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Images of Oliver Cromwell written by Roger Howell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oliver Cromwell has been both applauded and reviled and his memory invoked in periods and in countries other than his own. This complex historiography has left us today with many different versions of Cromwell as man, general and statesman of which the conflicting images are the subject of this book.Available in paperback for the first time, this classic study is based on the unfinished magnum opus of the leading scholar of seventeenth-century history, Roger Howell (1936?89). It includes chapters by a team of leading international experts on a broad range of subjects originally planned by Howell himself. It includes Howell's studies of the reactions to Cromwell in the Restoration period and in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Added to these are reprints of his essays on psychohistorical approaches to Cromwell and on Cromwell's contribution to English liberty. Further historiographical portraits of the Protector are offered in chapters which consider Cromwell and the Glorious Revolution; Carlyle's Cromwell; Irish images of the Protector; American interpretations; and the comparisons made between Cromwell and the twentieth-century dictators.
Author : Glenda Norquay
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ISBN 13 : 1785272853
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (852 download)
Download or read book Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in The 1890s written by Glenda Norquay and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Robert Louis Stevenson, Literary Networks and Transatlantic Publishing in the 1890s' investigates Stevenson and the geographies of his literary networks during the last years of his life and after his death. It profiles a series of figures who worked with Stevenson, negotiated his publications on both sides of the Atlantic, wrote for him or were inspired by him. Using archival material, correspondence, fiction and biographies it moves across these literary networks. It deploys the concept of 'literary prosthetics' to frame its analysis of gatekeepers, tastemakers, agents, collaborators and authorial surrogates in the transatlantic production of Stevenson's writing. Case studies of understudied individuals and broader consideration of the networks they represent, contributes to the knowledge of transatlantic publishing in the 1890s, understanding of transatlantic culture, Stevenson studies, current interest in the workings of literary communities and in nineteenth-century mobility.
