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Author : Robert Gordon Latham
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Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book The Natural History Department of the Crystal Palace Described ... written by Robert Gordon Latham and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John van Wyhe
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191506877
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Alfred Russel Wallace written by John van Wyhe and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2013-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and Indonesia). it was these travels which led him to come independently to the same conclusion as Charles Darwin: that evolution occurs through natural selection. Beautifully written, the letters are filled with lavish descriptions of the remote regions he explored, the peoples, and fascinating details of the many new species of mammals, birds, and insects he discovered during his time there. John van Wyhe and Kees Rookmaaker present new transcriptions of each of the letters, including recently discovered letters that shed light on the voyage and on questions such as Wallace's reluctance to publish on evolution, and why he famously chose to write to Darwin rather than to send his work to a journal directly. A revised account of Wallace's itinerary based on new research by the editors forms part of an introduction that sets the context of the voyage, and the volume includes full notes to all letters. Together the letters form a remarkable and vivid document of one of the most important journeys of the 19th century by a great Victorian naturalist.
Author : James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford
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Total Pages : 1572 pages
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Download or read book Bibliotheca Lindesiana ... written by James Ludovic Lindsay Earl of Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clare Harris
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226317471
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Museum on the Roof of the World written by Clare Harris and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. By contrast, the Tibet Museum opened in Lhasa by the Chinese in 1999 was designed to reclassify Tibetan objects as cultural relics and the Dalai Lama as obsolete. Suggesting that both these views are suspect, Clare E. Harris argues in The Museum on the Roof of the World that for the past one hundred and fifty years, British and Chinese collectors and curators have tried to convert Tibet itself into a museum, an image some Tibetans have begun to contest. This book is a powerful account of the museums created by, for, or on behalf of Tibetans and the nationalist agendas that have played out in them. Harris begins with the British public’s first encounter with Tibetan culture in 1854. She then examines the role of imperial collectors and photographers in representations of the region and visits competing museums of Tibet in India and Lhasa. Drawing on fieldwork in Tibetan communities, she also documents the activities of contemporary Tibetan artists as they try to displace the utopian visions of their country prevalent in the West, as well as the negative assessments of their heritage common in China. Illustrated with many previously unpublished images, this book addresses the pressing question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
Author : USA Patent Office
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Total Pages : 736 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the United States Patent Office written by USA Patent Office and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Army. Educational and Training Establishments. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Library
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Military Academy. By George Bullen written by Great Britain. Army. Educational and Training Establishments. Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : London univ, univ. coll, libr
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Total Pages : 544 pages
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Download or read book Catalogue of books in the general library and in the South library written by London univ, univ. coll, libr and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Patent Office. Library
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Total Pages : 750 pages
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Author : Samuel Phillips
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382311089
Total Pages : 682 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (823 download)
Download or read book The Palace and Park written by Samuel Phillips and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-02 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Edward Ziter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521818292
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Orient on the Victorian Stage written by Edward Ziter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-09-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of the Middle East and the Orient on writing and performance in nineteenth-century British theatre.
Author : Celia Pearce
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312115874
Total Pages : 560 pages
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Download or read book Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader written by Celia Pearce and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Together with the Olympics, world's fairs are one of the few regular international events of sufficient scale to showcase a spectrum of sights, wonders, learning opportunities, technological advances, and new (or renewed) urban districts, and to present them all to a mass audience. Meet Me at the Fair: A World's Fair Reader breaks new ground in scholarship on world's fairs by incorporating a number of short new texts that investigate world's fairs in their multiple aspects: political, urban/architectural, anthropological/ sociological, technological, commercial, popular, and representational. Contributors come from eight different countries and represent affiliations in academia, museums and libraries, professional and architectural firms, non-profit organizations, and government regulatory agencies. In taking the measure of both the material artifacts and the larger cultural production of world's fairs, the volume presents its own phantasmagoria of disciplinary perspectives, historical periods, geographical locales, media, and messages, mirroring the microcosmic form of the world's fair itself.
Author : Ashley Clements
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192668684
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Humans, among Other Classical Animals written by Ashley Clements and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a moment of environmental and existential crisis that demands a response. Why then study Classics now? From the European assimilation and destruction of the New World to our present environmental destruction of our shared world, Humans, among Other Classical Animals explores in encounters an answer by demonstrating how the Classics have been implicated in the structures of thought that have ultimately led us to our present historical moment. Telling the story of anthropology's Classical entanglements from its inception to its growth to critical self-awareness, it demonstrates that Classical ideas have played a crucial -and often deleterious- role in the Western placing of the human and in the discipline that claimed the study of humanity as its own. Responses to our present crisis, it argues, should therefore include as a prerequisite, considering the origins and implications of these Classical foundations because only by so doing can we attain the full self-awareness necessary to think beyond them and consider the alternatives we now need. Postclassical Interventions aims to reorient the meaning of antiquity across and beyond the humanities. Building on the success of Classical Presences, this complementary series features shorter-length monographs designed to provoke debate about the current and future potential of Classical Reception through fresh, bold, and critical thinking.
Author : Kate Nichols
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ISBN 13 : 0199596468
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace written by Kate Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marble halls of the British Museum might seem the natural habitat for classical sculpture, but in the nineteenth century its sombre displays were far from being the only place that people encountered antiquities. From 1854, a rival collection of classical sculpture, comprising plaster casts from major European museums and scaled down architectural features, was on show in the South London suburb of Sydenham, in the Crystal Palace which had housed the Great Exhibition of 1851. By the late 1850s, two million visitors were passing through the glass doors of the Sydenham Crystal Palace each year, more than twice as many as recorded at the British Museum. Many more people, and from a greater variety of social strata, saw the painted cast of the Parthenon frieze in Sydenham than the original in Bloomsbury. Utilizing an extensive variety of archival material, including diaries, scrapbooks and photographs, Greece and Rome at the Crystal Palace evokes visitor experiences at Sydenham, and examines the discussion that arose around the presentation of classical plaster casts to a mass audience. It uncovers the social, political, and aesthetic role of ancient Greek and Roman sculpture in modern Britain, assessing how classical art figured in debates over design reform, taste, beauty and morality, class and gender, and race and imperialism.
Author : Samuel Phillips
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Guide to the Crystal Palace and Its Park and Gardens written by Samuel Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Birmingham Free Libraries. Reference Department
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Total Pages : 1638 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the Reference Library written by Birmingham Free Libraries. Reference Department and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 1638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John McKean
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714829258
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Crystal Palace written by John McKean and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers one of the most influential buildings of the 19th century. Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace was the first public building to omit references to the past. Amid the historicist debates and battle of the styles of mid-19th-century Britain, Paxton's design was rational and straightforward.
Author : John Tallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108026702
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book History and Description of the Crystal Palace written by John Tallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tallis' book, published in 1852, gives a vibrant account of the Great Exhibition, a key event of the Victorian period.
