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Author : João Emilio Gerodetti
Publisher : Solaris Editorial
ISBN 13 : 8589820033
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Railways of Brazil in Postcards and Souvenir Albums written by João Emilio Gerodetti and published by Solaris Editorial. This book was released on 2005 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gayle Floyd
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738541570
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (415 download)
Download or read book Washington, D.C. in Vintage Postcards written by Gayle Floyd and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Created as a Federal City over two centuries ago, Washington, D.C., was designed by architect Pierre L'Enfant on land purchased by the government from Maryland and Virginia. L'Enfant's vision of wide, tree-lined avenues, mixed with modifications by the McMillan Commission in the early 1900s and exemplified by many other architects and sculptors, has evolved into a unique, fast-paced, and politically focused Capital City of the United States of America.
Author : Alan Spree
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445691221
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Hastings & St Leonards The Postcard Collection written by Alan Spree and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Hastings & St Leonards presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Author : Yvan Martial
Publisher : Editions Didier Millet
ISBN 13 : 9814260479
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Mauritius: 500 Early Postcards written by Yvan Martial and published by Editions Didier Millet. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 18th century, people from Europe, Africa, India and China have made Mauritius their home. The result is a charming mix of cultural and religious traditions, against the backdrop of a tropical paradise. The dramatic landscapes of Mauritius feature high mountain peaks, white beaches and untouched rainforest, as well as rich fauna and flora. This is a welcoming country, where the people live in harmony with their natural surroundings.This selection of postcards from André de Kervern's collection is a timeless record of Mauritius. Each chapter focuses on a different region including the north, south, centre and the capital Port Louis, as well as on the island's people. Classic scenes of sugar cane plantations, railways, parades, horse races and verdant landscapes were all widely circulated fragments of cinéma-vérité. Complete with detailed captions and essays by Yvan Martial, these postcards offer glimpses of life in Mauritius from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816540489
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Postcards from the Chihuahua Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just a trolley ride from El Paso, Ciudad Juárez was a popular destination in the early 1900s. Enticing and exciting, tourists descended on this and other Mexican border towns to browse curio shops, dine and dance, attend bullfights, and perhaps escape Prohibition America. In Postcards from the Chihuahua Border Daniel D. Arreola captures the exhilaration of places in time, taking us back to Mexico’s northern border towns of Cuidad Juárez, Ojinaga, and Palomas in the early twentieth century. Drawing on more than three decades of archival work, Arreola uses postcards and maps to unveil the history of these towns along west Texas’s and New Mexico’s southern borders. Postcards offer a special kind of visual evidence. Arreola’s collection of imagery and commentary about them shows us singular places, enriching our understandings of history and the history of change in Chihuahua. No one postcard tells the entire story. But image after image offers a collected view and insight into changing perceptions. Arreola’s geography of place looks both inward and outward. We see what tourists see, while at the same time gaining insight about what postcard photographers and postcard publishers wanted to be seen and perceived about these border communities. Postcards from the Chihuahua Border is a colorful and dynamic visual history. It invites the reader to time travel, to revisit another era—the first half of the last century—when these border towns were framed and made popular through picture postcards.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081654431X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Postcards from the Baja California Border written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcards have a magical pull. They allow us to see the past through charming relics that allow us to travel back in time. Daniel D. Arreola’s Postcards from the Baja California Border offers a window into the historical and geographical past of storied Mexican border communities. Once-popular tourist destinations from the 1900s through the 1950s, the border communities explored in Postcards from the Baja California Border used to be filled with revelers, cabarets, curio shops, and more. The postcards in this book show the bright and dynamic past of California’s borderlands while diving deep into the historic and geographic significance of the imagery found on the postcards. This form of place study calls attention to how we can see a past through a serial view of places, by the nature of repetition, and the photographing of the same place over and over again. Arreola draws our focus to townscapes, or built landscapes, of four border towns—Tijuana, Mexicali, Tecate, and Algodones—during the first half of the twentieth century. With an emphasis on the tourist’s view of these places, this book creates a vivid picture of what life was like for tourists and residents of these towns in the early and mid-twentieth century. Postcards from the Baja California Border is a rich and fascinating experience, one that takes you on a time-travel journey through border town histories and geographies while celebrating the visual intrigue of postcards.
Author : Alon Confino
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 9780807846650
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (466 download)
Download or read book The Nation as a Local Metaphor written by Alon Confino and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All nations make themselves up as they go along, but not all make themselves up in the same way. In this study, Alon Confino explores how Germans turned national and argues that they imagined the nation as an extension of their local place. In 1871, the
Author : Greg Gatenby
Publisher : Greg Gatenby Books
ISBN 13 : 1998469093
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (984 download)
Download or read book Authorized Images: Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott written by Greg Gatenby and published by Greg Gatenby Books. This book was released on 2024-11-18 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authorized Images Famous Authors Seen Through Antique and Vintage Postcards Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott: This book includes an unprecedented selection of postcards, most more than 100 years old—or older, portraying high points of their biographies, accompanied by informative captions and texts outlining essential elements of their lives. With plenty of rarely-seen cards depicting the monuments around the globe erected to commemorate their lives and work.
Author : Reagan L. Grimsley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738517124
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Hattiesburg in Vintage Postcards written by Reagan L. Grimsley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the heart of Mississippi's piney woods, Hattiesburg was named by William H. Hardy in honor of his second wife, Hattie Lott Hardy. Incorporated in 1884, the town quickly established itself as a regional center of the yellow pine lumber industry, and by 1910 it was the fifth largest city in the state. During the 20th century higher education became an important part of the city's persona, with the establishment of William Carey College and The University of Southern Mississippi. Camp Shelby, established in 1917 to train soldiers for World War I, also trained soldiers for World War II, the Vietnam Conflict, the Persian Gulf War, and the War on Terror. Today, Hattiesburg is the center of a metropolitan area of over 110,000 people that encompasses Forrest and Lamar Counties.
Author : Bonnie Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789814382076
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Postcards of Old Siam written by Bonnie Davis and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The postcards in this book cover the period from the turn of the 20th century during the last reign of King Chulalongkorn to the early 1930s, into the final years of King Prajadhipok's reign.
Author : Kylie Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317358244
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Photography in and out of Africa written by Kylie Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a range of perspectives on photography in Africa, bringing research on South African photography into conversation with work from several other places on the continent, including Angola, the DRC, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Eritrea. The collection engages with the history of photography and its role in colonial regulatory regimes; with social documentary photography and practices of self-representation; and with the place of portraits in the production of subjectivities, as well as contemporary and experimental photographic practices. Through detailed analyses of particular photographs and photographic archives, the chapters in this book trace how photographs have been used both to affirm colonial worldviews and to disrupt and critique such forms of power. This book was originally published as a special issue of Social Dynamics.
Author : Adam Clulow
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317986245
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)
Download or read book Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia written by Adam Clulow and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Statecraft and Spectacle in East Asia is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that explores the intertwined histories of Taiwan and Japan across the long sweep of the early modern and modern periods. Drawing on new research by scholars from Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, it moves beyond the conventional focus on the mechanics of the Japanese colonial state to provide new perspectives on a highly significant relationship that shaped the nature of the modern East Asian political landscape. Ranging from the seventeenth century to the chaotic aftermath of empire, the papers collected here consider Tokugawa Japan’s halting engagement with Taiwan as a key world historical moment that illuminates changing attitudes towards maritime expansion; the ways in which the colonial project was packaged and sold in print as well as image; and the complex legal discourses surrounding the making and unmaking of empire. Together they show how influence flowed both ways between Taiwan and Japan and the importance of inter-Asian interactions. This book was published as a special issue of Japanese Studies.
Author : Esther Leslie
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861895542
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Synthetic Worlds written by Esther Leslie and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-01-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Synthetic Worlds offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object and the significance of the natural, the organic, and the inorganic in Western aesthetics. Esther Leslie considers how radical innovations in chemistry confounded earlier alchemical and Romantic philosophies of science and nature while profoundly influencing the theories that developed in their wake. She also explores how advances in chemical engineering provided visual artists with new colors, surfaces, coatings, and textures, thus dramatically recasting the way painters approached their work. Ranging from Goethe to Hegel, Blake to the Bauhaus, Synthetic Worlds ultimately considers the astonishing affinities between chemistry and aesthetics more generally. As in science, progress in the arts is always assured, because the impulse to discover is as immutable and timeless as the drive to create.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book West Virginia History written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice A. Knox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439613443
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Chicago's Loop written by Janice A. Knox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-08-28 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 19th century trading post to one of the world's great financial, business, and entertainment districts, experience the growth and changes of the Windy City. Chicago's famed Loop is said to have gotten its name from the route of a cable car that looped the central business district in 1882. Since then, much has changed. This book captures the evolving urban landscape of the Chicago Loop, with a collection of over 100 vintage images, each coupled with its contemporary counterpart. Few cities are as renowned for their architecture as is Chicago. The impressive skyscrapers in and around the Loop give Chicago a skyline second to none. And with more than three dozen historic landmarks, the Loop is home to many of the city's most recognized structures. Authors Janice A. Knox and Heather Olivia Belcher are both native Chicagoans and collectors of Chicago memorabilia. Together they have created a book that shows us the Chicago we know and love today, along with a clear echo of the city's rich, ever-changing landscape.
Author : Takashi Fujitani
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520920988
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Splendid Monarchy written by Takashi Fujitani and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-1912), Fujitani brings recent methods of cultural history to a study of modern Japanese nationalism for the first time. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997. Using ceremonials such as imperial weddings and funerals as models, T. Fujitani illustrates what visual symbols and rituals reveal about monarchy, nationalism, city planning, discipline, gender, memory, and modernity. Focusing on the Meiji Period (1868-19
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 870 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Sessional Papers written by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
