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Fabric of the Frontier

Author : Rob Collins
Publisher : Oxbow Books
ISBN 13 : 1789259517
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Fabric of the Frontier written by Rob Collins and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2023-07-06 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Hadrian’s Wall made of, where did this material come from and how has it been reused in other buildings in the communities that emerged in the centuries after the Roman Empire? By studying the fabric of Hadrian’s Wall using a geological approach combined with archaeological methods, is it possible to refine our answers to these questions? This study describes how the relationship between the geology of the Wall’s landscape and its fabric may be used to further understand the Wall and presents a significant set of new geological and archaeological data on the Wall’s stones from across the length of the Wall. This data set has been collected in two complementary ways. First as a citizen-science project, where volunteers from local communities were trained to visually characterize sandstones and resulting in data collecting on large numbers of the Wall’s stones along the length of the Wall. Secondly, analytical research was used to gather in scientific data for a selected sets of rocks and stones. Geochemical data was captured using an X-ray fluorescence spectrometer, and petrographic observations made using a petrographic microscope and thin sections. The combined methods provide a framework for geological analysis of the Wall supported by robust data. It builds on earlier work on Roman quarrying and stone preparation highlighting not only stone sources, but the criteria for choosing stone, stone preparation methods, and the implied routes to the Wall. At the heart of this study lies the ability to uniquely identify different sandstone types. Geological methods used to achieve this are explored, as are the ways in which the sandstones form. This highlights both the possibilities and limits of this approach.

Denim

Author : Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300219142
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Denim written by Fashion Institute of Technology (New York, N.Y.). Museum and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.

Fabric of the Frontier

Author : Rob Collins
Publisher : Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN 13 : 9781789259506
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Fabric of the Frontier written by Rob Collins and published by Oxbow Books Limited. This book was released on 2023-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of the fabric of Hadrian's Wall related to its geological background, positioning the remains of the monument in the longue durée of its use, abandonment and post-Roman history

The Fabric of America

Author : Andro Linklater
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718507
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of America written by Andro Linklater and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linklater opens with America's greatest surveyor, Andrew Ellicott, measuring the contentious boundary between Pennsylvania and Virginia in the summer of 1784; and he ends standing at the yellow line dividing the United States and Mexico at Tijuana. In between, he chronicles the evolving shape of the nation, physically and psychologically. As Americans pushed westward in the course of the nineteenth century, the borders and boundaries established by surveyors like Ellicott created property, uniting people in a desire for the government and laws that would protect it. Challenging Frederick Jackson Turner's famed frontier thesis, Linklater argues that we are , thus, defined not by open spaces but by boundaries. "What Americanized the immigrants was not the frontier experience" Linklater writes, "but the fact that it took place inside the United States frontier." Those same borders had the ability to divide as well as unite, as the great battle over internal boundaries during the Civil War would show. By century's end, however, we were spreading U.S. power beyond our borders, an act that, seen through Linklater's eyes, offers an intriguing perspective on our role in the world today. Linklater's great achievement is to weave these provocative arguments into a dramatic storyline, wherein the actions of Ellicott, Thomas Jefferson, the treasonous general James Wilkinson, Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, and numerous hitherto invisible settlers, all illuminate the shaping of the nation. This brilliant book will alter forever readers' perception of America and what it means to be an American.

Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540

Author : Jose M. Escribano-Páez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000073696
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Juan Rena and the Frontiers of Spanish Empire, 1500–1540 written by Jose M. Escribano-Páez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the political construction of imperial frontiers during the reigns of Ferdinand the Catholic and Charles V in the Iberian Peninsula and the Mediterranean. Contrary to many studies on this topic, this book neither focuses on a specific frontier nor attempts to provide an overview of all the imperial frontiers. Instead, it focuses on a specific individual: Juan Rena (1480–1539). This Venetian clergyman spent 40 years serving the king in several capacities while travelling from the Maghreb to northern Spain, from the Pyrenees to the western fringes of the Ottoman Empire. By focusing on his activities, the book offers an account of the Spanish Empire’s frontiers as a vibrant political space where a multiplicity of figures interacted to shape power relations from below. Furthermore, it describes how merchants, military officers, nobles, local elites and royal agents forged a specific political culture in the empire’s liminal spaces. Through their negotiations and cooperation, but also through their competition and clashes, they created practices and norms in areas like cross-cultural diplomacy, the making of the social fabric, the definition of new jurisdictions, and the mobilization of resources for war.

America's West

Author : David M. Wrobel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521192013
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book America's West written by David M. Wrobel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the regional history of the American West in relation to the rest of the United States, emphasizing cultural and political history.

Tennessee Frontiers

Author : John R. Finger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Tennessee Frontiers written by John R. Finger and published by . This book was released on 2001-11-13 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second narrative describes the period of economic development that continued until the emergence of a market economy. Although from the very first, Euro-Americans participated in a worldwide fur and deerskin trade, and farmers and town dwellers were linked with markets in distant cities, it was during this period that most farmers moved beyond subsistence production and became dependent on regional, national, or international markets."

How the West Was Worn

Author : Chris Enss
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1461748410
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book How the West Was Worn written by Chris Enss and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2005-10-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion that was in vogue in the East was highly desirable to pioneers during the frontier period of the American West. It was also extraordinarily difficult to obtain, often impractical, and sometimes the clothing was just not durable enough for the men and women who were forging new homes for themselves in the West. Full hoopskirts were of little use in a soddy on the prairie, and chaps and spurs were a vital part of the cowboy's equipment. In this book, author Chris Enss examines the fashion that shaped the frontier through short essays; brief clips from letters, magazines, and other period sources; and period illustrations demonstrating the sometimes bizarre, often beautiful, and frequently highly inventive ways of dressing oneself in the Old West.

Fabric of a Nation

Author : Jason Stacy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781319484422
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book Fabric of a Nation written by Jason Stacy and published by . This book was released on 2023-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Vinyl Frontier

Author : Jonathan Scott
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472956117
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book The Vinyl Frontier written by Jonathan Scott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Bursts with gloriously geeky detail.' The Telegraph Have you ever made someone you love a mix-tape? Forty years ago, a group of scientists, artists and writers gathered in a house in Ithaca, New York to work on the most important compilation ever conceived. It wasn't from one person to another, it was from Earth to the Cosmos. In 1977 NASA sent Voyager 1 and 2 on a Grand Tour of the outer planets. During the design phase of the Voyager mission, it was realised that this pair of plucky probes would eventually leave our solar system to drift forever in the unimaginable void of interstellar space. With this gloomy-sounding outcome in mind, NASA decided to do something optimistic. They commissioned astronomer Carl Sagan to create a message to be fixed to the side of Voyager 1 and 2 – a plaque, a calling card, a handshake to any passing alien that might one day chance upon them. The result was the Voyager Golden Record, a genre-hopping multi-media metal LP. A 90-minute playlist of music from across the globe, a sound essay of life on Earth, spoken greetings in multiple languages and more than 100 photographs and diagrams, all painstakingly chosen by Sagan and his team to create an aliens' guide to Earthlings. The record included music by J.S. Bach and Chuck Berry, a message of peace from US president Jimmy Carter, facts, figures and dimensions, all encased in a golden box. The Vinyl Frontier tells the story of NASA's interstellar mix-tape, from first phone call to final launch, when Voyager 1 and 2 left our planet bearing their hopeful message from the Summer of '77 to a distant future.

Spinning and Dyeing to Replicate the Upholstery Fabric for a 1972 Frontier Camper

Author : Sue Clausen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Spinning and Dyeing to Replicate the Upholstery Fabric for a 1972 Frontier Camper written by Sue Clausen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Fabric of the Cosmos

Author : Brian Greene
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307428532
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Fabric of the Cosmos written by Brian Greene and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From one of the world’s leading physicists and author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Elegant Universe, comes “an astonishing ride” through the universe (The New York Times) that makes us look at reality in a completely different way. Space and time form the very fabric of the cosmos. Yet they remain among the most mysterious of concepts. Is space an entity? Why does time have a direction? Could the universe exist without space and time? Can we travel to the past? Greene has set himself a daunting task: to explain non-intuitive, mathematical concepts like String Theory, the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, and Inflationary Cosmology with analogies drawn from common experience. From Newton’s unchanging realm in which space and time are absolute, to Einstein’s fluid conception of spacetime, to quantum mechanics’ entangled arena where vastly distant objects can instantaneously coordinate their behavior, Greene takes us all, regardless of our scientific backgrounds, on an irresistible and revelatory journey to the new layers of reality that modern physics has discovered lying just beneath the surface of our everyday world.

Thirteenth Child

Author : Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606150149
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Thirteenth Child written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With wit and wonder, #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author Wrede creates an alternate history of westward expansion in an amazing new trilogy about the use of magic in the Wild West.

The Recreational Frontier

Author : Michael Kleinod
Publisher : Göttingen University Press
ISBN 13 : 3863952464
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book The Recreational Frontier written by Michael Kleinod and published by Göttingen University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study treats ecotourism in National Protected Areas of Lao PDR as a “recreational frontier” which instrumentalizes the recreation of human natures in capitalism’s centers for that of nonhuman natures at capitalism’s (closing) frontiers. This world-ecological practice of ecorational instrumentality – i.e. of nature domination in the name of “Nature” – presents a remedy for capitalism’s crisis that is itself crisis-ridden, enacting a central tension of ecocapitalism: that between “conservation” and “development”. This epistemic-institutional tension is traced through the preconditions, modes and effects of ecotourism in Laos by gradually zooming from the most general scale of societal nature relations into the most detailed intricacies of ecotouristic practice. The combination of Bourdieu, Marx and Critical Theory enables a systematic analysis of the recreational frontier as enactment of various contradictions deriving from the “false-and-real” Nature/Society dualism.

Wild Yankees

Author : Paul B. Moyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461723
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Wild Yankees written by Paul B. Moyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Northeast Pennsylvania's Wyoming Valley was truly a dark and bloody ground, the site of murders, massacres, and pitched battles. The valley's turbulent history was the product of a bitter contest over property and power known as the Wyoming controversy. This dispute, which raged between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, intersected with conflicts between whites and native peoples over land, a jurisdictional contest between Pennsylvania and Connecticut, violent contention over property among settlers and land speculators, and the social tumult of the American Revolution. In its later stages, the controversy pitted Pennsylvania and its settlers and speculators against "Wild Yankees"—frontier insurgents from New England who contested the state's authority and soil rights. In Wild Yankees, Paul B. Moyer argues that a struggle for personal independence waged by thousands of ordinary settlers lay at the root of conflict in northeast Pennsylvania and across the revolutionary-era frontier. The concept and pursuit of independence was not limited to actual war or high politics; it also resonated with ordinary people, such as the Wild Yankees, who pursued their own struggles for autonomy. This battle for independence drew settlers into contention with native peoples, wealthy speculators, governments, and each other over land, the shape of America's postindependence social order, and the meaning of the Revolution. With vivid descriptions of the various levels of this conflict, Moyer shows that the Wyoming controversy illuminates settlement, the daily lives of settlers, and agrarian unrest along the early American frontier.

Humanitarians on the Frontier

Author : Alasdair Gordon-Gibson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538151049
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Humanitarians on the Frontier written by Alasdair Gordon-Gibson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-17 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the reasons behind accusations of dysfunctional humanitarian identities and the loss of space for impartial action. Through a combination of practical examples in case studies from the field with a theoretical and philosophical approach to questions of voluntary service, community and identity, it reconsiders the exceptional discourse that constructs these identities and drives humanitarian response in environments of complex emergency. By recognizing both the strength and the limits of its social and political agency, the study presents opportunities for the construction of a less exceptional space, or ‘niche’ within the humanitarian sector, where the politics is around one of an ordinary humanitarian society instead of an ordered humanitarian system.

Clothing and Fashion in Southern History

Author : Ted Ownby
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829549
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Clothing and Fashion in Southern History written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Grace Elizabeth Hale, Katie Knowles, Ted Ownby, Jonathan Prude, William Sturkey, Susannah Walker, Becca Walton, and Sarah Jones Weicksel Fashion studies have long centered on the art and preservation of finely rendered garments of the upper class, and archival resources used in the study of southern history have gaps and silences. Yet, little study has been given to the approach of clothing as something made, worn, and intimately experienced by enslaved people, incarcerated people, and the poor and working class, and by subcultures perceived as transgressive. The essays in the volume, using clothing as a point of departure, encourage readers to imagine the South’s centuries-long engagement with a global economy through garments, with cotton harvested by enslaved or poorly paid workers, milled in distant factories, designed with influence from cosmopolitan tastemakers, and sold back in the South, often by immigrant merchants. Contributors explore such topics as how free and enslaved women with few or no legal rights claimed to own clothing in the mid-1800s, how white women in the Confederacy claimed the making of clothing as a form of patriotism, how imprisoned men and women made and imagined their clothing, and clothing cooperatives in civil rights–era Mississippi. An introduction by editors Ted Ownby and Becca Walton asks how best to begin studying clothing and fashion in southern history, and an afterword by Jonathan Prude asks how best to conclude.