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Author : Tim Fox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book From the Palaces to the Pike written by Tim Fox and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recreates in words and pictures the visual and emotional impact of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
Author : Lilian Whiting
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific written by Lilian Whiting and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific' by Lilian Whiting, the reader is taken on a mesmerizing journey through the American West, exploring the mystical and captivating landscapes from Pike's Peak to the Pacific Ocean. Whiting's descriptive and poetic prose transports the reader to a realm of enchantment, where nature's beauty and spiritual essence intertwine. The book is a blend of travelogue, spiritual exploration, and poetic reflection, making it a truly unique and enlightening read within the literary context of 19th-century American travel writing. Whiting's keen observations and vivid descriptions bring the beauty of the American West to life, captivating the reader with each turn of the page. Lilian Whiting, a renowned author and journalist of her time, was known for her insightful writings on spirituality and metaphysics. Her deep connection to nature and the spiritual world likely influenced her to write this book, showcasing her profound understanding and appreciation for the enchanting landscapes of the West. 'The Land of Enchantment' is a must-read for anyone with a love for nature, spirituality, and poetic beauty. It offers a unique perspective on the American West that will leave readers inspired and in awe of the natural world.
Author : M. Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137057262
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Icons of Irishness from the Middle Ages to the Modern World written by M. Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-10 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From majestic Celtic crosses to elaborate knotwork designs, visual symbols of Irish identity at its most medieval abound in contemporary culture. Consdering both scholarly and popular perspectives this book offers a commentary on the blending of pasts and presents that finds permanent visualization in these contemporary signs.
Author : Robert Volpicelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192645536
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour written by Robert Volpicelli and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-24 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans' first encounter with international modernism came, not on the page, but in person—through the widespread phenomenon of the US lecture tour. Attending to these encounters, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour reroutes our understanding of modernism away from the magazines and other mass media that have so far characterized its circulation and toward the unique form of cultural distribution that coalesced around the tour. Offering many new and compelling archival insights, this volume works across an admirably broad cultural landscape to reveal the US lecture tour as a primary mover of modernism. The study highlights the role this circuit played in the formation of transatlantic modernism by following a diverse group of authors—Oscar Wilde, W. B. Yeats, Rabindranath Tagore, Gertrude Stein, and W. H. Auden—on their whistle-stop tours across America, illuminating in the process how this extremely physical form of circulation transformed authors into object-like commodities to be sold in a variety of performance venues. Moreover, it shows how these writers responded to such wide-ranging distribution by stretching their own ideas about modernist authorship. In doing so, Transatlantic Modernism and the US Lecture Tour adds to a critical tradition of exposing those popular dimensions of modernism that far exceeded its standard coterie definition while also uncovering something else: how the circuit's particular diversity of social contexts forced modernists to take on a new authorial flexibility that would allow them to make in-roads with practically any audience—elite, popular, and everything in between.
Author : George R. Matthews
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826264751
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)
Download or read book America's First Olympics written by George R. Matthews and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2005-07-22 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America in 1904 was a nation bristling with energy and confidence. Inspired by Theodore Roosevelt, the nation’s young, spirited, and athletic president, a sports mania rampaged across the country. Eager to celebrate its history, and to display its athletic potential, the United States hosted the world at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. One part of the World’s Fair was the nation’s first Olympic games. Revived in Greece in 1896, the Olympic movement was also young and energetic. In fact, the St. Louis Olympics were only the third in modern times. Although the games were originally awarded to Chicago, St. Louis wrestled them from her rival city against the wishes of International Olympic Committee President Pierre de Coubertin. Athletes came from eleven countries and four continents to compete in state-of-the-art facilities, which included a ten-thousand-seat stadium with gymnasium equipment donated by sporting goods magnate Albert Spalding. The 1904 St. Louis Olympics garnered only praise, and all agreed that the games were a success, improving both the profile of the Olympic movement and the prestige of the United States. But within a few years, the games of 1904 receded in memory. They suffered a worse fate with the publication of Coubertin’s memoirs in 1931. His selective recollections, exaggerated claims, and false statements turned the forgotten Olympics into the failed Olympics. This prejudiced account was furthered by the 1948 publication of An Approved History of the Olympic Games by Bill Henry, which was reviewed and endorsed by Coubertin. America’s First Olympics, by George R. Matthews, corrects common misconceptions that began with Coubertin’s memoirs and presents a fresh view of the 1904 games, which featured first-time African American Olympians, an eccentric and controversial marathon, and documentation by pioneering photojournalist Jessie Tarbox Beals. Matthews provides an excellent overview of the St. Louis Olympics over a six-month period, beginning with the intrigue surrounding the transfer of the games from Chicago. He also gives detailed descriptions of the major players in the Olympic movement, the events that were held in 1904, and the athletes who competed in them. This original account will be welcomed by history and sports enthusiasts who are interested in a new perspective on this misunderstood event.
Author : H. Roger Grant
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501747789
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book "Follow the Flag" written by H. Roger Grant and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of strong-willed and creative leaders, but this book provides more than traditional business history. Noted transportation historian H. Roger Grant captures the human side of the Wabash, ranging from the medical doctors who created an effective hospital department to the worker-sponsored social events. And Grant has not ignored the impact the Wabash had on businesses and communities in the "Heart of America." Like most major American carriers, the Wabash grew out of an assortment of small firms, including the first railroad to operate in Illinois, the Northern Cross. Thanks in part to the genius of financier Jay Gould, by the early 1880s what was then known as the Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway reached the principal gateways of Chicago, Des Moines, Detroit, Kansas City, and St. Louis. In the 1890s, the Wabash gained access to Buffalo and direct connections to Boston and New York City. One extension, spearheaded by Gould's eldest son, George, fizzled. In 1904 entry into Pittsburgh caused financial turmoil, ultimately throwing the Wabash into receivership. A subsequent reorganization allowed the Wabash to become an important carrier during the go-go years of the 1920s and permitted the company to take control of a strategic "bridge" property, the Ann Arbor Railroad. The Great Depression forced the company into another receivership, but an effective reorganization during the early days of World War II gave rise to a generally robust road. Its famed Blue Bird streamliner, introduced in 1950 between Chicago and St. Louis, became a widely recognized symbol of the "New Wabash." When "merger madness" swept the railroad industry in the 1960s, the Wabash, along with the Nickel Plate Road, joined the prosperous Norfolk & Western Railway, a merger that worked well for all three carriers. Immortalized in the popular folk song "Wabash Cannonball," the midwestern railroad has left important legacies. Today, forty years after becoming a "fallen flag" carrier, key components of the former Wabash remain busy rail arteries and terminals, attesting to its historic value to American transportation.
Author : Helen-Chantal Pike
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813540870
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Asbury Park's Glory Days written by Helen-Chantal Pike and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2005 New Jersey Author Award for Scholarly Non-Fiction from the New Jersey Studies Academic Alliance Long before Bruce Springsteen picked up a guitar; before Danny DeVito drove a taxi; before Jack Nicholson flew over the cuckoo's nest, Asbury Park was a seashore Shangri-La filled with shimmering odes to civic greatness, world-renowned baby parades, temples of retail, and atmospheric movie palaces. It was a magnet for tourists, a summer vacation mecca-to some degree New Jersey's own Coney Island. In Asbury Park's Glory Days, award-winning author Helen-Chantal Pike chronicles the city's heyday-the ninety-year period between 1890 and 1980. Pike illuminates the historical conditions contributing to the town's cycle of booms and recessions. She investigates the factors that influenced these peaks, such as location, lodging, dining, nightlife, merchandising, and immigration, and how and why millions of people spent their leisure time within this one-square-mile boundary on the northern coast of the state. Pike also includes an epilogue describing recent attempts to resurrect this once-vibrant city.
Author : Clairy Palyvou
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623034264
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Daidalos at Work written by Clairy Palyvou and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is primarily a book on architecture, and as such it seeks to bring forward the deeper forces that guide the work of all the sons and all the daughters of Daidalos. Architecture is the protagonist, whereas the prehistoric time of this architecture is as important as any other historical time. This book is firmly based on the realities of a long-silenced world available to us today through the agency of archaeology. In that sense, it addresses archaeologists, architectural historians, and architects alike, in the hope that it will prove useful to those interested in understanding the Minoan world through its architecture as much as those interested in exploring architecture through the Minoan paradigm. This dual goal emanates from my deep belief in the timeless and universal values of architecture. As a teacher of (history of) architecture, the challenge has been to bring history into the studios where future architecture is formulated, to engage history in the discourse on current architectural ethos and practices, and to show that an analytical and critical approach to the past is a potent tool for advancing architectural awareness and educating future architects. I am equally confident that such an approach will return its benefits back to history, for it will provide new tools of thought and methods of interpretation of the relics of the past. Having set the scope of this book, it is only fair to add what is not included in its goals: the reader will not find a descriptive account of Minoan buildings and sites nor a list of the major architectural achievements in chronological order. This is due not only to the enormous amount of relevant information that has been accumulated to date, but also to an altogether different interest in the subject, as described above. Time, however, is crucial: "We have a mental need to grasp that we are rooted in the continuity of time, and in the man-made world it is the task of architecture to facilitate this experience" (Pallasmaa 2005b, 32). Time-related issues, therefore, such as permanence and change or tradition and innovation, will concern us.
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Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Gateway Heritage written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard L. Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The View from Pike's Peak written by Bernard L. Rice and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 904 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)
Download or read book World's Fair Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 750 pages
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Download or read book The Typographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 750 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. 13- include the annual supplements "Reports of officers and proceedings of the session of the International Typographical Union."
Author : Stephen Hoare
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992840
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Palaces of Power written by Stephen Hoare and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The core of what we call St James's dates from the late seventeenth century, when large estates were leased by the Crown to the landed gentry after the Restoration in 1660. St James's clubs, coffee houses and institutions have been shaped by enterprise, political conflict, and Britain's emerging role as an Imperial power. This is the historic heart of London's Clubland. Over 300 years, Clubland has extended its reach to encompass Piccadilly, Mayfair, Bond Street, Covent Garden and Westminster. Ever discreet, the clubs do not draw attention to themselves, though their members are often highly influential individuals who are leaders in politics, the law, the media and much more. Palaces of Power charts the evolution of London's Clubland, St James's, exploring the social and cultural history of the city's most prestigious district, and studying the tensions between the world of privilege and an emerging public realm over the last three centuries.
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Total Pages : 704 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book World Almanac and Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists news events, population figures, and miscellaneous data of an historic, economic, scientific and social nature.
Author : John Tomaney
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040029035
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Social infrastructure and left behind places written by John Tomaney and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-02-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure in ‘left-behind places’. Such places, typically once flourishing industrial communities that have been excluded from recent economic growth, now attract academic and policy attention as sites of a political backlash against globalisation and liberal democracy. The book focuses on the role of social infrastructure as a key component of this story. Seeking to move beyond a narrowly economistic of reading ‘left behind places’, the book addresses the understudied affective dimensions of ‘left-behindness’. It develops an analytical framework that emphasises the importance of place attachments and the consequences of their disruption; considers ‘left behind places’ as ‘moral communities’ and the making of social infrastructure as an expression of this; views the unmaking of social infrastructure through the lens of ‘root shock’; and explains efforts at remaking it in terms of the articulation of ‘radical hope’. The analysis builds upon a case study of a former mining community in County Durham, North East England. Using mixed methods, it offers a ‘deep place study’ of a single village to understand more fully the making, unmaking and remaking of social infrastructure. It shows how a place once richly endowed with social infrastructure, saw this endowment wither and the effects this had on the community. However, it also records efforts of the local people to rebuild social infrastructure, typically drawing the lessons of the past. Although the story of one village, the methods, results and policy recommendation have much wider applicability. The book will be of interest to researchers, policy makers and others concerned with the fate of ‘left behind places’.
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Grandeur of the Universal Exposition at St. Louis written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leslie Preston Day
Publisher : INSTAP Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 1623030870
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Crete Beyond the Palaces written by Leslie Preston Day and published by INSTAP Academic Press. This book was released on 2004-12-31 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents papers from the conference "Crete 2000: A Centennial Celebration of American Archaeological Work on Crete (1900-2000)," held in Athens from July 10-12, 2000. The American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Study Center for East Crete organized the conference. Scholars participating in the American and joint Greek-American on Crete or studying material from these excavations were invited to present papers at the conference. The volume is divided into the following sections: Trade, Society and Religion, Chronology and History, Landscape and Survey, and Technology and Production.
