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Schiffer Publishing An Illustrated History of Hairstyles 18301930
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Evolution of Western Private Law
Book SynopsisThe result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.Trade ReviewThe Evolution of Western Private Law is an innovative look at the development of the Western legal tradition. It makes an important contribution to the literature on legal history, and Watson has carefully examined the sources and the relevant legal documents. Although highly detailed and somewhat technical, Watson writes with great clarity. -- Gerald J. Russello Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Legislation2. Jurists3. Judges4. Custom5. Legislation and Jurists: French Delit6. Jurists, Judges, Custom, Legislation: Water Rights7. Legal Transplants I: The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law8. Legal Transplants 2: Other Reception of Roman Law9. The Case of English Common law10. Humanism, The Law of Reason, Codification11. ConclusionsNotesGlossaryIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Reluctant Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing cocoon citizenship,the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.Trade ReviewA surprisingly lively case study of the battles and alliances of politics, business and people that formed-or deformed-a great American city. Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the most entertaining and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time about urban growth and change... Important reading for anyone interested in contemporary urban development. [Fulton] tells a story that may sound uniquely Los Angeles, but really applies to every growing city in America. -- Richard Peiser APA JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction: The Collapse of the Growth MachinePart 1: Power Chapter 1: The Beachhead Chapter 2: Perestroika Co-opted Chapter 3: Suburbs of ExtractionPart 2: Structure Chapter 4: Chinatown Redefined Chapter 5: The Money Train Chapter 6: The Reluctant MetropolisPart 3: Land Chapter 7: The Education of Maria VanderKolk Chapter 8: The Politics of ExtinctionPart 4: Money Chapter 9: The Taking of Parcel K Chapter 10: Welcome to Sales Tax CanyonPart 5: Consequences Chapter 11: Whose Riot Was This, Anyway? Chapter 12: Cloning Los Angeles Chapter 13: Cocoon Citizenship and the Toon Town UrbanismAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Photography Credits
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Johns Hopkins University Press Flight in America From the Wrights to the
Book SynopsisHe offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.Trade ReviewThe standard history of the American aerospace enterprise-with good reason. -- Tom D. Crouch Museums New York 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface to the Third Edition Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918 Chapter 2: The Aviation Business, 1918-1930 Chapter 3: Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940 Chapter 4: Air Power at War, 1930-1945 Chapter 5: Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955 Chapter 6: Higher Horizons, 1955-1965 Chapter 7: From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975 Chapter 8: Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983 Chapter 9: Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000 Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Thinking with Objects
Book SynopsisExamining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.Trade ReviewClearly the result of meticulous research and extensive study, I suspect this work will stand the test of time. PhiloBiblos 2007 The revival of extensive discourses makes this a unique, invaluable resource for any study of the history of science. Choice 2007 Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of science... incredibly thorough. -- David Nuttall Physics Education 2007 An important contribution... and his book should find a welcome place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of the Scientific Revolution. -- William R. Shea American Historical Review 2007 A very interesting book... I have no doubt that it is destined to find a pivotal place in the study of the history of science. -- Michael Box Australian Physics 2008 The most important contribution to the history of mechanics of the last decade, likely to become a standard reference and without any doubt a must for every historian of physics. -- Jurgen Renn Renaissance Quarterly 2008 A superb, if difficult book, that belongs as basic to the curriculum of early modern history of science. -- Margaret Jacob History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007 Meli's stress on the importance of engagements with materiality in the development of seventeenth-century mechanics thus achieves a spectacular vindication in demonstrating the full meaning of Newton's pretensions to be contributing not just to 'mathematics' in the Principia, but to natural philosophy itself. -- Peter Dear British Journal for the History of Science 2008 [Meli's] approach is new and convincing... a groundbreaking change of focus. -- Sophie Roux Metascience 2009 Full of pertinent detail in the text itself, Thinking with Objects cleverly uses the captions of figures to provide more extended samples of seventeenth-century arguments, thus demonstrating in practice how helpful it is to think with visual or geometric representations. -- Edith Dudley Sylla Isis 2008 Thinking with Objects is a significant book. Its success lies in reformulating our ideas of the methods and practices of early modern sciences... No serious future study of early modern physics and its transformations will be able to ignore the analyses and conclusions of this work. -- Craig Martin Huntington Library Quarterly 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond Inertia: From Laws to Objects2. Motion and Mechanics3. The Role of Mathematics4. Experience and Experiment5. Practitioners, Sites, and Forms of Communication6. Structure and Organization of the Present Work1. Machines in the Field, in the Book, and in the Study1.1. Between Classical Theory and Engineering Practice1.2. Machines, Equilibrium, and Motion1.3. The Balance of dal Monte and the Problem of Rigor1.4. Pulleys and the Contingency of Matter1.5. Rival Traditions on the Inclined Plane2. Floating Bodies and a Mathematical Science of Motion2.1. Some Features of Archimedes' Floating Bodies2.2. Reading Floating Bodies2.3. Benedetti against the Philosophers2.4. Galileo's Early Speculations2.5. Mazzoni, Stevin, and Galileo3. The Formulation of New Mathematical Sciences3.1. The Broadening of the Mechanical Tradition3.2. Galileo at Padua and the Science of Motion3.3. From Buoyancy to the Science of Waters3.4. Motion between Heaven and Earth3.5. The Science of the Resistance of Materials3.6. The Science of Motion4. Novel Reflections and Quantitative Experiments4.1. Different Readings of Galileo4.2. Mersenne's Harmonie and the Dialogo4.3. Rethinking Galileo's Axiomatic Structure4.4. Continuity and the Law of Fall4.5. Trials with Projectiles, Pierced Cisterns, and Beams4.6. The Experiments and Tables of Riccioli5. The Motion and Collision of Particles5.1. The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy5.2. Mechanics and the Mechanical Philosophy5.3. Beeckman, Galileo, and Descartes5.4. Motion and Its Laws5.5. From the Balance to Impact: Beeckman, Marci, and Descartes5.6. The Workings of the Cartesian UniverseIntermezzo: Generational and Institutional Changes6. The Equilibrium and Motion of Liquids6.1. A Characterization of a Research Tradition6.2. Studies around the Time of the Cimento Academy6.3. Pressure and Equilibrium in Pascal and Boyle6.4. Studying the Motion of Waters North of the Alps6.5. Guglielmini and the Bologna Scene6.6. Experiments Combining Pressure and Speed7. Projected, Oscillating, and Orbiting Bodies7.1. The Tools of Investigation7.2. The Analyses of Orbital Motion by Fabri and Borelli7.3. Falling Bodies on a Moving Earth7.4. Projectiles and Air Resistance7.5. Huygens's Pendulum7.6. English Approaches to Orbital Motion8. Colliding Bodies, Springs, and Beams8.1. The Emergence of Elasticity8.2. Boyle and Elasticity8.3. The Transformation of the Impact Rules8.4. Springs between Technology and Cosmology8.5. Bending and Breaking Beams9. A New World-System9.1. Teamwork and Anti-Cartesianism9.2. Halley, Wren, Hooke, and Newton9.3. The Principia's Structure and Conceptual Framework9.4. The Role of Experiments9.5. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy9.6. A New World-System: Newton and Flamsteed10. Causes, Conservation, and the New Mathematics10.1. Mechanics at the Turn of the Century10.2. The New Analysis10.3. Conservation10.4. Early Responses to Newton's Principia10.5. The New Analysis and Newton's PrincipiaConclusion: Mapping the Transformations of MechanicsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Nylon and Bombs
Book SynopsisReflecting on the experiences and contributions of the company's engineers and physicists, Ndiaye traces Du Pont's transformation into one of the corporate models of American success.Trade ReviewFresh because of its innovative approach to the history of DuPont... Stimulating book. -- Terrence J. Gough Journal of Military History 2007 The reader who is well versed in the field will... gain insight into the significant contributions made by chemical engineers and into the interaction between technological developments and broad social, cultural, and political changes. -- Christiane Diehl Taylor Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Nylon and Bombs will no doubt be put to great use in the emerging field of engineering studies. -- Jody Roberts Technology and Culture 2008 A very important book that ought to be read by all chemical engineers who seek a broad understanding of the history of their profession. -- Robert W. Seidel Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 2008 Ndiaye makes a worthwhile contribution to the literature and opens up many questions with which specialists will want to engage. -- Jeff Hughes Isis 2008Table of ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. DuPont and the Rise of Chemical Engineering2. From Ammonia to Nylon: Technologies and Careers3. Culture and Politics at DuPont before World War II4. The Forgotten Engineers of the Bomb5. The Heyday and Decline of Chemical EngineeringConclusionNotesEssay on Sources and HistoriographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Horse People Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington
Book SynopsisCassidy's investigation reveals the factors-ethical, cultural, political, and economic-that have shaped the racing tradition.Trade ReviewCombining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co The Early History of God Yahweh and the Other
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The University Press of Kentucky The Kentucky Mint Julep
Book SynopsisJoe Nickell looks at the origins of the julep, offers a brief history of American whiskey and Kentucky bourbon, and shares some classic julep tales. The book includes numerous recipes -- for classic juleps, modern variations, non-alcoholic versions, and the author's own thoroughly researched "perfect" mint julep.
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The University Press of Kentucky Berea College An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisBerea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855.Trade ReviewAll who read Wilson's account of Berea College will acknowledge the school's uniqueness and appreciate its contribution to American life. - MARION LUCAS, WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
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The University Press of Kentucky Frank L McVey and the University of Kentucky A
Book SynopsisIn 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis. Moyen chronicles McVey's triumphs and challenges as the president sought to transform the university from a small state college into the state's flagship institution.
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The University Press of Kentucky Lincoln Seward and US Foreign Relations in the
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The University Press of Kentucky Boonesborough Unearthed
Book SynopsisThroughout the Revolutionary War, Fort Boonesborough was one of the most important and defensively crucial sites on the western frontier. Boonesborough Unearthed: Frontier Archaeology at a Revolutionary Fort is the result of more than thirty years of research by archaeologist Nancy O'Malley.
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The University Press of Kentucky Making Bourbon
Book SynopsisUnique interdisciplinary study uncovering the complex history poured into every glass of bourbon.Table of ContentsIntroduction Heritage and Process Kentucky Distilling Kentucky's Distilling Environment Distilling Grain, Feeding Livestock Distillery Configurations Technology's Tools Complementary Industries Signatures of Risk Byproducts Connections Making it Work External Control and Landscape Temperance Troubles Making Whiskey at the Henry McKenna Distillery McKenna's Family Distillers Building James Stone's Elkhorn Distillery Marketing Whiskey, Managing Money, and Elkhorn Distillery's Demise Naming A Reconstructed Past Lives in the Present Making Bourbon, Making Landscape
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University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Exeter Performance Studies
Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?
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University of Exeter Press On Actors And Acting Essays on Popular Performers
Book SynopsisThis is a book for theatre-lovers, written for anyone who shares the author's curiosity about the art of acting and about theatre past and present. Three sections cover from the Elizabethan period to the 20th century.Trade Review‘In this resonant collection of essays, Peter Thomson invites us to contemplate the performance techniques of key actors in the British theatre from the Shakespearean era to the present day…. throughout the book Thomson’s elegant prose draws the reader into a completely absorbing commentary, mixing anecdote and humour with a passionate belief in the power of the actor as a popular figure … Thomson’s own excitement for the art reminds us how exciting acting can be.’ * Contemporary Theatre Review, Vol. 14, No. 4, 2004 *‘When Peter Thomson was writing reviews of Stratford productions for Shakespeare Survey in the 1970s, he saw his job as being ‘to reproduce in words what it was like to be there, but without ducking away from a responsibility to enter into contemporary debate’. This is the spirit in which On Actors and Acting is written, and it is deeply pleasurable . . . interspersed with amplifications, second thoughts, wry self-criticisms and addenda from an author to whom the issues and arguments of the past still matter today . . . Historical practices and personages repeatedly are illuminated by reference to the contemporary, and many of Thomson’s throw-away remarks – such his comparison between Irving and David Warner – are worth their weight in gold.’ * Theatre Research International, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2002 *‘Whilst Thomson disclaims the talent of Hazlitt, his readers, relishing his pithy insights, his biting wit, and admiring his crispness of phrase, will decide for themselves . . . [The book] will be enjoyed by anyone who cares deeply, with both head and heart, about not only teaching of drama but the future of theatre.’ * Speech and Drama, Vol. 51, No. 1, Spring 2002 * ‘Thomson’s affection for actors, advocacy for the primacy of the actor’s role in the theatrical process, and strong belief in the significant art of the actor permeate this eclectic, learned, and entertaining collection of essays . . . Thomson’s style is scholarly yet somewhat quirky and anecdotal, and very accessible . . . Well documented and nicely illustrated, Thomson’s book provides a capstone to his productive writing and scholarly career.’ * Choice, Vol. 39, No. 4, Dec 2001 *Table of ContentsPart 1 Actors and acting in the early modern theatre: the Elizabethan actor - a matter of temperament; making an entrance - Chaucer to Tarlton; the missing jig; three Elizabethan actors; a note on Elizabethan rehearsal. Part 2 Actors and acting in the 18th and 19th centuries: bigamy and theatre; David Garrick - alive in every muscle; summer company - Drury Lane in 1761; Edmund Kean versus John Philip Kemble; Frederick Robson - a downright good actor; Irving and the Lyceum - volcano and cathedral. Part 3 Shakespeare in the 20th century: Shakespeare at Stratford - 1970-1975; the New Globe - monument or portent?
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Te Herenga Waka University Press Print and Politics
Book SynopsisProvides an absorbing insight into a century and a half of printing history. Beginning in the early 1860s when the first typographical unions were formed in Dunedin and Wellington, this history ends in 1996 when printers and journalists amalgamated with the Engineers Union to form NZ's largest private sector trade union.
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University Press of New England Ceramics in America 2003
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Random House USA Inc The Personality Brokers
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company Betty Crocker Lost Recipes
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Arcadia Publishing Moxie
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Arcadia Publishing Prohibition in Bardstown Bourbon Bootlegging
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History Press Iconic Hollywood Dishes Drinks Desserts
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Orion Publishing Co Any Given Sunday The NFLs Epic 100Year History in
Book SynopsisAn authoritative 100-year-history of America's National Football League from its founding in 1920
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Basic Books The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped
Book SynopsisIn April 2020, the United States will embark on what has been called "the largest peacetime mobilization in American history": the decennial population census. It is part of a long, if uneven, tradition of counting people that extends back at least three millennia. Tracing the remarkable history of the census from ancient China, through the Roman Empire, revolutionary America, and Nazi-occupied Europe, right up to today's Supreme Court battles, The Sum of the People shows how the impulse to count ourselves is universal, how the census has evolved with time, and how it has always profoundly shaped the societies we have built. As data scientist Andrew Whitby reveals, the earliest censuses in ancient China and the Fertile Crescent had purely extractive aims: taxation and conscription. Later, as Enlightenment-era governments began to answer to citizens, the census was reinvented to support political representation and to delimit the boundaries of new nation-states. As the role of government grew through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, censuses became more complex and scientific. Census bureaus spun out dozens of other surveys, which formed the statistical foundation of modern, technocratic, data-driven government. For the first time, counting every person on the planet became a real possibility-and debates about who was counted, who was not, and what questions they were asked became the subject of intense political controversy in places from Australia to South Africa to the United States. The census at its best is a marvel of democracy, but it has at times been an instrument of exclusion, and, as in the case of Nazi Germany, a tool of tyranny and genocide.Today, governments and businesses alike now routinely collect "big data" that would have been unimaginable just a few decades ago, prompting fears similar to those the census once provoked and leading to some to suggest that traditional censuses will soon be obsolete. The Sum of the People closes by making the case that, for all its past faults, the census can be an alternative and an antidote to a future of constant, invasive surveillance.
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Purdue University Press For Shade and for Comfort: Democratizing
Book SynopsisExplores the unprecedented burst of horticulture interest in the nineteenth-century, and documents its influence on Midwestern domestic landscapes. With its careful portrayal of actual ornamental plant use and its examination of nineteenth-century horticultural advice literature and nursery and seed trades, For Shade and for Comfort will appeal to rural, cultural, and environmental historians of the midwest, and those readers who simply love horticulture and gardening.
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Purdue University Press The Memory Factory: The Forgotten Women Artists
Book SynopsisThe Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important public roles as exhibiting artists, both individually and in collectives, but this history has been silenced over time. Their stories show that the city of Vienna was contradictory and cosmopolitan: despite men-only policies in its main art institutions, it offered a myriad of unexpected ways for women artists to forge successful public careers. Women artists came from the provinces, Russia, and Germany to participate in its vibrant art scene. However, and especially because so many of the artists were Jewish, their contributions were actively obscured beginning in the late 1930s. Many had to flee Austria, losing their studios and lifework in the process. Some were killed in concentration camps. Along with the stories of individual women artists, the author reconstructs the history of separate women artists' associations and their exhibitions. Chapters covering the careers of Tina Blau, Elena Luksch-Makowsky, Bronica Koller, Helene Funke, and Teresa Ries (among others) point to a more integrated and cosmopolitan art world than previously thought; one where women became part of the avant-garde, accepted and even highlighted in major exhibitions at the Secession and with the Klimt group.Trade Review“This is an excellent addition to the literature on fin-de-siècle Vienna, well-researched and well-argued. It highlights little-known artists and situates them in a novel interpretation of women’s roles in the art world. The author challenges dominant tropes of feminist historiography and thus sheds new light on twentieth-century art history and historiography,” —Michael Gubser, James Madison University.
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Purdue University Press Doing Business in America: A Jewish History
Book SynopsisAmerican and Jewish historians have long shied away from the topic of Jews and business. Avoidance patterns grew in part from old, often negative stereotypes that linked Jews with money, and the perceived ease and regularity with which they found success with money, condemning Jews for their desires for wealth and their proclivities for turning a profit. A new, dauntless generation of historians, however, realizes that Jewish business has had and continues to have a profound impact on American culture and development, and patterns of immigrant Jewish exploration of business opportunities reflect internal, communal, Jewish-cultural structures and their relationship to the larger non-Jewish world. As such, they see the subject rightly as a vital and underexplored area of study. Doing Business in America: A Jewish History, edited by Hasia R. Diner, rises to the challenge of taking on the long-unspoken taboo subject, comprising leading scholars and exploring an array of key topics in this important and growing area of research.Table of Contents FOREWORD EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1, American Jewish Business: At the Street Level, by Hasia R. Diner CHAPTER 2, Common Fortunes: Social and Financial Gains of Jewish and Christian Partnerships in Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic Trade, by Allan M. Amanik CHAPTER 3, Jewish Immigrant Bankers, New York Real Estate, and American Finance, 1870–1914, by Rebecca Kobrin CHAPTER 4, Far Away Moses & Company: An Ottoman Jewish Business between Istanbul and the United States, by Julia Phillips Cohen CHAPTER 5, The Roots of Jewish Concentration in the American Popular Music Business, 1890–1945, by Jonathan Karp CHAPTER 6, "Sometimes It Is Like I Am Sitting on a Volcano": Retailers, Diplomats, and the Refugee Crisis, 1933–1945, by Niki C. Lefebvre CHAPTER 7, Max Moses Heller: Patron Saint of Greenville's Renaissance, by Diane Vecchio CHAPTER 8, "A Just and Righteous Man": Eli Black and the Transformation of United Fruit, by Matt Garcia ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT THE USC CASDEN INSTITUTE
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University of Massachusetts Press Strangers and Neighbors Relations Between Blacks
Book SynopsisMuch has been written about the relationship between blacks and Jews in America. Some texts highlight the mutual struggle for social jusitce, whilst others depict mutual accusations of racism. This text portrays the full complexity of black and Jewish relations in the US, over the past 300 years.
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Pelican Publishing Co Lost Restaurants of New Orleans
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) A History of Virginia Wines From Grapes to Glass
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The Library of America Women's Liberation!: Feminist Writings that
Book SynopsisTwo pioneering feminists present a groundbreaking collection recovering a generation''s revolutionary insights for todayWhen Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, the book exploded into women?s consciousness. Before the decade was out, what had begun as a campaign for women?s civil rights transformed into a diverse and revolutionary movement for freedom and social justice that challenged many aspects of everyday life long accepted as fixed: work, birth control and abortion, childcare and housework, gender, class, and race, art and literature, sexuality and identity, rape and domestic violence, sexual harassment, pornography, and more. This was the women?s liberation movement, and writing?powerful, personal, and prophetic?was its beating heart.Fifty years on, in the age of #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, this visionary and radical writing is as relevant and urgently needed as ever, ready to inspire a new generation of feminists. Activists and writers Alix Kates Shulman and Honor Moore have gathered an unprecedented collection of works?many long out-of-print and hard to find?that catalyzed and propelled the women?s liberation movement. Ranging from Friedan?s Feminine Mystique to Backlash, Susan Faludi?s Reagan-era requiem, and framed by Shulman and Moore with an introduction and headnotes that provide historical and personal context, the anthology reveals the crucial role of Black feminists and other women of color in a decades long mass movement that not only brought about fundamental changes in American life?changes too often taken for granted today?but envisioned a thoroughgoing revolution in society and consciousness still to be achieved.
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Triumph Books Boston Marathon
Book SynopsisOffering an inside look at the most famous marathon in the world, this exploration traces the Boston Marathon's 26.2-mile route from the starting line on narrow Main Street in Hopkinton to the Boylston Street finish line in downtown Boston, bringing to life the history, personalities, pivotal moments, and individual character of each city the race traverses. The Boston Marathon includes well-researched briefs on topics including Metcalf’s Mill at Ashland, the unmarked starting point of the first race in 1897, the infamous 1967 battle over Kathrine Switzer’s attempt to compete five years before women were allowed, and other vital race-day elements. The book also includes a tribute to the victims of the tragic 2013 bombing near the finish line. This is a supremely entertaining glimpse at the history of the greatest running event in the world—from wacky entrants to hard-fisted managers, tortured disappointments, and glorious triumph.
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History Press (SC) Philadelphia Beer
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Arcadia Publishing Inc. Jersey Shore Food History Victorian Feasts to
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History Press The Sizzling History of Miami Cuisine
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Michigan State University Press Great Women of Mackinac, 1800-1950
Book SynopsisGreat Women of Mackinac, 1800–1950 tells the dramatic history of thirteen women leaders on Mackinac Island in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their linked visions of family and community define this beautiful island in the western Great Lakes. In this collective biography, author and Mackinac Island resident Melissa Croghan reveals how central they were to the history and literature of Mackinac. Elizabeth Bertrand Mitchell, Madeline Marcot LaFramboise, Therese Marcot Schindler, Elizabeth Therese Baird, Agatha Biddle, and Jane Johnston Schoolcraft were Anishinaabe fur traders, farmers, memoirists, and poets who established the nineteenth-century island community. Among the women of Mackinac, there were also those who sang the island’s praises and recorded the lively relationships of the English, French, and American inhabitants. These writers included Juliette Magill Kinzie, Anna Brownell Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and Constance Fenimore Woolson. There were also community builders who founded key institutions and midwifed generations of island children: Rosa Truscott Webb, Daisy Peck Blodgett, and Stella King. Readers interested in American literature, women’s lives, and Mackinac Island’s storied history will find this book a fascinating read.
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Texas A & M University Press Making Space for Women: Stories from Trailblazing
Book SynopsisFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have changed over the past fifty years as the workforce became more diverse and fields once closed to women—the astronaut corps and flight control—began to open. Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal has selected twenty-one interviews conducted for the NASA Oral History Projects, including those with astronauts, mathematicians, engineers, secretaries, scientists, trainers, managers, and more. The women featured not only discuss leadership, teamwork, and the experiences of being “the first,” but reveal how the role of the working woman in a predominantly white, male, technical agency has evolved.The narratives highlight the societal and cultural changes these women witnessed and the lessons they learned as they pursued different career paths. Among those included are Joan E. Higginbotham, mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery; Natalie V. Saiz, first female director of the Human Resource Office; Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; Estella HernÁndez Gillette, the deputy director of the center’s External Relations Office; and Carolyn Huntoon, the first woman director of the Johnson Space Center.Making Space for Women offers a unique view of the history of human spaceflight while also providing a broader understanding of changes in American culture, society, industry, and life for women in the space program. The women featured in this book demonstrate that there are no boundaries or limits to a career at NASA for those who choose to seize the opportunity.
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Georgetown University Press A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is
Book SynopsisThe 1,400-year-old schism between Sunnis and Shi’is is currently reflected in the destructive struggle for hegemony between Saudi Arabia and Iran—with no apparent end in sight. But how did this conflict begin, and why is it now the focus of so much attention? Charting the history of Islam from the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present day, John McHugo describes the conflicts that raged over the succession to the Prophet, how Sunnism and Shi’ism evolved as different sects during the Abbasid caliphate, and how the rivalry between the Sunni Ottomans and Shi’i Safavids ensured that the split would continue into the modern age. In recent decades, this centuries-old divide has acquired a new toxicity that has resulted in violence across the Arab world and other Muslim countries. Definitive, insightful, and accessible, A Concise History of Sunnis and Shi'is is an essential guide to understanding the genesis, development, and manipulation of the schism that for far too many people has come to define Islam and the Muslim world.Trade ReviewMcHugo’s main accomplishment lies in his ability to present Shi’ism as one of the two main political-religious currents rather than a grouping that split from the mainstream after the death of the Prophet. He skillfully weaves parallel academic narratives about the evolution of Sunni and Shi’i Islam. * Arab Studies Quarterly *McHugo guides readers through the complicated history of how succession led to the Sunni/Shi’ite division. But, more importantly, he underlines the two divergent theological approaches to how a Muslim believer should guide his or her life. McHugo contends these two approaches emerged early in Islam. * Jewish Herald-Voice *An important corrective . . . provides the reader not just wish all the historical background he or she could want, in an accessible and comprehensive fashion, but also employs this sound knowledge to a clear-headed appraisal of the modern Middle East. * Times Literary Supplement *It is no mean feat to cover over 1400 years of history...Masterful and fascinating -- Jordan TimesExcellent McHugo is a lucid interpreter of complex events. -- Law Society GazetteIt is clearly written in accessible language.... I would not hesitate to recommend this book or assign it to an advanced class of undergraduates. * International Journal of Middle East Studies *Table of ContentsList of Maps Glossary Preface Part One1. In the Beginning: Before There Were Sunnis and Shi'is 2. How Civil War Came to Islam 3. Of Umayyads and Abbasids 4. The Split Between Sunnis and Shi'is 5. Of Ismailis, Assassins, Druze, Zaydis, Gnostic Shi'is, Alawis and Sufis 6. How Iran Became Shi'i7. The Ottoman Empire, India and the Muslim Reformation Part Two 8. The Long Nineteenth Century and the Coming of Western Dominanace 9. Between the Two World Wars 10. Tides Ebb and Flow 11. The Iranian Revolution and The Iran-Iraq War 12. From the Iran Revolution to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq 13. Wedges into Fault-Lines Family Trees Acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Sources and Further Reading Index
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Arcadia Publishing Ottawa Food A Hungry Capital
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Arcadia Publishing Stratford Food An Edible History
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Arcadia Publishing Classic Eateries of Cajun Country American Palate
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Arcadia Publishing Ontario Garlic The Story from Farm to Festival
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Shelter Harbor Press Typewriter: The History, The Machines, The
Book SynopsisPersonal computers may have replaced the typewriter in most homes and offices, but the venerable writing machine is currently staging a comeback. From portable models that hipsters are snapping up, to Tom Hanks's bestselling app that recreates the manual experience on a tablet, the typewriter has never been so hot. This celebration of the typewriter covers what a platen knob is, why QWERTY won out over other arrangements of keys, which authors loved (or loathed) their typewriters, and much more.
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WW Norton & Co Bolshoi Confidential: Secrets of the Russian
Book SynopsisA critical triumph, Simon Morrison’s “sweeping and authoritative” (Guardian) work, Bolshoi Confidential, details the Bolshoi Ballet’s magnificent history from its earliest tumults to recent scandals. On January 17, 2013, a hooded assailant hurled acid into the face of the artistic director, making international headlines. A lead soloist, enraged by institutional power struggles, later confessed to masterminding the crime. Morrison gives the shocking violence context, describing the ballet as a crucible of art and politics beginning with the disreputable inception of the theater in 1776, through the era of imperial rule, the chaos of revolution, the oppressive Soviet years, and the Bolshoi’s recent $680 million renovation. With vibrant detail including “sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, [and] dead cats in lieu of flowers” (New Republic), Morrison makes clear that the history of the Bolshoi Ballet mirrors that of Russia itself.Trade Review"The title means what it says. There’s plenty of scandal here: arson, double suicide, dead cats flung at curtain calls. At the same time, the book is energetically researched, beautifully written — fun, relaxed, sophisticated — and full of serious ideas, boldly stated." -- Joan Acocella, dance critic - The New Yorker"The insider look in Bolshoi Confidential is incredibly rich and makes this book a page-turner…Breathtakingly complicated life stories of both people and productions parade through the pages…Its central figures, like Plisetskaya, jump off its pages complex and alive." -- Daria Khitrova - New York Times"Morrison turns to the past in order to unpack the conundrum of the Bolshoi within the enigma-wrapped, mystery-obscured riddle of the Russian state…All of this makes for good, even great, fodder…Sex scandals, double-suicide pacts, bribery, arson, executions, prostitution rings, embezzlement, starving orphans, dead cats in lieu of flowers, and ballerinas refusing to shave their armpits." -- Madison Mainwaring - The New Republic"Masterful. . . . Bolshoi Confidential . . . is much more than a compendium of ballerinas behaving badly. Rather, it offers a rich, fascinating and nuanced examination of the role of the arts in Russian history, one that highlights their profound importance to the creation of a national identity and their troubled relationship with the country’s rulers." -- Douglas Smith - Wall Street Journal"Simon Morrison’s Bolshoi Confidential lifts the curtain on Russia’s best-known cultural institution. An intoxicating mix of grandeur and gossip, it charts luminous performances on stage and sordid machinations in the wings from the age of Catherine the Great to that of Vladimir Putin…Sweeping and authoritative." -- Lucy Ash - The Guardian"A sweeping, grandly intriguing story at the interface of art and power. . . . Morrison frames his story, always readable and brimming with curious anecdotes, with the recent, newsworthy acid attack on artistic director Sergei Filin, a strange episode that exposed not just clashes of individual personalities, but also competing views of what the Bolshoi should be, some of which may have emanated from inside the walls of the neighboring Kremlin. A must for ballet buffs . . . . [and] a look backstage that is both lively and learned." -- Kirkus (starred review)"Charming and astonishingly detailed…The Bolshoi’s dancers, ballets, and composers, its administrators and detractors and supporters—all are tantalizingly depicted here... Balletomanes will drool and sigh, music lovers will be fascinated…A riveting history." -- Booklist (starred review)"Another marvelously informative book from Simon Morrison, dishing this time on Russia’s great musical theater, onstage and off. It is a wonderful read, full of intriguing spectacle and spectacular intrigue." -- Richard Taruskin, author of The Oxford History of Western Music"Simon Morrison has written an engrossing history of one of Russia’s most enduring cultural institutions. Bolshoi Confidential deftly shatters the distinctions between high-brow and low-brow, art and politics, authority and violence." -- Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana and A World on Fire"A colorful and erudite view on Russia through the tumultuous history of the sumptuous Bolshoi." -- Peter Pomeranzev, author of Nothing is True and Everything is Possible"Simon Morrison’s Bolshoi Confidential is a magisterial portrait of the art, intrigue, and politics buffeting Russia’s great cultural institution, the Bolshoi Ballet." -- Janice Ross, author of Like A Bomb Going Off: Leonid Yakobson and Ballet As Resistance in Soviet Russia"Morrison sweeps readers through the storied company’s 240-year history, describing key figures onstage and off, political ties to various regimes, and the births of many famous ballets." -- Dance Studio Life
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HarperCollins Focus This Day in History: A 365-Day Tour of History's
Book SynopsisFrom the Ides of March to the 40-minute war and the Great Molasses Flood, discover what extraordinary events took place from January 1 to December 31 with This Day in History.Have you ever wondered what happened on your birthday hundreds of years ago? This Day in History is perfect for history buffs and trivia fans alike. This fascinating book covers the most important, unknown, and bizarre events in history, including: the very first strike ever recorded on November 14th, 1152 BC in ancient Egypt; the founding of national I Hate Coriander Day on February 24, 2019; and the UFO battle over the German city of Nuremberg on April 14, 1561. Inside you’ll find: Key historical events from ancient to modern times Fascinating, bizarre, and unexplained events Birthdays of famous historical figures and celebrities Major technological and scientific milestones Take a tour of world history one day at a time with This Day in History.
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Penguin Random House Australia The Devil's Work: Australia's Jack the Ripper and
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