Curating America's Painful Past: Memory, Museums, and the National Imagination, Hardcover - Tim Gruenewald

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For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This ...

Publisher: UCL PressIllustration(s): 56 Illustrations, colorPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 242 x 165 x 34Cover type: HardbackEditor(s): Ingrid M...

This interdisciplinary collection examines Tokyo in the cultural imagination. The contributors analyze how Tokyo has been perceived and experienced...

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How American colonists went from thinking of the British past as their own to creating an "American history" that would play a crucial role in thei...

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first t...

In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and cont...

Reducere. The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The WarAmerica's national parks...

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Reducere. With the stroke of a pen, the president of the United States can proclaim a national monument. The Antiquities Act of 1906 was enacted to provide a...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Reducere. Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a...

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With more than two hundred photographs - many rarely seen and some never before published - this is the most comprehensive collection of Ansel Adam...

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DescriptionA rewarding philosophical essay on memory, language, love, and the passage of time, from a Greek immigrant who became one of Sweden's mo...

Gathering oral stories and visual art from Haiti and two of its 'motherlands' in Africa, Istwa across the Water recovers the submerged histories of...

DescriptionCalling all adventurers Are you ready to explore America's 60 amazing national parks? From Acadia's seaside cliffs and coves to Zion's e...

Reducere. What did Jesus think of himself? How did he face death? What were his expectations of the future? In this volume, now in paperback, internationally...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

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Provides a map of current approaches to comics and their engagement with historical representation. The first section of the book explores the exis...

Contributor(s): Editor: Kristine KhouriEditor: Rasha SaltiThe International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized...

Reducere. The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing an...

Meave Leakey's thrilling, high-stakes memoir--written with her daughter Samira--encapsulates her distinguished life and career on the front lines o...

Reducere. Our national parks are beautiful and unique places, often serving as an introduction to the outdoors and inspiring an appreciation for nature and w...

Presents a fresh theoretical ground for the study of ritual, iconographic technologies, and oral traditions among nonliterate peoples. The author u...

Reducere. DescriptionThe transformative power of imagination, the elusive dream world of the unconscious, our changing relationship to nature, and the enduri...