Denmark Vesey's Garden: Slavery and Memory in the Cradle of the Confederacy, Hardcover - Ethan J. Kytle

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Jeremy (Professor in the Departments of the Study of Religion and Near and Middle Eastern Civilizat...

Looking at the ways in which the memory of slavery affects present-day relations in Amsterdam, this ethnographic account reveals a paradox: while t...

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The finely aged history of Philadelphia brewing has been fermenting since before the crack appeared in the Liberty Bell. By the time thirsty immigr...

Reducere. Author, Sandra Fergins holds a Master's and Bachelor's degree from Texas State University. This is second book. She is a retired music teacher. San...

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Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

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Exploring notions of history, collective memory, cultural memory, public memory, official memory, and public history, Slavery in the Age of Memory:...

Plecand de la experiente artistice si estetice, culegerea de fata ofera posibile raspunsuri la intrebarile legate de felul in care imaginea si sune...

Prophecy, Fate and Memory in the Early and Medieval Celtic World brings together a collection of studies that closely explore aspects of culture an...

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...

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Marseille: The Cradle of White Corded Quilting, which accompanies an exhibition of the same name, traces the origins and the commercial development...

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Contributor(s): Editor: Clifton EllisEditor: Rebecca GinsburgCountering the widespread misconception that slavery existed only on plantations, and ...

From their opening in 1740 through the 1955 closing, Belair Stud Farm became known as one of the most important stables in American racing. Althoug...

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In Praise of the Ancestors is a revisionist interpretation of early colonial accounts and sources that reveal incongruities in accepted knowledge a...

An exploration of the portrait arts in China, from the dynastic to the contemporary, in painting, sculpture, photography and video.Publisher: Reakt...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Cecilia (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil) MelloIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 320Publi...

This famous book by preacher and theologian Ethan Smith puts forth the notion that the Native American tribes are descended from the Ten Lost Tribe...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

DescriptionHumans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particularly fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens...

This interdisciplinary approach to postwar German memory politics charts the role of social movements in shaping public memory and democratic value...