Memorials Matter: Emotion, Environment and Public Memory at American Historical Sites, Paperback - Jennifer K. Ladino

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Explores how the idea of rare books was shaped by collectors, traders and libraries from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Using examples ...

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Presents an account of the cultural politics surrounding the memorialisation of the Vietnam War. This book presents a study of American attempts to...

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Reducere. A one-of-a-kind guide to fifty of the most important cultural and historic sites in the United States guaranteed to fascinate, educate, and enterta...

Reducere. Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry, Jennifer K. Sweeney's Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrai...

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Publisher: Capstone Global Library LtdAuthor(s): Jennifer KaulNumber of pages: 48Collection: Anything But OrdinaryPublication date: 2021Dimensions:...

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Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public hi...

DescriptionCultural Memory, Memorials, and Reparative Writing examines the ways in which memory furnishes important source material in the three di...

Reducere. Alabama once had thousands of mounds built by the ancestors of modern Native American tribes as long ago as 5, 000 years. In this full-color guideb...

This book examines the conflicting performances that take place at the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin and the Memorial to the Victims of State Terror...

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That Which I Touch Has No Name is dialogic, an attempt to unearth the equilibrium between the blank page and the self in urban and rural places. Th...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Gideon (University of Minnesota, USA) MailerIllustration(s): 24 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Publicat...

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a n...

Exploring the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today

Reducere. America's slave past is being analyzed as never before, yet it remains one of the most contentious issues in U.S. memory. In recent years, the cult...

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley was a canon of Canterbury when he published this work - four essays on the history of the cathedral - in 1855. Taking events...

In a cold, dark world, not so unlike our own, Lady Angeline finds herself betrayed, humiliated, and rejected. Befriended by a courageous girl named...

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Publisher: Olympia PublishersAuthor(s): David McCormackNumber of pages: 154Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 140 x 204 x 18Cover type: Paperback / ...

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Reducere. The lands the United States claims sovereignty over by right of the Doctrine of Discovery are home to more than five hundred Indian nations, each w...

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Reducere. French philosopher Henri Bergson produced four major works in his lifetime, the second of which, "Matter and Memory, " is a philosophical and compl...

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DescriptionReclaiming 42 centers on one of America's most respected cultural icons, Jackie Robinson, and the forgotten aspects of his cultural lega...

Reducere. DescriptionIs historical accuracy an indispensable part of the Bible's storyline, or is Scripture only concerned with theological truths? As progre...

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DescriptionScholars of ecocriticism have long tried to articulate emotional relationships to environments. Only recently, however, have they begun ...

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Is the American public school doing what we want it to do? Or, is what we want it to do in conflict with what society allows it to do? This book ta...

Reducere. A great deal has been written about southern memory centering on the Civil War, particularly the view of the war as a valiant lost cause. In this c...

Historic Scotland's official souvenir guide for the Neolithic village of Skara Brae on Orkney, packed with research, photographs and illustrations....

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Memories are an integral part of being human. They haunt us, we cherish them, and in our lives we collect more of them with each new experience. Wi...

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DescriptionThere's a problem with school lunch in America. Big Food companies have largely replaced the nation's school cooks by supplying cafeteri...

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Political and civil discourse in the United States is characterized by "Truth Decay, " defined as increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring o...

A report that highlights the importance of civic engagement in public governance and, by profiling several case studies, demonstrates how such prac...