Authors:Donald Preziosi, Claire Farago,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: histories, vision, museum, idea, world, grasping
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2004-04
List price: $70.00
ISBN-10: 0754608352
ISBN-13: 9780754608356
There is much more to museums than the documenting, monumentalizing or theme-parking of identity, history and heritage. This anthology aims to make strange the very existence of museums and to plot a critical, historical and ethical understanding of their origins and history. A radical selection of key texts introduces the reader to the intense investigation of the modern European idea of the museum that has taken place since the 1950s. Texts first published in journals and books are brought together in one volume with up-to-the-minute and specially commissioned pieces by leading administrator
Authors:Robert Maniura, Rupert Shepherd,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: histories, vision, objects, images, inherence, prototype, presence
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 2006-04-30
List price: $130.00
ISBN-10: 0754634930
ISBN-13: 9780754634935
In about 25 BC, tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the Emperor was thus regularly trampled underfoot. Two millennia later, during the second Gulf War, Iraqis ’insulted’ a toppled bronze statue of Saddam Hussein by beating it with their shoes. Do these chronologically distant but apparently related examples of the defamation of images imply that the persons represented were regarded by their detractors as in some way ’present’ in the images? "
Author: Janice Leoshko
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: histories, visions, asia, south, buddhism, traces, british, explorations, sacred
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2003-04
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 0754601382
ISBN-13: 9780754601388
Only in the 19th century did the western world realise the extent of the role of Buddhism in India’s past. The excavation of Buddhist material remains was often guided by the accounts of Buddhist pilgrims from China, written long before, who went to India in search of sacred traces of the Buddha. Western explorers, however, had other interests besides the religion itself. They were motivated by concerns tied to the growing British control of the subcontinent. Building on earlier interventions, Janice Leoshko examines this history of 19th-century exploration to track the origins of the wa
Authors:Rodney P. Carlisle, J. Geoffrey Golson,
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: turning, alternate, histories, america, pointsactual, expansion, destiny, points, manifest, actual
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2007-02-12
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 185109833X
ISBN-13: 9781851098330
This volume poses "what if" questions about ten crucial "tipping points" in the history of U.S. expansionism between 1800 and the Civil War. It not only describes what happened—in the case of Lewis and Clark, the War of 1812, the Monroe Doctrine, railroads and telegraphs, the Mexican War, the gold rush, the Compromise of 1850—it also offers alternative scenarios, essays on what could have happened.In this exciting and imaginative approach to history, students not only develop analytical skills by tracing the causes and effects of crucial events; they are empowered by the knowledge that at
Author: Tom Stone
Publisher: Hippocrene Books
Keywords: illustrated, histories, hippocrene, history, greece
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2001-01-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0781807557
ISBN-13: 9780781807555
With illustrations and maps, this is a book for Hellenophiles of all ages and persuasions, to be used as a reference, history and guide.
Author: W. F. Robie
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: histories, sex
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2003-02
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0766129403
ISBN-13: 9780766129405
Authentic sex experiences of men and women showing how fear and ignorance of the sex life lead to individual misery and social depravity, and exemplifying how timely knowledge leads to individual happiness and social betterment. Selected contents: Present-day problems of sex; Auto-erotic phobias; Genesis of triangles and polyangles; Miscellaneous sex histories; Pseudo-perversions and their treatment; A case of hypo-spadias; Problems of married life.
Author: Cornelius Tacitus
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Keywords: histories
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2004-06-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1419123890
ISBN-13: 9781419123894
Covers Rome from 69 to 70 AD.
