Monumental Times

Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798888570395

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Monumental Times by Richard Bradley Pdf

Richard Bradley's latest thought provoking re-examination of familiar monumental archaeology drawing on latest discussions of multi-temporality and the implications of new levels of analysis afforded by developments in archaeological sciences such as DNA, radiocarbon dating and isotopes. This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequent histories of monuments. It emphasises the time scales illustrated by these structures, and their implications for archaeological research. It is concerned with the archaeology of Western and Northern Europe, with an emphasis on structures in Britain and Ireland, and the period between the Mesolithic and the Viking Age. It begins with two famous groups of monuments and introduces the problem of multiple time scales. It also considers how they influence the display of those sites today – they belong to both the present and the past. Monuments played a role from the moment they were created, but approaches to their archaeology led in opposite directions. They might have been directed to a future that their builders could not control. These structures could be adapted, destroyed, or left to decay once their significance was lost. Another perspective was to claim them as relics of a forgotten past. In that case they had to be reinterpreted. The first part of this book considers the rarity of monumental structures among hunter-gatherers, and the choice of building materials for Neolithic houses and tombs. It emphasises the difference between structures whose erection ended the use of significant places, and those whose histories could extend into the future. It also discusses ‘megalithic astronomy’ and ancient notions of time. Part Two is concerned with the reuse of ancient monuments and asks whether they really were expressions of social memory. Did links with an ‘ancestral past’ have much factual basis? It contrasts developments during the Beaker phase with those of the early medieval period. The development of monumental architecture is compared with the composition of oral literature.

Author : Simon J. Barker,Christopher Courault,Javier Á. Domingo,Dominik Maschek
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789694239

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From Concept to Monument: Time and Costs of Construction in the Ancient World by Simon J. Barker,Christopher Courault,Javier Á. Domingo,Dominik Maschek Pdf

21 papers focus on modelling the costs of construction over the course of 2,500 years, from Bronze Age Greece to the early Middle Ages. They discuss both broader issues of methodology and particular case studies, with particular attention to the exploitation of raw materials (e.g. quarries), transport, and construction processes on building sites.

Author : Robert Spalding
Publisher : Washington State University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781636820569

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Monumental Seattle by Robert Spalding Pdf

Beginning with the 1899 installation of a stolen Tlingit totem pole at Pioneer Square and stretching to artist Lou Cella’s Ken Griffey Jr. sculpture erected at Safeco Field in 2017, Seattle offers an impressive abundance of public monuments, statues, busts, and plaques. Whether they evoke curiosity and deeper interaction or elicit only a fleeting glance, the stories behind them are worth preserving. Private donors and civic groups commissioned prominent national sculptors, as well as local artists like James A. Wehn (who sculpted multiple renderings of Chief Seattle) and Alonzo Victor Lewis, who produced a number of bas-reliefs and statues, including one of the city’s most controversial--a World War I soldier known as “The Doughboy.” The resulting creations represent diverse perspectives and celebrate a wide array of cultural heroes, dozens of firsts, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, aviation, and military and maritime service. Author Robert Spalding provides the history surrounding these works. Beyond the words chiseled into granite or emblazoned in bronze, he considers the deeper meaning of the heritage markers, exploring how and why people chose to commemorate the past, the selection of sites and artists, and the context of the time period. He also discusses how changing societal values affect public memorials, noting works that are missing or relocated, and how they have been maintained or neglected. An appendix lists the type, year, location, and artist for sixty monuments and statues, and whether each still exists. Another useful appendix offers maritime plaque inscriptions.

Author : Thomas J. Harvey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806185712

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Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley by Thomas J. Harvey Pdf

The Colorado River Plateau is home to two of the best-known landscapes in the world: Rainbow Bridge in southern Utah and Monument Valley on the Utah-Arizona border. Twentieth-century popular culture made these places icons of the American West, and advertising continues to exploit their significance today. In Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley, Thomas J. Harvey artfully tells how Navajos and Anglo-Americans created fabrics of meaning out of this stunning desert landscape, space that western novelist Zane Grey called “the storehouse of unlived years,” where a rugged, more authentic life beckoned. Harvey explores the different ways in which the two societies imbued the landscape with deep cultural significance. Navajos long ago incorporated Rainbow Bridge into the complex origin story that embodies their religion and worldview. In the early 1900s, archaeologists crossed paths with Grey in the Rainbow Bridge area. Grey, credited with making the modern western novel popular, sought freedom from the contemporary world and reimagined the landscape for his own purposes. In the process, Harvey shows, Grey erased most of the Navajo inhabitants. This view of the landscape culminated in filmmaker John Ford’s use of Monument Valley as the setting for his epic mid-twentieth-century Westerns. Harvey extends the story into the late twentieth century when environmentalists sought to set aside Rainbow Bridge as a symbolic remnant of nature untainted by modernization. Tourists continue to flock to Monument Valley and Rainbow Bridge, as they have for a century, but the landscapes are most familiar today because of their appearances in advertising. Monument Valley has been used to sell perfume, beer, and sport utility vehicles. Encompassing the history of the Navajo, archaeology, literature, film, environmentalism, and tourism, Rainbow Bridge to Monument Valley explores how these rock formations, Navajo sacred spaces still, have become embedded in the modern identity of the American West—and of the nation itself.

Author : William Borlase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1769
Category : Cornish language
ISBN : BSB:BSB10865677

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Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall by William Borlase Pdf

Author : William Borlase
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Cornish language
ISBN : ONB:+Z166616705

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Observations on the Antiquities Historical and Monumental of the County of Cornwall (etc.)-Oxford, W by William Borlase Pdf

Author : William BORLASE
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1754
Category : Cornish language
ISBN : BL:A0019163932

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Observations on the Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall. Consisting of several essays ... With a vocabulary of the Cornu-British language. [With plates after designs by the author, and with a map.] by William BORLASE Pdf

Author : Kirk Savage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520256545

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Monument Wars by Kirk Savage Pdf

Traces the history of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., discussing its plan and structures, and considering how the concept of memorials and memorial space has changed since the nineteenth century.

Author : Cambridge Camden Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Brasses
ISBN : BML:37001101410517

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Illustrations of Monumental Brasses by Cambridge Camden Society Pdf

Author : Roger C. Hartley
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361703

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Monumental Harm by Roger C. Hartley Pdf

A road map for addressing and resolving the debate surrounding Confederate monuments in the United States In recent years, the debate over the future of Confederate monuments has taken center stage and caused bitter clashes in communities throughout the American South. At the heart of the debate is the question of what these monuments represent. The arguments and counterarguments are formulated around sets of assumptions grounded in Southern history, politics, culture, and race relations. Comprehending and evaluating accurately the associated claims and counterclaims calls for a careful examination of facts and legal considerations relevant to each side's assertations. In Monumental Harm, Roger C. Hartley offers a road map to addressing and resolving this acrimonious debate. Although history and popular memory play a vital role in the discussion, there have been distortions of both parts. Monumental Harm reviews the fact-based history of the initial raising of these monuments and distinguishes it from the popular memory held by many Confederate-monument supporters. Hartley also addresses concerns regarding the potential erasure of history and the harm these monuments have caused the African American community over the years, as well as the role they continue to play in politics and power. The recent rise in White nationalism and the video-recorded murders of Black citizens at the hands of White police officers have led to nationwide demonstrations and increased scrutiny of Confederate monuments on public land. As injustice is laid bare and tempers flare, the need for a peaceful resolution becomes ever-more necessary. Monumental Harm offers a way to break the rhetorical deadlock, urging that we evaluate the issue through the lens of the U.S. Constitution while employing the overarching democratic principle that no right is absolute. Through constructive discourse and good-faith compromise, a more perfect union is within reach.

Author : Rita Sakr
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441105387

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Monumental Space in the Post-Imperial Novel by Rita Sakr Pdf

There has been a proliferation in recent scholarship of studies of monuments and their histories and of theoretical positions that shed light on aspects of their meanings. However, just as monuments mark their territory by attempting to ensure the existence of boundaries, sothese discourses set a boundary between their authority as platforms on which the interpretation of monumental space occurs and, in this respect, the different authority of the novel. This study crosses this boundary by means of dynamic interdisciplinary movements between selected novels by James Joyce, Yukio Mishima, Rashid al-Daif, and Orhan Pamuk, on the one hand, and various theoretical perspectives,history, and cultural geography, on the other. Through the specific choice of literary texts that represent monumental space in a typical post-imperial geopolitical contexts, Monumental Space and the Post-Imperial Novel brings into question many postcolonial paradigms. Sakr establishes a two-way interpretive methodology between theory, history,and cultural geography and the novel that serves as the groundwork for innovative interdisciplinary readings of monumental space.

Author : Laura A. Macaluso
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781538114162

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Monument Culture by Laura A. Macaluso Pdf

This book brings together a collection of essays from scholars and cultural critics working on the meanings of monuments and memorials in the second decade of the twenty-first century, a time of great social and political change.

Author : Joseph Anderson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Christian antiquities
ISBN : UOM:39015067212418

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Scotland in Early Christian Times (second Series) by Joseph Anderson Pdf

Author : Amanda Smith
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 721 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307701510

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Newspaper Titan by Amanda Smith Pdf

From the author of Hostage to Fortune; The Letters of Joseph P. Kennedy ("Superb" —Michael Beschloss; "Remarkable" —Arthur Schlesinger), the galvanizing story of Eleanor Medill (Cissy) Patterson, celebrated debutante and socialte, scion of the Chicago Tribune empire, and the twentieth century's first woman editor in chief and publisher of a major metropolitan daily newspaper, the Washington Times-Herald. She was called the most powerful woman in America, surpassing Eleanor Roosevelt, Bess Truman, Clare Boothe Luce, and Dorothy Schiff. Cissy Patterson was from old Republican stock. Her grandfather was Joseph Medill, firebrand abolitionist, mayor of Chicago, editor in chief and principal owner of the Chicago Tribune, and one of the founders of the Republican Party who delivered the crucial Ohio delegation to Abraham Lincoln at the convention of 1860. Cissy Patterson's brother, Joe Medill Patterson, started the New York Daily News. Her pedigree notwithstanding, Cissy Patterson came to publishing shortly before her forty-ninth birthday, in 1930, with almost no practical journalistic or editorial experience and a life out of the pages of Edith Wharton (or more likely the other way around: shades of Cissy are everywhere in the Countess Olenska). Amanda Smith writes that in the summer of 1930, Cissy Patterson, educated at the turn of the century at Miss Porter's School in Farmington, Connecticut, for a vocation of marriage and motherhood and a place in society, took over William Randolph Hearst's foundering Washington Herald and began to learn what others believed she could never grasp—how to run and build up a newspaper. She vividly lived out the Medill family's editorial motto (at least in spirit): "When you grandmother gets raped, put it on the front page." Patterson soon bought from Hearst the Herald's evening sister paper, the Washington Times, merged the two, and became editor, publisher, and sole proprietor of a big-city newspaper, a position almost unprecedented in American history. The effect of the merger was "electric"... By 1945, the Washington Times-Herald, with ten daily editions, was clearing an annual profit of more than $1 million. Amanda Smith, in this huge, fascinating biography gives us the (infamous) life and monumental times of Cissy Patterson, scourge of liberals, advocate of appeasing Hitler, lover of poodles, and hater of FDR. Here is her twentieth-century Washington: its politics and society, scandals and feuds, and at the center—the fierce newspaper wars that consumed and drove the country's press titans, as Patterson took the Washington Times-Herald from a chronic tail-ender in circulation and advertising, ranked fifth in the town, and made it into the most widely read round-the-clock daily in the national's capital, deemed by many to be "the damndest newspaper to ever hit the streets."

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556041837311

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Ironwood Forest National Monument (N.M.), Resource Management Plan by Anonim Pdf