Visualizing Haiti In U S Culture 1910 950

Author : LindsayJ. Twa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351537407

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"Visualizing Haiti in U.S. Culture, 1910?950 " by LindsayJ. Twa Pdf

From the late 1910s through the 1950s, particularly, the Caribbean nation of Haiti drew the attention and imaginations of many key U.S. artists, yet curiously, while significant studies have been published on Haiti's history and inter-American exchanges, none analyze visual representations with any depth. The author calls not only on the methodologies of art history, but also on the interdisciplinary eye of visual culture studies, anthropology, literary theory, and tourism studies to examine the fine arts in relation to popular arts, media, social beliefs, and institutional structures. Twa emphasizes close visual readings of photographs, illustrations, paintings, and theatre. Extensive textual and archival research also supports her visual analysis, such as scrutinizing the personal papers of this study's artists, writers, and intellectuals. Among the literary and artistic luminaries of the twentieth century that Twa includes in her discussion are Richmond Barth?Eldzier Cortor, Aaron Douglas, Katherine Dunham, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Alexander King, Jacob Lawrence, James Weldon Johnson, Lo?Mailou Jones, Eugene O?Neill, and William Edouard Scott. Twa argues that their choice of Haiti as subject matter was a highly charged decision by these American artists to use their artwork to engage racial, social, and political issues.

Author : Lucas Chancel,Thomas Piketty,Emmanuel Saez,Gabriel Zucman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674273566

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World Inequality Report 2022 by Lucas Chancel,Thomas Piketty,Emmanuel Saez,Gabriel Zucman Pdf

World Inequality Report 2022 is the most authoritative and comprehensive account of global trends in inequality, providing cutting-edge information about income and wealth inequality and also pioneering data about the history of inequality, gender inequality, environmental inequalities, and trends in international tax reform and redistribution.

Author : Poul Duedahl
Publisher : Springer
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137581204

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A History of UNESCO by Poul Duedahl Pdf

The mission UNESCO, as defined just after the end of World War II, is to build 'the defenses of peace in the minds of men'. In this book, historians trace the routes of selected UNESCO mental engineering initiatives from its headquarters in Paris to the member states, to assess UNESCO's global impact.

Author : Alan P. Merriam
Publisher : Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:49015000727462

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The Anthropology of Music by Alan P. Merriam Pdf

This book was written in the belief that while music is a system of sounds, an assumption that provides the point of departure for most studies of music in culture, it is also a complex of behavior which resonates throughout the whole cultural organism--social organization, esthetic activity, economics, religion. This book is to be distinguished from other studies by its model of music as human action, making this work of interest not only to the ethnomusicologist and anthropologist, but also to those concerned with the nature of music, the nature of man, and the nature of music in human culture. Specifically, this model for the study of ethnomusicology is equally applicable to the study of visual arts, dance, folklore, and literature. --Adapted from dust jacket.

Author : Lemarchand, Guillermo A.,Leck, Eran,Tash, April
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231001475

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Mapping research and innovation in the State of Israel by Lemarchand, Guillermo A.,Leck, Eran,Tash, April Pdf

Author : Bill Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192894694

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Crusoe's Books by Bill Bell Pdf

This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

Author : R. Perry
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230609198

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“Race” and Racism by R. Perry Pdf

'Race' and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution, the relationship between creationism and science, population genetics, 'race'-based medicine, and other related issues. The book explores the diverse ways in which people in a variety of cultures have perceived, categorized, and defined one another without reference to any concept of 'race.' It follows the history of American racism through slavery, the perceptions and treatment of Native Americans, Jim Crow laws, attitudes toward Irish and Southern European immigrants, the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the civil rights era, and numerous other topics.

Author : Pedro N. Acha,Boris Szyfres,Pan American Health Organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1194 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9275119910

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Zoonoses and communicable diseases common to man and animals by Pedro N. Acha,Boris Szyfres,Pan American Health Organization Pdf

3 vols also available separately. Contents: Vol. 1 Bacterioses and mycoses (2001, ISBN 927511580X); Vol. 2 Chlamydioses, rickettsioses and viroses (2003, ISBN 927519929); Vol. 3 Parasitoses (2003, ISBN 9275919928)

Author : Mary Kalantzis,Bill Cope
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108495349

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Adding Sense by Mary Kalantzis,Bill Cope Pdf

Through a wide range of examples, from literature to social media, the book explores how meaning and communication interact.

Author : Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0520066960

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UNESCO General History of Africa, Vol. I, Abridged Edition by Jacqueline Ki-Zerbo,Unesco. International Scientific Committee for the Drafting of a General History of Africa Pdf

"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era. This lengthy period includes the civilization of Ancient Egypt, the history of Nubia, Ethiopia, North Africa and the Sahara, as well as of the other regions of the continent and its islands."--Publisher's description

Author : Marco Pretelli,Andrea Ugolini
Publisher : Alinea Editrice
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788860556141

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Historic fountains by Marco Pretelli,Andrea Ugolini Pdf

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Applewood Books
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429015912

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Cotton Kingdom by Frederick Law Olmsted Pdf

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known for designing parks in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Chicago, Boston, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington. But before he embarked upon his career as the nation's foremost landscape architect, he was a correspondent for theNew York Times, and it was under its auspices that he journeyed through the slave states in the 1850s. His day-by-day observations--including intimate accounts of the daily lives of masters and slaves, the operation of the plantation system, and the pernicious effects of slavery on all classes of society, black and white--were largely collected in The Cotton Kingdom. Published in 1861, just as the Southern states were storming out of the Union, it has been hailed ever since as singularly fair and authentic, an unparalleled account of America's "peculiar institution."

Author : Télesphore Sime-Ngando,Pierre Boivin,Emmanuel Chapron,Didier Jezequel,Michel Meybeck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319820028

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Lake Pavin by Télesphore Sime-Ngando,Pierre Boivin,Emmanuel Chapron,Didier Jezequel,Michel Meybeck Pdf

This book represents the first multidisciplinary scientific work on a deep volcanic maar lake in comparison with other similar temperate lakes. The syntheses of the main characteristics of Lake Pavin are, for the first time, set in a firmer footing comparative approach, encompassing regional, national, European and international aquatic science contexts. It is a unique lake because of its permanently anoxic monimolimnion, and furthermore, because of its small surface area, its substantially low human influence, and by the fact that it does not have a river inflow. The book reflects the scientific research done on the general limnology, history, origin, volcanology and geological environment as well as on the geochemistry and biogeochemical cycles. Other chapters focus on the biology and microbial ecology whereas the sedimentology and paleolimnology are also given attention. This volume will be of special interest to researchers and advanced students, primarily in the fields of limnology, biogeochemistry, and aquatic ecology.

Author : World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821398241

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World Development Indicators 2013 by World Bank Pdf

World Development Indicators is the premier annual compilation of data on development. This year's edition was redesigned to allow users the convenience of easily linking to the latest data online.

Author : John R. Trabalka,David E. Reichle
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 615 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781475719154

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The Changing Carbon Cycle by John R. Trabalka,David E. Reichle Pdf

The United States Government, cognizant of its responsibilities to future generations, has been sponsoring research for nine years into the causes, effects, and potential impacts of increased concentrations of carbon dioxide (C0 ) in the atmosphere. Agencies such as the National Science Foun 2 dation, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) cooperatively spent about $100 million from FY 1978 through FY 1984 directly on the study of CO • The DOE, as the 2 lead government agency for coordinating the government' s research ef forts, has been responsible for about 60% of these research efforts. William James succinctly defined our purpose when he stated science must be based upon " ... irreducible and stubborn facts." Scientific knowledge can and will reduce the present significant uncertainty sur rounding our understanding of the causes, effects, and potential impacts of increasing atmospheric CO2• We have come far during the past seven years in resolving some underlyinig doubts and in narrowing the ranges of disagreement. Basic concepts have become less murky. Yet, much more must be accomplished; more irreducible and stubborn facts are needed to reduce the uncertainties so that we can improve our knowledge base. Uncertainty can never be reduced to zero. However, with a much improved knowledge base, we will be able to learn, under stand, and be in a position to make decisions.