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Art, space and the city : public art and urban futures
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ISBN: 0415139430 0415139422 Year: 1997 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Constructing identities in late antiquity
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ISBN: 0415194067 1134649924 1280334401 020326035X 9780203260357 1134649916 9780415194068 Year: 1999 Volume: *1 Publisher: London : Routledge,

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Examines the theme of identity: geographic, ethnic, religious, status and sex-based. Discussions of Roman texts and images show how constructions of identity and culture contributed to the creation of late antiquity" as a historical concept."

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Beschaving [Klassieke ] --- Civilisation classique --- Civilization [Classical ] --- Classical civilization --- Cultuur [Klassieke ] --- Identiteit (Psychologie) in de literatuur --- Identiteit in de literatuur --- Identity (Psychology) in literature --- Identity in literature --- Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature --- Identité dans la littérature --- Klassieke beschaving --- Klassieke cultuur --- Civilization, Classical. --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature. --- Christianity --- Civilisation ancienne --- Christianisme --- Influence. --- Influence --- Rome --- Cultural policy. --- History --- Politique culturelle --- Histoire --- Civilization, Classical --- Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature --- Cultural policy --- 27 "03/05" --- 937.08 --- -Christianity --- Religions --- Church history --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/05" --- Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) --- -Kerkgeschiedenis--?"03/05" --- -27 "03/05" --- 937.08 Geschiedenis van Rome: absolutistisch keizerrijk van Diocletianus tot de val van Rome--(284-476 n. Chr.) --- Italy --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- -Identity in literature --- -Civilization, Classical --- Identité dans la littérature --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Germanic invasions, 3d-6th centuries --- Christianity - Rome - Influence --- Rome - Cultural policy --- Rome - History - Germanic Invasions, 3rd-6th centuries


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The conservation movement : a history of architectural preservation : antiquity to modernity
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ISBN: 9780415543224 9780415499996 9780203080399 0415499992 0415543223 9781136167027 9781136166976 9781136167010 Year: 2013 Publisher: Abingdon ; New York: Routledge,

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In many cities across the world, particularly in Europe, old buildings form a prominent part of the built environment, and we often take it for granted that their contribution is intrinsically positive. How has that widely-shared belief come about, and is its continued general acceptance inevitable?Certainly, ancient structures have long been treated with care and reverence in many societies, including classical Rome and Greece. But only in modern Europe and America, in the last two centuries, has this care been elaborated and energised into a forceful, dynamic ideology: a ‘Conservation Movement’, infused with a sense of historical destiny and loss, that paradoxically shared many of the characteristics of Enlightenment modernity. The close inter-relationship between conservation and modern civilisation was most dramatically heightened in periods of war or social upheaval, beginning with the French Revolution, and rising to a tragic climax in the 20th-century age of totalitarian extremism; more recently the troubled relationship of ‘heritage’ and global commercialism has become dominant.Miles Glendinning’s new book authoritatively presents, for the first time, the entire history of this architectural Conservation Movement, and traces its dramatic fluctuations in ideas and popularity, ending by questioning whether its recent international ascendancy can last indefinitely.


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The origins of international investment law
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ISBN: 9781107039391 9781139600279 9781107538191 1139600273 9781107417212 110741721X 9781107421028 1107421020 1107039398 1107440327 9781107440326 1107425026 9781107425026 1107422906 9781107422902 1107418488 9781107418486 1107419778 9781107419773 110753819X Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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International investment law is a complex and dynamic field. Yet, the implications of its history are under explored. Kate Miles examines the historical evolution of international investment law, assessing its origins in the commercial and political expansionism of dominant states during the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries and the continued resonance of those origins within modern foreign investment protection law. In particular, the exploration of the activities of the Dutch East India Company, Grotius' treatises, and pre-World War II international investment disputes provides insight into current controversies surrounding the interplay of public and private interests, the systemic design of investor-state arbitration, the substantive focus of principles, and the treatment of environmental issues within international investment law. In adopting such an approach, this book provides a fresh conceptual framework through which contemporary issues can be examined and creates new understandings of those controversies.

Urban Avant-Gardes
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ISBN: 0415266882 113450005X 1280025441 0203428137 9780203428139 9780415266871 0415266874 9780415266888 9786610025442 6610025444 0415266874 9781134500055 9781280025440 9781134500000 9781134500048 1134500041 Year: 2004 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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Urban Avant-Gardes presents original research on a range of recent contemporary practices in and between art and architecture giving perspectives from a wide range of disciplines in the arts, humanities and social sciences that are seldom juxtaposed, it questions many assumptions and accepted positions. This book looks back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and profiles a range of contemporary cases of radical cultural practices. The author brings together material from a wide range of disciplines to argue for cultural intervention as a means to radical change, while recognizing that most such efforts in the past have not delivered the dreams of their perpetrators. Distinctive in that it places works of the imagination in the political and cultural context of environmentalism, this book asks how cultural work might contribute to radical social change. It is equally concerned with theory and practice - part one providing a theoretical framework and part two illustrating such frameworks with examples.

Indian ink
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ISBN: 0226620417 9786611966096 1281966096 0226620425 9780226620428 9780226620411 Year: 2007 Publisher: Chicago University of Chicago Press

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A commercial company established in 1600 to monopolize trade between England and the Far East, the East India Company grew to govern an Indian empire. Exploring the relationship between power and knowledge in European engagement with Asia, Indian Ink examines the Company at work and reveals how writing and print shaped authority on a global scale in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.Tracing the history of the Company from its first tentative trading voyages in the early seventeenth century to the foundation of an empire in Bengal in the late eighteenth century

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Bengal (India) - Colonization - History. --- East India Company - History. --- England - Commerce - History. --- Printing - Political aspects - India - Bengal - History. --- Printing. --- Printing --- South Asia --- Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East --- History & Archaeology --- History --- Political aspects --- East India Company --- History. --- Bengal (India) --- England --- Colonization --- Commerce --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Governor and Company of Merchants of London, Trading into the East Indies --- United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies --- English East India Company --- East India Company (English) --- East India Tea Company --- East-India Companie --- United East India Company --- Compagnie des Indes orientales d'Angleterre --- Compagnie unie de marchands d'Angleterre commerçans aux Indes orientales --- Tung Yin-tu kung ssu --- Honourable East-India Company --- Sharikat al-Hind al-Sharqīyah al-Barīṭānīyah --- Engelse Oost-Indische Maatschappy --- Kumpanī-i Hind-i Sharqī --- کمپنى هند شرقى --- Angleterre --- Anglii︠a︡ --- Inghilterra --- Engeland --- Inglaterra --- Anglija --- Bengal --- Fort William (India) --- Presidency of Fort William (India) --- Bengale (India) --- Baṅgāla (India) --- Graphic arts --- English Company Trading to the East-Indies --- England and Wales --- Eastern Bengal and Assam (India) --- West Bengal (India) --- East Bengal (Pakistan) --- Political aspects&delete& --- Īsṭa Iṇḍiyā Kampanī --- trading, trade, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, printing, print making, printer, commercial, 1600s, monopoly, england, britain, british, far east, eastern, empire, power, europe, european, 17th, 18th, century, success, voyage, ship, sea, travel, bengal, writing, written, geography, culture, cultural, commerce, discourse, colonization, colonies, colonial.

Line of fall
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ISBN: 1587292521 9781587292521 0877452598 9780877452591 Year: 1989 Publisher: Iowa City, IA University of Iowa Press

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The Western Front
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ISBN: 9781473833760 1473833760 9781473884694 1473884691 9781473884700 1473884705 1473884713 Year: 2016 Publisher: Barnsley, South Yorkshire

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The Western Front has become, once again, and after 100 years, an important and increasingly popular tourist destination. The Centenary is already encouraging large numbers of visitors to engage with this highly poignant landscape of war and to commemorate the sacrifice and loss of a previous generation. Interest is also being sharpened in the ‘places of war’ as battle-sites, trench-systems, bunkers and mine craters gain a clearer identity as war heritage. For the first time this book brings together the three strands of heritage, landscape and tourism to provide a fresh understanding of the multi-layered nature of the Western Front. The book approaches the area as a rich dynamic landscape which can be viewed in a startling variety of ways: historically, materially, culturally, and perceptually. To illustrate these two dominant interpretations of the region’s landscape – commemorative and heritage – are highlighted and their relationship to tourism explored. Tourism is a lens through which these layers can be peeled away, and each understood and interacted with according to the individual’s own knowledge, motivation, and degree of emotional engagement. Tourism is not regarded here as a passive phenomenon, but as an active agent that can determine, dictate and inscribe this evocative landscape. The Western Front: Landscape, Tourism and Heritage is a timely addition to our increasing interest in the First World War and the places where it was fought. It will be indispensable to those who seek a deeper understanding of the conflict from previously undervalued perspectives.


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Tales from the haunted South
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ISBN: 146963614X 1469626357 1469626330 1469626349 9781469626352 9781469626345 9781469626338 9798890850669 Year: 2015 Publisher: Chapel Hill

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"In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us"--

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Ghosts --- African Americans --- Slavery --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- Phantoms --- Specters --- Spectres --- Apparitions --- History. --- United States --- U.S.A. --- Jungtinės Amerikos valstybės --- Soedinennye Shtaty Si︠e︡vernoĭ Ameriki --- Soedinennye Shtaty Severnoĭ Ameriki --- Si︠e︡vero-Amerikanskīe Soedinennye Shtaty --- Severo-Amerikanskie Soedinennye Shtaty --- Zlucheni Derz︠h︡avy --- USA --- US --- Arhab --- Ar. ha-B. --- Artsot ha-Berit --- ولايات المتحدة الامريكية --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amirīkīyah --- ABSh --- Amerika Birlăshmish Shtatlary --- ABŞ --- Amerika Birlăşmi Ştatları --- Forente stater --- Spojené staty americké --- Severo-Amerikanskie Shtaty --- Sjedinjene Američke Države --- Zʹi︠e︡dnani Derz︠h︡avy Ameryky --- Amerikai Egyesült Államok --- Yhdysvallat --- Verenigde Staten --- Egyesült Államok --- Hiwsisayin Amerikayi Miatsʻeal Tērutʻiwnkʻ --- Estados Unidos de América --- United States of America --- Fareyniḳṭe Shṭaṭn --- Artzois Ha'bris --- Estados Unidos da América do Norte --- SShA --- Soedinennye Shtaty Ameriki --- VSA --- États-Unis d'Amérique --- Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika --- Stati Uniti d'America --- Estados Unidos --- EE.UU. --- Stany Zjednoczone --- ĒPA --- Amerika Qūrama Shtattary --- Amerika Qŭshma Shtatlari --- SAD --- Saharat ʻAmērikā --- Hēnomenai Politeiai Amerikēs --- ZSA --- Mei-kuo --- Meiguo --- Mei guo --- ZDA --- Združene države Amerike --- U.S. --- America (Republic) --- Amirika Carékat --- Verenigde State van Amerika --- VS --- ولايات المتحدة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah --- ولايات المتّحدة الأمريكيّة --- Wilāyāt al-Muttaḥidah al-Amrīkīyah --- Estatos Unitos --- Estatos Unitos d'America --- Ètats-Unis d'Amèrica --- Estaos Xuníos d'América --- Estaos Xuníos --- Tetã peteĩ reko Amérikagua --- Istadus Unidus --- Amerika Birlăşmiş Ştatları --- Amerika ka Kelenyalen Jamanaw --- Bí-kok --- Amerika Qushma Shtattary --- AQSh --- Злучаныя Штаты Амерыкі --- Zluchanyi︠a︡ Shtaty Ameryki --- Yunaeted Stet blong Amerika --- Yunaeted Stet --- Vaeinigte Staatn --- Vaeinigte Staatn vo Amerika --- Stadoù-Unanet Amerika --- Sŭedineni amerikanski shtati --- САЩ --- SASht --- Съединените щати --- Sŭedinenite shtati --- Америка (Republic) --- Amerika (Republic) --- Estats Units d'Amèrica --- Америкӑри Пӗрлешӳллӗ Штатсем --- Amerikări Pĕrleshu̇llĕ Shtatsem --- Stati Uniti --- SUA (Stati Uniti d'America) --- Unol Daleithiau America --- Unol Daleithiau --- Amerikas Forenede Stater --- Vereinigte Staaten --- Wááshindoon Bikéyah Ałhidadiidzooígíí --- Zjadnośone staty Ameriki --- Ameerika Ühendriigid --- Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες της Αμερικής --- Hēnōmenes Politeies tēs Amerikēs --- Η.Π.Α. --- Ē.P.A. --- Usono --- Unuiĝintaj Ŝtatoj de Ameriko --- Американь Вейтьсэндявкс Штаттнэ --- Amerikanʹ Veĭtʹsėndi︠a︡vks Shtattnė --- Ameriketako Estatu Batuak --- Feriene Steaten --- Feriene Steaten fan Amearika --- FS --- Stâts Unîts di Americhe --- Stâts Unîts --- Stáit Aontaithe Mheiriceá --- Steatyn Unnaneysit America --- Steatyn Unnaneysit --- S.U.A. --- Na Stàitean Aonaichte --- NSA --- Mî-koet --- 미국 --- Miguk --- Amerikayi Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- Miatsʻyal Nahangner --- History --- Southern States --- Confederate States of America --- Lost Cause mythology --- Black people

Stray tales of the Big Bend
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ISBN: 058517363X 9780585173634 089096534X 9780890965344 0890965420 9780890965429 Year: 1993 Volume: no. 47 Publisher: College Station Texas A & M University Press

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"Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 46." A collection of tall tales and legends of the Big Bend Region of Texas.

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