To commemorate the centenary of the Cenotaph, this is the story of the exhaustive hunt for missing servicemen from the Great War and other twentieth century conflicts and how bodies continue to be recovered to this day. Why were there so many...Loe edasi...
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugosla...Loe edasi...
This is a guidebook to Syrias historical and archeological treasures. It is a new, revised and expanded edition in a travel-friendly format. Syria is home to some of the worlds richest historical and archaeological remains dating from the Bronze Ag...Loe edasi...
Explores the extraordinary range of monuments and memorials to be found in Scotland. It covers over 500 monuments and memorials which range from follies to fountains and from delicate sundials to colossal statues of long-dead aristocracy. Exp...Loe edasi...
Forever at the Finish Line tells the remarkable and inspiring story of Daniel Mitrovich, a runner from San Diego who had a goal of putting a life-size statue of New York Marathon founder Fred Lebow in Central Park. New York’s parks commissione...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674278578)
Empty Plinths responds to the debate around the Columbus monument in Mexico City and probes the unstable narratives behind other memorials and public sculptures in the city. This collection of essays, interviews, artistic contributions, and pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048560134)
History of Art based in Sociological Qualitative Research Innovative perspective on mass graves and human rights Witness accounts and new documentation This book narrates how, beginning in 1936, bodies buried in mass graves during the Spanish War and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-May-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262552042)
A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center.The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spannin...Loe edasi...
How has understanding of memory evolved over the past 2,500 years? How has our collective memory been influenced and expressed by politics, culture, philosophy and science? In a work that spans over 2,500 years, these ambitious questions are addre...Loe edasi...
Across the globe, memorial and grave sites are being increasingly weaponized in conflicts and politicized by parties to advance agendas. Here, Carol S. Lilly examines ideas of death, politics, memory, ideology and nationalism in the former Yugosla...Loe edasi...
An illustrated history of sixteen of the worlds greatest cathedrals, interwoven with the lives, legacies and scandals of the people who built them....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: MIT Press, ISBN-13: 9780262547093)
A critical examination of the complex legacies of early Californian anthropology and linguistics for twenty-first-century communities. In January 2021, at a time when many institutions were reevaluating fraught histories, the University of Californi...Loe edasi...
Examines origins, uses and subsequent histories of early monuments; their distinctive time scales; changing concepts of time (both past and future), histories and remembering the past. This book is concerned with the origins, uses and subsequ...Loe edasi...
From ancient dwellings to modern high-tech skyscrapers, discover everything there is to know about the history of architecture worldwide. Covering over 6,000 years of human history, Architecture charts the most important developments in b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Oct-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781803991061)
Yorkshire is a land built from stone. From the limestone pavements of the Dales to the North York Moors, few landscapes characterize the beauty of the English landscape like Yorkshire. But tucked away, off the beaten track, are a collection of curiou...Loe edasi...
