Author: Graeme Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622481
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning.
Cultural Planning
Author: Graeme Evans
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622481
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134622481
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Cultural Planning is the first book on the planning of the arts and culture and the interaction between the state arts policy, the cultural economy and town and city planning.
The Graves Are Walking
Author: John Kelly
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0805095632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
“Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York Post It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain’s nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine’s causes and consequences. “Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic.” —USA Today
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0805095632
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
“Though the story of the potato famine has been told before, it’s never been as thoroughly reported or as hauntingly told.” —New York Post It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century—it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and The Graves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain’s nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine’s causes and consequences. “Magisterial . . . Kelly brings the horror vividly and importantly back to life with his meticulous research and muscular writing. The result is terrifying, edifying and empathetic.” —USA Today
The Contrast
Author: Cynthia A. Kierner
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814783430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
“The Contrast“, which premiered at New York City's John Street Theater in 1787, was the first American play performed in public by a professional theater company. The play, written by New England-born, Harvard-educated, Royall Tyler was timely, funny, and extremely popular. When the play appeared in print in 1790, George Washington himself appeared at the head of its list of hundreds of subscribers. Reprinted here with annotated footnotes by historian Cynthia A. Kierner, Tyler’s play explores the debate over manners, morals, and cultural authority in the decades following American Revolution. Did the American colonists' rejection of monarchy in 1776 mean they should abolish all European social traditions and hierarchies? What sorts of etiquette, amusements, and fashions were appropriate and beneficial? Most important, to be a nation, did Americans need to distinguish themselves from Europeans—and, if so, how? Tyler was not the only American pondering these questions, and Kierner situates the play in its broader historical and cultural contexts. An extensive introduction provides readers with a background on life and politics in the United States in 1787, when Americans were in the midst of nation-building. The book also features a section with selections from contemporary letters, essays, novels, conduct books, and public documents, which debate issues of the era.
The Lisbon Earthquake
Author: Thomas Downing Kendrick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Earthquakes
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Hypochondria
Author: Susan Baur
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067516
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520067516
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life.
Some Account of the Family of Middlemore, of Warwickshire and Worcestershire
Author: William Phillimore Watts Phillimore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Warwickshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Warwickshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Official Record of the Centennial International Exhibition Melbourne
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Centennial International Exhibition
Languages : en
Pages : 1182
Book Description
also records of the manner in which the work of the different sections of of the exhibition was carried out, the official awards of the executive commisioners, the catalogue of exhibits, together with sundry illustrations.
The History of Bordesley Abbey, in the Valley of the Arrow, Near Redditch, Worcestershire ...
Author: J. M. Woodward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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The Irish Crisis
Author: Charles Edward Trevelyan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Famines
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society
Author: Friends' Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Society of Friends
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description