Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041450706
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
Author: Various
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041450706
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher: Litres
ISBN: 5041450706
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Beyond the Mountains
Author: Drew A. Swanson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820353973
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
Beyond the Mountains explores the ways in which Appalachia often served as a laboratory for the exploration and practice of American conceptions of nature. The region operated alternately as frontier, wilderness, rural hinterland, region of subsistence agriculture, bastion of yeoman farmers, and place to experiment with modernization. In these various takes on the southern mountains, scattered across time and space, both mountain residents and outsiders consistently believed that the region’s environment made Appalachia distinctive, for better or worse. With chapters dedicated to microhistories focused on particular commodities, Drew A. Swanson builds upon recent Appalachian studies scholarship, emphasizing the diversity of a region so long considered a homogenous backwater. While Appalachia has a recognizable and real coherence rooted in folkways, agriculture, and politics (among other things), it is also a region of varied environments, people, and histories. These discrete stories are, however, linked through the power of conceptualizing nature and work together to reveal the ways in which ideas and uses of nature often created a sense of identity in Appalachia. Delving into the environmental history of the region reveals that Appalachian environments, rather than separating the mountains from the broader world, often served to connect the region to outside places.
American Paintings at Harvard
Author: Theodore E. Stebbins
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015352X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030015352X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 649
Book Description
This volume features nearly 500 paintings, watercolors, pastels, and miniatures from Harvard University's storied, yet little-known, collection of American art. These works, many unpublished, are drawn from the Harvard Art Museums, the University Portrait Collection, the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, and other entities, and date from the early colonial years to the mid-19th century. Highlights include a rare group of 17th-century portraits, along with important paintings by Robert Feke, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and Washington Allston, in addition to works depicting western and Native American subjects by Alexandre de Batz, Henry Inman, and Alfred Jacob Miller, among others. Each work is accompanied by scholarly commentary that draws on extensive new research, as well as a complete exhibition and reference history. An introduction by Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. describes the history of the collection. Lavishly illustrated in color, this compendium is a testament to the nation's oldest collection of American art, and an essential resource for scholars and collectors alike.
Catalogue of the General Assembly Library of New Zealand
Author: New Zealand. Parliament. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Finding List of the Free Library of the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Finding List of the Apprentices' Library ...
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Free Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
New England Journal of Education
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 862
Book Description
Quarterly Index of Additions to the Milwaukee Public Library
Author: Milwaukee Public Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Finding List of the Apprentices' Library Established and Maintained by the General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York
Author: General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Apprentices' Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Subject catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The Journal of Education
Author: Thomas Williams Bicknell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description