Author: A. and W. Galignani and Co
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1866
Author: A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 812
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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1864, Etc
Author: A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 656
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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1870
Author: A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1874
Author: A. and W. Galignani and Co
Publisher:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 586
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Galignani's New Paris Guide
Author:
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 442
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Liberty's Torch
Author: Elizabeth Mitchell
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
“Turns out that what you thought you knew about Lady Liberty is dead wrong. Learn the truth in this fascinating account.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty’s Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality. A young sculptor inspired by a trip to Egypt where he saw the pyramids and Sphinx, he traveled to America, carrying with him the idea of a colossal statue of a woman. There he enlisted the help of notable people of the age—including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison—to help his scheme. He also came up with inventive ideas to raise money, including exhibiting the torch at the Philadelphia world’s fair and charging people to climb up inside. While the French and American governments dithered, Bartholdi made the statue a reality by his own entrepreneurship, vision, and determination. “By explaining Liberty’s tortured history and resurrecting Bartholdi’s indomitable spirit, Mitchell has done a great service. This is narrative history, well told. It is history that connects us to our past and—hopefully—to our future.” —Los Angeles Times
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802192556
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
“Turns out that what you thought you knew about Lady Liberty is dead wrong. Learn the truth in this fascinating account.” —O, The Oprah Magazine The Statue of Liberty is one of the most recognizable monuments in the world, a powerful symbol of freedom and the American dream. For decades, the myth has persisted that the statue was a grand gift from France, but now Liberty’s Torch reveals how she was in fact the pet project of one quixotic and visionary French sculptor, Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi. Bartholdi not only forged this 151-foot-tall colossus in a workshop in Paris and transported her across the ocean, but battled to raise money for the statue and make her a reality. A young sculptor inspired by a trip to Egypt where he saw the pyramids and Sphinx, he traveled to America, carrying with him the idea of a colossal statue of a woman. There he enlisted the help of notable people of the age—including Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph Pulitzer, Victor Hugo, Gustave Eiffel, and Thomas Edison—to help his scheme. He also came up with inventive ideas to raise money, including exhibiting the torch at the Philadelphia world’s fair and charging people to climb up inside. While the French and American governments dithered, Bartholdi made the statue a reality by his own entrepreneurship, vision, and determination. “By explaining Liberty’s tortured history and resurrecting Bartholdi’s indomitable spirit, Mitchell has done a great service. This is narrative history, well told. It is history that connects us to our past and—hopefully—to our future.” —Los Angeles Times
Index to the Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library Association of Boston
Author: Mercantile Library Association (Boston, Mass.)
Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
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Category : Dictionary catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Galignani's New Paris Guide, for 1877
Author: Galignani Library
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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List of books added to the library ... 1862 (-1868).
Author: Boston Mass, Athenaeum, libr
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
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The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy
Author: Heather L. Bailey
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars. As Heather L. Bailey demonstrates, in response to this reductionist view, Russian Orthodox publicists launched a public relations campaign in the West, especially in France, in the 1850s and 1860s. The linchpin of their campaign was the building of the impressive Saint Alexander Nevsky Church in Paris, consecrated in 1861. Bailey posits that, as the embodiment of the belief that Russia had a great historical purpose inextricably tied to Orthodoxy, the Paris church both reflected and contributed to the rise of religious nationalism in Russia that followed the Crimean War. At the same time, the confrontation with westerners' negative ideas about the Eastern Church fueled a reformist spirit in Russia while contributing to a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy in the West.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501749536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Focusing on the period between the revolutions of 1848-1849 and the First Vatican Council (1869-1870), The Public Image of Eastern Orthodoxy explores the circumstances under which westerners, concerned about the fate of the papacy, the Ottoman Empire, Poland, and Russian imperial power, began to conflate the Russian Orthodox Church with the state and to portray the Church as the political tool of despotic tsars. As Heather L. Bailey demonstrates, in response to this reductionist view, Russian Orthodox publicists launched a public relations campaign in the West, especially in France, in the 1850s and 1860s. The linchpin of their campaign was the building of the impressive Saint Alexander Nevsky Church in Paris, consecrated in 1861. Bailey posits that, as the embodiment of the belief that Russia had a great historical purpose inextricably tied to Orthodoxy, the Paris church both reflected and contributed to the rise of religious nationalism in Russia that followed the Crimean War. At the same time, the confrontation with westerners' negative ideas about the Eastern Church fueled a reformist spirit in Russia while contributing to a better understanding of Eastern Orthodoxy in the West.