Author: National Gallery of Canada
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Author: Gary Tinterow
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870997696
Category : Painting, French
Languages : en
Pages : 497

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Published to accompany a major exhibition of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot's paintings held in Paris and Ottawa during 1996, and forthcoming to New York. From nearly 3,000 paintings by this poetic 19th-century artist, the curators chose 163 works, which are reproduced here along with full art-historical discussions of each. Three major essays chronicle Corot's life and the development of his art; additional essays elucidate the subject of forgeries and describe the collecting of his works. Much original new scholarship is included along with a review of the scholarly literature, a concordance, and a chronology. 9.5x12.5"Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Caroline Ford
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674968891
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 175

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Challenging the conventional wisdom that French environmentalism can be dated only to the post-1945 period, Caroline Ford argues that a broadly shared environmental consciousness emerged in France much earlier. Natural Interests unearths the distinctive features of French environmentalism, in which a large and varied cast of social actors played a role. Besides scientific advances and colonial expansion, nostalgia for a vanishing pastoral countryside and anxiety over the pressing dangers of environmental degradation were important factors in the success of this movement. Over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, war, political upheaval, and natural disasters—especially the devastating floods of 1856 and 1910 in Paris—caused growing worry over the damage wrought by deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The natural world took on new value for France’s urban bourgeoisie, as both a site of aesthetic longing and a destination for tourism. Not only naturalists and scientists but politicians, engineers, writers, and painters took up environmental causes. Imperialism and international dialogue were also instrumental in shaping environmental consciousness, as the unfamiliar climates of France’s overseas possessions changed perceptions of the natural world and influenced conservationist policies. By the early twentieth century, France had adopted innovative environmental legislation, created national and urban parks and nature reserves, and called for international cooperation on environmental questions.

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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 468

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Author: Mark McWilliams
Publisher: Oxford Symposium
ISBN: 1903018897
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Essays on Food and Celebration from the 2011 Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. The 2011 meeting marked the thirtieth year of the Symposium.

Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Author: Frank Moore Colby
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 866

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Author: International Society of Leather Trades' Chemists
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Category : Leather
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Author: Reginald Blomfield
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 9925068320
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1911.