The Printed and the Built

The Printed and the Built
Author: Mari Hvattum
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2018-06-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1350038393

The Printed and the Built explores the intricate relationship between architecture and printed media in the fast-changing nineteenth century. Publication history is a rapidly expanding scholarly field which has profoundly influenced architectural history in recent years. Yet, while groundbreaking work has been done on architecture and printing in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the twentieth century, the nineteenth century has received little attention. This is the omission that The Printed and the Built seeks to address, thus filling a significant gap in the understanding of architecture's cultural history. Lavishly illustrated with colourful and eclectic visual material, from panoramas to printed ephemera, adverts, penny magazines, early photography, and even crime reportage, The Printed and the Built consists of five in-depth thematic essays accompanied by 25 short pieces, each examining a particular printed form. Altogether, they illustrate how new genres communicated architecture to a mass audience, setting the stage for the modern architectural era.

The Indigo Book

The Indigo Book
Author: Christopher Jon Sprigman
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2017-07-11
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1892628023

This public domain book is an open and compatible implementation of the Uniform System of Citation.

The Waterloo Roll Call

The Waterloo Roll Call
Author: Charles Dalton
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1890
Genre: Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
ISBN:

The Lynching of Cleo Wright

The Lynching of Cleo Wright
Author: Dominic J. CapeciJr.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2014-10-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0813156467

On January 20, 1942, black oil mill worker Cleo Wright assaulted a white woman in her home and nearly killed the first police officer who tried to arrest him. An angry mob then hauled Wright out of jail and dragged him through the streets of Sikeston, Missouri, before burning him alive. Wright's death was, unfortunately, not unique in American history, but what his death meant in the larger context of life in the United States in the twentieth-century is an important and compelling story. After the lynching, the U.S. Justice Department was forced to become involved in civil rights concerns for the first time, provoking a national reaction to violence on the home front at a time when the country was battling for democracy in Europe. Dominic Capeci unravels the tragic story of Wright's life on several stages, showing how these acts of violence were indicative not only of racial tension but the clash of the traditional and the modern brought about by the war. Capeci draws from a wide range of archival sources and personal interviews with the participants and spectators to draw vivid portraits of Wright, his victims, law-enforcement officials, and members of the lynch mob. He places Wright in the larger context of southern racial violence and shows the significance of his death in local, state, and national history during the most important crisis of the twentieth-century.