Communication in History

Communication in History
Author: David Crowley
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 649
Release: 2015-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317349393

Updated in a new 6th edition, Communication in History reveals how media has been influential in both maintaining social order and as powerful agents of change. With revised new readings, this anthology continues to be, as one reviewer wrote, "the only book in the sea of History of Mass Communication books that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history". From print to the Internet, this book encompasses a wide-range of topics, that introduces readers to a more expansive, intellectually enlivening study of the relationship between human history and communication history.

This Errant Lady

This Errant Lady
Author: Jane Franklin
Publisher: National Library Australia
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0642107491

Jane Franklin's diary account of her travels from Van Diemen's Land to Port Phillip and then overland from Melbourne to Sydney in 1839 provides a detailed and colourful snapshot of colonial society recorded by a sharply observant witness -- back cover. includes brief references to Aboriginal people.

Monumental Matters

Monumental Matters
Author: Santhi Kavuri-Bauer
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822349228

Built in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, India’s Mughal monuments—including majestic forts, mosques, palaces, and tombs, such as the Taj Mahal—are world renowned for their grandeur and association with the Mughals, the powerful Islamic empire that once ruled most of the subcontinent. In Monumental Matters, Santhi Kavuri-Bauer focuses on the prominent role of Mughal architecture in the construction and contestation of the Indian national landscape. She examines the representation and eventual preservation of the monuments, from their disrepair in the colonial past to their present status as protected heritage sites. Drawing on theories of power, subjectivity, and space, Kavuri-Bauer’s interdisciplinary analysis encompasses Urdu poetry, British landscape painting, imperial archaeological surveys, Indian Muslim identity, and British tourism, as well as postcolonial nation building, World Heritage designations, and conservation mandates. Since Independence, the state has attempted to construct a narrative of Mughal monuments as symbols of a unified, secular nation. Yet modern-day sectarian violence at these sites continues to suggest that India’s Mughal monuments remain the transformative spaces—of social ordering, identity formation, and national reinvention—that they have been for centuries.

Streets with a Story

Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. Willats
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1987
Genre: Islington (London, England)
ISBN: 9780951187104

Fake?

Fake?
Author: Mark Jones
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1990-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780520070875

Describes the methods used to make artistic, literary, documentary, and political forgeries and the recent scientific advances in their detection. Includes over 600 objects from the British Museum and many other major collections, from ancient Babylonia to the present day.