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Author | : Christopher B. Yardley |
Publisher | : ANU Press |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2015-02-09 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1925021807 |
"For approaching two centuries, the images on postage stamps have been used to convey messages from the government of the day to the general public. Science has been used to enhance those messages for the past nine decades. In this book, I explore the ways in which science and scientists have been portrayed on stamps and look at the ideas and, in some cases, the propaganda that underpins them."--Page 1.
Author | : Michel Baridon |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008-08-27 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0812240782 |
Michel Baridon traces the history of the most famous gardens in the world from their inception through the three centuries of eventful history that they have witnessed.
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Total Pages | : 964 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Author | : Annette Bourrut Lacouture |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300095759 |
Jules Breton (1827-1906), known as one of the first 'peasant painters', created beautiful scenes of rural French life and was a highly popular figure among the Salon artists of his era. Taking his inspiration from his native Artois and from the landscapes of Brittany, where he stayed for long periods, he painted peasant women and men performing their daily activities, meticulously observing their world and making it a place of peace and harmony. During the second half of the nineteenth century, rewards and official decorations were heaped upon him, and his paintings were purchased not only by the emperor but also by collectors in America, Britain and Ireland. However, Breton's work became eclipsed by the avant-garde movements of the twentieth century, and he was eventually forgotten. This book now pays Breton the tribute that he deserves. It traces the development of his career and the forces that influenced him from his childhood through his early training in Belgium and Paris to his years in Brittany. The book presents and discusses a number of important paintings by Breton, some of which have been almost unknown until now, and it shows how they reflect the artist's social and humanitarian concerns as well as his painterly abilities.
Author | : Alice Garner |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2018-07-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501727206 |
How does tourism transform fishing communities into vibrant resorts, working shores into bathing beaches? In A Shifting Shore, Alice Garner traces the ways fisherfolk, bathers, investors, and engineers understood, claimed, and remade the shores of the Bassin d'Arcachon, a prime fishing and oyster-farming site in southwestern France, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Garner's interest in the coastline—a zone that resists all attempts at definition—shapes this generously illustrated book. Rather than taking a straightforward chronological approach to the settlement and evolution of the towns of Arcachon and La Teste, Garner investigates the development of the Bassin d'Arcachon's southern shores with the aim of recovering something of the "lived space" experienced by locals and visitors. Drawing on guidebooks, newspapers, bylaws, engineers' reports, medical pamphlets, postcards, and the accounts of literary-minded holidaymakers, Garner shows how investors and developers transformed Arcachon and its community—beaches were rezoned and jetties constructed to favor bathers, and a new railway line brought ever-increasing numbers of visitors to the area. She explores how fishermen and women resisted developments that threatened their livelihood or their particular sense of belonging, and shows how they adapted to the changing environment and to their new roles as guides and entertainers. A Shifting Shore, while anchored in Arcachon and La Teste, has much to contribute to a nuanced understanding of relations between hosts and guests in any community.
Author | : Library of Congress |
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Total Pages | : 786 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Catalogs, Union |
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Author | : Philip Dwyer |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2018-04-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1408891743 |
'Vibrant and illuminating ... [Dywer] tells a fascinating tale' The Times 'Refreshing scholarship ... Energetic, readable and filled with colourful detail ... Napoleon: Passion, Death and Resurrection is a thoroughly enjoyable book which divides well the reality of exile from the legend that sprang from it' Literary Review This meticulously researched study opens with Napoleon no longer in power, but instead a prisoner on the island of St Helena. This may have been a great fall from power, but Napoleon still held immense attraction. Every day, huge crowds would gather on the far shore in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. Philip Dwyer closes his ambitious trilogy exploring Napoleon's life, legacy and myth by moving from those first months of imprisonment, through the years of exile, up to death and then beyond, examining how the foundations of legend that had been laid by Napoleon during his lifetime continued to be built upon by his followers. This is a fitting and authoritative end to a definitive work.
Author | : Fritz Billig |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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Total Pages | : 1322 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Biography |
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Author | : Frederick John Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : Stamp collecting |
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