Memorials of a Half-century

Memorials of a Half-century
Author: Bela Hubbard
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Total Pages: 614
Release: 1887
Genre: History
ISBN:
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This collection of essays by a noted writer, explorer, and Detroit civic leader offers detailed descriptions of Michigan's geography, geology, and local history in a consciously crafted literary style. Hubbard discusses the natural history of Lake Superior, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron; topographical and geological features of Michigan; a geological expedition to the salt springs of the Grand and Saginaw River valleys with the new state's geologist, Dr. Houghton (1837); local factors and the 1837-38 financial panic; and land speculation and settlement. In addition Hubbard writes about Michigan Indians and Indian antiquities; flora and fauna, animal behavior; climatology; and the world of Michigan's French-speaking inhabitants, especially Detroit habitants, rural farmers, and voyageurs (who paddled the waterways as guides, trappers, and tradesmen), comparing the life-styles of French speakers and Yankees. The book is heavily illustrated with sketches of Indian artifacts, landscapes, folk architecture, trees, and diagrams representing the Mound-Builders' ancient garden beds.

In Memory of

In Memory of
Author: Spencer Bailey
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: ARCHITECTURE
ISBN: 9781838661441
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An extraordinary book that explores the art, architecture, and design of memorials around the world from the late twentieth century to today - an important book for our time

War beyond Words

War beyond Words
Author: Jay Winter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2017-07-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108293476
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What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are not fixed; they change over time, and Jay Winter's panoramic history of war and memory offers an unprecedented study of transformations in our imaginings of war, from 1914 to the present. He reveals the ways in which different creative arts have framed our meditations on war, from painting and sculpture to photography, film and poetry, and ultimately to silence, as a language of memory in its own right. He shows how these highly mediated images of war, in turn, circulate through language to constitute our 'cultural memory' of war. This is a major contribution to our understanding of the diverse ways in which men and women have wrestled with the intractable task of conveying what twentieth-century wars meant to them and mean to us.

Presidential Temples

Presidential Temples
Author: Benjamin Hufbauer
Publisher: CultureAmerica
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2005
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:
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This book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.

Memorials of a Century. Embracing a Record of Individuals and Events, Chiefly in the Early History O

Memorials of a Century. Embracing a Record of Individuals and Events, Chiefly in the Early History O
Author: Jennings Isaac
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2022-10-27
Genre:
ISBN: 9781016769563
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