The Four Continents
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Author | : Lisa Lowe |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2015-06-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0822375648 |
In this uniquely interdisciplinary work, Lisa Lowe examines the relationships between Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth- centuries, exploring the links between colonialism, slavery, imperial trades and Western liberalism. Reading across archives, canons, and continents, Lowe connects the liberal narrative of freedom overcoming slavery to the expansion of Anglo-American empire, observing that abstract promises of freedom often obscure their embeddedness within colonial conditions. Race and social difference, Lowe contends, are enduring remainders of colonial processes through which “the human” is universalized and “freed” by liberal forms, while the peoples who create the conditions of possibility for that freedom are assimilated or forgotten. Analyzing the archive of liberalism alongside the colonial state archives from which it has been separated, Lowe offers new methods for interpreting the past, examining events well documented in archives, and those matters absent, whether actively suppressed or merely deemed insignificant. Lowe invents a mode of reading intimately, which defies accepted national boundaries and disrupts given chronologies, complicating our conceptions of history, politics, economics, and culture, and ultimately, knowledge itself.
Author | : Cooper Union Museum for the Arts of D |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013869136 |
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Maryanne Cline Horowitz |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 435 |
Release | : 2020-12-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004438033 |
An exploration of the ways early modern European artists have visualized continents through the female (sometimes male) body to express their perceptions of newly encountered peoples. Often stereotypical, these personifications are however more complex than what they seem.
Author | : John Ralston Saul |
Publisher | : Black Dog Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9781911164081 |
The Four Continents is comprised of a series of paintings made between 2012 and 2016. In this series, Monkman takes as his point of departure Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's epic frescoes commissioned for a private residence in Würzburg, Germany. The centrepiece of the Tiepolo series represented a day in the life of the Greek god, Apollo, with the four continents allegorized in peripheral scenes. In Monkman's reinterpretation, each continent is personified by a Two-Spirit sovereign with Miss Chief playing the roles of Africa, America, Asia, and Europe. Tiepolo's allegory is updated to include architectural wonders and notable figures from history amidst chaotic crowds.
Author | : Osbert Sitwell |
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Release | : 1955 |
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Author | : Ursula Van Beek |
Publisher | : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1920338705 |
DEMOCRACY UNDER STRESS focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic rules a possibility? These are some of the key questions addressed in the volume.
Author | : Mary Dorra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2021-11 |
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ISBN | : 9781737436201 |
Against the sweeping history of the 20th century, two people from different worlds find each other and create a unified life. In Two Lives on Four Continents readers will travel from Alexandria, Egypt to Washington DC, from NYC to South America. Throughout, they encounter everything from nations experiencing monumental change to the personal discoveries of education, from the cruelties of anti-Semitism and xenophobia to the excitement of the art world. Put simply, this book presents the broad canvas of history in the 20th century, all the while leading its two main characters together, and to love.
Author | : R. A. Henderson |
Publisher | : Uitgeverij De Boeck Secundair onderwijs |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2013-02-18 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9788877543288 |
Henry Lawson, V. S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer and Chinua Achebe are respectively Australian, Caribbean, South African and Nigerian, yet they all write in English. The 'English' literature of the ex-colonies is proving to be the most interesting and innovative of our times: this volume offers a significant example of its vitality and originality. As Salman Rushdi said, 'the Empire writes back'.
Author | : Osbert Sitwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Voyages and travels |
ISBN | : 9780758190420 |
Author | : Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Museum for the Arts of Decoration |
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Release | : 1961 |
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