Bibliotheca Cisorientalia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bibliotheca Cisorientalia write by Richard W. Bevis. This book was released on 1973. Bibliotheca Cisorientalia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Art of Travel
The Art of Travel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Travel write by Philip Dodds. This book was released on 2013-08-21. The Art of Travel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First published in 1982. The Art of Travel is the first collection of critical essays to be devoted to British travel writing. It attempts to give a sense of the wealth of such writing, to map some of its forms and conventions and, implicitly, to claim a place for travel writing in any revised definition of literature. For this collection, travel includes sea voyages, European tours, commissioned enquiries into social conditions, and urban writing; travel writing ranges from works such as Sea and Sardinia by D.H. Lawrence whose status as a novelist guarantees his travel books some attention, through the essays and books of Victorian middle-class travellers into working-class London, to the work of V.S. Naipaul, a contemporary writer, who has increasingly preferred the travel book to the novel.
Is There a Middle East?
Is There a Middle East? - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Is There a Middle East? write by Abbas Amanat. This book was released on 2012. Is There a Middle East? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers diverse debates on the possible manifestations and meanings of the term "Middle East."
Breaking Ground
Breaking Ground - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Breaking Ground write by Getzel M. Cohen. This book was released on 2010-06-02. Breaking Ground available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "At the close of the Victorian era, two generations of intrepid women abandoned Grand Tour travel for the rigors of archaeological expeditions, shining the light of scientific exploration on Old World antiquity. Breaking Ground highlights the remarkable careers of twelve pioneers---a compelling narrative of personal, social, intellectual, and historical achievement." -Claire Lyons, The Getty Museum "Behind these pioneering women lie a wide range of fascinating and inspiring life stories. Though each of their tales is unique, they were all formidable scholars whose important contributions changed the field of archaeology. Kudos to the authors for making their stories and accomplishments known to us all!" -Jodi Magness, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill This book presents twelve fascinating women whose contributions to the development and progress of Old World archaeology---in an area ranging from Italy to Mesopotamia---have been immeasurable. Each essay in this collection examines the life of a pioneer archaeologist in the early days of the discipline, tracing her path from education in the classics to travel and exploration and eventual international recognition in the field of archaeology. The lives of these women may serve as models both for those interested in gender studies and the history of archaeology because in fact, they broke ground both as women and as archaeologists. The interest inherent in these biographies will reach well beyond defined disciplines and subdisciplines, for the life of each of these exciting and accomplished individuals is an adventure story in itself
An Aesthetic Occupation
An Aesthetic Occupation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Aesthetic Occupation write by Daniel Bertrand Monk. This book was released on 2002-03-18. An Aesthetic Occupation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In An Aesthetic Occupation Daniel Bertrand Monk unearths the history of the unquestioned political immediacy of “sacred” architecture in the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Monk combines groundbreaking archival research with theoretical insights to examine in particular the Mandate era—the period in the first half of the twentieth century when Britain held sovereignty over Palestine. While examining the relation between monuments and mass violence in this context, he documents Palestinian, Zionist, and British attempts to advance competing arguments concerning architecture’s utility to politics. Succumbing neither to the view that monuments are autonomous figures onto which political meaning has been projected, nor to the obverse claim that in Jerusalem shrines are immediate manifestations of the political, Monk traces the reciprocal history of both these positions as well as describes how opponents in the conflict debated and theorized their own participation in its self-representation. Analyzing controversies over the authenticity of holy sites, the restorations of the Dome of the Rock, and the discourse of accusation following the Buraq, or Wailing Wall, riots of 1929, Monk discloses for the first time that, as combatants looked to architecture and invoked the transparency of their own historical situation, they simultaneously advanced—and normalized—the conflict’s inability to account for itself. This balanced and unique study will appeal to anyone interested in Israel or Zionism, the Palestinians, the Middle East conflict, Jerusalem, or its monuments. Scholars of architecture, political theory, and religion, as well as cultural and critical studies will also be informed by its arguments.
