Empire of Landscape - 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 Empire of Landscape write by John Zarobell. This book was released on 2010. Empire of Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Explores visual culture and the social history of art through an analysis of French images of nineteenth-century Algeria"--Provided by publisher.
Sowing Empire
Sowing Empire - 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 Sowing Empire write by Jill H. Casid. This book was released on 2005-01-01. Sowing Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an ambitious work of wide-ranging literary, visual, and historical allusion, Jill H.Casid examines how landscaping functioned in an imperial mode that defined and remade the "heartlands" of nations as well as the contact zones and colonial peripheries in the West and East Indies. Revealing the colonial landscape as far more than an agricultural system - as a means of regulating national, sexual, and gender identities - Casid also traces how the circulation of plants and hybridity influenced agriculture and landscaping on European soil and how colonial contacts materially shaped what we take as "European."
City, Country, Empire
City, Country, Empire - 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 City, Country, Empire write by Jeffry M. Diefendorf. This book was released on 2005. City, Country, Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of essays addressing the collaboration of human and natural forces in the creation of cities, the countryside, and empires.
Domesticating Empire
Domesticating Empire - 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 Domesticating Empire write by Caitlín Eilís Barrett. This book was released on 2019-03-29. Domesticating Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Domesticating Empire is the first contextually-oriented monograph on Egyptian imagery in Roman households. Caitlín Barrett draws on case studies from Flavian Pompeii to investigate the close association between representations of Egypt and a particular type of Roman household space: the domestic garden. Through paintings and mosaics portraying the Nile, canals that turned the garden itself into a miniature "Nilescape," and statuary depicting Egyptian themes, many gardens in Pompeii offered ancient visitors evocations of a Roman vision of Egypt. Simultaneously faraway and familiar, these imagined landscapes made the unfathomable breadth of empire compatible with the familiarity of home. In contrast to older interpretations that connect Roman "Aegyptiaca" to the worship of Egyptian gods or the problematic concept of "Egyptomania," a contextual analysis of these garden assemblages suggests new possibilities for meaning. In Pompeian houses, Egyptian and Egyptian-looking objects and images interacted with their settings to construct complex entanglements of "foreign" and "familiar," "self" and "other." Representations of Egyptian landscapes in domestic gardens enabled individuals to present themselves as sophisticated citizens of empire. Yet at the same time, household material culture also exerted an agency of its own: domesticizing, familiarizing, and "Romanizing" once-foreign images and objects. That which was once imagined as alien and potentially dangerous was now part of the domus itself, increasingly incorporated into cultural constructions of what it meant to be "Roman." Featuring brilliant illustrations in both color and black and white, Domesticating Empire reveals the importance of material culture in transforming household space into a microcosm of empire.
Empire's Garden
Empire's Garden - 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 Empire's Garden write by Jayeeta Sharma. This book was released on 2011-08. Empire's Garden available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A history of the colonial tea plantation regime in Assam, which brought more than one million migrants to the region in northeast India, irrevocably changing the social landscape.
