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The Mirror of Antiquity
Author | : Caroline Winterer |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0801441633 |
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In The Mirror of Antiquity, Caroline Winterer uncovers the lost world of American women's classicism during its glory days from the eighteenth through the nineteenth centuries. Overturning the widely held belief that classical learning and political ideals were relevant only to men, she follows the lives of four generations of American women through their diaries, letters, books, needlework, and drawings, demonstrating how classicism was at the center of their experience as mothers, daughters, and wives. Importantly, she pays equal attention to women from the North and from the South, and to the ways that classicism shaped the lives of black women in slavery and freedom.In a strikingly innovative use of both texts and material culture, Winterer exposes the neoclassical world of furnishings, art, and fashion created in part through networks dominated by elite women. Many of these women were at the center of the national experience. Here readers will find Abigail Adams, teaching her children Latin and signing her letters as Portia, the wife of the Roman senator Brutus; the Massachusetts slave Phillis Wheatley, writing poems in imitation of her favorite books, Alexander Pope's Iliad and Odyssey; Dolley Madison, giving advice on Greek taste and style to the U.S. Capitol's architect, Benjamin Latrobe; and the abolitionist and feminist Lydia Maria Child, who showed Americans that modern slavery had its roots in the slave societies of Greece and Rome. Thoroughly embedded in the major ideas and events of the time--the American Revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the rise of a consumer society--this original book is a major contribution to American cultural and intellectual history.
An Archaeology of Unchecked Capitalism
Author | : Paul Shackel |
Publsiher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2019-12-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781789205480 |
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The racialization of immigrant labor and the labor strife in the coal and textile communities in northeastern Pennsylvania appears to be an isolated incident in history. Rather this history can serve as a touchstone, connecting the history of the exploited laborers to today’s labor in the global economy. By drawing parallels between the past and present – for example, the coal mines of the nineteenth-century northeastern Pennsylvania and the sweatshops of the twenty-first century in Bangladesh – we can have difficult conversations about the past and advance our commitment to address social justice issues.
American Antiquities and discoveries in the West Second edition revised
Author | : Josiah Priest |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1834 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0020846974 |
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American Antiquities
Author | : Terry A. Barnhart |
Publsiher | : U of Nebraska Press |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2015-11-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780803284296 |
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Writing the history of American archaeology, especially concerning eighteenth and nineteenth-century arguments, is not always as straightforward or simple as it might seem. Archaeology’s trajectory from an avocation, to a semi-profession, to a specialized, self-conscious profession was anything but a linear progression. The development of American archaeology was an organic and untidy process, which emerged from the intellectual tradition of antiquarianism and closely allied itself with the natural sciences throughout the nineteenth century—especially geology and the debate about the origins and identity of indigenous mound-building cultures of the eastern United States. Terry A. Barnhart examines how American archaeology developed within an eclectic set of interests and equally varied settings. He argues that fundamental problems are deeply embedded in secondary literature relating to the nineteenth-century debate about “Mound Builders” and “American Indians.” Some issues are perceptual, others contextual, and still others basic errors of fact. Adding to the problem are semantic and contextual considerations arising from the accommodating, indiscriminate, and problematic use of the term “race” as a synonym for tribe, nation, and race proper—a concept and construct that does not, in all instances, translate into current understandings and usages. American Antiquities uses this early discourse on the mounds to frame perennial anthropological problems relating to human origins and antiquity in North America.
Social Sustainability Past and Future
Author | : Sander van der Leeuw |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 533 |
Release | : 2020-02-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781108498692 |
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A novel, integrated approach to understanding long-term human history, viewing it as the long-term evolution of human information-processing. This title is also available as Open Access.
Classical Antiquity and the Politics of America
Author | : Michael Meckler |
Publsiher | : Baylor University Press |
Total Pages | : 243 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Civilization, Classical |
ISBN | : 9781932792324 |
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history and illustrates how the ancient Greeks and Romans continue to influence political theory and determine policy in the United States, from the education of the Founders to the War in Iraq.
American Antiquity
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 906 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : America |
ISBN | : UOM:39015015572053 |
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Includes the section "Book reviews."
The Organization of Ancient Economies
Author | : Kenneth Hirth |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 467 |
Release | : 2020-09-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781108494700 |
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This is the first book written that examines ancient and premodern economies from a comparative and cross-cultural perspective.