Walt`s Utopia: Disneyland and American Mythmaking, Priscilla Hobbs
Автор: Nichols Chris Название: Walt Disney`s Disneyland ISBN: 3836563487 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783836563482 Издательство: Taschen Рейтинг: Цена: 35420.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Discover the story of Disneyland, Walt Disney`s visionary theme park in Anaheim, California. This bountiful visual history includes stunning color photographs, concept drawings, as well as ephemera from the historical collections of the Walt Disney Company and the golden age of photojournalism, to trace the park`s development and immersive...
The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern world
The fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age. Ranging across the entire premodern world, Escape from Rome offers new answers to some of the biggest questions in history: Why did the Roman Empire appear? Why did nothing like it ever return to Europe? And, above all, why did Europeans come to dominate the world?
In an absorbing narrative that begins with ancient Rome but stretches far beyond it, from Byzantium to China and from Genghis Khan to Napoleon, Scheidel shows how the demise of Rome and the enduring failure of empire-building on European soil ensured competitive fragmentation between and within states. This rich diversity encouraged political, economic, scientific, and technological breakthroughs that allowed Europe to surge ahead while other parts of the world lagged behind, burdened as they were by traditional empires and predatory regimes that lived by conquest. It wasn't until Europe "escaped" from Rome that it launched an economic transformation that changed the continent and ultimately the world.
What has the Roman Empire ever done for us? Fall and go away.
Автор: Hadwen Walter Название: Premature Burial ISBN: 1843913801 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843913801 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 8310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть
Автор: Fox Mike Название: The Hidden Secrets & Stories of Disneyland ISBN: 0692724729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780692724729 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 18350.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Written with respect for Walt Disney, The Hidden Secrets & Stories of Disneyland is a magical new book which allows readers to see and experience the park in an all new way, revealing...
-- Over 200 magical in-depth secrets and stories about Disneyland, many of which have never before been published in any Disney related books, articles or web sites.
-- Some familiar secrets for those guests who are visiting Disneyland today for the very first time, such as Walt's Lamp, the three secrets of the Ominibus and the Windows of Main Street, U.S.A., as well as entirely new stories and photos for those who have been to Disneyland perhaps hundreds of times. I guarantee you will discover things you never knew before
-- Actual in-depth secrets and story elements. Not just facts or trivia included only to boost the "secrets" count, but instead each secret reveals a fun story element which the Imagineers have purposely hidden in the park as an addition to the story that is Disneyland...
-- The amazing 6-page story of how Walt came to acquire the "Capitol of Disneyland" - Published here for the very first time - Includes the first-ever published photos of George H. Lloyd, the man who created and sold Walt the Capitol of Disneyland
-- The fascinating 6-page story behind the creation of the builder's plates of the E.P. Ripley and C.K. Holliday steam engines - Updated for this book by its author, Carolwood Pacific President Emeritus Michael Campbell
-- The magical 5-page story of how a guest recognized an error with the Disneyland telegraph...and worked with Disney Imagineers to fix it Complete with a very rare photo of the old Disneyland Railroad telegraph machine
-- The 5-page story of why Walt never built Disneyland's International Street and Liberty Street.
-- The first-ever revealed connection between the antique Mutoscopes of Main Street, U.S.A. and a young 12 year-old Walt Disney
-- The first-ever debunking of a long-standing "Disneyland urban legend" about the low windows on Main Street, U.S.A.
-- The fun story of how Walt came up with the design for the Frontierland Railroad Station
-- The absolutely best photo you will ever see of Max, Buff and Melvin.
-- Over 160 high-quality photos, including many of Disneyland items and views rarely seen by guests
-- And many, many more, all arranged as a fun tour throughout the park, which allows guests to see Disneyland in an all new way
Now discover the magic behind the magic at Disneyland, and then be sure to check out the book's complementary title, The Hidden Secrets & Stories of Walt Disney World and the companion website: www.Disney-Secrets.com
Collage of Myself presents a groundbreaking account of the creative story behind America’s most celebrated collection of poems. In the first book-length study of Walt Whitman’s journals and manuscripts, Matt Miller demonstrates that until approximately 1854 (only a single year before the first publication of Leaves of Grass), Whitman—who once speculated that Leaves would be a novel or a play—was unaware that his ambitions would assume the form of poetry at all.
Collage of Myself details Whitman’s discovery of a remarkable new creative process that allowed him to transform a diverse array of texts into poems such as “Song of Myself” and “The Sleepers.” Whitman embraced an art of fragments that encouraged him to “cut and paste” his lines into ever-evolving forms based on what he called “spinal ideas.” This approach to language, Miller argues, represents the first major use in the Western arts of the technique later known as collage, an observation with significant ramifications for our reception of subsequent artists and writers. Long before the modernists, Whitman integrated found text and ready-made language into a revolutionary formulation of artistic production that anticipates much of what is exciting about modern and postmodern art.
Using the Walt Whitman Archive’s collection of digital images to study what were previously scattered and inaccessible manuscript pages, Miller provides a breakthrough in our understanding of this great American literary icon.
Автор: Yossi Katz Название: The Land Shall Not Be Sold in Perpetuity: The Jewish National Fund and the History of State Ownership of Land in Israel ISBN: 3110415933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783110415933 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 111510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The State of Israel is the only Western state where the majority of lands are still owned by the State and by a public body related to it (The Jewish National Fund). At the root lies the divine command stating that the Land of Israel belongs to God and therefore should not be traded in perpetuity (Leviticus 25). This principle has been applied to almost all of the State lands, and was established in a Basic Law. Since the 1980s there were many pressures in Israel to privatize at least part of the State’s and JNF’s lands, due to the general privatization process of Israel’s economy, the deepening globalization process, and the transformation of Israel to an individualistic society. However, only a small portion of the lands were privatized, constituting 4% of the area of Israel. The book is based wholly on primary sources. It describes and analyzes the history of the ideological, social and legal processes that took place and their development since the beginning of the 20th century until today– processes that brought about the unique phenomenon of the State of Israel as an advanced capitalistic state whose lands are mostly state-owned.
Автор: Walter Fuller Taylor Название: The Economic Novel in America ISBN: 1469613379 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469613376 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 50160.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Much has been written about America's Gilded Age""""0-8078-that turbulent period from 1870 to 1900 when the great fortunes were built and monopolies founded. Taylor reexamines the period through the work of its novelists-Mark Twain, Edward Bellamy, Frank Norris, and a host of lesser figures. Delightfully nonacademic, this book sharply questions many of our present ideas about the time."""" Originally published in 1942. A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Автор: Edward Watts Название: Colonizing the Past: Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing ISBN: 0813943876 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943879 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 36370.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common, deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so far as to reconstruct pre-Columbian, transatlantic adventures by white people that might be employed to assert their rights and ennoble their identities as Americans. In Colonizing the Past, Edward Watts labels this impulse "primordialism" and reveals its consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark Twain. In dozens of texts, Watts tracks episodes in which varying accounts of pre-Columbian whites attracted widespread attention: the Welsh Indians, the Lost Tribes of Israel, the white Mound Builders, and the Vikings, as well as two ancient Irish interventions. In each instance, public interest was ignited when representations of the group in question became enmeshed in concurrent conversations about the nation's evolving identity and policies. Yet at every turn, counternarratives and public resistance challenged both the plausibility of the pre-Columbian whites and the colonialist symbolism that had been evoked to create a sense of American identity. By challenging the rhetoric of primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers exposed the crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as ex-colonials.
Автор: Leslie Название: Myth and Mythmaking ISBN: 1138994324 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138994324 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 43890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Essays focusing on some of the ways in which myths have been made, and made to function, in the rich cultural history of India from the dawn of history through to the present day.
Автор: Edward Watts Название: Colonizing the Past: Mythmaking and Pre-Columbian Whites in Nineteenth-Century American Writing ISBN: 0813943868 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780813943862 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 72310.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: After the Revolution, Americans realized they lacked the common, deep, or meaningful history that might bind together their loose confederation of former colonies into a genuine nation. They had been conquerors yet colonials, now politically independent yet culturally subordinate to European history and traditions. To resolve these paradoxes, some early republic "historians" went so far as to reconstruct pre-Columbian, transatlantic adventures by white people that might be employed to assert their rights and ennoble their identities as Americans.In Colonizing the Past, Edward Watts labels this impulse "primordialism" and reveals its consistent presence over the span of nineteenth-century American print culture in writers ranging from Washington Irving to Mark Twain. In dozens of texts, Watts tracks episodes in which varying accounts of pre-Columbian whites attracted widespread attention: the Welsh Indians, the Lost Tribes of Israel, the white Mound Builders, and the Vikings, as well as two ancient Irish interventions. In each instance, public interest was ignited when representations of the group in question became enmeshed in concurrent conversations about the nation's evolving identity and policies. Yet at every turn, counternarratives and public resistance challenged both the plausibility of the pre-Columbian whites and the colonialist symbolism that had been evoked to create a sense of American identity. By challenging the rhetoric of primordialism and empire building, dissenting writers exposed the crimes of conquest and white Americans' marginality as ex-colonials.
Автор: Carine Germond Название: Partenaires de raison?: Le couple France-Allemagne et l`unification de l`Europe (1963-1969) ISBN: 3486709402 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783486709407 Издательство: Walter de Gruyter Цена: 61920.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: die Jahre 1963-1969 sind eine Schl sselperiode f r die Beziehungen zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland. Kaum war der lys e-Vertrag unterzeichnet, entbrannten Auseinandersetzungen zwischen Paris und Bonn, die die bilaterale Entente dauernd belasteten. Auf einer breiten Quellenbasis geht Carine Defrance der Hauptfrage nach, ob und weshalb die Unf higkeit beider L nder, zu einem Konsens ber gemeinschaftliche und internationale Schl sselfragen zu kommen, f r die Stagnation des europ ischen Einigungsprozesses in den Jahren 1963-1969 verantwortlich ist. Sie untersucht die dynamischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Frankreich und Deutschland in Europa sowohl im gemeinschaftlichen als auch im internationalen Kontext der 1960er Jahre. Die Autorin arbeitet systematisch die Perspektiven, Motive, Aktionen und Reaktionen in den bilateralen Beziehungen heraus, um ihre Auswirkungen auf die europ ische Ebene aufzuzeigen. Damit hebt sie die deutsch-franz sischen Beziehungen aus der Betrachtung der nationalen Politik hervor und unterscheidet sich damit von bisherigen Arbeiten, die die Paris-Bonn-Achse entweder aus franz sischer oder deutscher Perspektive beleuchtet haben. ber die Analyse der bilateralen Zusammenarbeit hinaus ist dieses Buch ein wichtiger Beitrag zur Historiographie der europ ischen Integration, indem sie die Debatte um das Verh ltnis zwischen Bilateralismus und Multilateralismus und zwischen europ ischer Integration und Kaltem Krieg bereichert.
In dieser Anthologie entdecken Kunsthistoriker und Kulturwissenschaftler von beiden Seiten des Atlantiks das vielschichtige, weitgehend unbekannte Werk von Winold Reiss (1886–1953) wieder und erschlie?en damit ein neues Archiv der multikulturellen Moderne. Der deutsch-amerikanische Maler, Grafiker und Designer suchte zeitlebens, die Kluft zwischen den "schonen Kunsten" und der angewandten kommerziellen Kunst zu uberwinden, indem er durch seinen innovativen Einsatz von Form und Farbe die amerikanische Kunstszene ebenso in Aufruhr brachte wie die Innenarchitektur. In seinen Portrats gelingt es Reiss auf faszinierende Weise, die ethnische Vielfalt der USA und Wurde der Menschen zum Ausdruck zu bringen. Seine spezifische Verbindung von kultureller Diversitat, Primitivismus und Ethnizitat war nicht uberall geschatzt.
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