Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum, Davidson, Kathleen

Автор: Chris Williams
Название: A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 063122579X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780631225799
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: Presents 33 essays on the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the late Georgian and Victorian eras. This book focuses on the experiences of women as well as of men.

Автор: Clymer Jeffory A.
Название: Family Money: Property, Race, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: 0190223871 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190223878
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Examing authors like Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frank Webb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Chesnutt, and Lydia Maria Child, Family Money reveals interracial sexuality to be a volatile mixture of emotion, economics, and law that had dramatic, long-term financial consequences.

Автор: Andrew Robarts
Название: Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region: Ottoman-Russian Relations in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
ISBN: 1474259499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474259491
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Drawing upon Ottoman, Russian, and Bulgarian archival sources, this book explores the nexus between the environment, epidemic disease, human mobility, and the centralizing initiatives of the Ottoman and Russian states in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. As part of a broader discussion on Ottoman-Russian diplomacy, this book re-conceptualizes Ottoman-Russian relations in the Black Sea region in the 18th and 19th centuries. In response to significant increases in human mobility and the spread of epidemic diseases, Ottoman and Russian officials – at the imperial, provincial, and local levels – communicated about and coordinated their efforts to manage migratory movements and check the spread of disease in the Black Sea region. By focusing on the settlement of migrants and refugees along the peripheries of the Ottoman and Russian Empires and by foregrounding the role of local and municipal-level state authorities in the management of migration, Migration and Disease in the Black Sea Region contributes to the developing field of provincial studies in Ottoman and Russian history. This is an important book for anyone interested in comparative imperial history, migration, diaspora formation and the spread of epidemic diseases.

Автор: Phillips Jason
Название: Looming Civil War: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Imagined the Future
ISBN: 0190868163 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190868161
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The Civil War haunted Americans long before it happened. As this innovative book shows, forecasts and prophecies of bloodshed shaped how people approached the conflict and reacted to its unfolding drama. The war changed America`s future and transformed how Americans have thought about the future ever since.

Автор: Wyhe
Название: The Annotated Malay Archipelago By Alfred Russel Wallace
ISBN: 997169820X ISBN-13(EAN): 9789971698201
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Wallace's Malay Archipelago is a classic account of the travels of a Victorian naturalist through island Southeast Asia. It has been loved by readers ever since its publication in 1869. Despite numerous modern reprints with appreciative introductions, this is the first - and long overdue - annotated edition in English.

This edition explains, updates and corrects the original text with an historical introduction and hundreds of explanatory notes. Wallace left hundreds of people, places, publications and species unidentified. He referred to most species only with the scientific name current at the time. Whenever available, the common names for species have been provided, and scientific names updated. The content of the book has never been thoroughly analysed and compared against other contemporary sources. It turns out that the book contains many errors. This includes not just incorrect dates and place names but some of the most remarkable anecdotes; for example, the dramatic claim that tigers "kill on an average a Chinaman every day" in Singapore or that a Dutch Governor General committed suicide by leaping from a waterfall on Celebes.

By correcting the text of the Malay Archipelago against Wallace's letters and notebooks and other contemporary sources and by enriching it with modern identifications this edition reveals Wallace's work as never before.

Автор: David Trippett, Benjamin Walton
Название: Nineteenth-Century Opera and the Scientific Imagination
ISBN: 1107111250 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107111257
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This innovative book will appeal to anyone interested in the cultural, musical and scientific history of the nineteenth century - from undergraduates to professional researchers. Chapters explore topics such as hypnosis, vocal physiology, stage machinery, histories of listening and the interaction of opera with nineteenth-century scientific theories.

Автор: Paeslack, Miriam
Название: Constructing imperial berlin
ISBN: 1517902959 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781517902957
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: How photography and a modernizing Berlin informed an urban image-and one another-in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the city that once visually epitomized a divided Europe has thrived in the international spotlight as an image of reunified statehood and urbanity. Yet research on Berlin’s past has focused on the interwar years of the Weimar Republic or the Cold War era, with much less attention to the crucial Imperial years between 1871 and 1918. Constructing Imperial Berlin is the first book to critically assess, contextualize, and frame urban and architectural photographs of that era. Berlin, as it was pronounced Germany’s capital in 1871, was fraught with questions that had previously beset Paris and London. How was urban expansion and transformation to be absorbed? What was the city’s understanding of its comparably short history? Given this short history, how did it embody the idea of a capital? A key theme of this book is the close interrelation of the city’s rapid physical metamorphosis with repercussions on promotional and critical narratives, the emergence of groundbreaking photographic technologies, and novel forms of mass distribution. Providing a rare analysis of this significant formative era, Miriam Paeslack shows a city far more complex than the common clich?s as a historical and aspiring place suggest. Imperial Berlin emerges as a modern metropolis, only half-heartedly inhibited by urban preservationist concerns and rather more akin to North American cities in their bold industrialization and competing urban expansions than to European counterparts.

Автор: Brian Porter
Название: When Nationalism Began to Hate: Imagining Modern Politics in Nineteenth-Century Poland
ISBN: 0195151879 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780195151879
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In When Nationalism Began to Hate, Brian Porter offers a new explanation for the emergence of xenophobic, authoritarian nationalism in Europe. Focusing on 19th century Poland, he traces the transformation of revolutionary patriotism into a violent anti-Semitic ideology. Instead of deterministically attributing this charge to the "forces of modernization", Porter argues that the language of hatred and discipline was cental to the way "modernity" itself wasperceived.

Автор: Neri Janice, Nummedal Tara, Calhoun John V.
Название: John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration
ISBN: 081732013X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780817320133
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: An archive of never-before-published illustrations of insects and plants painted by a pioneering naturalist.During his lifetime (1751–ca. 1840), English-born naturalist and artist John Abbot rendered more than 4,000 natural history illustrations and profoundly influenced North American entomology, as he documented many species in the New World long before they were scientifically described. For sixty-five years, Abbot worked in Georgia to advance knowledge of the flora and fauna of the American South by sending superbly mounted specimens and exquisitely detailed illustrations of insects, birds, butterflies, and moths, on commission, to collectors and scientists all over the world.Between 1816 and 1818, Abbot completed 104 drawings of insects on their native plants for English naturalist and patron William Swainson (1789–1855). Both Abbot and Swainson were artists, naturalists, and collectors during a time when natural history and the sciences flourished. Separated by nearly forty years in age, Abbot and Swainson were members of the same international communities and correspondence networks upon which the study of nature was based during this period.The relationship between these two men—who never met in person—is explored in John Abbot and William Swainson: Art, Science, and Commerce in Nineteenth-Century Natural History Illustration. This volume also showcases, for the first time, the complete set of original, full-color illustrations discovered in 1977 in the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand. Originally intended as a companion to an earlier survey of insects from Georgia, the newly rediscovered Turnbull manuscript presents beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies, moths, and a wasp. Most of the insects are pictured with the flowering plants upon which Abbot thought them to feed. Abbot’s journal annotations about the habits and biology of each species are also included, as are nomenclature updates for the insect taxa.Today, the Turnbull drawings illuminate the complex array of personal and professional concerns that informed the field of natural history in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These illustrations are also treasured artifacts from times past, their far-flung travels revealing a world being reshaped by the forces of global commerce and information exchange even then. The shared project of John Abbot and William Swainson is now brought to completion, signaling the beginning of a new phase of its significance for modern readers and scholars.

Автор: Gem Scheiwiller, Staci
Название: Liminalities of gender and sexuality in nineteenth-century iranian photography
ISBN: 1138201294 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138201293
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines Qajar Iran (1785-1925) as an ocular-centered society founded on what was seen and unseen, in the context of increasing modernization and global contact during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Автор: Nicole Hudgins
Название: The Gender of Photography: How Masculine and Feminine Values Shaped the History of Nineteenth-Century Photography
ISBN: 1474271561 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474271561
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: It would be unthinkable now to omit early female pioneers from any survey of photography`s history in the Western world. Yet for many years the gendered language of American, British and French photographic literature made it appear that women`s interactions with early photography did not count as significant contributions.

Автор: Helfant Ian M.
Название: That Savage Gaze: Wolves in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Imagination
ISBN: 1644691345 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644691342
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Imperial Russia`s large wolf populations were demonized, persecuted, tormented, and sometimes admired. That Savage Gaze explores the significance of wolves in pre-revolutionary Russia utilizing the perspectives of cultural studies, ecocriticism, and human-animal studies.