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Series
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
[1st edition].
Physical Desc
viii, 281 pages ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Reflecting on the sesquicentennial of the American Civil War, this notable book brings together a range of media and perspectives that show how the conflict has been recorded and remembered over time. Fifteen essays written by leading scholars in a variety of disciplines explore visual representations of the war and its remembrance from the mid-19th century to the present. The text is organized in four sections on the themes of home, the battlefield,...
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 696 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language
English
Description
The field of American women's writing is one characterized by innovation: scholars are discovering new authors and works, as well as new ways of historicizing this literature, rethinking contexts, categories and juxtapositions. Now, after three decades of scholarly investigation and innovation, the rich complexity and diversity of American literature written by women can be seen with a new coherence and subtlety. Dedicated to this expanding heterogeneity,...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xii, 644 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A scholarly primer by the intellectual and author Henry Louis Gates, Jr. collects three decades of his writings in a range of fields, in a volume that also offers insight into his achievements as a historian, theorist, and cultural critic.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A powerfully built man more than six feet tall, Amundsen's career of adventure began at the age of fifteen (he was born in Norway in 1872 to a family of merchant sea captains and rich ship owners). Twenty-five years later he was the first man to reach both the North and South Poles. The author, an adventurer and swimmer, author of Swimming to Antarctica, gives us in this new work a full-scale account of Amundsen's life and expeditions. We see Amundsen,...
48) Jazz
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xiii, 704 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
History of jazz that explains what jazz is, where it came from, and who created it and why, all within the broader context of American life and culture. Emphasizing its African American roots, Jazz traces the history of the music over the last hundred years. From ragtime and blues to the international craze for swing, from the heated protests of the avant-garde to the radical diversity of today's artists, Jazz describes the travails and triumphs of...
54) Cantate domino
Pub. Date
1966
Physical Desc
1 audio disc : 33 1/3 rpm, stereo ; 12 in.
Language
English
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