Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (MacKenzie John M.)(Paperback)

Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (MacKenzie John M.)(Paperback)

Museums and empire' is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses museum histories in thirteen major centres in Canada, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India and South-East

Kinship, Church and Culture - Collected Essays and Studies by John W. M. Bannerman (Bannerman John W. M.)(Paperback / softback)

John Bannerman (1932 2008) saw the history of Scotland from a Gaelic perspective, and his outstanding scholarship made that perspective impossible to ignore. As a historian, his natural home was the era between the Romans and the twelfth century when the Scottish kingdom first began to take shape,

Museums and Sites of Persuasion: Politics, Memory and Human Rights (Apsel Joyce)(Paperback)

Museums and Sites of Persuasion examines the concept of museums and memory sites as locations that attempt to promote human rights, democracy and peace. Demonstrating that such sites have the potential to act as powerful spaces of persuasion or contestation, the book also shows that there are

Visualizing Empire: Africa, Europe, and the Politics of Representation (Peabody Rebecca)(Paperback)

An exploration of how an official French visual culture normalized France's colonial project and exposed citizens and subjects to racialized ideas of life in the empire. By the end of World War I, having fortified its colonial holdings in the Caribbean, Latin America, Africa, the Indian Ocean, and

Old Hurlford and Crookedholm (MacKenzie John)(Paperback / softback)

Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites (Rose Julia)(Paperback)

Interpreting Difficult History at Museums and Historic Sites is framed by educational psychoanalytic theory and positions museum workers, public historians, and museum visitors as learners. Through this lens, museum workers and public historians can develop compelling and ethical representations of

Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology (MacKenzie Scott)(Paperback)

The Division of the World: On Archives, Empires and the Vanity of Borders (Zimmermann Martin)(Paperback)

A photographer and a historian explore a vast archive of Spanish colonial history. At a time when Western nations are being urged to confront their colonial past, this book examines a major archive, revealing the scale of the Spanish colonial enterprise in South and Central America. Established

Blood and Money: War, Slavery, Finance, and Empire (McNally David)(Paperback)

Blood and Money tells the story of money as a history of violence and human

Reason and Human Good in Aristotle (Cooper John M.)(Paperback / softback)

Hodder Education Caribbean History: Empires and Conquests (Gilmore John T)(Paperback / softback)

Provide students with a solid foundation in Caribbean history and encourage social studies skills, with an active approach to the study of social history for Lower

Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions - The History of Human Culture, its Role in Social Sciences (Kroeber A. L.)(Paperback)

Alfred Louis Kroeber offers an all-embracing account of human culture, looking at its historical definitions, contemporary definitions, and its role as a foundation for all of the social sciences.A work striking for its thoroughness, Culture: A Critical Review begins by examining the origins of the

London's Museums and Galleries: Exploring the Best of the City's Art and Culture (Ross Eleanor)(Paperback)

A curated guide to the best of London's museums and galleries. From the obscure to the resplendent, Eleanor Ross acquaints you with the very best museums and galleries the city has to offer. Including world-famous art to quirky collections, London is host to a vast assortment of enlightening

The British Empire through buildings: Structure, function and meaning (MacKenzie John M.)(Pevná vazba)

Imperialism is strikingly represented in its buildings. This work illuminates the dispersal of colonial culture and religious forms, social classes, and racial divisions over two centuries, from the establishment of colonial rule to a post-colonial world. It will be a vital reading for all students

India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs (Das Santanu)(Paperback)

Based on ten years of research, Santanu Das's India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs recovers the sensuous experience of combatants, non-combatants and civilians from undivided India in the 1914-1918 conflict and their socio-cultural, visual, and literary worlds

Noise - A Human History of Sound and Listening (Hendy David)(Paperback / softback)

Prehistoric drummers used natural acoustics to recreate natural sound. In classical Europe, orators turned the human voice into a lyrical instrument. In Buddhist temples, the icons' ears were exaggerated to represent their spiritual power. This book explores the role of sound, noise and listening

Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids: Family-Friendly Projects for Exploring and Teaching Math, Science, History, and Culture Through Creative Building (Miller John)(Paperback)

Mind Shift: How Culture Transformed the Human Brain (Parrington John)(Pevná vazba)

John Parrington argues that social interaction and culture have deeply shaped the exceptional nature of human consciousness. The mental capacities of the human mind far outstrip those of other animals. Our imaginations and creativity have produced art, music, and literature; built bridges and

Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa (MacKenzie Caroline K.)(Paperback)

Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa paints a picture of what life might have been like for the inhabitants of the villa in the late third and fourth centuries AD. The villa today, in the Darent Valley, Kent, has an unusual amount of well-preserved evidence for its interior decoration

Colonial and Postcolonial Change in Mesoamerica: Archaeology as Historical Anthropology (Alexander Rani T.)(Pevná vazba)

This book offers a new account of human interaction and culture change for Mesoamerica that connects the present to the past. Social histories that assess the cultural upheavals between the Spanish invasion of Mesoamerica and the ethnographic present overlook the archaeological record, with its

Religion and Governance in England's Emerging Colonial Empire, 1601-1698 (Smith Haig Z.)(Paperback)

1. Introduction: Introduction: 'A Just Government': Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622-1639): Establishing Theocratic

Understanding China: A Guide to China's Economy, History, and Political Culture (Starr John Bryan)(Paperback)

In this succinct, modest, and refreshingly forthright book--now revised and updated for the new century--Starr introduces to the uninitiated reader the background, basic data, and issues at stake in China's crisis-ridden present and future.After ten years, John Bryan Starr has thoroughly revised

Concrete and Culture: A Material History (Forty Adrian)(Paperback)

Concrete has been used in arches, vaults, and domes dating as far back as the Roman Empire. Today, it is everywhere--in our roads, bridges, sidewalks, walls, and architecture. For each person on the planet, nearly three tons of concrete are produced every year. Used almost universally in modern

A Concise History of Hong Kong (Carroll John M.)(Paperback)

John M. Carroll's engrossing and accessible narrative explores the remarkable history of Hong Kong from the early 1800s through the post-1997 handover, when this former colony became a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China. The book explores Hong Kong as a place with a