Urban Identity And The Atlantic World

Author : E. Fay
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137087870
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Identity and the Atlantic World written by E. Fay and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constant flow of people, ideas, and commodities across the Atlantic propelled the development of a public sphere. Chapters explore the multiple ways in which a growing urban consciousness influenced national and international cultural and political intersections.

Author : Nicholas Canny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691222096
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 written by Nicholas Canny and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming.

Author : Daniel Maudlin
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469626837
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Building the British Atlantic World written by Daniel Maudlin and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2016-03-11 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning the North Atlantic rim from Canada to Scotland, and from the Caribbean to the coast of West Africa, the British Atlantic world is deeply interconnected across its regions. In this groundbreaking study, thirteen leading scholars explore the idea of transatlanticism--or a shared "Atlantic world" experience--through the lens of architecture, built spaces, and landscapes in the British Atlantic from the seventeenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. Examining town planning, churches, forts, merchants' stores, state houses, and farm houses, this collection shows how the powerful visual language of architecture and design allowed the people of this era to maintain common cultural experiences across different landscapes while still forming their individuality. By studying the interplay between physical construction and social themes that include identity, gender, taste, domesticity, politics, and race, the authors interpret material culture in a way that particularly emphasizes the people who built, occupied, and used the spaces and reflects the complex cultural exchanges between Britain and the New World.

Author : Leonard von Morzé
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137526068
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and the Circulation of Culture in the Atlantic World written by Leonard von Morzé and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-29 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a much-needed comparative approach to the history of cities by investigating the dissemination of cultural forms between cities of the Atlantic world. The contributors attend to the various forms and norms of cultural representation in Atlantic history, examining a wealth of diverse topics such as the Portuguese Atlantic; the Spanish Empire; Guy Fawkes and the conspiratorial rhetoric of slaves; Albert-Charles Wulffleff and the Parc-Musée of Dakar; and the writings of Jane Austen, Alexis de Tocqueville, Benjamin Franklin, and others. By interpreting Atlantic urban history through sustained attention to customs and representational forms, an international group of nine contributors demonstrate the power of culture in the making of Atlantic urban experience, even as they acknowledge the harsh realities of economic history.

Author : S. Ahlberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137479221
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction written by S. Ahlberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlantic Afterlives in Contemporary Fiction offers fresh readings of what has been called "transatlantic literature". In selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts it discovers a shift from oceanic, place-based knowledge to an atmospheric, placeless circulation of information. Consonant with the displacements of the Information Age, this book reads contemporary narrative as it imagines and navigates today's virtual spaces. An important conclusion of the book is that intellectual resources are finite and should be used sustainably. Thus, arguing against a conventional comparative approach, this book proposes reading practices that resist the tendency toward an oversupply of reworked literary contexts that seems bent on matching the reach of the World Wide Web. Instead, the book reimagines place as a practice in the way it is communicated and narrated. Ultimately, this book empowers the reader to reimagine a future for narrative in the Information Age.

Author : J. Mitchell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137444444
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans-Atlantic Passages written by J. Mitchell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philip Hale (1854-1934) helped put Boston on the Transatlantic map through his music writing. Mitchell reconstructs Hale's oeuvre to produce an authoritative account of the role the Boston Symphony played in the international world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century music.

Author : Paige Tovey
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340150
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Transatlantic Eco-Romanticism of Gary Snyder written by Paige Tovey and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-18 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing connections between Gary Snyder and his Romantic and Transcendentalist predecessors - Wordsworth, Blake, Emerson, Whitman, and Thoreau - this study explores the tension between urbanization and overindustrialization. The dialectical relationship between Snyder and his predecessors reminds readers that nature is never a simple concept.

Author : Cynthia Schoolar Williams
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137340053
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815–1835 written by Cynthia Schoolar Williams and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hospitality and the Transatlantic Imagination, 1815-1835 argues that a select group of late-Romantic English and American writers disrupted national tropes by reclaiming their countries' shared historical identification with hospitality. In doing so, they reimagined the spaces of encounter: the city, the coast of England, and the Atlantic itself.

Author : Paul Niell
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292766599
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Space as Heritage in Late Colonial Cuba written by Paul Niell and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to national legend, Havana, Cuba, was founded under the shade of a ceiba tree whose branches sheltered the island's first Catholic mass and meeting of the town council (cabildo) in 1519. The founding site was first memorialized in 1754 by the erection of a baroque monument in Havana's central Plaza de Armas, which was reconfigured in 1828 by the addition of a neoclassical work, El Templete. Viewing the transformation of the Plaza de Armas from the new perspective of heritage studies, this book investigates how late colonial Cuban society narrated Havana's founding to valorize Spanish imperial power and used the monuments to underpin a local sense of place and cultural authenticity, civic achievement, and social order. Paul Niell analyzes how Cubans produced heritage at the site of the symbolic ceiba tree by endowing the collective urban space of the plaza with a cultural authority that used the past to validate various place identities in the present. Niell's close examination of the extant forms of the 1754 and 1828 civic monuments, which include academic history paintings, neoclassical architecture, and idealized sculpture in tandem with period documents and printed texts, reveals a "dissonance of heritage"—in other words, a lack of agreement as to the works' significance and use. He considers the implications of this dissonance with respect to a wide array of interests in late colonial Havana, showing how heritage as a dominant cultural discourse was used to manage and even disinherit certain sectors of the colonial population.

Author : Andrew Lipman
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300216696
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Saltwater Frontier written by Andrew Lipman and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Lipman’s eye-opening first book is the previously untold story of how the ocean became a “frontier” between colonists and Indians. When the English and Dutch empires both tried to claim the same patch of coast between the Hudson River and Cape Cod, the sea itself became the arena of contact and conflict. During the violent European invasions, the region’s Algonquian-speaking Natives were navigators, boatbuilders, fishermen, pirates, and merchants who became active players in the emergence of the Atlantic World. Drawing from a wide range of English, Dutch, and archeological sources, Lipman uncovers a new geography of Native America that incorporates seawater as well as soil. Looking past Europeans’ arbitrary land boundaries, he reveals unseen links between local episodes and global events on distant shores. Lipman’s book “successfully redirects the way we look at a familiar history” (Neal Salisbury, Smith College). Extensively researched and elegantly written, this latest addition to Yale’s seventeenth-century American history list brings the early years of New England and New York vividly to life.