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Images of the Past
- Author : T. Douglas Price,Gary Feinman
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
- Release : 25 September 2012
Images of the Past
- Author : T. Douglas Price,Gary Feinman
- Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education
- Release : 25 September 2012
Images of the Past is an introduction to prehistoric archaeology that aims to capture the excitement and visual splendor of archaeology while at the same time providing insight into current research methods, interpretations, and theories in the field. The seventh edition offers a beautifully illustrated, full-color, site-by-site survey of prehistory and has been revised in accordance with both new discoveries in archeology and the interests of readers.
Images of the Past
- Author : Theron Douglas Price,Gary M. Feinman
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 23 May 2019
"Images of the Past is an introduction to prehistoric archaeology that aims to capture the excitement and visual splendor of archaeology while providing insight into current research methods, interpretations, and theories in the field. Price and Feinman offer a site-by-site survey of prehistory -- covering 80 sites from a variety of times and places around the world and including recent discoveries. This text emphasizes discoveries that produced major insights into prehistory, with the selected sites acting signposts to the past to
Images of the Recent Past
- Author : Charles E. Orser
- Publisher : Rowman Altamira
- Release : 16 January 1996
Historical archaeology has been without a definitive, up-to-date collection that reflects the breadth of the field-until now. Orser's book brings together classic and contemporary articles that demonstrate the development of the field over the last twenty years, both in North America and throughout the world. Orser's selections represent a wide variety of locales and perspectives and include works by many of the leading figures in the field. Engaging articles make it accessible to any interested reader, and superb for historical
The Tsimshian
- Author : Margaret Seguin
- Publisher : UBC Press
- Release : 16 January 1993
This volume examines Tsimshian culture from the prehistoric period to the recent past and includes contributions from such diverse perspectives as archaeology, linguistics, and social anthropology. The contributors demonstrate a balance between current fieldwork and careful archival analysis, as they build on the voluminous materials that are a legacy of the scholarship of such major figures as Boas, Barbeau, Tate, and Garfield. The book includes chapters on the crest system and participation of the Tsimshian in the 'non-Native' economy of
Maps and History
- Author : Jeremy Black
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Release : 16 January 2021
Explores the role, development, and nature of the atlas and discusses its impact on the presentation of the past.
Shadows of Things Past and Images of the Future: Lessons for the Insurgencies in Our Midst
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher : DIANE Publishing
- Release : 16 January 2021
Lost Toronto
- Author : William Dendy
- Publisher : McClelland & Stewart Limited
- Release : 16 January 1993
History and Its Images
- Author : Francis Haskell
- Publisher : Yale University Press
- Release : 16 January 1993
Since the 16th century, historians have been examining visual sources in an attempt to understand the past. In this book Haskell charts the changing uses history has made of visual material.
Talking Pictures
- Author : Ransom Riggs
- Publisher : Harper Collins
- Release : 16 October 2012
With the candid quirkiness of Awkward Family Photos and the confessional intimacy of PostSecret, Ransom Riggs's Talking Pictures is a haunting collection of antique found photographs—with evocative inscriptions that bring these lost personal moments to life—from the author of the New York Times bestselling illustrated novel Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. Each image in Talking Pictures reveals a singular, frozen moment in a person’s life, be it joyful, quiet, or steeped in sorrow. Yet the
Images of Hutchinson
- Author : Anonim
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 16 January 2021
A Century of Man-Made Disasters
- Author : Nigel Blundell
- Publisher : Pen and Sword
- Release : 30 October 2019
A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century. It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced. The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s worst air disaster when two jumbo jets collided on the island of Tenerife. We recall the horrors of Aberfan, the Welsh village in which
"Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present "
- Author : Stacy Boldrick
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 05 July 2017
All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and other cultural material from pre-history into the 21st century. With its impressive chronological sweep and disciplinary breadth, this is the first book about iconoclasm (the breaking of images) and the transformation of broader sets of signs that includes contributions from archaeologists, curators, and museum conservators as well as historians of art, literature and religious studies. The chapters
Images of the Past ; Lynchburg Portraits
- Author : Patricia A. Piorkowski Hobbs,Antiquarian Club of Lynchburg,Lynchburg Museum System,Lynchburg Fine Arts Center
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 16 January 1986
Images Performing History
- Author : Katarzyna Ruchel-Stockmans
- Publisher : Leuven University Press
- Release : 18 September 2015
The operative role of the photographic media in making and remaking history History is increasingly made in images, not only because its records are largely photographic but also because our ideas about the past are formed in visual terms. This book offers a discussion of contemporary art practices which question the received notions of historical representations after the pivotal changes of 1989 in Europe. These art practices reveal, in different ways, the operative role of the photographic media in making and