Impressionist Art, 1860-1920: Impressionism in France
Author : Peter H. Feist
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783822896549
Author : Peter H. Feist
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783822896549
Author : Eric H. Monkkonen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2004-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521531252
This book examines the rapid spread of uniformed police forces throughout late nineteenth-century urban America. It suggests that, initially, the new kind of police in industrial cities served primarily as agents of class control, dispensing and administering welfare services as an unintentioned consequence of their uniformed presence on the streets.
Author : Melissa R. Klapper
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 30,48 MB
Release : 2007-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814749348
Jewish Girls Coming of Age in America, 1860—1920 draws on a wealth of archival material, much of which has never been published—or even read—to illuminate the ways in which Jewish girls’ adolescent experiences reflected larger issues relating to gender, ethnicity, religion, and education. Klapper explores the dual roles girls played as agents of acculturation and guardians of tradition. Their search for an identity as American girls that would not require the abandonment of Jewish tradition and culture mirrored the struggle of their families and communities for integration into American society. While focusing on their lives as girls, not the adults they would later become, Klapper draws on the papers of such figures as Henrietta Szold, founder of Hadassah; Edna Ferber, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Showboat; and Marie Syrkin, literary critic and Zionist. Klapper also analyzes the diaries, memoirs, and letters of hundreds of other girls whose later lives and experiences have been lost to history. Told in an engaging style and filled with colorful quotes, the book brings to life a neglected group of fascinating historical figures during a pivotal moment in the development of gender roles, adolescence, and the modern American Jewish community.
Author : Thomas C. Kennedy
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 30,98 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780198270355
Professor Kennedy's book chronicles the metamorphosis of the British Society of Friends from a tiny, self-isolated body of peculiar people into a theologically liberal, spiritually vital association of activists. Defined by a strong social commitment and enduring pacifist ethic British Quakersassumed an importance in society out of all proportion to their minuscule numbers. This transformation was, first and foremost, the product of a spiritual and intellectual struggle among Quaker factions-evangelical, conservative, and liberal-seeking to delineate the future path of their religiousSociety. Inspired by the leadership of a remarkable band of intellectually acute, theologically progressive, and spiritually committed men and women, London Yearly Meeting was both reformed and revitalised during the so-called Quaker Renaissance. Simultaneously embracing advanced modern ideas andreiterating their attachment to traditional Quaker principles, especially the egalitarian concept of the Inner Light of Christ and a revived peace testimony, liberal Quakers prepared the ground for their Society's dramatic confrontation with the Warrior State after 1914. Official Quaker resistance to the Great War not only fixed the image of the Society of Friends as Britain's most authentic and significant peace church, it also brought a group of talented and determined Quaker women into the front lines of the Society's struggle against war and conscription, aposition from which twentieth-century female Friends have never retreated. Quakerism emerged from the war as the religious body least tainted by spiritual compromise. Thus, when British Quakers hosted the first World Conference of All Friends in 1920, they could take satisfaction in their struggle to keep alive the voce of pacifist conscience and express renewed hope intheir enduring mission to create the Kingdom of God on earth.
Author : Norma Broude
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,21 MB
Release : 1994-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
As this major contribution to art history shows, Impressionism was far more than a French movement that spread to other countries; rather, it was an approach to art adopted by artists of all nationalities who responded to light and atmospheric conditions, to landscape and cityscape, with an explosion of enthusiasm that was felt around the globe.
Author : Benjamin J. Wetzel
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501763954
When is a war a holy crusade? And when does theology cause Christians to condemn violence? In American Crusade, Benjamin Wetzel argues that the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and World War I shared a cultural meaning for white Protestant ministers in the United States, who considered each conflict to be a modern-day crusade. American Crusade examines the "holy war" mentality prevalent between 1860 and 1920, juxtaposing mainline Protestant support for these wars with more hesitant religious voices: Catholics, German-speaking Lutherans, and African American Methodists. The specific theologies and social locations of these more marginal denominations made their ministries highly critical of the crusading mentality. Religious understandings of the nation, both in support of and opposed to armed conflict, played a major role in such ideological contestation. Wetzel's book questions traditional periodizations and suggests that these three wars should be understood as a unit. Grappling with the views of America's religious leaders, supplemented by those of ordinary people, American Crusade provides a fresh way of understanding the three major American wars of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author : U. P. Hedrick
Publisher : New York Oxford University Press 1950.
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 20,27 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Gardening
ISBN :
Author : Shellen Xiao Wu
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 21,77 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0804794731
From 1868–1872, German geologist Ferdinand von Richthofen went on an expedition to China. His reports on what he found there would transform Western interest in China from the land of porcelain and tea to a repository of immense coal reserves. By the 1890s, European and American powers and the Qing state and local elites battled for control over the rights to these valuable mineral deposits. As coal went from a useful commodity to the essential fuel of industrialization, this vast natural resource would prove integral to the struggle for political control of China. Geology served both as the handmaiden to European imperialism and the rallying point of Chinese resistance to Western encroachment. In the late nineteenth century both foreign powers and the Chinese viewed control over mineral resources as the key to modernization and industrialization. When the first China Geological Survey began work in the 1910s, conceptions of natural resources had already shifted, and the Qing state expanded its control over mining rights, setting the precedent for the subsequent Republican and People's Republic of China regimes. In Empires of Coal, Shellen Xiao Wu argues that the changes specific to the late Qing were part of global trends in the nineteenth century, when the rise of science and industrialization destabilized global systems and caused widespread unrest and the toppling of ruling regimes around the world.
Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 28,13 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107018897
A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.
Author : Nancy Schiffer
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780764310430
The world now applauds the exquisite ornamental ceramics made in Japan in the late 19th century for export to Europe and America. Here the breathtaking beauty of intricate decoration on Satsuma, Imari, Kutani, Hirado and other ceramics is displayed in over 500 color photographs with a carefully researched text, descriptive captions, and information about the current world market.