The Silent Monument
Author : Shobha Nihalani
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 9788183860994
Author : Shobha Nihalani
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category :
ISBN : 9788183860994
Author : Shobha Nihalani
Publisher : Jaico Publishing House
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8184953062
Sometimes a Secret Must Remain Hidden to Keep the Peace... AN AGE-OLD SCROLL IS DISCOVERED in the hidden chambers of the Taj Mahal. The journalist who finds the ancient artifact is murdered. His feisty widow Manzil is suddenly burdened with the deadly secret, the contents of which could rock the nation. She becomes the most wanted person in the country. Threatened by fanatics, confronted by archaeologists, coerced by the police and under surveillance by a political organization with a hidden agenda, Manzil can trust no one.
Author : Armando Rodriguez
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,55 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Student movements
ISBN :
Author : Robert S. Seigler
Publisher : University of South Carolina Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 31,64 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : History
ISBN :
A county-by-county listing of "all Confederate monuments that appear on courthouse lawns and town squares, in cemeteries, in churchyards, and in public parks throughout South Carolina; memorials erected by churches to honor members of the congregation who served or died in the war; grave markers of all Confederate generals buried in South Carolina; markers commemorating the women of the state; and numerous smaller markers."--Introduction, p. 10
Author : Kenneth Treister
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 19,53 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0826352642
"This richly illustrated book of the history, culture, and art of Easter Island is the first to examine in detail the island's vernacular architecture, often overshadowed by its giant stone statues"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Timothy S. Sedore
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2011-04-29
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0809386259
From well-known battlefields, such as Manassas, Fredericksburg, and Appomattox, to lesser-known sites, such as Sinking Spring Cemetery and Rude’s Hill, Sedore leads readers on a vivid journey through Virginia’s Confederate history. Tablets, monoliths, courthouses, cemeteries, town squares, battlefields, and more are cataloged in detail and accompanied by photographs and meticulous commentary. Each entry contains descriptions, fascinating historical information, and location, providing a complete portrait of each site. Much more than a visual tapestry or a tourist’s handbook, An Illustrated Guide to Virginia’s Confederate Monuments draws on scholarly and field research to reveal these sites as public efforts to reconcile mourning with Southern postwar ideologies. Sedore analyzes in depth the nature of these attempts to publicly explain Virginia’s sense of grief after the war, delving deep into the psychology of a traumatized area. From commemorations of famous generals to memories of unknown soldiers, the dead speak from the pages of this sweeping companion to history.
Author : Judith Dupré
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 13,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Skyscrapers, Churches, and Bridges comes a stunning visual history that serves as a tribute to classic American landmarks.
Author : Catherine Clinton
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release : 2019-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820355569
Nine killed in Charleston church shooting. White supremacists demonstrate in Charlottesville. Monuments decommissioned in New Orleans and Chapel Hill. The headlines keep coming, and the debate rolls on. How should we contend with our troubled history as a nation? What is the best way forward? This first book in UGA Press’s History in the Headlines series offers a rich discussion between four leading scholars who have studied the history of Confederate memory and memorialization. Through this dialogue, we see how historians explore contentious topics and provide historical context for students and the broader public. Confederate Statues and Memorialization artfully engages the past and its influence on present racial and social tensions in an accessible format for students and interested general readers. Following the conversation, the book includes a “Top Ten” set of essays and articles that everyone should read to flesh out their understanding of this contentious, sometimes violent topic. The book closes with an extended list of recommended reading, offering readers specific suggestions for pursuing other voices and points of view.
Author : Natasha D. Trethewey
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 132850784X
Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award for Poetry " Trethewey's poems] dig beneath the surface of history--personal or communal, from childhood or from a century ago--to explore the human struggles that we all face." --James H. Billington, 13th Librarian of Congress Layering joy and urgent defiance--against physical and cultural erasure, against white supremacy whether intangible or graven in stone--Trethewey's work gives pedestal and witness to unsung icons. Monument, Trethewey's first retrospective, draws together verse that delineates the stories of working class African American women, a mixed-race prostitute, one of the first black Civil War regiments, mestizo and mulatto figures in Casta paintings, Gulf coast victims of Katrina. Through the collection, inlaid and inextricable, winds the poet's own family history of trauma and loss, resilience and love. In this setting, each section, each poem drawn from an "opus of classics both elegant and necessary,"* weaves and interlocks with those that come before and those that follow. As a whole, Monument casts new light on the trauma of our national wounds, our shared history. This is a poet's remarkable labor to source evidence, persistence, and strength from the past in order to change the very foundation of the vocabulary we use to speak about race, gender, and our collective future. *Academy of American Poets' chancellor Marilyn Nelson
Author : Kathryn Allamong Jacob
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 37,50 MB
Release : 1998-10-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801858611
This book tells the stories behind the many District of Columbia statues that honor participants in the Civil War. Organized geographically for easy use on walking or driving tours, the entries list the subject and title of each memorial along with its sculptor, medium, date, and location. 92 photos.