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  • A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment

    Edited by Professor Audrey Horning ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    A Cultural History of Objects in the Age of Enlightenment covers the period 1600 to 1760, a time marked by the movement of people, ideas and goods. The objects explored in this volume –from scientific instrumentation and Baroque paintings to slave ships and shackles –encapsulate the contradictory impulses of the age. The entwined forces of capitalism and colonialism created new patterns of ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Private Lives, Public Histories

    An Ethnohistory of the Intimate Past

    by Jacqueline Fewkes, Rachel Corr, Audrey Horning, Anna S. Agbe-Davies, Melissa J. Brown, Minette C. Church, Jean Muteba Rahier, Niklas Hultin ...
    Private Lives, Public Histories brings together diverse methods from archaeology and cultural anthropology, enabling us to glean rare information on private lives from the historical record. The chapters span geographic areas to present recent ethnohistorical research that advances our knowledge of the connections between the public and private domains and the significance of these connections for ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • Ireland in the Virginian Sea

    Colonialism in the British Atlantic

    by Audrey Horning ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America. Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation. Focusing on the Ulster ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Worlds of William Penn

    by Andrew R. Murphy, Elizabeth Milroy, Catharine Dann Roeber, Emily Mann, Marcus Gallo, Audrey Horning, Elizabeth Sauer, Scott Sowerby, Patrick M. Erben0, Michael Goode1, Alexander Mazzaferro2, Sarah A. Morgan Smith3, Catie Gill4, Adrian Chastain Weimer5, Rachel Love Monroy6, Evan Haefeli7, Patrick Cecil8, Shuichi Wanibuchi9 ...
    William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Archaeology of Southern Urban Landscapes

    by Shannon Lee Dawdy, Bonnie L. Gums, Joseph W. Joseph, Linda Derry, Patrick Garrow, Terry Kline, Robert A. Genheimer, Audrey Horning, George W. Shorter Jr, Christopher N. Matthews, Martha A. Zierden ...
    Groundbreaking essays in urban archaeology highlight the impact of towns and cities on the southern landscape.The rapid growth and development of urban areas in the South have resulted in an increase in the number of urban archaeology projects required by federal and state agencies. These projects provide opportunities not only to investigate marginal areas between the town and countryside but ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

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    $2.99 USD

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  • A History of Canadian Culture

    by Jonathan F. Vance ...
    In a country this diverse, 'culture' has different meanings. Vance tells a story from the wind-swept Arctic where a stranded Innu woman, fighting to survive, took the time to decorate her clothing with rich designs. A British explorer was amazed at her efforts, but Vance reminds us of the inseparable connection between life and art in Inuit culture (the Innu word for 'breathe' also means 'to make ... Read more

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  • Landscape Architecture

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    by Ian Thompson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Landscape architecture plays an important role in shaping the places in which we live and work. But what is it? Landscape architects are involved, amongst other things, in the layout of business parks, the reclamation of derelict industrial sites, the restoration of historic city parks, and the siting and design of major pieces of infrastructure such as motorways, dams, power stations, and flood ... Read more

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  • The Past Is a Foreign Country – Revisited

    by David Lowenthal ...
    The past remains essential - and inescapable. A quarter-century after the publication of his classic account of man's attitudes to his past, David Lowenthal revisits how we celebrate, expunge, contest and domesticate the past to serve present needs. He shows how nostalgia and heritage now pervade every facet of public and popular culture. History embraces nature and the cosmos as well as humanity. ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Human Ecology

    How Nature and Culture Shape Our World

    by Frederick R. Steiner ...
    Humans have always been influenced by natural landscapes, and always will be—even as we create ever-larger cities and our developments fundamentally change the nature of the earth around us. In Human Ecology, noted city planner and landscape architect Frederick Steiner encourages us to consider how human cultures have been shaped by natural forces, and how we might use this understanding to ... Read more

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    Edited by Rachel DeLue, James Elkins ...
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    Artistic representations of landscape are studied widely in areas ranging from art history to geography to sociology, yet there has been little consensus about how to understand the relationship between landscape and art. This book brings together more than fifty scholars from these multiple disciplines to establish new ways of thinking about landscape in art. ... Read more

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  • American Eden

    From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

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