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Untimely Ruins
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Author : Nick Yablon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-06-15
Untimely Ruins written by Nick Yablon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city.
Untimely Ruins
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Author : Garrison Lane
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2017-05-09
Untimely Ruins written by Garrison Lane and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-09 with categories.
American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of "urban blight" and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation's history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation-from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons.
Ruin Nation
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Author : Megan Kate Nelson
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2012-05-15
Ruin Nation written by Megan Kate Nelson and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-15 with History categories.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers’ bodies were transformed into “dead heaps of ruins,” novel sights in the southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did Americans—northern and southern, black and white, male and female—make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state, an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they confronted the war’s destructiveness. Architectural ruins—cities and houses—dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told about the “savage” behavior of men and the invasions of domestic privacy. The ruins of living things—trees and bodies—also provoked discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime technologies on nature and on individual identities. The obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the war’s ruination—in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness people found common ground as they considered the war’s costs. And yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans during the Civil War have been erased from our national consciousness.
The Oxford Handbook Of The Archaeology Of The Contemporary World
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Author : Paul Graves-Brown
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2013-10-17
The Oxford Handbook Of The Archaeology Of The Contemporary World written by Paul Graves-Brown and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-17 with Social Science categories.
It has been clear for many years that the ways in which archaeology is practised have been a direct product of a particular set of social, cultural, and historical circumstances - archaeology is always carried out in the present. More recently, however, many have begun to consider how archaeological techniques might be used to reflect more directly on the contemporary world itself: how we might undertake archaeologies of, as well as in the present. This Handbook is the first comprehensive survey of an exciting and rapidly expanding sub-field and provides an authoritative overview of the newly emerging focus on the archaeology of the present and recent past. In addition to detailed archaeological case studies, it includes essays by scholars working on the relationships of different disciplines to the archaeology of the contemporary world, including anthropology, psychology, philosophy, historical geography, science and technology studies, communications and media, ethnoarchaeology, forensic archaeology, sociology, film, performance, and contemporary art. This volume seeks to explore the boundaries of an emerging sub-discipline, to develop a tool-kit of concepts and methods which are applicable to this new field, and to suggest important future trajectories for research. It makes a significant intervention by drawing together scholars working on a broad range of themes, approaches, methods, and case studies from diverse contexts in different parts of the world, which have not previously been considered collectively.
Remembrance Of Things Present
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Author : Nick Yablon
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2019-06-12
Remembrance Of Things Present written by Nick Yablon and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-12 with History categories.
Time capsules offer unexpected insights into how people view their own time, place, and culture, as well as their duties to future generations. Remembrance of Things Present traces the birth of this device to the Gilded Age, when growing urban volatility prompted doubts about how the period would be remembered—or if it would be remembered at all. Yablon details how diverse Americans – from presidents and mayors to advocates for the rights of women, blacks, and workers – constructed prospective memories of their present. They did so by contributing not just written testimony to time capsules but also sources that historians and archivists considered illegitimate, such as photographs, phonograph records, films, and everyday artifacts. By offering a direct line to posterity, time capsules stimulated various hopes for the future. Remembrance of Things Present delves into these treasure chests to unearth those forgotten futures.
Southey
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Author : Edward Dowden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
Southey written by Edward Dowden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Authors, English categories.
English Men Of Letters
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Author : John Morley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
English Men Of Letters written by John Morley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with Authors, English categories.
Engish Men Of Letters
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Author : John Morley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1894
Engish Men Of Letters written by John Morley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1894 with categories.
Hours With The Mystics
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Author : Robert Alfred Vaughan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Hours With The Mystics written by Robert Alfred Vaughan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Mysticism categories.
Acme Library Of Standard Biography
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
Acme Library Of Standard Biography written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Authors, English categories.