Patriots Against Fashion

Patriots Against Fashion

Author: A. Maxwell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-08-05

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1137277149

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During the era of the French revolution, patriots across Europe tried to introduce a national uniform. This book, the first comparative study of national uniform schemes, discusses case studies from Austria, Bulgaria, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Turkey the United States, and Wales.


Nationalism and Classicism

Nationalism and Classicism

Author: Athena S. Leoussi

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780312177768

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This is a comparative study of the national significance of the classical revival which marked English and French art during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the main focus of artists' interest in classical Greece, was the body of the Greek athlete. It explains this interest, first, by artists' contact with the art of Pheidias and Polycletus which portrayed it; and second, by the claim, made by physical anthropologists, the classical body typified the race of the European nations.


Sensorimotor Control

Sensorimotor Control

Author: Reinhard Dengler

Publisher: IOS Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 9781586030810

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Despite the intensive experimental and theoretical studies for over a century, the general processes involved in neural control of pasture and movement, in learning of motor behaviour in healthy subjects and in adaptation in pathology were and remain a challenging problems for the scientists in the field of sensorimotor control. The book is the outcome of the Advanced Research Workshop Sensorimotor Control, where the focus was on the state and the perspectives of the study in the field.


One Heroic Hour at King's Mountain

One Heroic Hour at King's Mountain

Author: Pat Alderman

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780932807403

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This is a documented account of the events leading up to the Battle at King’s Mountain (South Carolina) on October 7, 1780, and one eventful hour that changed the course of American history.


Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District

Some Boone Descendants and Kindred of the St. Charles District

Author: Lilian Hays Oliver

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13:

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George Boone III (1666-1844) married Mary Milton Maugridge about 1689 and, as Quakers, in 1717 the family immigrated from England to Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsyl- vania, North Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, California, Washington and elsewhere.


Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces

Mississippian Towns and Sacred Spaces

Author: R. Barry Lewis

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1998-10-28

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0817309470

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In this volume, prominent archaeologists examine the architectural design spaces of Mississippian towns and mound centers of the eastern United States.