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Author: Henry-Russell Hitchcock
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis extensive work on American state capitols includes photographs of the capitol buildings of every state, as well as details on their planning and construction.
Author: Kajri Jain
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2021-01-08
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1478012889
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 2018 India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, inaugurated the world's tallest statue: a 597-foot figure of nationalist leader Sardar Patel. Twice the height of the Statue of Liberty, it is but one of many massive statues built following India's economic reforms of the 1990s. In Gods in the Time of Democracy Kajri Jain examines how monumental icons emerged as a religious and political form in contemporary India, mobilizing the concept of emergence toward a radical treatment of art historical objects as dynamic assemblages. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork at giant statue sites in India and its diaspora and interviews with sculptors, patrons, and visitors, Jain masterfully describes how public icons materialize the intersections between new image technologies, neospiritual religious movements, Hindu nationalist politics, globalization, and Dalit-Bahujan verifications of equality and presence. Centering the ex-colony in rethinking key concepts of the image, Jain demonstrates how these new aesthetic forms entail a simultaneously religious and political retooling of the “infrastructures of the sensible.”
Author: William Greider
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1989-01-15
Total Pages: 804
ISBN-13: 0671675567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals how the Federal Reserve under Paul Volcker engineered changes in America's economy.
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Publisher: Excelsior Publishing
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 678
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBriefly describes the capital city of each state, its history, and its capitol building.
Author: Benjamin Hufbauer
Publisher: CultureAmerica
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the visual and material cultures of presidential commemoration--memorials and monuments, libraries and archives--and the problematic ways in which presidents themselves have largely taken over their own commemoration. The author sees these various commemorative sites as playing a key role in the construction of our collective political and cultural self-images and as another sign of our preoccupation with celebrity culture. Ultimately, he contends, these presidential temples reflect not only our civil religion but also the extraordinary expansion of executive authority--and presidential self-commemoration--since FDR.
Author: Maria Misra
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 592
ISBN-13: 0300145233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs it enters its sixtieth year of independence, India stands on the threshold of superpower status. Yet India is strikingly different from all other global colossi. While it is the world's most populous democracy and enjoys the benefits of its internationally competitive high-tech and software industries, India also contends with extremes of poverty, inequality, and political and religious violence. This accessible and vividly written book presents a new interpretation of India's history, focusing particular attention on the impact of British imperialism on Independent India. Maria Misra begins with the rebellion against the British in 1857 and tracks the country's advance to the present day. India's extremes persist, the author argues, because its politics rest upon a peculiar foundation in which traditional ideas of hierarchy, difference, and privilege coexist to a remarkable degree with modern notions of equality and democracy. The challenge of India's leaders today, as in the last sixty years, is to weave together the disparate threads of the nation's ancient culture, colonial legacy, and modern experience.
Author: Charles T. Goodsell
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 246
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American statehouse, then, is not just a temple - of the state - but a temple of democracy - of the people."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: John Burgess
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9786164510463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK- Accessible scholarly treatment of one of the world's most iconic sites John Burgess masterfully brings to life the modern history of Cambodia's fabled Angkor temples, from their "discovery" by French explorers in the mid-19th century, through to the latter part of the 20th century, when celebrity visitors included a well publicised one by Jackie Onassis and making Angkor one of the top 3 monuments to visit in the world. An invaluable and riveting book about one of the greatest man-made wonders in the world.
Author: Ingrid A. Steffensen-Bruce
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780838753514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe era from 1890 to 1930 constituted a building boom for American art museums designed in a monumental, classical style; both the proliferation of the buildings and the ubiquity of the style seem to indicate an architectural as well as a sociocultural phenomenon. The present work is an attempt to place the American art museum building of this period into its historical milieu, and employs over one hundred illustrations and sociocultural analysis to explain the significance of both the institutions and the structures housing them to those who came into regular contact with them, including architects, patrons, journalists, and museum personnel.
Author: Jim Stembridge
Publisher: Coho Publishing
Published: 2019-06
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780983029298
DOWNLOAD EBOOKState governments, headquartered in their iconic capitol buildings, have been governing continuously--and largely democratically, peacefully, and openly--for more than two centuries, a record difficult to match in the history of civilization. Fifty State Capitols shows how the architecture of state capitols contributes to the success of representative government.The formality, timelessness, and public grandeur of representative government are on public display at every one of America's fifty state capitols. Fifty State Capitols describes the majesty and stateliness of each state capitol's exterior form and selected interior details, in words and photographs, including a brief history of the building.
