The Great Exhibition of 1851
The Great Exhibition of 1851

Author: Jeffrey A. Auerbach

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780300080070

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"The book challenges the common view that the Exhibition symbolized peace, progress, prosperity, and the emergence of an industrial middle class. Auerbach suggests instead that the Great Exhibition became a cultural battlefield on which proponents of different visions of industrialization, modernization, and internationalism fought for ascendancy in the struggle for a new national identity."--BOOK JACKET.

The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte
The Autobiography of Joseph Le Conte

Author: Joseph LeConte

Publisher:

Published: 1903

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13:

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Joseph Le Conte (February 26, 1823 - July 6, 1901) was born in Liberty County, Georgia. He received an M.D. degree from the New York College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1845. After four years of practicing medicine, he entered Harvard University and studied natural history under Louis Agassiz. After graduating from Harvard, he taught at Oglethorpe University, Franklin College and South Carolina College. In 1869, Le Conte moved to the University of California, Berkeley, where he remained the rest of his life, teaching mainly in geology. In 1870 he visited Yosemite Valley and became friends with John Muir. Concerned about resource exploitation, Le Conte and Muir with others founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Le Conte died while visiting Yosemite Valley. Le Conte and his wife Caroline Nisbet, had four children.

Power, Identity, and the Rise of Modern Architecture
Power, Identity, and the Rise of Modern Architecture

Author: Koompong Noobanjong

Publisher: Universal-Publishers

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 1581122012

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This dissertation examines the evolution of Western and Modern architecture in Siam and Thailand. It illustrates how various architectural ideas have contributed to the physical design and spatial configuration of places associated with negotiation and allocation of political power, which are throne halls, parliaments, and government and civic structures since the 1850s.