From Skisport to Skiing

From Skisport to Skiing

Author: E. John B. Allen

Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Press

Published: 1996-08

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558490475

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This text examines the history of skiing in America, from its utilitarian origins to its transformation into a purely recreational activity. It integrates the history of skiing in the context of cultural, social and economic developments.


Partners with the Sun

Partners with the Sun

Author: Harvey S. Teal

Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9781570033841

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This work recounts the history of the men and women who captured a century of South Carolina images, from photography's introduction in the state through to 1940.


French Immigrants, 1840-1940

French Immigrants, 1840-1940

Author: Kay Melchisedech Olson

Publisher: Capstone

Published: 2002-06

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 0736812059

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Discusses the reasons French people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars and activities.


Silver in America

Silver in America

Author: Charles L. Venable

Publisher:

Published: 1995-02

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13:

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This volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.


A Folk Divided

A Folk Divided

Author: Hildor Arnold Barton

Publisher: SIU Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780809319435

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"What happens to a people ... when it becomes divided and separated through a great overseas migration? ... how do the two parts of such a divided people relate to each other? What ideas do they have regarding each other as the process continues and as time and circumstance cause them to develop in separate ways of their own? The purpose of this book is to seek answers to such questions in the case of the Swedes during the period of their great migration, between roughly 1840 and 1940." -- Pref.


Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940

Australian Women Artists, 1840-1940

Author: Janine Burke

Publisher: Greenhouse Publishing Company

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Joy Hester - Thea Proctor - Ethel Spowers - Edith Holmes - Grace Crowley - Nora Heysen - Clarice Beckett - Grace Cossington Smith - Hilda Rix Nicholas.


Freak Show

Freak Show

Author: Robert Bogdan

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2014-12-10

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 022622743X

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This cultural history of the travelling freak show in America chronicles the rise and fall of the industry as attitudes about disability evolved. From 1840 until 1940, hundreds of freak shows crisscrossed the United States, from the smallest towns to the largest cities, exhibiting their casts of dwarfs, giants, Siamese twins, bearded ladies, savages, snake charmers, fire eaters, and other oddities. By today’s standards such displays would be considered cruel and exploitative—the pornography of disability. Yet for one hundred years the freak show was widely accepted as one of America’s most popular forms of entertainment. Robert Bogdan’s fascinating social history brings to life the world of the freak show and explores the culture that nurtured and, later, abandoned it. In uncovering this neglected chapter of show business, he describes in detail the flimflam artistry behind the shows, the promoters and the audiences, and the gradual evolution of public opinion from awe to embarrassment. Freaks were not born, Bogdan reveals; they were manufactured by the amusement world, usually with the active participation of the freaks themselves. Many of the "human curiosities" found fame and fortune, until the ascent of professional medicine transformed them from marvels into pathological specimens.


Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition)

Along the Great South Bay (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Harry W. Havemeyer

Publisher:

Published: 2014-12-01

Total Pages: 530

ISBN-13: 9780990787006

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Nearly twenty years after it was first published, Along the Great South Bay continues to be the definitive source of Great South Bay history, recounting a century in which New York's most affluent families came to enjoy the cool summer breezes of the Atlantic Ocean and the boating, fishing, and bird shooting for which the area was renowned. Newly released in paperback as an illustrated edition, Along the Great South Bay now includes 182 photographs and maps, bringing back to life the tantalizing tale of an era long gone, but no longer forgotten.


Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940

Ordinary Jerusalem, 1840-1940

Author: Angelos Dalachanis

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-08-13

Total Pages: 615

ISBN-13: 9004375740

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In Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.