Books: 'Historic Homs city'

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Hryniuk, Margaret. Regina: A city of beautiful homes. Regina, Sask: First Writing, 1994.

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Nineteenth century home architecture of Iowa City. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1993.

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General Lee's city: An illustrated guide to the historic sites of Confederate Richmond. McLean, Va: EPM Publications, 1987.

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Gravenhorst, Edna Campos. Historical home research in the city of St. Louis. St. Louis, MO: E.C. Gravenhorst, 2003.

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Dēmētriadēs, Euangelos P. Historia tēs polēs kai tēs poleodomias: Apo tēn prōimē polē hōs tēn emphanisē tēs synchronēs poleodomias. Thessalonikē: Paratērētēs, 1987.

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Matteo, Thomas W. Sea View and the Farm Colony: Staten Island's first historic district. Staten Island, N.Y: Sea View Historic Foundation, 2005.

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Shapiro, Georgia Carter. Newnan, the city of homes: The commercial and residential, national register, historic districts of Newnan, Georgia. Newnan, Ga: Newnan-Coweta Promotional Publications, 1992.

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Pfanz, Donald. Grant's Cabin: City Point Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia. [Harpers Ferry, W. Va.?]: Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1990.

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Pfanz, Donald. Grant's Cabin: City Point Unit, Petersburg National Battlefield, Virginia. [Harper's Ferry, W. Va.?]: Harpers Ferry Center, National Park Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1989.

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Ridgewood in the country club district: A historic suburb in the "best 60,000 city in America" --- Springfield, Ohio. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 2011.

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Dallenbach, Tamara K. Ridgewood in the country club district: A historic suburb in the "best 60,000 city in America" --- Springfield, Ohio. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 2011.

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King, Richard Alan. 1142: The history and growth of the N. Oakes, Grant Wood, Dr. Pauline Moore, James P. Hayes house : 1142 East Court Street, Iowa City, Iowa. Hiawatha, Iowa: [s.n.], 2008.

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King, Richard Alan. 1142: The history and growth of the N. Oakes, Grant Wood, Dr. Pauline Moore, James P. Hayes house : 1142 East Court Street, Iowa City, Iowa. Hiawatha, Iowa: [s.n.], 2008.

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Frey, Douglas M. Marietta: The gem city of Georgia : a celebration of its homes, a portrait of its people. Marietta, Georgia: Cobb Landmarks & Historical Society, Inc., 2010.

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Maffi, Mario. New York City: An outsider's inside view. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2004.

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Seminario Iberoamericano sobre Rehabilitación de Conjuntos y Edificios Históricos (1st 2000 Valladolid, Spain). Patrimonio artístico: Protección de conjuntos y edificios históricos : I Seminario Iberoamericano sobre Rehabilitación de Conjuntos y Edificios Históricos : Salones de la Ilustre Cofradía Penitencial de Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, Valladolid, 29 al 31 de marzo de 2000. Buenos Aires: Ciudad Argentina, 2000.

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What else but home: A novel. Bridgehampton, N.Y: Bridge Works Pub. Co., 2003.

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The city of Dickens. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1986.

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Pelzer, David J. El niño sin nombre: Una historia real de maltrato. Barcelona: Planeta, 2000.

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Janik, Allan. Wittgenstein in Vienna: A biographical excursion through the city and its history. Wien: Springer, 1998.

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Laura Ingalls Wilder's little town: Where history and literature meet. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas, 1994.

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O'Connell, Shaun. Imagining Boston: A literary landscape. Boston: Beacon Press, 1990.

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Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. New York: Crown Publishers, 1991.

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Ringgold, Faith. Tar Beach. New York, N.Y: Scholastic, 1992.

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Brooker, Peter. New York fictions: Modernity, postmodernism, the new modern. London: Longman, 1996.

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ill, Offermann Andrea, ed. The Broken Lands. New York: Clarion Books, 2012.

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Julie, Stark, ed. Yuba City, our home town. Virginia Beach, VA: Donning Co. Publishers, 2008.

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Hryniuk, Margaret. Regina: A city of beautiful homes. First Writing, 1994.

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Lawrence-Zúñiga, Denise. Contesting the Aesthetic Construction of Community. Edited by Angela M. Labrador and Neil Asher Silberman. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676315.013.7.

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This chapter considers community conflicts arising over the aesthetic character of homes when advocates use government policies and regulations to impose historic preservation values. Historic preservation is organized as a cosmology that values and seeks to restore original architectural forms as representations of history. Homeowner advocates for preservation are motivated by their own home restoration experiences with material agency, while local municipalities employ “aesthetic governmentality” techniques with graphic codes to help shape homeowner perceptions and change aesthetic norms. Conflicts in two southern California cities illustrate how preservationist residents use regulations to actively protect houses against remodels by “uninformed” homeowners. In another city, affluent Chinese immigrants propose mansion-sized remodels of bungalow houses as a counter aesthetic to preservation. Each aesthetic promotes a distinct but also contrasting moral suburban landscape.

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Beeckmans, Luce, Alessandra Gola, Ashika Singh, and Hilde Heynen, eds. Making Home(s) in Displacement. Leuven University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.11116/9789461664082.

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Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

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Steinberg, Jonah. A Garland of Bones. Yale University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300222807.001.0001.

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This intimate portrait examines the tracks, journeys, and experiences of child runaways in northern India. The book situates children's decisions to leave home and flee for the city in their larger cultural, social, and historical contexts, and considers histories of landlessness and debt servitude in narratives of child dislocation. The resulting work is an original perspective on the sociological trends in postcolonial India and a unique treatment of a population of individuals who live on the margin of society.

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Society, Fairview Park Historical, and Museum in Bain Park Cabin., eds. Fairview Park's historical places and other points of interest featuring--marked Century Homes, City Hall and the cemetery, old buildings and houses, our churches and parks. Fairview Park, Ohio: The Society, 1996.

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An Old Merchants House Life At Home In New York City 18351865. Girandole Books, 2012.

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Draft general management plan, environmental impact statement: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Johnson City, Texas. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1998.

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Draft general management plan, environmental impact statement: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Johnson City, Texas. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1998.

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Draft general management plan, environmental impact statement: Lyndon B. Johnson National Historical Park, Johnson City, Texas. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, 1998.

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Blee, Lisa, and Jean M. O'Brien. Monumental Mobility. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648408.001.0001.

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Installed at Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1921 to commemorate the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrims, Cyrus Dallin's statue Massasoit was intended to memorialize the Pokanoket Massasoit (leader) as a welcoming diplomat and participant in the mythical first Thanksgiving. But after the statue's unveiling, Massasoit began to move and proliferate in ways one would not expect of generally stationary monuments tethered to place. The plaster model was donated to the artist's home state of Utah and prominently displayed in the state capitol; half a century later, it was caught up in a surprising case of fraud in the fine arts market. Versions of the statue now stand on Brigham Young University's campus; at an urban intersection in Kansas City, Missouri; and in countless homes around the world in the form of souvenir statuettes. The surprising story of this monumental statue reveals much about the process of creating, commodifying, and reinforcing the historical memory of Indigenous people. Dallin's statue, set alongside the historical memory of the actual Massasoit and his mythic collaboration with the Pilgrims, shows otherwise hidden dimensions of American memorial culture: an elasticity of historical imagination, a tight-knit relationship between consumption and commemoration, and the twin impulses to sanitize and grapple with the meaning of settler-colonialism.

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Reader, Keith. The Marais. Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789621044.001.0001.

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This book explores the history and the vicissitudes of one of Paris’s most extraordinary areas, the Marais. Centrally located on the Right Bank, this neighbourhood was from the Middle Ages through to the eighteenth century the most fashionable in the city, headquarters of the nobility who endowed it with resplendent architecture. The Court’s move to Versailles and the Revolution of 1789 led to the quartier’s decline, so that in the nineteenth century and the earlier part of the twentieth it was in parlous shape, its fine buildings run down and often severely overcrowded. It escaped wholesale destruction in the post-War frenzy of modernization largely thanks to André Malraux, who as Culture Minister fostered the restoration of the area. Malraux’s efforts were, however, not immune from criticism, sometimes seen as a form of socio-economic cleansing with concomitant fossilization, and thus emblematic of the problems faced by a city which has always been torn between the preservation of its past and the need to adapt to social and historical change. The book focuses particularly on literary, cinematic and other artistic reproductions of the quartier, of which it attempts to provide a comprehensive overview, and foregrounds particularly its importance as home to and base of two highly significant minorities – the Jewish and the gay communities.

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Patrimonio Artistico: Proteccion de Conjuntos y Edificios Historicos. Ciudad Argentina, 2001.

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The City of Dickens. iUniverse, 2000.

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Ferreira, Maria Helena Alves, Alice de Mello, and Elayne Oliveira Silva. Passeios a pé em Belo Horizonte: Um ciclo formativo aos guias de turismo. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-340-4.

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A city that arose already modern, welcoming, and rich in experiences, affectionately called "Belô" or "Beagá" by some of its most intimate citizens. Every tourist easily feels welcomed in Belo Horizonte, a city that was planned to be the capital of Minas Gerais – with tree-lined streets and alleys that breathe art, stories, and charm. Despite being a Metropolis and home to approximately 2,600,000 (two million six hundred thousand) inhabitants, it still keeps secrets as a country town valuing its origins, which means not refusing a delicious coffee with "pão de queijo" (Brazilian cheese bread), and some chitchat in its squares and gardens. The best way to get to know and experience a city as a whole is to walk through it and experience its daily life, thus, connecting with the city and people. Walking around the city makes you notice details that you may have never noticed before. In this work, we present “UAI a PÉ” tours through Belo Horizonte, so that you can be familiar with and experience each one of them. Itineraries that will make you even more enchanted by our beautiful capital. Walk freely through the “Belo Horizonte Cultural: Circuito Liberdade” amid gardens and many stories and tales. Walk around the streets of the downtown, enjoying our “Belo Horizonte Urbana: Visual Arts,” which is an opportunity to experience our Urban Art that is a worldwide reference. Have a conversation at “Praça da Estação Circuito Cultural”, the gateway to our city since its foundation – many stories are kept in museums and mansions there. “Cultura e Política Mineira”, which is an itinerary from Praça da Assembeia (Assembly Square) to Praça da Estação (Station Square), to understand our history and culture. Fresh breeze and sunset in the beautiful “Pampulha: Patrimônio da Humanidade” (cultural heritage of humanity) where modernism is present in every detail of this picturesque place.

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Garodnick, Daniel R. Saving Stuyvesant Town. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754371.001.0001.

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From city streets to City Hall and to Midtown corporate offices, this book is the incredible true story of how one middle-class community defeated the largest residential real-estate deal in American history. As a lifetime Stuy Town resident and former City Councilman, the author recounts how his neighbors stood up to mammoth real-estate interests and successfully fought to save their homes, delivering New York City's biggest-ever affordable-housing preservation win. In 2006, the author found himself engaged in an unexpected battle. Stuyvesant Town was built for World War II veterans by MetLife, in partnership with the City. Two generations removed, MetLife announced that it would sell Stuy Town to the highest bidder. The author and his neighbors sprang into action. Battle lines formed with real-estate titans like Tishman Speyer and BlackRock facing an organized coalition of residents, who made a competing bid to buy the property themselves. Tripped-up by an over-leveraged deal, the collapse of the American housing market, and a novel lawsuit brought by tenants, the real-estate interests collapsed, and the tenants stood ready to take charge and shape the future of their community. The result was a once-in-a-generation win for tenants and an extraordinary outcome for middle-class New Yorkers. The book shows how creative problem solving, determination, and brute-force politics can be marshalled for the public good. The nine-year struggle to save Stuyvesant Town by these residents is an inspiration to everyone who is committed to ensuring that New York remains a livable, affordable, and economically diverse city.

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Schiff, David. Remembering Mr. Carter (A Double Portrait). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190259150.003.0002.

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An account of the forty-year relationship between the author and the composer with an emphasis on Carter’s role as a teacher of composition. The author met Carter in 1971 when he attended rehearsals and performances of the Concerto for Orchestra by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Pierre Boulez. He studied composition with Carter while pursuing a doctorate at the Juilliard School. After Carter asked him to write a book about his music he spent much time with the composer at rehearsals, performances and recording sessions and at his homes in New York City and Westchester. The chapter details the history of their relationship and also portrays the Carters’ social circle.

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James, Simon. The Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos, Syria. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198743569.001.0001.

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Dura-Europos, a Parthian-ruled Greco-Syrian city, was captured by Rome c.AD165. It then accommodated a Roman garrison until its destruction by Sasanian siege c.AD256. Excavations of the site between the World Wars made sensational discoveries, and with renewed exploration from 1986 to 2011, Dura remains the best-explored city of the Roman East. A critical revelation was a sprawling Roman military base occupying a quarter of the city's interior. This included swathes of civilian housing converted to soldiers' accommodation and several existing sanctuaries, as well as baths, an amphitheatre, headquarters, and more temples added by the garrison. Base and garrison were clearly fundamental factors in the history of Roman Dura, but what impact did they have on the civil population? Original excavators gloomily portrayed Durenes evicted from their homes and holy places, and subjected to extortion and impoverishment by brutal soldiers, while recent commentators have envisaged military-civilian concordia, with shared prosperity and integration. Detailed examination of the evidence presents a new picture. Through the use of GPS, satellite, geophysical and archival evidence, this volume shows that the Roman military base and resident community were even bigger than previously understood, with both military and civil communities appearing much more internally complex than has been allowed until now. The result is a fascinating social dynamic which we can partly reconstruct, giving us a nuanced picture of life in a city near the eastern frontier of the Roman world.

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New York Jackie: Pictures from her life in the city. 2014.

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Ivanič, Suzanna. Cosmos and Materiality in Early Modern Prague. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192898982.001.0001.

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Prague in the seventeenth century is known as having been home to a scintillating imperial court crammed with exotic goods, scientists, and artisans, receiving ambassadors from as far away as Persia; and as a city suffering plagues, riots, and devastating military attacks. But Prague was also the setting for a complex and shifting spiritual world. At the beginning of the century it was a multiconfessional city, but by 1700 it represented one of the most archetypical Catholic cities in Europe. Through a material approach, this book pieces together how early modern men and women experienced this transformation on a daily basis. The book presents a bold alternative understanding of the history of early modern religion in Central Europe. The history of religion in the early modern period has overwhelmingly been analysed through a confessional lens, but this analysis shows how Prague burghers’ spiritual worlds were embedded in their natural environment and social relations as much as, if not more than, in confessional identity in the seventeenth century. While texts in this period trace emerging discourses around notions of religion, superstition, and magic, and what it was to be Catholic or Protestant, a material approach avoids these category mistakes being applied to everyday practice. It is through a rich seam of material evidence in Prague—spoons, glass beakers, and amulets, as much as traditional devotional objects like rosaries and garnet-encrusted crucifixes—that everyday beliefs, practices, and identities can be recovered.

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Worthington, Ian. Athens After Empire. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633981.001.0001.

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When we think of ancient Athens, the image invariably coming to mind is of the Classical city, with monuments beautifying everywhere; the Agora swarming with people conducting business and discussing political affairs; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, with life anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy. But in 338 that forever changed when Philip II of Macedonia defeated a Greek army at Chaeronea to impose Macedonian hegemony over Greece. The Greeks then remained under Macedonian rule until the new power of the Mediterranean world, Rome, annexed Macedonia and Greece into its empire. How did Athens fare in the Hellenistic and Roman periods? What was going on in the city, and how different was it from its Classical predecessor? There is a tendency to think of Athens remaining in decline in these eras, as its democracy was curtailed, the people were forced to suffer periods of autocratic rule, and especially under the Romans enforced building activity turned the city into a provincial one than the “School of Hellas” that Pericles had proudly proclaimed it to be, and the Athenians were forced to adopt the imperial cult and watch Athena share her home, the sacred Acropolis, with the goddess Roma. But this dreary picture of decline and fall belies reality, as my book argues. It helps us appreciate Hellenistic and Roman Athens and to show it was still a vibrant and influential city. A lot was still happening in the city, and its people were always resilient: they fought their Macedonian masters when they could, and later sided with foreign kings against Rome, always in the hope of regaining that most cherished ideal, freedom. Hellenistic Athens is far from being a postscript to its Classical predecessor, as is usually thought. It was simply different. Its rich and varied history continued, albeit in an altered political and military form, and its Classical self-lived on in literature and thought. In fact, it was its status as a cultural and intellectual juggernaut that enticed Romans to the city, some to visit, others to study. The Romans might have been the ones doing the conquering, but in adapting aspects of Hellenism for their own cultural and political needs, they were the ones, as the poet Horace claimed, who ended up being captured.

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Williams, Sonja D. Remembering. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039874.003.0001.

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This chapter recounts Richard Durham's memorial service at Rayner's funeral home in his hometown Chicago. Durham died unexpectedly of a heart attack on April 27, 1984, during a business trip in New York City. Among those who paid tribute to the complicated family man, friend, and mentor—as well as the writer and dedicated freedom fighter—were Durham's thirty-four-year-old son, Mark; one of Mark's uncles, his mother's oldest brother, Robert Davis; Pulitzer Prize–winning author Louis Terkel; and Margaret Burroughs, the visual artist, writer, and co-founder of the South Side's Du Sable Museum of African American History. Others who spoke fondly of Durham were journalist Vernon Jarrett and activists Ishmael Flory and Edward “Buzz” Palmer; the singer, actor, and activist Oscar Brown Jr.; and Harold Washington, Chicago's first black mayor. The final speaker was Durham's brother Earl Durham.

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Young, Terence. Heading Out. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801454028.001.0001.

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Who are the real campers? Through-hiking backpackers traversing the Appalachian Trail? The family in an SUV making a tour of national parks and sleeping in tents at campgrounds? People committed to the RV lifestyle who move their homes from state to state as season and whim dictate? This book would claim: all of the above. Camping is one of the United States' most popular pastimes. Campers have been enjoying themselves for well over a century, during which time camping's appeal has shifted and evolved. This book takes readers into nature and explores with them the history of camping in the United States. The book shows how camping progressed from an impulse among city-dwellers to seek temporary retreat from their exhausting everyday surroundings to a form of recreation so popular that an industry grew up around it to provide an endless supply of ever-lighter and more convenient gear. It humanizes camping's history by spotlighting key figures in its development and a sampling of the campers and the variety of their excursions.

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Fay, Jennifer. Still Life. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0005.

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China’s Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric megadam in world history and the subject of Jia Zhangke’s digital film Still Life (2006), Liu Xiaodong’s oil paintings, and Yang Yi’s digital photographs. Built in part to address the problems of global warming, the dam has had a number of surprising effects on the environment and has led to massive displacement of people to make way for the water. Jia populates his film with migrant workers, refugees, tourists, visitors, and even aliens from outer space, none of whom are at home in this world. Jia captures the city at the moment of its undoing, a place that is changing, he remarks, too fast for film. Reading Jia’s film together with Liu and Yang’s artwork and through the genre of still life painting, the chapter argues that Jia’s film envisions a kind of minimal hospitality that emerges when the world is past.

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