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Buskens, Léon, and Annemarie Sandwijk, eds. Islamic Studies in the Twenty-first Century. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789089649263.

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In recent decades, traditional methods of philology and intellectual history, applied to the study of Islam and Muslim societies, have been met with considerable criticism from rising generations of scholars who have turned to the social sciences, most notably anthropology and social history, for guidance. This change has been accompanied by the rise of new fields, studying, for example, Islam in Europe and Africa, and new topics, such as the role of gender. This collection surveys these transformations and others, taking stock of the field and showing new paths forward.

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Bijutsukan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai. Kindai bijutsu ni miru ningenzō: Shozō sakuhin ni yoru zenkan chinretsu : 1988-nen 7-gatsu 22-nichi--9-gatsu 11-nichi Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan = The Image of man in modern Japanese art from the Museum collection : July 22--September 11, 1988 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. [Tokyo]: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 1988.

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Bijutsukan, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai. Kindai bijutsu ni miru ningenzō: Shozō sakuhin ni yoru zenkan chinretsu : 1988-nen 7-gatsu 22-nichi--9-gatsu 11-nichi Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan = The Image of man in modern Japanese art from the Museum collection : July 22--September 11, 1988 The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. [Tokyo]: Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan, 1988.

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Bai, Xuelan, and Xutong Wang. Xin ju xiang hui hua zhan: Taibei shi li mei shu guan, min guo 75 nian 12 yue 7 ri--76 nian 2 yue 17 ri = Exhibition of new representational paintings : Taipei fine Arts Museum, Dec. 7, 1986--Feb 17, 1987. [Taipei]: Taibei shi li mei shu guan, 1987.

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Susan, Wheeler, ed. Five hundred years of medicine in art: An illustrated catalogue of prints and drawings from the Clements C. Fry Collection in the Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University. England: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2001.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. London: Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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Andrei, Codrescu, ed. Walker Evans: Signs. London: Thames and Hudson, 1998.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: Lyric documentary. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006.

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Robert, Plunket, ed. Walker Evans: Florida. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000.

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1946-, Codrescu Andrei, and J. Paul Getty Museum, eds. Walker Evans: Signs. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1998.

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T, Hill John, ed. Walker Evans: Argento e carbone = carbon and silver. Firenze: Alinari, 2005.

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Belinda, Rathbone, and Worswick Clark, eds. Walker Evans: The lost work. Santa Fe, N.M: Arena Editions, 2000.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. Denville, N.J: Aperture Foundation and Konemann, 1997.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans: An Alabama record. [S.l.]: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992.

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Morris, Hambourg Maria, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art., and Museum of Fine Arts, Houston., eds. Walker Evans. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2000.

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1945-, Mora Gilles, ed. Walker Evans: Havana 1933. New York: Pantheon Books, 1989.

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T, Hill John, ed. Walker Evans: Lyric documentary. Göttingen: Steidl, 2006.

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Branly, Musée du quai, and Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), eds. Walker Evans: Photographies. Paris: Musée du quai Branly, 2007.

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Evans, Walker. Walker Evans. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2007.

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1946-, Codrescu Andrei, and J. Paul Getty Museum, eds. Walker Evans: Cuba. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.

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The new Acropolis museum: Monuments and men, a guide for young people. Athens: Metaichmio, 2009.

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Eddie Red Undercover: Mystery on Museum Mile. HMH Books for Young Readers, 2014.

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Secrets of the Museum. iUniverse, Incorporated, 2008.

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Weiler, Roy, and Egg Harbor City Historical Society. Secrets of the Museum. iUniverse, Incorporated, 2008.

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Family of Man. Holiday house, 1988.

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Steichen, Edward. The Family of Man. 3rd ed. Simon & Schuster (Paper), 1986.

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The Family of Man. Harry N. Abrams, 1996.

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Aminoff, Michael J. Behind the Glories of War. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190614966.003.0005.

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The Peninsular War (1807–1814), contemporary military medical services, the famous British retreat to Corunna and evacuation from Spain to England, and the care and treatment of the wounded are discussed. Bell volunteered his services at the Haslar Hospital, where many of the evacuated were treated. He made sketches and oil paintings of the wounded and published a dissertation on the treatment of gunshot wounds. He later volunteered to treat the wounded of the Battle of Waterloo (1815), and again he sketched the injured. The famous Corunna oil paintings, now at the museum of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and the Waterloo paintings, at the Army Medical Services Museum in Aldershot, England, are a dramatic contrast to the usual images and portraits of the glories of war.

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Botterill, Katherine, Gurchathen Sanghera, and Peter Hopkins. Young People. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427234.003.0007.

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Until recently, much academic and policy research about Muslim youth and politics tended to focus on issues of radicalisation and extremism (Bakker, 2006; Hemmingsen and Andreasen, 2007; Kuhle and Lindekilde, 2010; Spalek and McDonald, 2011), mirroring the political and policy landscape on this issue. While some of these studies attempt to disrupt popular conceptions of the link between Muslim youth and radicalisation, others have assisted in fuelling perceptions of Muslim youth as taking a more politicised stance on religious belief than their parents (Policy Exchange, 2007, cited in Field, 2011: 160). Furthermore, some have attempted to categorise Muslim youth into those who are ‘moderate’, ‘apartist’ and ‘alienated’ (Field, 2011) and, while painting a more complex picture, remain rather rigid and do little to challenge homogenised representations of Muslim youth. Media representation of Muslim youth as either politically apathetic, radicalised or vulnerable to radicalisation further contributes to misconceptions about young Muslim identities and their political agency. Such representations are gendered and embodied, for example with Muslim young men being read as the Asian ‘new folk devils’ (Alexander, 2000), as ‘militant and aggressive’ (Archer, 2003: 81) or as academic and effeminate (Hopkins, 2006).

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Ekberg, Carl J., and Sharon K. Person. Foundations of the St. Louis Fur Trade. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038976.003.0010.

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This chapter focuses on the obscure men who initiated the fur trade that emanated from St. Louis, among them Pierre Laclède Liguest, Jean-Louis Lambert dit Lafleur, and Louis Perrault. In his classic study, The American Fur Trade of the Far West, Hiram Martin Chittenden portrayed Laclède and Auguste Chouteau as the founders of the St. Louis fur trade. However, the most important sources for understanding the early St. Louis fur trade are manuscripts housed at the Missouri History Museum in St. Louis and the Archivo General de Indias in Seville. Drawing on these heretofore neglected sources, the chapter brings to center stage an entirely new cast of characters that animated the early St. Louis fur trade: négociants, commerçants, and voyageurs. It considers the origins of fur trade in early St. Louis and the traders' competitions with the British, along with the Indians' involvement in the trade.

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Stivale, Charles J. Hannibal aux aguets: On the Lookout for New Rencontres. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474422734.003.0011.

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In L’Abécédaire de Gilles Deleuze, a 1988-9 video interview, Deleuze discusses with Claire Parnet the crucial link between creativity, the very possibility of thinking, and animality, through the practice of “être aux aguets” (being on the lookout) for rencontres. This chapter considers how this constitutes the essential practice of the character of Hannibal Lecter, created by Thomas Harris in several novels (Red Dragon, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Hannibal Rising) and, more recently, portrayed in the commercial television series “Hannibal” by Mads Mikkelsen. Hannibal is portrayed as a highly refined individual who not only can sense physically the presence of any threat through extraordinary olfactory powers, but can also categorize, store and then recall any such scents/essences through a Memory Museum. In the television series, Hannibal as highly skilled culinary artist combines the results of his being “on the lookout” with an efficient and often gruesome taste for fine dining, with strategically selected guests usually uninformed about the courses on the menu. The chapter thus considers the concepts of the animal, “être aux aguets” and “refrains” in the light of fictional production, both in print and televisual form, in order to open the Deleuzian concepts to an alternate, creative reading.

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Balachandran, Jyoti Gulati. Narrative Pasts. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190123994.001.0001.

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Narrative Pasts explores the narrative power of texts—genealogical, historical, and biographical—in creating communities. It retrieves the social history of a Muslim community in Gujarat, a region that has one of the earliest records of Muslim presence in the Indian subcontinent. By reconstructing the literary, social, and historical world of Sufi preceptors, disciples, and descendants from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, the book reveals the importance of learned Muslim men in imparting a distinct regional and historical identity to Gujarat. The prominence of Gujarat’s maritime location has often oriented the study of Gujarat towards the commercial world of the western Indian Ocean world. Narrative Pasts demonstrates that Gujarat was also an integral part of the historical and narrative processes that shaped medieval and early modern South Asia. Employing new and rarely used literary materials in Persian and Arabic, this book departs from the narrow state-centred visions of the Muslim past and integrates Gujarat’s sultanate and Mughal past with the larger socio-cultural histories of Islamic South Asia.

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Kamal, Rabia. Islamic Dress and Fashion in the United States. Edited by Jane I. Smith and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199862634.013.015.

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In the last several decades, a growing interest in Islamic dress and fashion has developed as a result of diasporic trends, mass mediated exposure, and shifts in global politics and consumerism. In western countries, the notion of “Islamic fashion” has developed alongside rising social anxieties surrounding Islamic sartorial symbols and signs such as “the veil.” This chapter considers the multiple factors that have influenced how American Muslim men and women dress and how a growing Islamic fashion industry and new stylistic forms based on ideas of "modesty" have evolved in the United States.

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Steichen, Edward. The Family of Man: The 30th Anniversary Edition of the Classic Book of Photography. Museum, 1986.

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Steichen, James. 1933. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190607418.003.0002.

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This chapter revisits how George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein first met and began their collaborative enterprise to found an American ballet company and school in 1933. In addition to seeking out performances by Balanchine’s company Les Ballets 1933, Kirstein took an interest in choreographers Léonide Massine and Serge Lifar. Kirstein ultimately settled on Balanchine as the artistic leader for his venture despite doubts about the choreographer’s health and commitment to ballet pedagogy. Initially the organization was to be located in Hartford, Connecticut, under the auspices of a museum, but owing to misalignment in institutional priorities between Balanchine and Kirstein it was soon relocated to New York City. There is also evidence that Kirstein was the primary advocate of making a school the focus of the organization in its inception and that Balanchine’s primary interest was to create new ballets.

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Williams, Paul. The Personalization of Loss in Memorial Museums. Edited by Paula Hamilton and James B. Gardner. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766024.013.20.

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This chapter discusses the increasing prevalence within cultural institutions for recognizing and mourning “public deaths,” specifically via the proliferation of memorial museums worldwide. Marking episodes of great violence resulting from genocide, terrorism, crimes against humanity, and state “disappearances,” these institutions aim to remember, educate, and advocate against the recurrence of such events. Within their exhibitions, favored modes of historical retelling highlight the personal biographies and stories of victims. Personal objects, photographs, and mementos are arranged within experiential spaces that narrate the course of events and often suggest psychic forms of trauma. Such exhibitions aim to create vivid and authentic visitor experiences that bring people together in new forms of shared memory formation. The personalization of victims of violent events aims to create empathy in visitors and a sense of transferability (“it could have been me”) in hopes of forging a stronger commitment toward tolerance and increased vigilance against persecution.

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O'Brien, John. Keeping It Halal. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691197111.001.0001.

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This book provides a uniquely personal look at the social worlds of a group of young male friends as they navigate the complexities of growing up Muslim in America. The book offers a compelling portrait of typical Muslim American teenage boys concerned with typical teenage issues—girlfriends, school, parents, being cool—yet who are also expected to be good, practicing Muslims who don't date before marriage, who avoid vulgar popular culture, and who never miss their prayers. Many Americans unfamiliar with Islam or Muslims see young men like these as potential ISIS recruits. But neither militant Islamism nor Islamophobia is the main concern of these boys, who are focused instead on juggling the competing cultural demands that frame their everyday lives. The book illuminates how they work together to manage their “culturally contested lives” through subtle and innovative strategies, such as listening to profane hip-hop music in acceptably “Islamic” ways, professing individualism to cast their participation in communal religious obligations as more acceptably American, dating young Muslim women in ambiguous ways that intentionally complicate adjudications of Islamic permissibility, and presenting a “low-key Islam” in public in order to project a Muslim identity without drawing unwanted attention. Closely following these boys as they move through their teen years together, the book sheds light on their strategic efforts to manage their day-to-day cultural dilemmas as they devise novel and dynamic modes of Muslim American identity in a new and changing America.

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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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Misri, Deepti. “This Is Not a Performance!”. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252038853.003.0006.

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This chapter explores a set of visual representations deployed by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP),the now iconic women-led organization that draws attention to the enforced disappearances of Muslim men, judged “anti-nationals” en masse by the Indian state. The APDP members utilize a performative repertoire in their public protests, such as recognizable iconography—“branding” the organization into the public eye through the use of badges, headscarves, and banners; and the insistence that “This is Not a Performance (tamasha)!” The chapter looks at some graphic and cinematic practices that have accreted around the APDP's protests, placing this range of countervisual practices against the scopic regime of the Indian state.

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Lohwasser, Nelo, and Rainer Schreg, eds. Kleine Funde, große Geschichten - Archäologische Funde aus dem Bamberger Dom. University of Bamberg Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.20378/irb-50035.

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Der Bamberger Dom, das bedeutendste Bauwerk der Stadt, besteht seit gut 1000 Jahren. Prof. Dr. Walter Sage, nachmalig erster Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Archäologie des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (AMANZ) an der Universität Bamberg, führte dort von 1969-72 großangelegte Ausgrabungen durch. Er ließ nahezu das gesamte Hauptschiff öffnen, dazu große Bereiche der Seitenschiffe. Man traf Fundamente aller Bauphasen an, dazu viele Bestattungen und eine große Zahl von Kleinfunden. Diese Funde stammen zum Teil von der Innenausstattung des ersten Doms, dessen grundsätzliche Boden- und Wandgestaltung somit gut rekonstruierbar ist. Die wissenschaftliche Aufarbeitung der Funde – 50 Jahre nach ihrer Bergung – war Anlass und Inhalt einer Sonderausstellung im Historischen Museum, bewerkstelligt vom Lehrstuhl AMANZ in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Historischen Verein und dem Historischen Museum Bamberg, den Eigentümern der Funde und unterstützt vom Erzbistum Bamberg. Mit dieser Ausstellung und dem Begleitheft, beides hauptsächlich von Studierenden erarbeitet, feiert der Lehrstuhl AMANZ zudem sein 40-jähriges Bestehen. Bamberg Cathedral, the most important building in the city, was built more than 1000 years ago. Prof. Dr. Walter Sage, who later became the first professor of medieval and postmedieval archaeology at the University of Bamberg, carried out large-scale excavations from 1969-72. He researched almost the entire nave as well as large areas of the aisles. Foundations of all construction phases were found, as well as many burials and a large number of small finds. Many finds were part of the interior of the first cathedral, allowing a reconstruction of the floor and the wall design. 50 years after the excavations the analysis of these finds is part of a new scientific project. Together with the 40th anniversary of the chair of medieval and postmedieval archaeology this is the occasion for a special exhibition in the Historical Museum Bamberg. The exhibition and this booklet were realized in cooperation with the Bamberg Historical Association, who owns the finds today, and with the support of the Archdiocese of Bamberg. Conception, exhibition texts as well as most of the article were prepared by students of the chair of medieval and postmedieval archaeology.

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Huler, Scott. A Delicious Country. University of North Carolina Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469648286.001.0001.

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In 1700, a young man named John Lawson left London and landed in Charleston, South Carolina, hoping to make a name for himself. For reasons unknown, he soon undertook a two-month journey through the still-mysterious Carolina backcountry. His travels yielded A New Voyage to Carolina in 1709, one of the most significant early American travel narratives, rich with observations about the region's environment and Indigenous people. Lawson later helped found North Carolina's first two cities, Bath and New Bern; became the colonial surveyor general; contributed specimens to what is now the British Museum; and was killed as the first casualty of the Tuscarora War. Yet despite his great contributions and remarkable history, Lawson is little remembered, even in the Carolinas he documented.In 2014, Scott Huler made a surprising decision: to leave home and family for his own journey by foot and canoe, faithfully retracing Lawson's route through the Carolinas. This is the chronicle of that unlikely voyage, revealing what it's like to rediscover your own home. Combining a traveler's curiosity, a naturalist's keen observation, and a writer's wit, Huler draws our attention to people and places we might pass regularly but never really see. What he finds are surprising parallels between Lawson's time and our own, with the locals and their world poised along a knife-edge of change between a past they can't forget and a future they can’t quite envision.

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Strang, Cameron B. Frontiers of Science. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640471.001.0001.

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Frontiers of Science takes American scientific thought and discoveries away from the learned societies, museums, and teaching halls of the Northeast and puts the production of knowledge about the natural world in the context of competing empires and an expanding republic in the Gulf South. People often dismissed by starched northeasterners as nonintellectuals--Indian sages, African slaves, Spanish officials, Irishmen on the make, clearers of land and drivers of men--were also scientific observers, gatherers, organizers, and reporters. Skulls and stems, birds and bugs, rocks and maps, tall tales and fertile hypotheses came from them. They collected, described, and sent the objects that scientists gazed on and interpreted in polite Philadelphia. They made knowledge. This book offers a new framework for approaching American intellectual history, one that transcends political and cultural boundaries and reveals persistence across the colonial and national eras. The pursuit of knowledge in the United States did not cohere around democratic politics or the influence of liberty. It was, as in other empires, divided by multiple loyalties and identities, organized through contested hierarchies of ethnicity and place, and reliant on violence. By discovering the lost intellectual history of one region, Strang shows us how to recover a continent for science.

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The cloister: A novel. Nan A. Talese, 2017.

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Curtis, Cathy. Alive Still. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190908812.001.0001.

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In 1942, at age twenty, after a vision-impaired and rebellious childhood in Richmond, Virginia, Nell Blaine decamped for New York. Operations had corrected her eyesight, and she was newly aware of modern art, so different from the literal style of her youthful drawings. In Manhattan, she met rising young artists and poets. Her life was hectic, with raucous parties in her loft, lovers of both sexes, and freelance design jobs, including a stint at the Village Voice. Initially drawn to the rigorous formalism of Piet Mondrian, she received critical praise for her jazzy abstractions. During the 1950s, she began to paint interiors and landscapes. By 1959, when the Whitney Museum purchased one of her paintings, her career was firmly established. That year, she contracted a severe form of polio on a trip to Greece; suddenly, she was a paraplegic. Undaunted, she taught herself to paint in oil with her left hand, reserving her right hand for watercolors. In her postpolio work, she achieved a freer style, expressive of the joy she found in flowers and landscapes. Living half the year in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and the other half in New York, she took special delight in painting the views from her windows and from her country garden. Critics found her new style irresistible, and she had a loyal circle of collectors; still, she struggled to earn enough money to pay the aides who made her life possible. At her side for her final twenty-nine years was her lover, painter Carolyn Harris.

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Holloway, Sally. The Game of Love in Georgian England. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823070.001.0001.

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Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This book brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era—most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine card—revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, in order to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges from this study as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.

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1956-, Li Shali, ed. Taiwan min jian wen hua yi shu: Beitou wen wu guan de nei zai cai feng = Formosan folkways : a guide to the Taiwan Folk Arts Museum. Taibei Shi: Fu lu wen jiao ji jin hui, 2000.

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The cloister. 2018.

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Archer-Parré, Caroline, and Malcolm Dick, eds. James Watt (1736-1819). Liverpool University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781789620818.001.0001.

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James Watt (1736-1819) was a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. His career as a scientific instrument maker, inventor and engineer developed in Scotland, the land of birth. His prominence as a scientist, technologist and businessman was forged in the Birmingham area. His pumping and rotative steam engines represent the summit of technological achievement in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries which led to future developments in locomotive and steamship design and mechanical engineering such as the steam hammer. This is the traditional picture of James Watt. After his death, his son, James Watt junior, projected his father’s image through commissioning sculptures, medals, paintings and biographies which celebrated his reputation as a ‘great man’ of industry and science. Though some academic appraisals have sought to move beyond the heroic image of Watt, there is still a tendency to focus on his steam technology. This collection of ten chapters breaks new ground by looking at Watt in new ways: by exploring his philosophical and intellectual background; the relevance of his Greenock environment; the influence of his wives, Peggy and Ann; Watt’s political fears and beliefs; his links with other scientists such as Thomas Beddoes, Davies Giddy, Humphry Davy, Joseph Black and James Keir; Watt and the business of natural philosophy; his workshop in the Science Museum and what it reveals; the myth or reality of his involvement with organ making and the potential of Birmingham’s Watt Papers for further exploration of his personality, family and domestic and business activities.

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Schaflechner, Jürgen. Change and Perseverance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190850524.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 elaborates on the evolution of the pilgrimage and maps the process in recent decades that has gradually claimed the Hinglaj valley and the shrine as Hindu religious space. It offers a detailed analysis of the various resting places, ritual activities, and mytho-historic narratives found on the pilgrimage to Hinglaj in order to show how such paṛāv (Hin. halting/resting places) have transformed in recent years. Using colonial sources, travelogues, and the author’s own ethnographical material from Sindh and Balochistan, the chapter offers a comprehensive study of the sanctum sanctorum and how it has been physically manipulated by Hindu renovators in order to minimize visual impressions suggestive of the (Zikri-) Muslim tradition, a manifestation of the general “Hinduization” in recent decades at the shrine. The chapter also demonstrates how both man-made and natural material alterations in the past, such as renovations or landslides, led to new narratives and ritual practices at the shrine.

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