Visible Ruins
Title | Visible Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Mónica M. Salas Landa |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 398 |
Release | 2024-05-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1477328734 |
An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state surveyors assessed land for agrarian reform, engineers used nationalized oil for industrialization, archaeologists reconstructed pre-Hispanic monuments for tourism, and anthropologists studied and photographed Indigenous populations to achieve their acculturation. Far from accomplishing their stated goals, however, these initiatives concealed violence, and permitted land invasions, forced displacement, environmental damage, loss of democratic freedom, and mass killings. Mónica M. Salas Landa uses the history of northern Veracruz to demonstrate how these state-led efforts reshaped the region's social and material landscapes, affecting what was and is visible. Relying on archival sources and ethnography, she uncovers a visual order of ongoing significance that was established through postrevolutionary projects and that perpetuates inequality based on imperceptibility.
Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection
Title | Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection PDF eBook |
Author | Rebeca Helfer |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2006-01-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0802090672 |
Beginning with the origins of mnemonic strategies in epic tales, Helfer examines how the art of memory speaks to debates about poetry and its place in culture from Plato to Spenser's present day.
Building on Ruins
Title | Building on Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Frank E. Salmon |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN |
Charles Barry's victory in the competition to design the new Houses of Parliament in 1836 has been widely regarded as the moment in English architecture when the influence of Greece gave way to Victorian Gothic. In this beautifully illustrated book, Frank Salmon redirects attention to the importance of classical archaeology in the education of British architects and to major classically-inspired buildings in Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool and the City of London, also commissioned in this period.
Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on Management of Ghana's Castles and Forts
Title | Performance Audit Report of the Auditor-General on Management of Ghana's Castles and Forts PDF eBook |
Author | Ghana. Office of the Auditor-General |
Publisher | |
Pages | 62 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Castles |
ISBN |
Ruins
Title | Ruins PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Dillon |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN | 9780262516372 |
Ruins is one of a series documenting major themes and ideas in contemporary art.
National Ocean Service, United States Power Squadrons Cooperative Charting Manual
Title | National Ocean Service, United States Power Squadrons Cooperative Charting Manual PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Nautical charts |
ISBN |
Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research
Title | Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research PDF eBook |
Author | American Society for Psychical Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Parapsychology |
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