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  • The Echo of Things

    The Lives of Photographs in the Solomon Islands

    Collections series Objects/Histories
    The Echo of Things is a compelling ethnographic study of what photography means to the people of Roviana Lagoon in the western Solomon Islands. Christopher Wright examines the contemporary uses of photography and expectations of the medium in Roviana, as well as people's reactions to photographs made by colonial powers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. For Roviana people, ... En savoir plus

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  • Voyagers of the Titanic

    Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From

    "The story of the Titanic has been told many times; this one takes a sociological perspective, with the confident, graceful prose of fine fiction." — Wall Street JournalIt has been over one hundred years since the sinking of the passenger liner Titanic in the North Atlantic, yet worldwide fascination with the epic tragedy remains as strong as ever. With Voyagers of the Titanic, Richard Davenport ... En savoir plus

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  • Warrior Elite

    Australia's special forces Z Force to the SAS intelligence operations to cyber warfare

    par Robert Macklin ...
    A compelling account of Australia's intelligence organisations and special forces - from the early days of the commandos during World War II through to the SAS of today and the cyber wars of the future. From the co-author of SAS Sniper.Warrior Elite is a unique and compelling account of Australia's special forces and intelligence operations - ranging from the early special forces of World War II ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • Myths & Legends of Polyns

    par Andersen ...
    Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian peoples.The Polynesians had many myths and legends, but through the ages they had been circulated by word of mouth, and not recorded. They were recalled from the vast storehouse of time and memory by the old priests who treasured the old traditions, and by the kahuna or sorcerers who constantly ... En savoir plus

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  • Ancient Religions of the Austronesian World

    From Australasia to Taiwan

    par Julian Baldick ...
    Collections series International Library of Ethnicity, Identity and Culture
    Austronesia is the vast oceanic region which stretches from Madagascar to Taiwan to New Zealand. Encompassing both scattered archipelagos and major landmasses, Austronesia - derived from the Latin australis,'southern',and Greek nesos,'island' - is used primarily as a linguistic term, designating a family of languages spoken by peoples with a shared heritage. Julian Baldick, a celebrated historian ... En savoir plus

    $183.99 CAD

  • Getting the Picture

    The Visual Culture of the News

    Powerful and often controversial, news pictures promise to make the world at once immediate and knowable. Yet while many great writers and thinkers have evaluated photographs of atrocity and crisis, few have sought to set these images in a broader context by defining the rich and diverse history of news pictures in their many forms.For the first time, this volume defines what counts as a news ... En savoir plus

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  • Disastrous Ventures

    German and British Enterprises in East New Guinea up to 1914.

    The colonies of German New Guinea (GNG) and British New Guinea (BNG) which from 1906 became the Territory of Papua, experienced different paths of development due to the colonial administrators’ divergent commercial policies. The establishment of these colonies in the late19th century, and all of the major events and decisions relating to them up to 1914, were based mainly on commercial ... En savoir plus

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  • Julia Margaret Cameron’s ‘fancy subjects’

    Photographic allegories of Victorian identity and empire

    par Jeffrey Rosen ...
    Nominated for the William MB Berger Prize for British Art History 2017.The Victorians admired Julia Margaret Cameron for her evocative photographic portraits of eminent men like Tennyson, Carlyle and Darwin. However, Cameron also made numerous photographs that she called 'Fancy subjects', depicting scenes from literature, personifications from classical mythology, and Biblical parables from the ... En savoir plus

    $34.99 CAD

  • Unseen

    Unpublished Black History from the New York Times Photo Archives

    Hundreds of stunning images from Black history have been buried in the New York Times photo archives for decades. Four Times staff members unearth these overlooked photographs and investigate the stories behind them in this remarkable collection.New York Times photo editor Darcy Eveleigh made an unwitting discovery when she found dozens of never-before-published photographs from Black history in ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Echoes of the Civil War

    Capturing Battlefields through a Pinhole Camera

    par Michael Falco ...
    A fresh and surprising look at the American Civil War through pinhole camera photographs of sesquicentennial battlefield reenactmentsIn 2011, Michael Falco set out to document the American Civil War's 150th anniversary by photographing reenactments of more than 20 major battles—from the First Manassas, Antietam, and Chancellorsville to Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Appomattox. But rather than ... En savoir plus

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  • Historical Documents: Letter of the Twenty Fourth Century, Femspec Issue 1.1

    Femspec Articles, #3

    par Leslie F. Stone ...
    Collections Livre 3 - Femspec Articles
    This writer from the 1930s was similar to modern feminists. The story set in the twenty-fourth century includes introspection on prophecies of the past through the mechanism of old books that had been discovered from the turn of the 20th century by the protagonist. It is an uncomplicated short discussion that compares utopian predictions coinciding with the inventions such as the radio and ... En savoir plus

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