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Government House Halifax is the home of the Sovereign's
representative in the Province of Nova Scotia and the ceremonial
home of all Nova Scotians. It has also served as a home away from
home for members of the Royal Family over its two-century
history.Government House Halifax: A Place of History and Gathering
tells the story of this historic building. Beginning with its
construction in 1800 and continuing through its extensive
renovations in 2009, this sumptuous book tells the story of the
building's royal residents, the household staff, and the momentous
-- and occasionally amusing -- events which have transpired within
its walls. Christopher McCreery expertly guides readers through the
building, including the state rooms and its hidden secrets, and
introduces readers to important works of art held at Government
House as part of the Crown Collection. McCreery's text is amply
illustrated by an extraordinary collection of images, including
historic drawings and paintings along with modern photographs.
For the first time, the 92-metre frieze of the Voortrekker Monument
in Pretoria, one of the largest historical narratives in marble,
has been made the subject of a book. The pictorial narrative of the
Boer pioneers who conquered South Africa's interior during the
'Great Trek' (1835-52) represents a crucial period of South
Africa's past. Conceptualising the frieze both reflected on and
contributed to the country's socio-political debates in the 1930s
and 1940s when it was made. The book considers the active role the
Monument played in the rise of Afrikaner nationalism and the
development of apartheid, as well as its place in post-apartheid
heritage. The frieze is unique in that it provides rare evidence of
the complex processes followed in creating a major monument. Based
on unpublished documents, drawings and models, these processes are
unfolded step by step, from the earliest discussions of the purpose
and content of the frieze, through all the stages of its design, to
its shipping to post-war Italy to be copied into marble from Monte
Altissimo, up to its final installation in the Monument. The book
examines how visual representation transforms historical memory in
what it chooses to recount, and the forms in which it is depicted.
The second volume expands on the first, by investigating each of
the twenty-seven scenes of the frieze in depth, providing new
insights into not only the frieze, but also South Africa's history.
Francois van Schalkwyk of African Minds, co-publisher with De
Gruyter writes: From Memory to Marble is an open access monograph
in the true sense of the word. Both volumes of the digital version
of the book are available in full and free of charge from the date
of publication. This approach to publishing democratises access to
the latest scholarly publications across the globe. At the same
time, a book such as From Memory to Marble, with its unique and
exquisite photographs of the frieze as well as its wealth of
reproduced archival materials, demands reception of a more
traditional kind, that is, on the printed page. For this reason,
the book is likewise available in print as two separate volumes.
The printed and digital books should not be seen as separate
incarnations; each brings its own advantages, working together to
extend the reach and utility of From Memory to Marble to a range of
interested readers.
The streets and public spaces of London are rich with statues and
monuments commemorating the city's great figures and events - from
Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square and Sir Christopher Wren's
Great Fire Monument to the charming Peter Pan statue in Kensington
Gardens. Executed in stone, bronze and a range of other materials,
London's statues and monuments include work by some of the world's
greatest sculptors, such as Edwin Lutyens and Sir Christopher Wren.
This newly revised book takes account of the many new statues
erected between 2012 and 2017, including those of Mary Seacole at
St Thomas' Hospital and Amy Winehouse in Camden, and is a fully
illustrated guide to the works and their stories: sometimes
surprising and occasionally controversial, but always fascinating.
When Greyfriars Graveyard opened in Edinburgh in the sixteenth
century, built on the site of a Franciscan monastery on the edge of
the Old Town below the castle, it became Edinburgh's most important
burial site. Over the centuries many of Edinburgh's leading figures
have been buried at Greyfriars, alongside many more ordinary folk,
and it is home to a spectacular collection of post-Reformation
monuments. In this book local historian Charlotte Golledge takes
the reader on a tour around Greyfriars Graveyard to reveal the
history of the cemetery, from when James I granted the land as a
monastery to the present day. She explores the huge variety of its
monuments and gravestones and explains the symbolism behind the
stones and carvings and how the styles changed over the years.
Through this she paints a remarkable picture of life and death in
Edinburgh over the centuries, which will appeal to both residents
and visitors to the Scottish capital.
The powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center,
featuring dozens of never-before-seen color photos by the official
site photographer. In late 2014, One World Trade Center-or the
Freedom Tower-opened for business. It took nearly ten years, cost
roughly four billion dollars, and required the sweat, strength, and
stamina of hundreds of construction workers, digging deep below the
earth's surface and dangling high in the air. It suffered setbacks
that would've most likely scuttled any other project, including the
ousting of a famed architect, the relocation of the building's
footprints due to security reasons, and the internecine feuding of
various politicians and governing bodies. And yet however over
budget and over deadline, it ultimately got built, and today it
serves as a 1,776-foot reminder of what America is capable of when
we put aside our differences and pull together for a common cause.
No writer followed the building of the Freedom Tower more closely
than Esquire's Scott Raab. Between 2005 and 2015, Raab published a
landmark ten-part series about the construction. He shadowed both
the suits in their boardrooms and the hardhats in their earthmoving
equipment, and chronicled it all in exquisite prose. While familiar
names abound-Andrew Cuomo, Chris Christie, Mike Bloomberg and Larry
Silverstein, the real estate developer who only a few weeks before
9/11 signed a ninety-nine-year, $3.2 billion lease on the World
Trade Center-just as memorable are the not-so-famous. People such
as Bryan Lyons, a Yonkers-born engineer who lost his firefighter
brother on 9/11 and served as a superintendent on the rebuilding
effort. And Charlie Wolf, whose wife was killed in the North Tower
and who, in one of the series' most powerful scenes, weeps on a
policeman's shoulder after delivering her hairbrush and toothbrush
for DNA samples. Once More to the Sky collects all ten original
pieces along with a new epilogue from Raab about what's happened in
the years since the Freedom Tower was completed, and why it remains
such an important symbol. The four-color book also features dozens
of photos-many never-before-seen-and a prologue from photographer
Joe Woolhead, the official site photographer for the World Trade
Center's rebuilding. Publishing to coincide with the twentieth
anniversary of 9/11, it is a moving tribute to American resolve and
ingenuity.
Even though the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 ended more than 110 years ago, no extensive study on the sites of remembrance of this war that covers the country as a whole and is based on methodological research has thus far been published.
This book is aimed at filling that void. This is a study of commemorative sites with a difference. The text guides the reader in two ways simultaneously. In the first place it provides information on the vast number (more than 1 200) and wide range of Anglo-Boer War places of remembrance in South Africa. These include monuments, memorials such as plaques and tablets, historical sites such as battlefields and concentration camp locations, buildings that have a specific connection with the war, statues, busts and bas-relief sculptures, historical paintings, museum collections and, of course, since it has to do with a war, cemeteries and graves.
Secondly, the book places all the sites that are included in their historical context. To simply indicate the approximate location of a war site, without providing a proper indication on how the site fits into the broad history of the event that it commemorates, is of limited value. For that reason the places of remembrance are introduced to the reader against the background of the history which they mirror. This means in effect that the reader acquires, together with information on the places of remembrance, a concise history of the war as a whole. As a result the book will not only be useful to readers who travel to the sites, but also to readers and users who are not actually travelling (virtual tourists).
Following on an introduction on the nature and scope of the commemorative places of the Anglo-Boer War, the sites are introduced in a thematic-chronological manner. The book is based on extensive research and field work. The author himself visited and photographed more than 90% of the sites that are included. A large number of sources were consulted to ensure the correctness of the information that is provided.
Even though the book is research-based, and will be useful to both scholars on the war and the general public, ideological issues are not discussed. The focus is on the physical places of remembrance as such. The book is written from a neutral point of departure – it is neither pro-Briton nor pro-Boer. Approximately 60% of the places of remembrance that are included in the book commemorate the British forces and 40% the Republican forces.
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Designated in 2016 by President Obama and reduced to 85 percent of
its original size one year later by President Trump, Bears Ears
National Monument continues to be a flash point of conflict between
ranchers, miners, environmental groups, states' rights advocates,
and Native American activists. In this volume, Andrew Gulliford
synthesizes 11,000 years of the region's history to illuminate
what's truly at stake in this conflict and distills this geography
as a place of refuge and resistance for Native Americans who seek
to preserve their ancestral homes, and for the descendants of
Mormon families who arrived by wagon train in 1880. Gulliford's
engaging narrative explains prehistoric Pueblo villages and cliff
dwellings, Navajo and Ute history, impacts of the Atomic Age,
uranium mining, and the pothunting and looting of Native graves
that inspired the passage of the Antiquities Act over a century
ago. The book describes how the national monument came about and
its deep significance to five native tribes. Bears Ears National
Monument is a bellwether for public land issues in the American
West. Its recognition will be a relevant topic for years to come.
The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role
of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of
antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case
study, the book shows how these memorials often support, but
sometimes also undermine, the discursive-material assemblage of
nationalism.
The first survey of the many redesigned and imitation historical
landmarks and objects that dot the globe "John Darlington shows . .
. it is not just written history that is malleable; it is also
history on the ground, heritage in brick and stone, wood and
metal."-Simon Jenkins, Times Literary Supplement What happens when
the past-or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage-is
fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world
to Saddam Hussein's reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of
forged heritage are widespread. Some are easy to dismiss as blatant
frauds (the Piltdown Man), while others adhere to honest copying or
respectful homage (the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee). This
compelling book examines copies of historic buildings, faux
archaeological sites, and other false artifacts, using them to
explore the ethics and consequences of reconstructing the past; it
also tackles the issues involved with faithful, "above-board"
re-creations of ancient landmarks. John Darlington probes questions
of historical authenticity, seeking the lessons that lurk when
history is twisted to tell an untrue story. Amplified by stunning
images, the narrative underscores how the issue of duplicating
heritage is both intriguing and incredibly complex, especially in
the twenty-first century-as communication and technology flourish,
so too do our opportunities to be deceived.
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. As Lisa Blee
and Jean M. O'Brien show in this thought-provoking book, 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.
This study is concerned with how the Greek peoples, of primarily
the classical period, collectively commemorated the Persian Wars.
The data presented here are public monuments, which include both
physical and behavioural commemorations. The aim of this work is to
reveal and present the methods by which Greeks of the fifth century
BC commemorated the Persian Wars. Several trends have drawn
attention away from studies presenting commemorative practices in
their entirety: the focus on singular monument types, individual
commemorative places, a particular commemorating group or specific
battle, and an overemphasis on Athenian commemorations. This
project works towards rectifying this issue by highlighting the
variations in commemorative traditions. This holistic approach to
the data, which is inclusive in its remit of commemorative objects,
places, and groups, allows for a more complete representation of
the commemorative tradition. What emerges from this study is the
compilation of all known ancient Greek monuments to commemorate the
battles of Marathon, Salamis, Artemisium, Thermopylae and Plataea.
A landmark illustrated history of rural church monuments - the
forgotten national treasures of England and Wales Deep in the
countryside, away from metropolitan abbeys and cathedrals,
thousands of funerary monuments are hidden in parish churches.
These artworks - medieval brasses and elegant marble effigies,
stone tomb chests and grand mausoleums - are of great historical
and cultural significance, but have, due to their relative
inaccessibility, faded from accounts of our art history. Over
twenty-five years, C. B. Newham FSA has visited and photographed
more than eight thousand rural churches, cataloguing the monumental
sculptures encountered on his quest. In Country Church Monuments,
he presents 365 of the very best, each accompanied by detailed
photographs, biographies of both the deceased and their sculptors
and a wealth of contextual material. Many of these works
commemorate famous historical figures, from scheming Tudor courtier
Richard Rich to Victorian prime minister William Ewart Gladstone.
But more moving are the countless others - minor aristocrats,
small-time industrialists, much-loved mothers, fathers and children
- who, if not for their memorials, would wholly be lost to time. As
Newham blows the dust off these artworks and breathes life into the
stories they tell, a new aesthetic history of rural England and
Wales emerges. Country Church Monuments is a poignant record of the
art we make at the borders of life and death, of our ceaseless
human striving for eternity.
The Invention of the Colonial Americas is an architectural history
and media-archaeological study of changing theories and practices
of government archives in Enlightenment Spain. It centers on an
archive created in Seville for storing Spain's pre-1760 documents
about the New World. To fill this new archive, older archives
elsewhere in Spain-spaces in which records about American history
were stored together with records about European history-were
dismembered. The Archive of the Indies thus constructed a scholarly
apparatus that made it easier to imagine the history of the
Americas as independent from the history of Europe, and vice versa.
In this meticulously researched book, Byron Ellsworth Hamann
explores how building layouts, systems of storage, and the
arrangement of documents were designed to foster the creation of
new knowledge. He draws on a rich collection of eighteenth-century
architectural plans, descriptions, models, document catalogs, and
surviving buildings to present a literal, materially precise
account of archives as assemblages of spaces, humans, and
data-assemblages that were understood circa 1800 as capable of
actively generating scholarly innovation.
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