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Worthy Monuments (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.): Daniel J. Sherman Worthy Monuments (Hardcover, Reprint 2014 ed.)
Daniel J. Sherman
R1,552 R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040 Save R148 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Attracting controversy as readily as they do crowds, art museums--the Grand Louvre project and the new Orsay in Paris, or the proposed Whitney and Guggenheim additions in New York, for example--occupy a curious but central position in world culture. Choosing the art museums of provincial France in the previous century as a paradigm, Daniel Sherman reaches toward an understanding of the museum's place in modern society by exploring its past. He uses an array of previously unstudied archival sources as evidence that the museum's emergence as an institution involved not only the intricacies of national policy but also the political dynamics and social fabric of the nineteenth-century city.

The author ascertains that while the French state played an important role in the creation of provincial museums during the Revolutionary era, for much of the next century it was content simply to send works of art to the provinces. When in the 1880s the new Republican regime began to devote more attention to the real purposes and functions of provincial museums, officials were surprised to learn that the initiative had already passed into the hands of local elites who had nurtured their own museums from their inception.

Sherman devotes particular attention to the museums of Bordeaux, Dijon, Marseilles, and Rouen. From their origins as repositories for objects confiscated during the Revolution, they began to attract the attention of local governments, which started to add objects purchased at regional art exhibitions. In the period 1860-1890, monumental buildings were constructed, and these museums became identified with the cities' bourgeois leaders. This central connection with local elites has continued to our own day, and leads into the author's stimulating reflections on the art museum's past, present, and future.

This original and highly readable account should attract those with an interest in cultural institutions and art history in general as well as those who study the history and sociology of modern France.

Environmental Science and Sustainability (Paperback): Daniel J. Sherman, David R. Montgomery Environmental Science and Sustainability (Paperback)
Daniel J. Sherman, David R. Montgomery
R3,889 Discovery Miles 38 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Environmental Science and Sustainability helps students discover their role in the environment and the impact of their choices. Authors David Montgomery and Daniel Sherman bring scientific and environmental policy expertise to a modern treatment of environmental science; in addition to teaching climate change, sustainability and resilience, they reveal how our personal decisions affect our planet and our lives.

Museum Culture - Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Hardcover): Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman Museum Culture - Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Hardcover)
Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman
R5,291 Discovery Miles 52 910 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society.Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.

The Long 1968 - Revisions and New Perspectives (Paperback): Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud Van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, A Aneesh The Long 1968 - Revisions and New Perspectives (Paperback)
Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud Van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, A Aneesh; Contributions by Mark Tribe, …
R746 R707 Discovery Miles 7 070 Save R39 (5%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations and its uses today."

Museum Culture - Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Paperback): Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman Museum Culture - Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (Paperback)
Itit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman
R1,440 Discovery Miles 14 400 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Museums display much more than artifacts; Museum Culture makes us on a tour through the complex of ideas, values and symbols that pervade and shape the practice of exhibiting today. Bringing together a broad range of perspectives from history, art history, critical theory and sociology, the contributors to this new collection argue that museums have become a central institution and metaphor in contemporary society. Discussing exhibition histories and practice in Western Europe, the former Soviet Union, Israel and the United States, the authors explore the ways in which museums assign meaning to art through various kinds of exhibitions and display strategies, examining the political implications of these strategies and the forms of knowledge they invoke and construct. The collection also discusses alternative exhibition forms, the involvement of some museums with the more spectacular practices of mass media culture, and looks at how museums construct their public.

May '68 (Paperback): Donald Matthew Reid, Daniel J. Sherman May '68 (Paperback)
Donald Matthew Reid, Daniel J. Sherman
R367 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R43 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This issue presents new directions in the study of the civil unrest in France during May 1968 on its fiftieth anniversary. Authors from France and the United States emphasize the nature and experience of the political upheaval in May 1968, the long-term cultural impacts of events in Paris, and the ways in which these events figures into a global context. Contributors offer new ways of understanding and interpreting the discord by focusing on the emotional and cultural resonance of the events of May 1968 in activism and popular culture. Other essays explore the relation of student activism in former French colonies to events in France, place the events of May 1968 in a global context by considering diplomatic and radical networks between Europe and the United States, and examine the cultural relationship between France and Germany. Contributors: Ludivine Bantigny, Francoise Blum, Tony Come, Boris Gobille, Bethany Keenan, Salar Mohandesi, Donald Reid, Sandrine Sanos, Daniel Sherman

The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Paperback, 2nd Ed.): Daniel J. Sherman The Construction of Memory in Interwar France (Paperback, 2nd Ed.)
Daniel J. Sherman
R1,524 Discovery Miles 15 240 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

One of the bloodiest conflicts in human history, World War I devastated France, leaving behind battlefields littered with the remains of the dead. Daniel Sherman takes a close look at the human impact of this Great War by examining the ways in which the French remembered their veterans and war dead after the armistice. Arguing that memory is more than just a record of experience, Sherman's cultural history offers a radically new perspective on how commemoration of WWI helped to shape postwar French society and politics.
Sherman shows how a wartime visual culture saturated with images of ordinary foot soldiers, together with contemporary novels, memoirs, and tourist literature, promoted a distinctive notion of combat experience. The contrast between battlefield and home front, soldier and civilian was the basis for memory and collective gratitude. Postwar commemoration, however, also grew directly out of the long and agonized search for the remains of hundreds of thousands of missing soldiers, and the sometimes contentious debates over where to bury them. For this reason, the local monument, with its inscribed list of names and its functional resemblance to tombstones, emerged as the focal point of commemorative practice. Sherman traces every step in the process of monument building as he analyzes commemoration's competing goals--to pay tribute to the dead, to console the bereaved, and to incorporate mourners' individual memories into a larger political discourse.
Extensively illustrated, Sherman's study offers a visual record of a remarkable moment in the history of public art. It is at once a moving account of a culture haunted by war and a sophisticated analysis of thepolitical stakes of memory in the twentieth century.
Winner of the 2000 J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association

Museums and Difference (Paperback): Daniel J. Sherman Museums and Difference (Paperback)
Daniel J. Sherman
R755 R692 Discovery Miles 6 920 Save R63 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Museums, modern concepts of culture, and ideas about difference arose together and are inextricably entwined. Relationships of difference notably, of gender, ethnicity, nationality, and race have become equally important concerns of scholarship in humanities and contemporary museum practice. Museums and Difference offers the perspectives of scholars and museum professionals in tandem, using the concept of difference to reexamine how museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics. Essays explore a wide range of examples from around the world and from the 19th century to the present, including case studies of special exhibitions as well as broad surveys of institutions in Europe, the United States, and Japan."

The Long 1968 - Revisions and New Perspectives (Hardcover): Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud Van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, A Aneesh The Long 1968 - Revisions and New Perspectives (Hardcover)
Daniel J. Sherman, Ruud Van Dijk, Jasmine Alinder, A Aneesh; Contributions by Mark Tribe, …
R2,465 Discovery Miles 24 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s, revolutions in theory, politics, and cultural experimentation swept around the world. These changes had as great a transformative impact on the right as on the left. A touchstone for activists, artists, and theorists of all stripes, the year 1968 has taken on new significance for the present moment, which bears certain uncanny resemblances to that time. The Long 1968 explores the wide-ranging impact of the year and its aftermath in politics, theory, the arts, and international relations and its uses today."

Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere - Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste (Hardcover):... Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere - Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste (Hardcover)
Daniel J. Sherman
R3,282 R1,107 Discovery Miles 11 070 Save R2,175 (66%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) refused to accept additional shipments. The resulting shortage of disposal sites for wastes spurred Congress to devolve responsibility for establishing new, geographically diffuse LLRW disposal sites to states and regional compacts, with siting authorities often employing socio-economic and political data to target communities that would give little resistance to their plans. The communities, however, were far from compliant, organizing nearly 1000 opposition events that ended up blocking the implementation of any new disposal sites. Sherman provides comprehensive coverage of this opposition, testing hypotheses regarding movement mobilization and opposition strategy by analyzing the frequency and disruptive qualities of activism. In the process, he bridges applied policy questions about hazardous waste disposal with broader questions about the dynamics of social movements and the intergovernmental politics of policy implementation. The issues raised in this book are sure to be renewed as interest grows in nuclear power and the disposal of the resulting waste remains uncertain.

Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere - Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste (Paperback,... Not Here, Not There, Not Anywhere - Politics, Social Movements, and the Disposal of Low-Level Radioactive Waste (Paperback, New)
Daniel J. Sherman
R1,103 R724 Discovery Miles 7 240 Save R379 (34%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In 1979, provoked by the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, governors of states hosting disposal facilities for low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) refused to accept additional shipments. The resulting shortage of disposal sites for wastes spurred Congress to devolve responsibility for establishing new, geographically diffuse LLRW disposal sites to states and regional compacts, with siting authorities often employing socio-economic and political data to target communities that would give little resistance to their plans. The communities, however, were far from compliant, organizing nearly 1000 opposition events that ended up blocking the implementation of any new disposal sites. Sherman provides comprehensive coverage of this opposition, testing hypotheses regarding movement mobilization and opposition strategy by analyzing the frequency and disruptive qualities of activism. In the process, he bridges applied policy questions about hazardous waste disposal with broader questions about the dynamics of social movements and the intergovernmental politics of policy implementation. The issues raised in this book are sure to be renewed as interest grows in nuclear power and the disposal of the resulting waste remains uncertain.

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