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Visions and ruins explores the production of cultural memory in the
Middle Ages and the uses the medieval past has been put to in
modernity. Working with texts in Old English, Middle English and
Latin, as well as visual and material culture, it traces
connections in time, place, language and media to explore the
temporal complexities of cultural production and subject formation.
The book interrogates critical, poetic, artistic and political
archives to reveal exchanges of cultural energy and influence
between past and present, offering new ways of knowing the medieval
past and the contemporary moment. -- .
Essays examining the complex intertwining and effect of medievalism
on modernity - and vice versa. The question of how modernity has
influenced medievalism and how medievalism has influenced modernity
is the theme of this volume. The opening essays examine the 2001
film Just Visiting's comments on modern anxieties via medievalism;
conflations of modernity with both medievalism and the Middle Ages
in rewriting sources; the emergence of modernity amid the
post-World War I movement The Most Noble Order of Crusaders;
Antonio Sardinha's promotion of medievalism as an antidote to
modernity; and Mercedes Rubio's medievalism in her feminist
commentary on modernity. The eight subsequent articles build on
this foundation while discussing remnants of medieval London amid
its moderndescendant; Michel Houellebecq's critique of medievalism
through his 2011 novel La Carte et le territoire; historical
authenticity in Michael Morrow's approach to performing medieval
music; contemporary concerns in Ford Madox Brown and David
Gentleman's murals; medieval Chester in Catherine A.M. Clarke and
Nayan Kulkarni's Hryre (2012); medieval influences on the formation
of and debate about modern moral panics; medievalist considerations
inmodern repurposings of medieval anchorholds; and medieval sources
for Paddy Molloy's Here Be Dragons (2013). The articles thus test
the essays' methods and conclusions, even as the essays offer fresh
perspectives on the articles. Karl Fugelso is Professor of Art
History at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Contributors:
Edward Breen, Katherine A. Brown, Catherine A.M. Clarke, Louise
D'Arcens, Joshua Davies, John LanceGriffith, Mike Horswell, Pedro
Martins, Paddy Molloy, Lisa Nalbone, Sarah Salih, Michelle M.
Sauer, James L. Smith
In 2004, four undocumented Mexican teenagers arrived at the Marine
Advanced Technology Education Robotics Competition at the
University of California, Santa Barbara. No one had ever suggested
to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that they would amount to
much—but two inspiring high school science teachers convinced
these kids to use their talents and build something grander than
their wildest dreams: an underwater robot. Up against some of the
best collegiate engineers in the country, the four Phoenix
teenagers scraped together meagre funds and their tech classroom's
spare parts to astound not only the competition's judges, but
themselves. This young readers’ edition highlights these
students’ insurmountable courage, intelligence, and determination
to succeed, even when their country was against them. More timely
now than ever, Spare Parts: Young Readers’ Edition is an
accessible introduction to immigration and STEM, adapted by a
prominent Mexican-American author.
An examination of the ideas of space and place as manifested in
medieval texts, art, and architecture. This interdisciplinary
collection of sixteen essays explores the significance of space and
place in Late Antique and medieval culture, as well as modern
reimaginings of medieval topographies. Its case studies draw on a
wide variety of critical approaches and cover architecture, the
visual arts (painting and manuscript illumination), epic, romance,
historiography, hagiography, cartography, travel writing, as well
as modern English poetry. Challenging simplistic binaries of East
and West, self and other, Muslim and Christian, the volume
addresses the often unexpected roles played by space and place in
the construction of individual and collective identities in
religious and secular domains. The essays move through world spaces
(mappaemundi, the exotic and the mundane East, the Mediterranean);
empires, nations, and frontier zones; cities (Avignon, Jerusalem,
and Reval); and courts, castles and the architectureof
subjectivity, closing with modern visions of the medieval world.
They explore human movement in space and the construction of time
and place in memory. Taking up pressing contemporary issues such as
nationalism, multilingualism, multiculturalism and confessional
relations, they find that medieval material provides narratives
that we can use today in our negotiations with the past. Julian
Weiss is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern Hispanic Studies,
Sarah Salih Senior Lecturer in English, at King's College London.
Contributors: Richard Talbert, Paul Freedman, Sharon Kinoshita,
Luke Sunderland, Julian Weiss, Sarah Salih, Konstantin Klein, Katie
Clark, Elizabeth Monti, Elina Gertsman, Elina Rasanen, Geoff
Rector, Nicolay Ostrau, Andrew Cowell, Joshua Davies, Chris Jones,
Matthew Francis
Contemporary descriptions of objects no longer extant examined to
reconstruct these lost treasures. Surviving accounts of the
material culture of medieval Europe - including buildings, boats,
reliquaries, wall paintings, textiles, ivory mirror cases, book
bindings and much more - present a tantalising glimpse of medieval
life, hinting at the material richness of that era. However,
students and scholars of the period will be all too familiar with
the frustration of trying to piece together a picture of the past
from a handful of fragments. The "material turn" has put art,
architecture, and other artefacts at the forefront of historical
and cultural studies, and the resulting spotlight on the material
culture of the past has been illuminating for researchers in many
fields. Nevertheless, the loss of so much of the physical remnants
of the Middle Ages continues to thwart our understanding of the
period, and much of the knowledge we often take for granted is
based on a series of arbitrary survivals. The twelve essays in this
book draw on a wide array of sources and disciplines to explore how
textual records, from the chronicles of John of Worcester and
Matthew Paris and inventories of monastic treasuries and noble
women to Beowulf and early English riddles, when combined with
archaeological and art-historical evidence, can expand our
awareness of artistic and cultural environments. Touching on a
broad range of issues around how we imaginatively reconstruct the
medieval past and a variety of objects, both precious and
ephemeral, this volume will be of fundamental interest to medieval
scholars, whatever their disciplinary field. Contributors:
Katherine Baker, Marian Bleeke, Deirdre Carter, Laura Cleaver,
Judith Collard, Joshua Davies, Kathryn Gerry, Karl Kinsella,
Katherine A. Rush, Katherine Weikert, Beth Whalley, Victoria
Yuskaitis
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including
head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and
organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power,
feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the
marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited growth, and
democratic workplaces, these activist entrepreneurs offered
alternatives to conventional profit-driven corporate business
models. By the middle of the 1970s, thousands of these enterprises
operated across the United States-but only a handful survive today.
Some, such as Whole Foods Market, have abandoned their quest for
collective political change in favor of maximizing profits. Vividly
portraying the struggles, successes, and sacrifices of these
unlikely entrepreneurs, From Head Shops to Whole Foods writes a new
history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists
embraced small businesses in a way few historians have considered.
The book challenges the widespread but mistaken idea that activism
and political dissent are inherently antithetical to participation
in the marketplace. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical
roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption, social
enterprise, buying local, and mission-driven business, while also
showing how today's companies have adopted the language-but not
often the mission-of liberation and social change.
In the 1960s and '70s, a diverse range of storefronts-including
head shops, African American bookstores, feminist businesses, and
organic grocers-brought the work of the New Left, Black Power,
feminism, environmentalism, and other movements into the
marketplace. Through shared ownership, limited growth, and
democratic workplaces, these activist entrepreneurs offered
alternatives to conventional profit-driven corporate business
models. By the middle of the 1970s, thousands of these enterprises
operated across the United States-but only a handful survive today.
Some, such as Whole Foods Market, have abandoned their quest for
collective political change in favor of maximizing profits. Vividly
portraying the struggles, successes, and sacrifices of these
unlikely entrepreneurs,From Head Shops to Whole Foodswrites a new
history of social movements and capitalism by showing how activists
embraced small businesses in a way few historians have considered.
The book challenges the widespread but mistaken idea that activism
and political dissent are inherently antithetical to participation
in the marketplace. Joshua Clark Davis uncovers the historical
roots of contemporary interest in ethical consumption, social
enterprise, buying local, and mission-driven business, while also
showing how today's companies have adopted the language-but not
often the mission-of liberation and social change.
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers,
one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the National Underwater
Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona,
where they attended an underfunded, beat-up public high school. No
one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that
they might amount to much--but two inspiring science teachers had
convinced them that four impoverished, undocumented kids from the
desert who had never even seen the ocean should try to build an
underwater robot.
And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially
compared to the competition. They were going up against some of the
best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT
backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers
had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of
scavenged parts. This was never a level competition--and yet,
against all odds . . . they won
But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story--which
became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement--will go on to
include first-generation college graduations, deportation and
bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan.
Joshua Davis's "Spare Parts "is a story about overcoming
insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among
the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as
the country tried to kick them out.
Compromising Christianity, though a short devotional, is a thought
provoking read that will push you to allow God to take you to new
depths in your spiritual walk. It pushes you to stand in the truth
of Jesus. This is a much needed wake up call for the church of
today.
Title: A narrative of Joshua Davis: an American citizen who was
pressed and served on board six ships of the British Navy: he was
in seven engagements, once wounded, five times confined in irons,
and obtained his liberty by desertion: the whole being an
interesting and faithful narrative of the discipline, various
practices and treatment of pressed seamen in the British Navy and
containing information that never was before presented to the
American people.Author: Joshua DavisPublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP04375800CollectionID:
CTRG03-B500PublicationDate: 18110101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Collation: 72 p.; 19 cm
Josh's Galoshes is the first story of 8 year old Josh and his
adventures using his imagination to see the "regular" world in a
different light...
Four undocumented Mexican American students, two great teachers,
one robot-building contest . . . and a major motion picture
In 2004, four Latino teenagers arrived at the National Underwater
Robotics Competition at the University of California, Santa
Barbara. They were born in Mexico but raised in Phoenix, Arizona,
where they attended an underfunded, beat-up public high school. No
one had ever suggested to Oscar, Cristian, Luis, or Lorenzo that
they might amount to much--but two inspiring science teachers had
convinced them that four impoverished, undocumented kids from the
desert who had never even seen the ocean should try to build an
underwater robot.
And build a robot they did. Their robot wasn't pretty, especially
compared to the competition. They were going up against some of the
best collegiate engineers in the country, including a team from MIT
backed by a $10,000 grant from ExxonMobil. The Phoenix teenagers
had scraped together less than $1,000 and built their robot out of
scavenged parts. This was never a level competition--and yet,
against all odds . . . they won
But this is just the beginning for these four, whose story--which
became a key inspiration to the DREAMers movement--will go on to
include first-generation college graduations, deportation and
bean-picking in Mexico, and service in Afghanistan.
Joshua Davis's "Spare Parts "is a story about overcoming
insurmountable odds and four young men who proved they were among
the most patriotic and talented Americans in this country--even as
the country tried to kick them out.
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