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The History of Fashion Journalism is a uniquely comprehensive study
of the development of the industry from its origins to the present
day, and including professionals' such as Dylan Jones's vision of
the future. Covering everything from early tailor's catalogues
through to contemporary publications such as LOVE, together with
blogs such as StyleBubble, and countries from France through to the
United States, The History of Fashion Journalism explores the
origins and influence of such well-known magazines as Nova, Vogue
and Glamour. Combining an overview of the key moments in fashion
journalism history with close textual analysis, Kate Nelson Best
brings to life the evolving face of the fashion media and its
relationship with the fashion industry, national politics, consumer
culture and gender. This accessible and highly engaging book will
be an invaluable resource not only for fashion studies students but
also for those in media studies and cultural studies.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies
were transformed into ""dead heaps of ruins,"" novel sights in the
southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did
Americans-northern and southern, black and white, male and
female-make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the
first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories
to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state,
an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson
examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they
confronted the war's destructiveness. Architectural ruins-cities
and houses-dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told
about the ""savage"" behaviour of men and the invasions of domestic
privacy. The ruins of living things-trees and bodies-also provoked
discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being
blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime
technologies on nature and on individual identities. The
obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared
experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the
war's ruination-in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness
people found common ground as they considered the war's costs. And
yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the
destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans
during the Civil War have been erased from our national
consciousness.
During the Civil War, cities, houses, forests, and soldiers' bodies
were transformed into ""dead heaps of ruins,"" novel sights in the
southern landscape. How did this happen, and why? And what did
Americans-northern and southern, black and white, male and
female-make of this proliferation of ruins? Ruin Nation is the
first book to bring together environmental and cultural histories
to consider the evocative power of ruination as an imagined state,
an act of destruction, and a process of change. Megan Kate Nelson
examines the narratives and images that Americans produced as they
confronted the war's destructiveness. Architectural ruins-cities
and houses-dominated the stories that soldiers and civilians told
about the ""savage"" behaviour of men and the invasions of domestic
privacy. The ruins of living things-trees and bodies-also provoked
discussion and debate. People who witnessed forests and men being
blown apart were plagued by anxieties about the impact of wartime
technologies on nature and on individual identities. The
obliteration of cities, houses, trees, and men was a shared
experience. Nelson shows that this is one of the ironies of the
war's ruination-in a time of the most extreme national divisiveness
people found common ground as they considered the war's costs. And
yet, very few of these ruins still exist, suggesting that the
destructive practices that dominated the experiences of Americans
during the Civil War have been erased from our national
consciousness.
For some people revenge eats into their soul, it's an unforgiving
master and the results weave its way through this story. Love,
friendship and respect are the best defences and allies. As one
reads through this story two young people, Maddy and Nathan are
starting out on life without parents. One is sent away for her own
protection the other is left an orphan following a road accident...
or was it an accident? Both are brought up by people who least
expected to have such a responsibility. Sometimes in life we make
promises but rarely are called upon to carry them out as they did.
Both Maddy and Nathan become involved in the story of the four
miniatures in differing ways and for different reasons. The last
words Nathan's father wrote on his memo pad were The Four
Miniatures. What was their significance? Lives are lost as the
greedy endeavour to acquire them. The resolute try equally hard to
thwart them. But who wins? Will a simple rhyme taught to a small
child be the key? Will the search bring people together or tear
them apart..........
From the formation of the Georgia colony in 1732 to the end of the
Great Depression, the Okefenokee Swamp was a site of conflict
between divergent local communities. Coining the term 'ecolocalism'
to describe how local cultures form out of ecosystems and in
relation to other communities, Megan Kate Nelson offers a new view
of the Okefenokee, its inhabitants, and its rich and telling record
of thwarted ambitions, unintended consequences, and unresolved
questions. Nelson narrates the fluctuations, disconnections, and
confrontations embedded in the muck of the swamp and the mire of
its disorderly history, and she reminds us that it is out of such
places of intermingling and uncertainty that cultures are forged.
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