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Empty spaces : perspectives on emptiness in modern history /
How is emptiness made and what historical purpose does it serve? What cultural, material and natural work goes into maintaining 'nothingness'? Why have a variety of historical actors, from colonial powers to artists and urban dwellers, sought to construct, control and maintain (physically...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
University of London Press : Institute of Historical Research,
2019.
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| Colección: | IHR conference series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : confronting emptiness in history / Courtney J. Campbell, Allegra Giovine and Jennifer Keating
- 1. 'Take my advice, go to Morgan's Hotel' : barrenness and abundance in the late Victorian Connemara landscape / Kevin J. James
- 2. Amid the horrors of nature : 'dead' environments at the margins of the Russian empire / Jennifer Keating
- 3. Empty spaces, aviation and the Brazilian nation : the metaphor of conquest in narratives of Edu Chave's cross-country flights in 1912 / Leonie Schuster
- 4. Looking over the ship railings : the colonial voyage and the empty ocean in Empire Marketing Board posters / Tricia Cusack
- 5. Spectral figures : Edward Hopper's empty Paris / Emily C. Burns
- 6. Landscapes of loss : the semantics of empty spaces in contemporary post-apocalyptic fiction / Martin Walter
- 7. Surveying the creative use of vacant space in London c. 1945-95 / Krystallia Kamvasinou and Sarah Ann Milne
- 8. Urban prehistoric enclosures : empty spaces/busy places / Kenneth Brophy.