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Author : Stephane Gerson
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2018-08-06

The Pride Of Place written by Stephane Gerson and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with History categories.

Nineteenth-century France grew fascinated with the local past. Thousands of citizens embraced local archaeology, penned historical vignettes and monographs, staged historical pageants, and created museums and pantheons of celebrities. Stéphane Gerson's rich, elegantly written, and timely book provides the first cultural and political history of what contemporaries called the "cult of local memories," an unprecedented effort to resuscitate the past, instill affection for one's locality, and hence create a sense of place. A wide range of archival and printed sources (some of them untapped until now) inform the author's engaging portrait of a little-known realm of Parisian entrepreneurs and middling provincials, of obscure historians and intellectual luminaries. Arguing that the "local" and modernity were interlaced, rather than inimical, between the 1820s and 1890s, Gerson explores the diverse uses of local memories in modern France—from their theatricality and commercialization to their political and pedagogical applications. The Pride of Place shows that, contrary to our received ideas about French nationhood and centralism, the "local" buttressed the nation while seducing Parisian and local officials. The state cautiously supported the cult of local memories even as it sought to co-opt them and grappled with their cultural and political implications. The current enthusiasm for local memories, Gerson thus finds, is neither new nor a threat to Republican unity. More broadly yet, this book illuminates the predicament of countries that, like France, are now caught between supranational forces and a revival of local sentiments.

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Author : Kimberly Prothro Williams
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2003

A Pride Of Place written by Kimberly Prothro Williams and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Architecture categories.

A Pride of Place, the result of a quarter-century’s worth of painstaking research and collection, presents the first comprehensive architectural and historic inventory of the widely diverse and irreplaceable rural residences of Fauquier County, Virginia. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations, each accompanied by informative text, provide a fascinating and helpful overview of the county’s rich architectural heritage.

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Author : David Taylor
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2006

Pride Of Place written by David Taylor and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.

Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. This book addresses all the major regions of Texas. Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative "Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will appeal not only to those interested in regional history, natural history, and the environmental issues Texans face, but also to all who say gladly, "I'm from Texas."

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Author : Nicola Thorne
language : en
Publisher: HarperPrism
Release Date : 1990-12

Pride Of Place written by Nicola Thorne and has been published by HarperPrism this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-12 with Fiction categories.

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Author : Civic Trust
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972

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Author : Alisa Bunbury
language : en
Publisher: Melbourne Univ. Publishing
Release Date : 2020-12-01

Pride Of Place written by Alisa Bunbury and has been published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-01 with Art categories.

The Russell and Mab Grimwade Bequest comprises a rich and sometimes unexpected variety of art, books and objects. A scientist, businessman and philanthropist, Sir Russell had wide-ranging interests embracing industry, history and botany. In all of these he was strongly supported by his wife Mab. The core of the bequest is Russell’s collection of visual and textual material, which provides a perspective on the European exploration of the Pacific and the British colonisation and settlement of Australia. His keen interest resulted in an extensive body of prints, drawings, watercolours and books, as well as oil paintings, decorative arts and personal records. These are jointly housed by the University of Melbourne’s Ian Potter Museum of Art, Special Collections (Library) and University Archives. Pride of Place is the first publication to explore the diversity of this remarkable collection. In this beautifully illustrated book, numerous experts share their interpretations of its highlights, responding to past historical attitudes and offering twenty-first century insights.

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Author : Kathleen Fuller
language : en
Publisher: Ivy Books
Release Date : 1988

Pride Of Place written by Kathleen Fuller and has been published by Ivy Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Fiction categories.

Hard-drinking, irrepressible Fitz Connely inherits a fortune, Stockwell family tempers flare, the Stockwell women find Fitz irresistible, and a murder charge finds Patrice Stockwell torn between the affections of two men

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