Article Review: (Macfarlane‚ “A Completely Man-Made and Artificial Cataract”: The Transnational Manipulation of Niagara Falls n.d.) Niagara is a unique high modernist case because‚ rather than seeking to dominate the natural setting visually‚ as did other comparable projects in the 1950s and 1960s‚ the control works at and above the actual cataract were hidden. Instead of making the technology (the remedial works) prevalent‚ they were designed to be unseen‚ although the downstream power projects
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The Two Enslavement of Rufina: Slavery and International Relations on the Southern Border of Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Kelia Grinberg explores the issue of kidnapping of freed Africans in Uruguay and illegal sale of slavery in Brazil. Grinberg argues that the network of kidnapping and selling of freed Africans by slave catchers existed as a response to the ban of the Atlantic slave trade in Brazil. Brazil heavily relied on slave labor‚ and its neighbor‚ Uruguay abolished slavery during their independence
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LITERATURE: Literature (from Latin litterae (plural); letter) is the art of written work and can‚ in some circumstances‚ refer exclusively to published sources. The word literatureliterally means "things made from letters" and the pars pro toto term "letters" is sometimes used to signify "literature‚" as in the figures of speech "arts and letters" and "man of letters." Literature is commonly classified as having two major forms—fiction and non-fiction—and two major techniques—poetry and prose
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Some physicians believed in medical approach of disease‚ another ones- in religious approach‚ thirds mixed medical and religious opinions. But what we can be sure is about the abundance of the historiography of the plague in Western Europe. Both in the initial sources and in the Dols’ essay‚ one can note that the main emphasis is on Europe and the authors of the chronicles are mainly Europeans (doctors‚ monks‚ lawyers‚ priests). It can be said that
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A State of Mixture by Richard Payne investigates the entwining of Zoroastrian and Christian groups in late antique Iran. Payne claims that “Zoroastrian and Christian elites‚ institutions‚ and symbols came to commingle in a political culture that the present book calls ‘a state of mixture‚’ employing a metaphor current in contemporaneous Iranian political thought.” This quote summarizes and lays out the foundation for the rest of the arguments that he covers in his book‚ arguably making it his thesis
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and political norms of the Age of Enlightenmentand a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts‚ music‚ and literature‚ but had a major impact on historiography‚ education and the natural sciences. Its effect on politics was considerable and complex; while for much of the peak Romantic period it was associated with liberalism and radicalism‚ in the long term its effect
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Jews and the latter being that Jews did resist Nazi rule and in turn their slaughter. The main argument is the question of what is resistance which is the main problem in trying to understand or pin point the historiography of Jewish resistance. In trying to understand the Jewish historiography of resistance‚ this essay will start by defining the different forms of resistance as so mentioned in Michael Marrus’s Jewish Resistance to the Holocaust. This essay will also talk about the different spheres
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accounts that currently depict Cleopatra VII as a Queen who used sex and gender to rule are erroneous. Roller argues that those accounts are the consequence of a perverse male-dominated historiography out to depict her as an extension of men in her life (2). According to Roller‚ modern and ancient male-dominated historiographies betray their chauvinistic attitudes towards Cleopatra in the manner in which they portray her primary accomplishments as the destruction of her male lovers (2). Such portrayals were
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accepted tacitly in architectural debate‚ and many architects reacted against earlier‚ highly personal criticism by John Horbury Hunt and his contemporaries by avoiding debate and speculation. This critical silence preserved Australia ’s 1890s historiography in amber. Old Colonial architecture remained the focus of exploration. James Barnet‚ Frank Walker‚ and others proclaimed Greenway the leading Colonial architect‚ and George Sydney Jones linked early Colonial design to a visibly twentieth-century
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micro-history of the life and times of Domingos Álvares‚ African Healing‚ and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World is a stellar work central to understanding African agency in the eighteenth-century from a bottom up perspective. Traditional historiographies mostly reflect the experiences of the white social and mobile elite consequently‚ a top down perspective. However‚ Sweet focuses on the view from below the elite‚ and chronicles the life of a native African male slave‚ Domingos Álavrez‚ between
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