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  • An Eye for the Tropics

    Tourism, Photography, and Framing the Caribbean Picturesque

    by Krista A. Thompson, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

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  • Golden Gate

    The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

    by Kevin Starr ...
    The Golden Gate Bridge links the urbanity of San Francisco with the wildheadlands of Marin County, as if to suggest the paradox of Californiaand America itself-the place that Fitzgerald saw as the last spotcommensurate with the human capacity for wonder. The bridge, completedin 1937, also announced to the world America's engineering prowess andfull assumption of its destined continental dominance. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Human Shore

    Seacoasts in History

    by John R. Gillis ...
    Since before recorded history, people have congregated near water. But as growing populations around the globe continue to flow toward the coasts on an unprecedented scale and climate change raises water levels, our relationship to the sea has begun to take on new and potentially catastrophic dimensions. The latest generation of coastal dwellers lives largely in ignorance of the history of those ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seductions of Place

    Geographical Perspectives on Globalization and Touristed Landscapes

    Edited by Carolyn Cartier, Alan A Lew ...
    Series series Critical Geographies
    The seductiveness of touristed landscapes is simultaneously local and global, as travelled places are formed and reworked by the activities of diverse, mobile people, in their desires to experience situated, sensuous qualities of difference. Cartier and Lew’s interesting and informative book explores contemporary issues in travel and tourism and human geography, and the complex cultural, political ... Read more

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  • Familiar Stranger

    A Life Between Two Islands

    by Stuart Hall ...
    Series series Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
    "Sometimes I feel myself to have been the last colonial." This, in his own words, is the extraordinary story of the life and career of Stuart Hall—how his experiences shaped his intellectual, political, and theoretical work and how he became one of his age's brightest intellectual lights.Growing up in a middle-class family in 1930s Kingston, Jamaica, still then a British colony, the young Stuart ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Undressed Toronto

    From the Swimming Hole to Sunnyside, How a City Learned to Love the Beach, 1850–1935

    by Dale Barbour ...
    WINNER J.J. Talman Award, Ontario Historical Society (2022)NOMINATED Toronto Heritage Book Award (2022)Undressed Toronto looks at the life of the swimming hole and considers how Toronto turned boys skinny dipping into comforting anti-modernist folk figures. By digging into the vibrant social life of these spaces, Barbour challenges narratives that pollution and industrialization in the nineteenth ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Museum Frictions

    Public Cultures/Global Transformations

    Edited by Ivan Karp, Corinne A. Kratz, Lynn Szwaja, Tomas Ybarra-Frausto ...
    Museum Frictions is the third volume in a bestselling series on culture, society, and museums. The first two volumes in the series, Exhibiting Cultures and Museums and Communities, have become defining books for those interested in the politics of museum display and heritage sites. Another classic in the making, Museum Frictions is a lavishly illustrated examination of the significant and varied ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Living Over the Store

    Architecture and Local Urban Life

    by Howard Davis ...
    The shop/house – the building combining commercial/retail uses and dwellings – appears over many periods of history in most cities in the world. This book combines architectural history, cross-cultural understandings and accounts of contemporary policy and building practice to provide a comprehensive account of this common but overlooked building.The merchant's house in northern European cities, ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Place, Race, and Story

    Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation

    by Ned Kaufman ...
    In Place, Race, and Story, author Ned Kaufman has collected his own essays dedicated to the proposition of giving the next generation of preservationists not only a foundational knowledge of the field of study, but more ideas on where they can take it. Through both big-picture essays considering preservation across time, and descriptions of work on specific sites, the essays in this collection ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Funky Nassau

    Roots, Routes, and Representation in Bahamian Popular Music

    by Timothy Rommen ...
    Series Book 15 - Music of the African Diaspora
    This book examines the role music has played in the formation of the political and national identity of the Bahamas. Timothy Rommen analyzes Bahamian musical life as it has been influenced and shaped by the islands’ location between the United States and the rest of the Caribbean; tourism; and Bahamian colonial and postcolonial history. Focusing on popular music in the second half of the twentieth ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Material Culture: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Robert DuPlessis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD