Tag: Remapping

Sensational Internationalism The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century


Free Download J. Michelle Coghlan, "Sensational Internationalism: The Paris Commune and the Remapping of American Memory in the Long Nineteenth Century "
English | ISBN: 1474431585 | 2018 | 232 pages | PDF | 12 MB
Remaps the borders of transatlantic feeling and resituates the role of international memory in U.S. culture in the long nineteenth century and beyond

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Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700 To the East and Back Again


Free Download Montserrat Piera, "Remapping Travel Narratives, 1000-1700: To the East and Back Again"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1942401590 | PDF | pages: 295 | 132.0 mb
With a specific focus on travel narratives, this collection looks at how Islamic and eastern cultural threads were weaved, through travel and trading networks, into Western European/Christian visual culture and discourse and, ultimately, into the artistic explosion which has been labeled the "Renaissance." Scholars from across humanities disciplines examine Islamic, Jewish, Spanish, Italian, and English works from a truly comparative and non-parochial perspective, to explore the transfer through travel of cultural and religious values and artistic and scientific practices, from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries.

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