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"_Architecture in North America since 1960_ is the first volume of its kind to trace the evolution of North American architectural work over the last thirty-five years. Its developments and innovations are explored through thremes of ideology, place, social change, technology, the city and the evironment. In an involved yet far-reaching introduction and seventy-eight projects, _Architecture in North America since 1960_ examines and offers new critical...
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The confinement of some 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II, often called the Japanese American internment, has been described as the worst official civil rights violation of modern U.S. history. The author not only offers a new understanding of these events but also studies them within a larger time frame and from a transnational perspective. Drawing on newly discovered material, he provides a backstory of confinement that reveals for...
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The Curatorial Department of the American Philosophical Society presents a catalogue of the exhibition being held in Philosophical Hall from June 2003 through December 2004. The exhibit focuses on the blending of art & science in the study of natural history in North America. It explores the cultural assumptions that governed the practice of natural history on the North American continent in the 18th & early 19th centuries. Focusing on the study of...
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"Arts of the City Victorious is the first book-length study of the art and architecture of the Fatimids, the Ismaili Shi'i dynasty that ruled in North Africa and Egypt from 909 to 1171. The Fatimids are most famous for founding the city of al-Qahira (whence the name Cairo) in 969, and their art - particularly textiles and lustre ceramics, but also metalwork and carved rock crystal, ivory and woodwork - has been admired for nearly a millennium. Initially...
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"When thousands of stampeders raced to claim their share of the Klondike, reports already circulated that the Canadian gold fields were 'all filled up' and the gold-seekers faced a choice : work for wages at someone else's Klondike mine or search for gold on the American side of the international boundary. Those who chose the Koyukuk River came from as far away as Illinois, Michigan, and New York, and most were woefully unprepared for life above the...
9) Sterilized by the state: eugenics, race, and the population scare in twentieth-century North America
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"This book is the first comprehensive analysis of eugenics in North America focused on the second half of the twentieth century. Based on new research the authors show why eugenic sterilization policies persisted after the 1940s in the United States and Canada. Through extensive archival research, they show how both superintendents at homes for the 'feebleminded' and pro-sterilization advocates repositioned themselves after 1945 to avoid the taint...
10) The great quake: how the biggest earthquake in North America changed our understanding of the planet
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"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Isaac's Storm, a riveting narrative about the biggest earthquake in recorded history in North America--the 1964 Alaskan earthquake that demolished the city of Valdez and obliterated the coastal village of Chenega--and the scientist sent to look for geological clues to explain the dynamics of earthquakes, who helped to confirm the then controversial theory of plate tectonics. On March 27, 1964, at 5:36 p.m., the biggest...
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"Kevin Baker's well-researched history, which draws heavily on resources such as unit histories, presents an important background briefing to the conflicts in Afghanistan and northwest Pakistan. There have been few books which put the conflicts into the broadest perspective and even fewer that also include in their narrative descriptions of the numerous wars and conflicts on the Northwest Frontier as well as Afghanistan. This book includes information...
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This journey starts out in Lapland, where we learn about the joik, an ancient form of expression which still holds a magic function. Rather than being sung for an audience, it serves to conjure up people or things. Through a narrow inlet, we reach Finland where the entire countryside is imbued with the Kalevala and its myths. Here one can still hear the echoes of curses and incantations present in the ancient melodies, and the magic sounds of the...
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"This collection of essays brings together voices from the most recent development in Muslim women's studies, namely, the burgeoning network of Muslim women working on issues of women's human rights through engaged revisionist scholarship in such areas as theology, law and jurisprudence, and women's literature." - BACK COVER.
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