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UNINA9910453296003321 |
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Sveen Karin <1948-> |
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The immigrant and the university : Peder Sather and gold rush California / / Karin Sveen ; foreword by Kevin Starr ; translated by Barbara J. Haveland |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Businessmen - California - San Francisco |
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San Francisco (Calif.) Emigration and immigration |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Translation of the author's Mannen i Montgomery street : portrett av en norsk emigrant. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- 1. Monuments and Mysteries -- 2. Sole Passenger -- 3. Baptism and Marriage -- 4. 1837 -- 5. New Yorker and Norwegian -- 6. A Specimen of the Gold -- 7. A Particular Friend -- 8. Drexel, Sather & Church -- 9. Congratulating Himself on Freedom -- 10. Cigars, Wine, and Other Evils -- 11. The Turning Point -- 12. Law in a Lawless City -- 13. Gold, Pigs, and a Summer Residence -- 14. The Foundation of Man's Future Circumstances -- 15. Morals, Money, and War -- 16. The Haunted House -- 17. Never Sather & Son -- 18. Among Friends on Wall Street -- 19. Under the Fever Trees -- 20. Peder and Jane -- 21. In Memoriam -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Peder Sather was a scribe before he emigrated from Norway to New York in 1832. There, he worked as a servant and a clerk at a lottery office before opening an exchange brokerage. During the gold rush, he moved to San Francisco to help establish the banking house of Drexel, Sather & Church on Montgomery Street. Sather was a founder and a liberal benefactor of the University of California at Berkeley where he is |
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memorialized by the Sather Gate and Sather Tower (the Campanile), three endowed professorships, and more recently the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study. Karin Sveen, one of Norway's most accomplished writers, pieces together a story yet untold-a beautifully crafted biography based on her dedicated search for scraps of information. The result gives readers a look at the life of a successful entrepreneur and a leading California patron who engaged in public education on all levels; supported Abraham Lincoln; and worked to give emancipated slaves housing, schooling, and employment after the Civil War. His legacy and vivid persona and the frontier city of his time are brought to life with interesting anecdotes of many famous people- General William T. Sherman, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, the Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, and above all, his close friend Anthony J. Drexel, legendary Philadelphia financier and one of the founders of Wall Street. |
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UNINA9910790186603321 |
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Murray Stephen <1945-> |
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A Gothic sermon [[electronic resource] ] : making a contract with the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens / / Stephen Murray |
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Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2004 |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Ahmanson Murphy fine arts imprint |
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"Sermon in honor of the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens": P. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-161). |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Occasions and Audience -- 2. Structure and Content -- 3. Rhetorical Strategies: The Art of Persuasion -- 4. Portals and Preaching: Image and Word -- Conclusion: Looking for "Reality" -- Sermon in Honor of the Mother of God, Saint Mary of Amiens Text and Translation -- Appendix: Sources Quoted in the Sermon -- Notes |
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In this groundbreaking work, Stephen Murray seizes a rare opportunity |
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to explore the relationship between verbal and visual culture by presenting a sermon that may have been preached during the second half of the thirteenth century in or near the cathedral of Notre-Dame of Amiens, whose sculptural program was completed at about the same time. In addition to providing a complete transcription and translation of the text, Murray examines the historical context of the sermon and draws comparisons between its underlying structure and the Gothic portals of the cathedral. In the sermon, as in the cathedral, he finds a powerful motivational mechanism that invites the repentant sinner to enter into a new contract with the Virgin Mary. The correlation between elements of the sermon's text and the sculptural components of the cathedral leads to an exploration of the socioeconomic conditions in Picardy at the time and a vivid sketch of how the cathedral and its images were used by ordinary people. The author finds parallels in the rhetorical tools used in the sermon, on the one hand, and stylistic and compositional tools used in the sculpture, on the other. In addition to providing a fascinating and cogent consideration of medieval beliefs about salvation and redemption, this book also lays the groundwork for a long overdue examination of the performative and textual in relationship to sculpture. |
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