1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784712803321

Autore

Morgan David <1957->

Titolo

Protestants & pictures [[electronic resource] ] : religion, visual culture and the age of American mass production / / David Morgan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, c1999

ISBN

0-19-774057-X

1-280-53057-X

0-19-535148-7

1-4294-0477-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (432 p.)

Disciplina

246/.5

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century

Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century

Protestantism in art

Spirituality in art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Introduction; One: Media, Millennium, Nationhood; Two: Evangelical Images and the American Tract Society; Three: The Visual Rhetoric of Northern Evangelicalism; Four: Millerism and the Schematic Imagination; Five: The Commerce of Images and Adventist Piety; Six: Pictures and Children; Seven: Talking Pictures; PAR IV: THE RISE OF THE DEVOTIONAL IMAGE IN AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM; Eight: The Devotional Likeness of Christ; Nine: Religious Art and the Formation of Character; Conclusion: The Return of Aura; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K

LM; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

The author surveys the enormous visual culture that shaped American Protestantism in the late-19th and 20th centuries. His overarching argument is that the role of images in American Protestantism greatly expanded and developed during this period.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910820575603321

Autore

Lynch Martin

Titolo

Mining in World History [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Reaktion Books, 2004

ISBN

1-280-49361-5

9786613588845

1-78023-005-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (352 p.)

Collana

RB-Globalities

Disciplina

338.209

622.09

Soggetti

Mineral industries -- History

Mines and mineral resources -- History

Mining engineering -- History

Smelting -- History

Business & Economics

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Industries

Mining Engineering

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Mining in World History Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Preface; Prologue; 1. The Metallurgical Renaissance; 2. The Watt Engine; 3. New Frontiers; 4. The Copper Barons; 5. The Gold Factories; 6. Mass Production; Epilogue; References; List of Maps; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book deals with the history of mining and smelting from the Renaissance to the present. Martin Lynch opens with the invention, sometime before 1453, of a revolutionary technique for separating silver from copper. It was this invention which brought back to life the rich copper-silver mines of central Europe, in the process making brass cannon and silver coin available to the ambitious Habsburg emperors, thereby underpinning their quest for European domination. Lynch also discusses the Industrial Revolution and the far-reaching changes to



mining and smelting brought about by the steam