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UNINA9910784712803321 |
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Autore |
Morgan David <1957-> |
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Titolo |
Protestants & pictures [[electronic resource] ] : religion, visual culture and the age of American mass production / / David Morgan |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, c1999 |
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0-19-774057-X |
1-280-53057-X |
0-19-535148-7 |
1-4294-0477-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (432 p.) |
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Popular culture - United States - History - 19th century |
Popular culture - United States - History - 20th century |
Protestantism in art |
Spirituality in art |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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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 |
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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. |
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UNINA9910820575603321 |
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Autore |
Lynch Martin |
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Titolo |
Mining in World History [[electronic resource]] |
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London, : Reaktion Books, 2004 |
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1-280-49361-5 |
9786613588845 |
1-78023-005-2 |
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[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Mineral industries -- History |
Mines and mineral resources -- History |
Mining engineering -- History |
Smelting -- History |
Business & Economics |
Mechanical Engineering |
Engineering & Applied Sciences |
Industries |
Mining Engineering |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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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 |
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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 |
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