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UNINA9910794022503321 |
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Kaplan Paul H. D (Paul Henry Daniel), <1952-> |
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Contraband guides : race, transatlantic culture, and the arts in the Civil War era / / Paul H. D. Kaplan |
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University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2020] |
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©2020 |
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0-271-08820-6 |
0-271-08822-2 |
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1 online resource (313 pages) |
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African American art - European influences |
African American art - 19th century |
Art, American - 19th century |
African Americans in art - History - 19th century |
Art and race - History - 19th century |
Black people in art - History - 19th century |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Representations of People of Color in Nineteenth-Century American Accounts of Italian Travel -- 2 “A Mulatto Sculptor from New Orleans” -- 3 “The Black Man To-day Means Liberty” -- 4 “Something American” -- 5 Old Masters -- 6 Contraband Guide -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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In his best-selling travel memoir, The Innocents Abroad, Mark Twain punningly refers to the black man who introduces him to Venetian Renaissance painting as a “contraband guide,” a term coined to describe fugitive slaves who assisted Union armies during the Civil War. By means of this and similar case studies, Paul H. D. Kaplan documents the ways in which American cultural encounters with Europe and its venerable artistic traditions influenced nineteenth-century concepts of race in the United States.Americans of the Civil War era were struck by the presence of people of color in European art and society, and |
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American artists and authors, both black and white, adapted and transformed European visual material to respond to the particular struggles over the identity of African Americans. Taking up the work of both well- and lesser-known artists and writers—such as the travel writings of Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, the paintings of German American Emanuel Leutze, the epistolary exchange between John Ruskin and Charles Eliot Norton, newspaper essays written by Frederick Douglass and William J. Wilson, and the sculpture of freed slave Eugène Warburg—Kaplan lays bare how racial attitudes expressed in mid-nineteenth-century American art were deeply inflected by European traditions. By highlighting the contributions people of black African descent made to the fine arts in the United States during this period, along with the ways in which they were represented, Contraband Guides provides a fresh perspective on the theme of race in Civil War–era American art. It will appeal to art historians, to specialists in African American studies and American studies, and to general readers interested in American art and African American history. |
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UNINA9910796904503321 |
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Mission-oriented finance for innovation : new ideas for investment-led growth / / edited by Mariana Mazzucato and Caetano C. R. Penna |
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London, [England] ; ; New York, New York : , : Policy Network, , 2015 |
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©2015 |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Venture capital |
Technological innovations - Finance |
Sustainable development - Finance |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""About the Contributors""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: How Economists Got It Wrong � An |
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Alternative Diagnosis""; ""Fast Finance and Slow Growth""; ""The Social Value of Finance: Problems and Solutions""; ""How Maximising Shareholder Value Stops Innovation""; ""Dispelling Myths about Government Deficits""; ""Part II: What Governments Need to Do to Create Real Long-Term Growth""; ""Steering Economies Towards the Next Golden Age""; ""Why We Need Public Endowments� for Transformative Research"" |
""Six Decades of Mission-Oriented Finance for Industrialisation, Technical Change and Innovation in Brazil""""Challenges and Opportunities for a Knowledge-Based UK Economy""; ""Why a Fundamental Shift in Innovation Policy Is Needed""; ""Part III: Learning from Success and Failure""; ""Development, Uncertainty and the Role of State Investment Banks""; ""Financing Energy Innovation: The Case of ARPA-E""; ""The Rise of the State Investment Banks""; ""The European Investment Bank: Supporting Innovation in Europe""; ""The State as Venture Capitalist: The Case of the Danish Growth Fund"" |
""Financing Innovation: Lessons from Innovate UK""""Conclusion"" |
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The role of the state in modern capitalism has gone beyond fixing market failures. Those regions and countries that have succeeded in achieving 'smart' innovation-led growth have benefited from long-term visionary 'mission-oriented' policies - from putting a man on the moon to tackling societal challenges such as climate change and the wellbeing of an ageing population. This book collects the experience of different types of mission-oriented public institutions around the world, together with thought-provoking chapters from leading economists. As the global debate on deficits and debt levels c |
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