The Keeper of Antiquities
Author | : I͡Uriĭ Osipovich Dombrovskiĭ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : I͡Uriĭ Osipovich Dombrovskiĭ |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Craig Childs |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2010-08-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0316052493 |
To whom does the past belong? Is the archeologist who discovers a lost tomb a sort of hero -- or a villain? If someone steals a relic from a museum and returns it to the ruin it came from, is she a thief? Written in his trademark lyrical style, Craig Childs's riveting new book is a ghost story -- an intense, impassioned investigation into the nature of the past and the things we leave behind. We visit lonesome desert canyons and fancy Fifth Avenue art galleries, journey throughout the Americas, Asia, the past and the present. The result is a brilliant book about man and nature, remnants and memory, a dashing tale of crime and detection.
Author | : I︠U︡riı̆ Dombrovskiı̆ |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781860460548 |
Author | : Neil Cornwell |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 1020 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781884964107 |
"First Published in 1998, Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company."
Author | : Peter Doyle |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789057026249 |
Conscience is the writer's production tool. If he has not got that, he has not got anything. All the artistic fabric crumbles and frays at the first touch.- Iurii Dombrovskii Iurii Dombrovskii (1909-1978) was a Soviet writer of immense courage and integrity, whose life and literary career were repeatedly disrupted by unjust arrests and long periods of imprisonment. Born and educated in Moscow, he was first detained in 1932, and spent a total of twenty-three years in exile in Alma-Alata and in Siberian labour camps. Even after his rehabilitation in 1956 he was never free from surveillance and harassment by Soviet authorities. Only able to publish infrequently, he was forced to eke out a meagre existence yet produced original works of high quality. This book is the first full-length monograph on Iurii Dombrovskii, widely acclaimed in recent years as a writer of major importance and interest, following the publication in Russia and the West of his last novel The Faculty of Unnecessary Things. The book is based on a thorough study of published materials by and about Dombrovskii and on research into unpublished archive sources, to which no previous Western scholar has had access. Iurii Dombrovskii: Freedom under Totalitarianismprovides a detailed overview of the writer, and lays the foundations for further research. Peter Doyle gives the most substantive account of Dombrovkii's biography yet written, along with detailed interpretive studies of his main prose works, an assessment of his little known poetry, and a comprehensive bibliography.The Faculty of Unnecessary Things. The book is based on a thorough study of published materials by and about Dombrovskii and on research into unpublished archive sources, to which no previous Western scholar has had access. Iurii Dombrovskii: Freedom under Totalitarianismprovides a detailed overview of the writer, and lays the foundations for further research. Peter Doyle gives the most substantive account of Dombrovkii's biography yet written, along with detailed interpretive studies of his main prose works, an assessment of his little known poetry, and a comprehensive bibliography.
Author | : Polly Jones |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2013-08-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 030018512X |
DIVDrawing on newly available materials from the Soviet archives, Polly Jones offers an innovative, comprehensive account of de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union during the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev eras. Jones traces the authorities’ initiation and management of the de-Stalinization process and explores a wide range of popular reactions to the new narratives of Stalinism in party statements and in Soviet literature and historiography./divDIV /divDIVEngaging with the dynamic field of memory studies, this book represents the first sustained comparison of this process with other countries’ attempts to rethink their own difficult pasts, and with later Soviet and post-Soviet approaches to Stalinism./divDIV/div
Author | : George Baker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : Northamptonshire (England) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Antonino Crisà |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2018-07-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784917923 |
When Archaeology Meets Communities examines the history of nineteenth-century Sicilian archaeology through the archival documentation for the excavations at Tindari, Lipari and nearby minor sites in the Messina province, from Italy’s Unification to the end of the First World War (1861-1918).
Author | : Lucia Patrizio Gunning |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2016-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351893599 |
The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation and collection of antiquities eventually destined for the British Museum. Exploring the historical, political and diplomatic circumstances that allowed the consular service to develop from a chartered company into a state run institution under the direction of the Foreign Office, it provides a unique perspective on the intersection of state policy, private ambition, and the collecting of antiquities. Drawing extensively on consular correspondence, the study sets out several challenges to current views. For those interested in the history of travel in the Levant, or more generally in the Grand Tour, the book presents an alternative point of view that challenges the travellers' descriptions of the region. The book also intersects with British diplomatic history, providing an insight into the consuls in both their official and private circumstances, and comparing their situation under the Levant Company with that of the Foreign Office run consular service. The complex political situation in the Aegean at the time of the take over of the service is examined along with the political and commercial roles of the consuls, their daily dealings with the Greeks and Ionians, and also with the Ottoman authorities. Through private correspondence, it shows how the consuls' reflected the belief that Greek, Egyptian, Babylonian, Roman and other antiquities would be better looked after in a British, French, German or American museum, than by the people, and in the countries, they were created for. In particular, the book illuminates the public/private nature of the consuls' role, the way they worked with, but independently of, government, and it reveals how Britain was able to acquire major pieces of sculpture from the nineteenth century Aegean.
Author | : John Pointer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1749 |
Genre | : Oxford (England) |
ISBN | : |