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• Introduction: America's Business with China Chapter One Founding a Free, Trading Republic Chapter Two The Paradox of a Pacific Policy Chapter Three Troubled Waters Chapter Four Sovereign Rights, or America's First Opium Problem Chapter Five The Empire's New Roads Chapter Six This Slave Trade of the Nineteenth Century Chapter Seven A Propped-Open Door Chapter Eight Death of a Trade, Birth of a Market Acknowledgments Appendix: Accounting for the China Trade Notes Index .
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Trading Freedom explores the surprisingly rich early history of US-China trade and its unexpected impact on the developing republic. The economic and geographic development of the early United States is usually thought of in trans-Atlantic terms, defined by entanglements with Europe and Africa. In Trading Freedom, Dael A. Norwood recasts these common conceptions by looking to Asia, making clear that from its earliest days, the United States has been closely intertwined with China-monetarily, politically, and psychologically. Norwood details US trade with China from the late eighteenth through the late nineteenth centuries-a critical period in America's self-definition as a capitalist nation-and shows how global commerce was central to the articulation of that national identity. Trading Freedom illuminates how debates over political economy and trade policy, the building of the transcontinental railroad, and the looming sectional struggle over slavery were all influenced by Sino-American relations. Deftly weaving together interdisciplinary threads from the worlds of commerce, foreign policy, and immigration, Trading Freedom thoroughly dismantles the idea that American engagement with China is anything new. .
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• Directors' foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors to the catalogue
• Lenders to the exhibition
• Reconsidering Winslow Homer : methods and meanings / Sylvia Yount
• Frontier, ocean, empire : vistas of expansion in Winslow Homer's United States / Daniel Immerwahr
• Plates : Civil War and Reconstruction
• "The various colors and types of negroes" : Winslow Homer learns to paint race / Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
• Plates : waterside and rescue
• "These works are real" : Winslow Homer and Europe / Christopher Riopelle
• Plates : along the gulf stream
• Crosscurrents : conflict, nature, and mortality in Winslow Homer's art / Stephanie L. Herdrich
• Plates : nature and mortality
• Notes
• Selected bibliography
• Index
• Photography credits

Long celebrated as the quintessential New England regionalist, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) in fact brushed a much wider canvas, traveling throughout the Atlantic world and frequently engaging in his art with issues of race, imperialism, and the environment. This publication focuses, for the first time, on the watercolors and oil paintings Homer made during visits to Bermuda, Cuba, coastal Florida, and the Bahamas. In particular, The Gulf Stream (1899), an iconic painting long considered the most consequential of his career, reveals the artist's lifelong fascination with struggle and conflict. The book also includes Homer's depictions of rural life and the sea, in which he grapples with the violence of nature, as well as his Civil War and Reconstruction paintings of the 1860s and 1870s, which explore the unresolved effects of the war on the landscape, soldiers, and the formerly enslaved. Recognizing the artist's keen ability to distill complex issues in his work, Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents upends popular conceptions and convincingly argues that Homer's work resonates with the challenges of the present day. Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (11.04.-31.07.2022) / National Gallery, London, UK (10.09.2022 - 08.01.2023)

• Introduction / Lauren Jacobi and Daniel M. Zolli
• 1. Generation and Ruination in the Display of Michelangelo's Non-finito / Carolina Mangone
• 2. The Sacrilege of Soot: Liturgical Decorum and the Black Madonna of Loreto / Grace Harpster
• 3. Sedimentary Aesthetics / Christopher Nygren
• 4. 'Adding to the Good Silver with Other Trickery': Purity and Contamination in Clement VII's Emergency Currency' / Allison Stielau
• 5. Tapestry as Tainted Medium: Charles V's Conquest of Tunis / Sylvia Houghteling
• 6. Bruegel's Dirty, Little Atoms / Amy Knight Powell
• 7. Leakage, Contagion, and Containment in Early Modern Venice / Lisa Pon
• 8. Contamination, Purification, Determinism: The Italian Pontine Marshes / Lauren Jacobi
• 9. Colonial Consecrations, Violent Reclamation, and Contested Spaces in the Spanish Americas / Carolyn Dean and Dana Leibsohn
• 10. Contamination
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The concepts of purity and contamination preoccupied early modern Europeans fundamentally, structuring virtually every aspect of their lives, not least how they created and experienced works of art and the built environment. In an era that saw a great number of objects and people in motion, the meteoric rise of new artistic and building technologies, and religious upheaval exert new pressures on art and its institutions, anxieties about the pure and the contaminated - distinctions between the clean and unclean, sameness and difference, self and other, organization and its absence - took on heightened importance. In this series of geographically and methodologically wide-ranging essays, thirteen leading historians of art and architecture grapple with the complex ways that early modern actors negotiated these concerns, covering topics as diverse as Michelangelo's unfinished sculptures, Venetian plague hospitals, Spanish-Muslim tapestries, and emergency currency. The resulting volume offers surprising new insights into the period and into the modern disciplinary routines of art and architectural history.
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• Cover
• Titel
• Zum Buch
• Über den Autor
• Impressum
• Widmung
• Inhalt
• Einleitung
• Teil I: Die Nation vor dem Nationalismus
• 1. Deutschland zum ersten Mal sehen (1500)
• 2. Deutschland «gleich als eym Spiegel» (1500-1580)
• 3. Die Tränen der Stoiker (1580-1700)
• Teil II: Die kopernikanische Wende
• 4. Zerstückelung und Patriotismus (1700-1770)
• 5. Die Oberfläche und das Innere (1770-1790)
• 6. De l'Allemagne (1790-1815)
• Teil III: Das Zeitalter des Nationalismus
• 7. Die Entwicklung einer Nation (1815-1850)
• 8. Eine Nation nimmt Gestalt an (1850-1870)
• 9. Nation der Dinge (1870-1914)
• Teil IV: Das nationalistische Zeitalter
• 10. Sich für Deutschland opfern (1914-1933)
• 11. Andere für Deutschland opfern (1933-1941)
• 12. Todesräume (1941-1945)
• Teil V: Nach dem Nationalismus
• 13. Ein lebendiger Begriff des Vaterlands (1945-1950)
• 14. Die Präsenz des Mitgefühls (1950-2000)
• Epilog: Die Republik der Deutschen, jetzt und zu Anfang des 22. Jahrhunderts
• Danksagung
• Anmerkungen
• Nachweise für Bilder und Karten
• Personenregister
• Ortsregister

• Introduction
• Janet Berry Hess
• 1. Alive with Story: Mapping Indigenous Los Angeles and Carrying Our Ancestors Home
• Sarah Montoya
• 2. Digitally Re-Presenting the Colonial Archive: Resources for Researching and Teaching the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the Native American Boarding School Movement
• Frank Vitale IV, Susan Rose, and James Gerencser
• 3. Access to Truth, Healing, and Justice: Digitizing the Records of U.S. Indian Boarding Schools
• Christine Diindiisi McCleave, Rose Miron
• 4. The Indigenous Digital Archives: Access and Collaboration in the Southwest
• Anna Naruta-Moya
• 5.Myaamiaataweenki eekincikoonihkiinki eeyoonki aapisaataweenki: A Miami Language Digital Tool for Language Reclamation
• Daryl Baldwin, David J. Costa, Douglas Troy
• 6. A Cartographic History and Analyses of Indian-White Relations in the Great Plains
• Daniel G. Cole
• 7. Mapping with Indigenous Peoples in Canada
• D. R. Fraser Taylor
• 8. Early California Cultural Project: Visualizing Uncertainties within Indigenous History
• Steve Hackel, Jeanette Zerneke, Natale Zappia
• 9. Access to Government Information and Inclusive Stewardship of North America's Archaeological Heritage
• Eric C. Kansa, Sarah Whitcher Kansa, David G. Anderson, Joshua J. Wells, Kelsey Noack Myers, Stephen Yerka
• 10. Finding Balance Between Development and Conservation: The O'ahu Greenprint
• The Trust for Public Land
• 11. Native Land: Social Media Education and Community Voices
• Victor Temprano
• 12. Mapping Indigenous American Cultures and Living Histories: A Gathering Place
• Janet Berry Hess
• 13. William Commanda, Wampum Oral Storytelling, Digital Technology and Remapping Indigenous Presence Across North American
• Romola V. Thumbadoo and D. R. Fraser Taylor
• 14. Mapping Names in Mohawk: Place Names and Visualizations of Indigenous Knowledge
• Rebekah R. Ingram
• Appendix.
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Employing anthropology, field research, and humanities methodologies as well as digital cartography, and foregrounding the voices of Indigenous scholars, this text examines digital projects currently underway, and includes alternative modes of "mapping" Native American, Alaskan Native, Indigenous Hawaiian and First Nations land. The work of both established and emerging scholars addressing a range of geographic regions and cultural issues is also represented. Issues addressed include the history of maps made by Native Americans; healing and reconciliation projects related to boarding schools; language and land reclamation; Western cartographic maps created in collaboration with Indigenous nations; and digital resources that combine maps with narrative, art, and film, along with chapters on archaeology, place naming, and the digital presence of elders. This text is of interest to scholars working in history, cultural studies, anthropology, Native American studies, and digital cartography.
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• Introduction The Periodic Table
• Chapter 1. The Classical Elements
• Chapter 2. The Antique Metals
• Chapter 3. Alchemical Elements Interlude: What Exactly Is an Element?
• Chapter 4. The New Metals
• Chapter 5. Chemistry's Golden Age Interlude: John Dalton's Atoms
• Chapter 6. Electrical Discoveries Interlude: The Periodic Table
• Chapter 7. The Radiant Age
• Chapter 8. The Nuclear Age Sources for Quotes Further Reading Index Picture Credits.
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From water, air, and fire to tennessine and oganesson, celebrated science writer Philip Ball leads us through the full sweep of the field of chemistry in this exquisitely illustrated history of the elements. The Elements is a stunning visual journey through the discovery of the chemical building blocks of our universe. By piecing together the history of the periodic table, Ball explores not only how we have come to understand what everything is made of, but also how chemistry developed into a modern science. Ball groups the elements into chronological eras of discovery, covering seven millennia from the first known to the last named. As he moves from prehistory and classical antiquity to the age of atomic bombs and particle accelerators, Ball highlights images and stories from around the world and sheds needed light on those who struggled for their ideas to gain inclusion. By also featuring some elements that aren't true elements but were long thought to be-from the foundational prote hyle and heavenly aetherof the ancient Greeks to more recent false elements like phlogiston and caloric-The Elements boldly tells the full history of the central science of chemistry.
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• "This, then, is Texas"
• A Texas town
• Origin stories : Africans in Texas
• People of the past and the present
• Remember the Alamo
• On Juneteenth

Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle and searing episodes of memoir, On Juneteenth recounts the origins of the holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who had been enslaved in the United States. A descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, Annette Gordon-Reed, explores the legacies of the holiday. From the earliest presence of black people in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on 19 June 1865, when General Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier" peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos and Blacks that became a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework, Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the fight for equality is on-going.
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• Humboldt in the United States
• Mapping a national identity
• America's wilderness icons
• Humboldt in Europe
• Humboldt and American slavery
• Humboldt and Native American Ethnography
• Embodying Cosmos : Frederic Edwin Church
• Humboldt and Smithson."

The enduring influence of naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American art, culture, and politics Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most influential scientists and thinkers of his age. A Prussian-born geographer, naturalist, explorer, and illustrator, he was a prolific writer whose books graced the shelves of American artists, scientists, philosophers, and politicians. Humboldt visited the United States for six weeks in 1804, engaging in a lively exchange of ideas with such figures as Thomas Jefferson and the painter Charles Willson Peale. It was perhaps the most consequential visit by a European traveler in the young nation's history, one that helped to shape an emerging American identity grounded in the natural world. In this beautifully illustrated book, Eleanor Jones Harvey examines how Humboldt left a lasting impression on American visual arts, sciences, literature, and politics. She shows how he inspired a network of like-minded individuals who would go on to embrace the spirit of exploration, decry slavery, advocate for the welfare of Native Americans, and extol America's wilderness as a signature component of the nation's sense of self. Harvey traces how Humboldt's ideas influenced the transcendentalists and the landscape painters of the Hudson River School, and laid the foundations for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sierra Club, and the National Park Service. Alexander von Humboldt and the United States looks at paintings, sculptures, maps, and artifacts, and features works by leading American artists such as Albert Bierstadt, George Catlin, Frederic Church, and Samuel F. B. Morse. Published in association with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC Exhibition Schedule Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC September 18, 2020-January 3, 2021.
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• Forward by Bill Sherman
• Introduction by K Allado-Mcdowell and Ben Vickers
• Section 1: Models
• Section 2: Prediction
• Section 3: Mind
• Acknowledgements
• Biographies
• Image captions
• Credits

• 1. Information and the Cure
• 2. What the Writers Say
• 3. The Republican Lure
• 4. The Blacks and Nationhood
• 5. Feminists and Nationhood
• 6. The Whites and Nationhood
• 7. A Case of Leadership
• Person Index
• General Index

This book shows the history of charts and nautical maps from the earliest known examples to the one used in the Twentieth Century, with a special focus on the map makers and the methods of use from 1300 to 1900

• Introduction
• A mathematician's map of the Nile
• A world of Islam in circles and lines
• The mysterious Book of curiosities
• The grid of al-Sharīf al Idrīsī
• The expanding horizons of an Ottoman Admiral
• An astrolabe for a Shah, or finding the direction of Mecca in Safavid Isfahan
• Timeline

Spanning the Islamic world, from ninth-century Baghdad to nineteenth-century Iran, this book tells the story of the key Muslim map-makers and the art of Islamic cartography. Muslims were uniquely placed to explore the edges of the inhabited world and their maps stretched from Isfahan to Palermo, from Istanbul to Cairo and Aden. Over a similar period, Muslim artists developed distinctive styles, often based on geometrical patterns and calligraphy. Map-makers, including al-Khwarazmi and al-Idrisi, combined novel cartographical techniques with art, science and geographical knowledge. The results could be aesthetically stunning and mathematically sophisticated, politically charged as well as a celebration of human diversity. 'Islamic Maps' examines Islamic visual interpretations of the world in their historical context, through the lives of the map-makers themselves. What was the purpose of their maps, what choices did they make and what was the argument they were trying to convey? Lavishly illustrated with stunning manuscripts, beautiful instruments and Qibla charts, this book shows how maps constructed by Muslim map-makers capture the many dimensions of Islamic civilisation, providing a window into the worldviews of Islamic societies.
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• Introduction
• Distributing the lands of New Spain
• Painting the Colonial World
• Requesting the grant
• Opposing the grant
• Negotiating the grant
• Conclusion

Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used as evidence in litigation over the allocation of land. These land grant maps, or mapas de mercedes de tierras, recorded the boundaries of cities, provinces, towns, and places; they made note of markers and ownership, and, at times, the extent and measurement of each field in a territory, along with the names of those who worked it. With their corresponding case files, these maps tell the stories of hundreds of natives and Spaniards who engaged in legal proceedings either to request land, to oppose a petition, or to negotiate its terms. Mapping Indigenous Land explores how, as persuasive and rhetorical images, these maps did more than simply record the disputed territories for lawsuits. They also enabled indigenous communities - and sometimes Spanish petitioners - to translate their ideas about contested spaces into visual form; offered arguments for the defense of these spaces; and in some cases even helped protect indigenous land against harmful requests. Drawing on her own paleography and transcription of case files, author Ana Pulido Rull shows how much these maps can tell us about the artists who participated in the lawsuits and about indigenous views of the contested lands. Considering the mapas de mercedes de tierras as sites of cross-cultural communication between natives and Spaniards, Pulido Rull also offers an analysis of Medieval and Modern Castilian law, its application in colonial New Spain, and the possibilities it opened for the native population. An important contribution to the literature on Mexico's indigenous cartography and colonial art, Pulido Rull's work suggests new ways of understanding how colonial space itself was contested, negotiated, and defined.
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This book illustrates the first connection between the map user community and the developers of digital map processing technologies by providing several applications, challenges, and best practices in working with historical maps. After the introduction chapter, in this book, Chapter 2 presents a variety of existing applications of historical maps to demonstrate varying needs for processing historical maps in scientific studies (e.g., thousands of historical maps from a map series vs. a few historical maps from various publishers and with different cartographic styles). Chapter 2 also describes case studies introducing typical types of semi-automatic and automatic digital map processing technologies. The case studies showcase the strengths and weaknesses of semi-automatic and automatic approaches by testing them in a symbol recognition task on the same scanned map. Chapter 3 presents the technical challenges and trends in building a map processing, modeling, linking, and publishing framework. The framework will enable querying historical map collections as a unified and structured spatiotemporal source in which individual geographic phenomena (extracted from maps) are modeled (described) with semantic descriptions and linked to other data sources (e.g., DBpedia, a structured version of Wikipedia). Chapter 4 dives into the recent advancement in deep learning technologies and their applications on digital map processing. The chapter reviews existing deep learning models for their capabilities on geographic feature extraction from historical maps and compares different types of training strategies. A comprehensive experiment is described to compare different models and their performance. Historical maps are fascinating to look at and contain valuable retrospective place information difficult to find elsewhere. However, the full potential of historical maps has not been realized because the users of scanned historical maps and the developers of digital map processing technologies are from a wide range of disciplines and often work in silos. Each chapter in this book can be read individually, but the order of chapters in this book helps the reader to first understand the "product requirements" of a successful digital map processing system, then review the existing challenges and technologies, and finally follow the more recent trend of deep learning applications for processing historical maps. The primary audience for this book includes scientists and researchers whose work requires long-term historical geographic data as well as librarians. The secondary audience includes anyone who loves maps!.
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