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The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

A History and Catalog

By: David Shields

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The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

A History and Catalog

By: David Shields

The Rob Roy Kelly Wood Type Collection is a comprehensive collection of wood type manufactured and used for printing in nineteenth-century America. Comprising nearly 150 typefaces of various sizes and styles, it was amassed by noted design educator and historian Rob Roy Kelly starting in 1957 and is now held by the University of Texas. Although Kelly himself published a 1969 book on wood type and nineteenth-century typographic history, there has been little written about the creation of the wood type forms, the collection, or Kelly. In this book, David Shields rigorously updates and expands upon Kelly’s historical information about the types, clarifying the collection’s exact composition and providing a better understanding of the stylistic development of wood type forms during the nineteenth century. Using rich materials from the period, Shields provides a stunning visual context that complements the textual history of each typeface. He also highlights the non-typographic material in the collection—such as borders, rules, ornaments, and image cuts—that have not been previously examined. Featuring over 300 color illustrations, this written history and catalog is bound to spark renewed interest in the collection and its broader typographic period.

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University of Texas Press

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1477327738

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9781477327739

Five Decades of the Burin

The Wood Engravings of John DePol

By: John DePol,David R. Godine

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Five Decades of the Burin

The Wood Engravings of John DePol

By: John DePol,David R. Godine

Born in 1913, John DePol is among those classic, self-taught graphic artists (like J.J. Lankes and Rockwell Kent) who worked in a variety of media, but whose main contribution was to the field of wood engraving. Although he has illustrated countless books & magazines, and been a friend to most letterpress printers and private presses of the latter half of the last century, his work remains little known, his contributions unheralded. In anticipation of a celebration of his life and work at the University of Delaware, we are presenting more than 100 of his best engravings from five decades with an extensive text examining his place in American graphic art"--Book jacket.

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106

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David R. Godine Publisher

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1567921620

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9781567921625

Thundersticks

Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

By: David J. Silverman

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Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America

By: David J. Silverman

The adoption of firearms by American Indians between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries marked a turning point in the history of North America’s indigenous peoples—a cultural earthquake so profound, says David Silverman, that its impact has yet to be adequately measured. Thundersticks reframes our understanding of Indians’ historical relationship with guns, arguing against the notion that they prized these weapons more for the pyrotechnic terror guns inspired than for their efficiency as tools of war. Native peoples fully recognized the potential of firearms to assist them in their struggles against colonial forces, and mostly against one another. The smoothbore, flintlock musket was Indians’ stock firearm, and its destructive potential transformed their lives. For the deer hunters east of the Mississippi, the gun evolved into an essential hunting tool. Most importantly, well-armed tribes were able to capture and enslave their neighbors, plunder wealth, and conquer territory. Arms races erupted across North America, intensifying intertribal rivalries and solidifying the importance of firearms in Indian politics and culture. Though American tribes grew dependent on guns manufactured in Europe and the United States, their dependence never prevented them from rising up against Euro-American power. The Seminoles, Blackfeet, Lakotas, and others remained formidably armed right up to the time of their subjugation. Far from being a Trojan horse for colonialism, firearms empowered American Indians to pursue their interests and defend their political and economic autonomy over two centuries.

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242

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Harvard University Press

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0674974743

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9780674974746

The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

By: David Schoenbaum

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The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

By: David Schoenbaum

The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or sitting, alone or in groups, in bars, churches, concert halls, lumber camps, even concentration camps, by pros and amateurs, adults and children, men and women, at virtually any latitude on any continent. Despite dogged attempts by musicologists worldwide to find its source, the violin’s origins remain maddeningly elusive. The instrument surfaced from nowhere in particular, in a world that Columbus had only recently left behind and Shakespeare had yet to put on paper. By the end of the violin’s first century, people were just discovering its possibilities. But it was already the instrument of choice for some of the greatest music ever composed by the end of its second. By the dawn of its fifth, it was established on five continents as an icon of globalization, modernization, and social mobility, an A-list trophy, and a potential capital gain. In The Violin, David Schoenbaum has combined the stories of its makers, dealers, and players into a global history of the past five centuries. From the earliest days, when violin makers acquired their craft from box makers, to Stradivari and the Golden Age of Cremona; Vuillaume and the Hills, who turned it into a global collectible; and incomparable performers from Paganini and Joachim to Heifetz and Oistrakh, Schoenbaum lays out the business, politics, and art of the world’s most versatile instrument.

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753

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393089606

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9780393089608

Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

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Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.

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400

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Yale University Press

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0300057326

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9780300057324

A New Nation of Goods

The Material Culture of Early America

By: David Jaffee

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A New Nation of Goods

The Material Culture of Early America

By: David Jaffee

A New Nation of Goods highlights the significant role of provincial artisans in four crafts in the northeastern United States—chairmaking, clockmaking, portrait painting, and book publishing—to explain the shift from preindustrial society to an entirely new configuration of work, commodities, and culture.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812222008

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9780812222005

Practical Conservation Biology

By: David Lindenmayer,Mark A. Burgman

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Practical Conservation Biology

By: David Lindenmayer,Mark A. Burgman

Provides the essential framework for under-graduate and post-graduate courses in conservation biology and natural resource management by covering the complete array of topics central to these fields. Lindenmayer from ANU, ACT and Burgman from University of Melbourne, Vic.

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625

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643090894

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9780643090897

Eddie Rickenbacker

An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

By: W. David Lewis

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Eddie Rickenbacker

An American Hero in the Twentieth Century

By: W. David Lewis

David Lewis has written the definitive biography of America's ace of aces.

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JHU Press

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0801882443

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9780801882449

New York Field Codes 1850-1865

By: New York (State). Commissioners of the Code,David Dudley Field

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New York Field Codes 1850-1865

By: New York (State). Commissioners of the Code,David Dudley Field

Originally published: Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., printers, 1865.

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The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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1886363404

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9781886363403

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The Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection

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Five Decades of the Burin

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Thundersticks

The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

The Violin: A Social History of the World's Most Versatile Instrument

Picturing a Nation

Picturing a Nation

A New Nation of Goods

A New Nation of Goods

Practical Conservation Biology

Practical Conservation Biology

Eddie Rickenbacker

Eddie Rickenbacker

New York Field Codes 1850-1865

New York Field Codes 1850-1865

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