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Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Essays on Reading a Collection

By: Micheline Nilsen

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Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Essays on Reading a Collection

By: Micheline Nilsen

Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and "armchair tourism"; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and England?the two countries where photography was invented?and from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.

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The Working Man's Green Space

Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

By: Micheline Nilsen,Brooks M. Barnes

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The Working Man's Green Space

Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

By: Micheline Nilsen,Brooks M. Barnes

With antecedents dating back to the Middle Ages, the community garden is more popular than ever as a means of procuring the freshest food possible and instilling community cohesion. But as Micheline Nilsen shows, the small-garden movement, which gained impetus in the nineteenth century as rural workers crowded into industrial cities, was for a long time primarily a repository of ideas concerning social reform, hygienic improvement, and class mobility. Complementing efforts by worker cooperatives, unions, and social legislation, the provision of small garden plots offered some relief from bleak urban living conditions. Urban planners often thought of such gardens as a way to insert "lungs" into a city. Standing at the intersection of a number of disciplines--including landscape studies, horticulture, and urban history-- The Working Man’s Green Space focuses on the development of allotment gardens in European countries in the nearly half-century between the Franco-Prussian War and World War I, when the French Third Republic, the German Empire, and the late Victorian era in England saw the development of unprecedented measures to improve the lot of the "laboring classes." Nilsen shows how community gardening is inscribed within a social contract that differs from country to country, but how there is also an underlying aesthetic and social significance to these gardens that transcends national borders.

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231

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University of Virginia Press

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0813935377

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9780813935379

Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, and Teratogenicity of Industrial Pollutants

By: Micheline Kirsch-Volders

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Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, and Teratogenicity of Industrial Pollutants

By: Micheline Kirsch-Volders

This book is intended for anyone who cares about the health of people exposed to industrial pollutants. Attention is given to those pollutants which present a possible risk to the genetic material of exposed workers. Chapters are devoted to heavy metals such as arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, chromium, lead, mercury, nickel, etc.; insecticides (chlorinated, organophosphorus, and carbonate insecticides); monomers such as vinyl-chloride, acrylonitrile, styrene, vinylidene chloride, butadiene, chlorobutadiene, hexachlorobuta diene, etc.; and halogenated hydrocarbon solvents such as chloroform, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene, I, 2-dichloroethane, tetrachloroethyl ene, dichloromethane, and I, I, I-trichloroethane. The main aim of this work is to provide the physician, the biologist, the pharmacologist, or anyone involved in genetic toxicology with a useful compendium of up-to-date information and references. Efforts are made to open the field to nonspecialists. An introductory chapter deals with the mechanisms whereby a given compound, reaching genetic material, either directly or indirectly, may increase the risk of a cancer developing in the exposed individual and of abnormalities being passed on to his or her progeny. Efforts are also made to allow easy and efficient reading for those who are not interested in detailed results. Comparative tables provide the following data on the compounds studied: chemical properties, production, occurrence, accepted standards in the industry, and positive or negative results with different test systems. Finally, senior research workers might find good descriptions in this book of the most recent results from mutagenesis and carcinogenesis testing in plant, nonmammalian, and mammalian systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461326435

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Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Essays on Reading a Collection

By: Micheline Nilsen

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The Working Man's Green Space

Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

By: Micheline Nilsen,Brooks M. Barnes

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Allotment Gardens in England, France, and Germany, 1870-1919

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Railways and the Western European Capitals

Studies of Implantation in London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels

By: M. Nilsen

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Railways and the Western European Capitals

Studies of Implantation in London, Paris, Berlin, and Brussels

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This book looks at the effect of railways on London, Paris, Brussels, and Berlin, focusing on each city as a case study for one aspect of implantation.

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0230615775

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Book's by Micheline Nilsen

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

The Working Man's Green Space

The Working Man's Green Space

Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, and Teratogenicity of Industrial Pollutants

Mutagenicity, Carcinogenicity, and Teratogenicity of Industrial Pollutants

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs

The Working Man's Green Space

The Working Man's Green Space

Railways and the Western European Capitals

Railways and the Western European Capitals

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