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Travel and Classical Antiquities in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Greece
Western travel and collecting classical antiquities in the nineteenth century informed European understandings of Greece's past and present, and enriched private collections and museums. Travel and collecting have typically been studied separately by literary scholars, historians of archaeology, and historians of the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece. Similarly, publications have largely prioritised evidence from and about elite social groups. This book breaks new ground through its interdisciplinary approach, its insistence on the interweaving of the phenomena of travel and collecting, and its emphasis on marginalised perspectives. Contributors drawn from art history, classics, history of ar...
The Last Amateur
The authoritative biography of a nineteenth-century polymath. This fascinating biography tells the story of William J. Stillman (18281901), a nineteenth-century polymath. Born and raised in Schenectady, New York, Stillman attended Union College and began his career as a Hudson River School painter after an apprenticeship with Frederic Edwin Church. In the 1850s, he was editor of The Crayon, the most important journal of art criticism in antebellum America. Later, after a stint as an explorer-promoter of the Adirondacks, he became the American consul in Rome during the Civil War. When his diplomatic career brought him to Crete, he developed an interest in archaeology and later produced phot...
The Scottish Jurist
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History of the Greek Revolution
Written by a philhellene participant in the struggle for Greek independence, this two-volume 1861 account traces events up to 1843.
Message and Annual Reports for ..., Made to the ... General Assembly of Ohio ..
Contains the annual reports of various Ohio state governmental offices, including the Attorney General, Governor, Secretary of State, etc.
