Sarah Phillips
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm
Language
English
Description
"A time-traveling trip through a whole world of art. Even before they could write, people have always told stories with pictures and sculptures. And though art is universal, the story we know about it is not. Join two young adventurers on a truly global journey through thousands of years of art history. Discover treasure in Ancient Greece, marvel at bronze sculptures in Benin, decode messages hidden in Frida Kahlo's self-portraits, and think about...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 289 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book combines political with environmental history to present conservation policy as a critical arm of New Deal reform, one that embodied the promises and limits of midcentury American liberalism. It interprets the natural resource programs of the 1930s and 1940s as a set of federal strategies aimed at rehabilitating the economies of agricultural areas. The New Dealers believed that the country as a whole would remain mired in depression as...