Charts a new wave of feminist and queer media activism in post-millennial China Digital Masquerade offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital media, feminist and queer culture, and rights consciousness in China. Jia Tan examines the formation of what she calls "rights feminism," or the emergence of rights ......
In the combined Source Book for Rule Collectors with RuleConcordance and Value Guide, Philip Stanley brings together a comprehensive illustrated reference guide to the history, uses, and values of measuring instruments. This book is an essential reference for the antique tool dealer, rule collector, and student of the history of technology.
ISBN-13: 9781493064717
(Paperback)
Publisher: GLOBE PEQUOT Imprint: TAYLOR TRADE PUBLISHING
The illustrated, documented story of the design, development, and production of all the models, appendages, and accessories
The Springfield 1903 Rifle, considered one of the smoothest working bolt action rifles ever made, saw action through World War II and is still used in hunting today. Its extreme popularity down the years has lent this gun a romance that has lingered to the present. The Springfield 1903 Rifles is a book worthy of its legendary subject. It is the ......
The Masis Collection is one of the most comprehensive privately owned assemblages of pocket watches in the world. It encompasses over four hundred years of the watchmakers, enamellers and goldsmiths craft. This lavishly illustrated book takes the reader not only on a journey through the development of the mechanical watch.
Recounts events surrounding the recovery, in 2017, of a sixteenth-century biographical manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger, a crypto-Jew executed by the ......
Almost every shoreline offers up worlds of adventure, archaeology, science, and the arts in the form of sea glass and ceramic shards. These discarded remains pull beachcombers into a world of startling revelation; a world of history founded on documented research and broadened by the imagination. Recognized expert on sea glass, C.S. Lambert ......
Understanding the Designs and Variations in Antique Barbed Wire
The Point of it All is a thoroughly documented, researched book about the history of the designs of antique barbed fencing. This book describes hundreds of patents and over 2,000 patent design variations found in antique barbed fencing. Varieties such as mild steel barbed wire strands, sheet metal barbed strips, barbed metal rods, and barbed ......
Objects have always been and continue to be carriers of personal and communal memories. Although the significance of objects for personal and collective memory is not in any way a phenomenon of recent times, objects of remembrance have proliferated since the eighteenth century, speaking to a widely felt desire for tangible markers of both ......
