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Häftad, Engelska, 2026
491 kr
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Palermo was an active participant in the global dynamics of early modernity, a role that shaped its remaking as the capital of the Habsburg viceroyalty of Sicily. Situating the sixteenth-century city within the broader landscape of Spanish colonialism, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub positions Palermo as a model for understanding how capitals at the edges of empire were made and imagined, inhabited and described. Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo: Building an Elastic City introduces readers to monuments and sites absent from mainstream histories of early modern Italy and Spain, highlighting the experimental design models and building practices developed in response to, and defiance of, the city's entanglements across both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Kassler-Taub conceptualizes Palermo's capacity for change and adaptation as an index of its 'elasticity.' She shows how the city's centuries-long colonial condition generated remarkable resilience: Palermo was able to withstand tension and to reshape itself without violating its basic form and identity.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 362 kr
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Palermo was an active participant in the global dynamics of early modernity, a role that shaped its remaking as the capital of the Habsburg viceroyalty of Sicily. Situating the sixteenth-century city within the broader landscape of Spanish colonialism, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub positions Palermo as a model for understanding how capitals at the edges of empire were made and imagined, inhabited and described. Architecture and Urbanism in Early Modern Palermo: Building an Elastic City introduces readers to monuments and sites absent from mainstream histories of early modern Italy and Spain, highlighting the experimental design models and building practices developed in response to, and defiance of, the city's entanglements across both the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Kassler-Taub conceptualizes Palermo's capacity for change and adaptation as an index of its 'elasticity.' She shows how the city's centuries-long colonial condition generated remarkable resilience: Palermo was able to withstand tension and to reshape itself without violating its basic form and identity.
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
1 017 kr
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Thiscompelling volume invites readers to reimagine how monuments shape history,identity, and public space. Monumentality is explored as a dynamic andcontested idea—one that moves beyond grand buildings and enduring structuresto understand how societies remember the past and envision thefuture.Engaging scholarly essays, accompanied by focusedreflections on objects held in Getty collections, analyze the emotional,ideological, and technological dimensions of monuments by tracing theirchanging meanings across cultures and historical periods. Spanning themes ofdestruction, circulation, territorialization, and empire, the bookinvestigates topics such as the ruin aesthetic of the Paris Commune, thematerial remnants of Buddhism in India, the construction of Cold War dams,and the influence of Almohad minaret architecture. Throughout, readers willencounter the enduring effects of colonialism, modernization, and settlementson societies around the world—from nineteenth-century West Africa to postwarJapan and Guam to present-day Israel and Ukraine.Together, these studies integrate histories of art, architecture,and urban landscapes to examine the role of monuments in contemporary life.Monumentality offers freshperspectives on what we choose to honor, why the past is preserved (orforgotten), and how the complex narratives embedded in memorials or publicart condition our experience of the present.