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Showing 1 to 20 of 79 for “"Antiquities"”.
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… one regard. Each holds unmatched collections of antiquities. They focus efforts on study, acquisition, and object transfer. However, the Met and the Getty are renowned museums and ICE recovers and repatriates black market goods, keeping their collection in several top-secret warehouses. One such …
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American archaeology and the conceptualization of preservation : Edgar Lee Hewett and the crafting of the 1906 Antiquities Act
… fifteen years Hewett worked to protect these antiquities. In 1906, he successfully drafted federal preservation legislation, the Antiquities Act, which protected the ruins of America's deep past from looting and destruction; at the same time, sites were made available to scientific teams and …
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Essays on institutional persistence, contract structure, and authority
… changes in contract structure may help preserve antiquities. Most countries prohibit the export of certain antiquities. This practice often leads to illegal excavation and looting for the black market, which damages objects and destroys important aspects of the archaeological record. Chapter Two …
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Retouching History
… from Quseir back to Qus, inquiring after a local antiquities official, Hamid Bashki, taking sustenance at Fadul's House of Food, and securing a motel for the night. Chapter eight begins with Blenny and Khalil roaming the black streets of Qus in search of Bashki's antiquities office, and concludes …
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‘On account of high merits’: The portrait medals of Isabella d’Este and the image of the female collector
… modern Italy. While her collection of art and antiquities was quite large and diverse, this thesis focuses on a particularly unique object—her opulently embellished personal portrait medal. This gold and diamond encrusted medal was kept in Isabella’s private studiolo; however, there was also a …
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Speculative Friction: Seven Stories from the Geneva Freeport
… gold bars, art objects, and illegally extracted antiquities are all stored in the Freeport without public access and without taxation, even as ownership is exchanged. It is estimated that there are as many as 1.2 million objects in storage. This thesis opens the conversation to the banal and …
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Classical coins at the Cape: a history and catalogue of the Greek and Roman numismatic collections in Iziko Museums of South Africa
… Africa and suggests future possibilities for antiquities collections of this nature within museum spaces in the country more generally.
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The Exchequer in the later twelfth century
… and the first edition of Madox's History and Antiquities of the Exchequer, threw much light on what was previously obscure, whereas Hall's Antiquities and Curiosities of the Exchequer was quite obviously at variance, in many places and in many respects, with what I had observed from the …
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Excavating the landscapes of American literature: Archaeology, antiquarianism, and the landscape in American women's writing, 1820--1890
… of artifacts, ruins, relics, and other antiquities in literary landscapes. Each of these women presents a unique way of knowing the world that is manifested in the ways their texts join different ways of understanding the landscape, its occupants, the artifacts it contains, its strata …
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A dialectical discourse on Responsible Business Behaviour within Small Medium Enterprises: A Case Study of Pakistan
… the normative construct consisting of Classical antiquities - Kant, Adam Smith and Machiavelli, which bridged the gap between theory and CSR driven practice.
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The idea of antiquity in visual images of the Highlands and Islands c.1700-1880
… and aesthetic value. This applied to actual antiquities, to customs and manners perceived as indigenous and ‘traditional’ to the region, and, ultimately, even to the physical landscape. Successive chapters explore what might now be classified as the archaeological, ethnological and geological …
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Trinkets and Charms: the use, meaning and significance of later medieval and early post-medieval dress accessories
… chance finds and data recorded by the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS), have been catalogued and investigated. Documentary evidence, paintings and tomb effigies are sources of evidence drawn upon throughout to supplement the archaeological evidence, to enhance the interpretations and to place …
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The Modern Formulation of Chinese Art History and the Building of a Nation in Early Twentieth-Century China
… in Chinese art but also to change the notion of antiquities from objects of bygone eras to treasures of national heritage.</p> <p>Therefore the modern formulation of Chinese cultural history came as a result of concerns for the country’s future, that is, to become a nation recognized as equal to …
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Saudisation in the hospitality industry : management issues and opportunities
… component. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities expects to receive 88 million visitors by 2020, with religious tourism rising to 16 million travellers by 2014. The tourism industry’s contribution to the Saudi gross domestic product in 2011 was 7.2 per cent, with 670,000 staff …
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An Alternate Antiquity: The Etruscans in Renaissance Florence and Rome
… history shaped discussions about Etruscan antiquities in Florentine texts. Florentine authors Giambattista Gelli and Pierfrancesco Giambullari manipulated Etruscan, Roman, and medieval artifacts and monuments as archaeological "proof' of Florence's "Etruscan" origins. A similar authorial …
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Anglo-Saxon Poetics in the Linguarum Veterum Septentrionalium Thesaurus Grammatico-Criticus et Archaelogicus of George Hickes: A Translation, Analysis, and Contextualization
… Elstob's An Apology for the Study of Northern Antiquities. Especially important was the linking of language to national identity and issues of nation building, as with the establishment of the Académie Française in 1635. This anxiety manifests itself in Swift as an attempt to …
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