I was invited to the launch or Richard’s book,Richard Brook’sbook –The Renewal of Post-War Manchester. I was invited by Richard Brook to tick off the names of those attending the launch of his book. The book was launched at the City Tower, part of thePiccadilly Plazadevelopment. We ...
Constructed Democracy: How African Countries Embraced Modernism with their National Assemblies December 10, 2024 As, one by one, theAfricannations gained their independence in the middle of the twentieth century, building programs were central to the process of nation-building. In several of those co...
I was cordially requested to produce tram based walk, by the good folk atthe modernist– travelling from Victoria Station to Bury. Alighting at each stop and seeing what could be seen, by way of modern buildings along the byways. By the way, I do have previous experience, having undertaken...
An American dilemma : The Negro problem and modern democracy (3rd ed.). New York ; London: Harper & brothers.Gunnar Myrdal, An American Dilemma: The Negro Problem and Modern Democracy (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1944), and Oliver C. Cox, Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social...
In 2023, I discussed the book at length with the author in a video interview, now available on YouTube. Regarding one compact yet fundamental survey of the evolution of the Modern movement, Modern Architecture: A Critical History is unquestionably the most authoritative, complete, and in-depth ...
Drooker’s first graphic novel, which won an American Book Award, was Flood! A Novel in Pictures, a wordless narrative of dystopia in NYC. John F. Kennedy by Elaine de Kooning 96. John F. Kennedy (1962) Elaine de Kooning Married to Abstract Expressionist Willem de Kooning from 1943 to ...
victorJune 10, 2024Book Reviews0 Sparks of the Revolution Todd Harrison Otis Modern History Press 978-1-61599-787-9 $35.00 Hardcover/$21.95 Paperback/$6.95 eBook www.ModernHistoryPress.com Sparks of the Revolution: James Otis and the Birth of American Democracy is a novel that is steeped in...
He is the author, co-author or editor of numerous works, both in English and Spanish, on modern Spain, which include The Crisis of Democracy in Spain, Spain Transformed: The Late Franco Dictatorship 1959-75, Social Movements and the Spanish Transition, and Is Spain Different? He specializes ...
“All this is possible only in the liberty which our democracy gives to the artist. No regimentations, no compulsions or restrictions could call forth such richly various expressions of a people’s creative spirit.” Miller’s equation of political and artistic freedom, developed during the ...
But the firm went into administration in September, leaving two thousand two hundred workers at risk of redundancy, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said. Work was due to start early next year with a completion date expected in 2026. ...