Roger Benjamin: 8 books

Book cover of Orientalist Aesthetics

Orientalist Aesthetics

Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa, 1880-1930

by Roger Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2003

Lavishly illustrated with exotic images ranging from Renoir's forgotten Algerian oeuvre to the abstract vision of Matisse's Morocco and beyond, this book is the first history of Orientalist art during the period of high modernism. Roger Benjamin, drawing on a decade of research in untapped archives,...
Book cover of Orientalism's Interlocutors

Orientalism's Interlocutors

Painting, Architecture, Photography

by Nicholas Thomas, Zeynep Çelik, Roger Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2002

Until now, Orientalist art—exemplified by paintings of harems, slave markets, or bazaars—has predominantly been understood to reflect Western interpretations and to perpetuate reductive, often demeaning stereotypes of the exotic East. Orientalism's Interlocutors contests the idea that Orientalist...
Book cover of Collective Goods and Higher Education Research

Collective Goods and Higher Education Research

Pasteur’s Quadrant in Higher Education

by Roger Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2018

With this volume, the author demonstrates how a collective goods approach to higher education research can alleviate problems of rising costs, declining resources, and growing concerns about undergraduate learning. In taking this approach, the author presents new tools of analysis—borrowed from...
Book cover of The U.S. Constitution with The Declaration of Independence and The Articles of Confederation
by James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2015

Collected here in one affordable volume are the most important documents of the United States of America: The Constitution of the United States of America, with the Bill of Rights and all of the Amendments; The Declaration of Independence; and the Articles of Confederation. These three documents are the basis for our entire way of life. Every citizen should have a copy.
Book cover of The Declaration of Independence
by Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014

“Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. ... If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union: but we shall have saved it, as to make, and keep it, forever worthy of the saving.” – Abraham Lincoln
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 43

Harvard Classics Volume 43

American Historical Documents

by Leif Ericsson, Golden Deer Classics, Christopher Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2017

Contents: 1. Use Preview To See Table of Contents Inside Also available: The Complete Harvard Classics Collection (51 Volumes + The Harvard Classic Shelf Of Fiction) 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die (Golden Deer Classics)
Book cover of Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism
by Logan Paul Gage, Bruce L. Gordon, Shawn E. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013

Darwinian Evolution and Classical Liberalism canvasses an array of thinkers from the past to the present as it examines fundamental political, philosophical, ethical, economic, anthropological, and scientific aspects of the ferment between Darwinian biology and classical liberalism. Early chapters...
Book cover of The Challenges of European Governance in the Age of Economic Stagnation, Immigration, and Refugees
by Elisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Jean-Marc Akakpo, Zeynep Arkan
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional inter-governmental institutions has kept the...
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