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The Texas Coast: Ship Channel Network Of The Petroleum Age, Alan Lessoff
The Texas Coast: Ship Channel Network Of The Petroleum Age, Alan Lessoff
Faculty Publications – History
This article provides an overview of the Texas Gulf Coast as a port city region dedicated above all to oil and gas. By the late 1800s, the same trends in transportation and industry that encouraged ship channel construction around the world drew attention to schemes to transform the Gulf Coast’s shallow bays and estuaries into inland deep-water harbors. An added factor in Texas was the vulnerability of Galveston and other coastal locations to hurricanes. Between 1902, when construction began on the 52-mile Houston Ship Channel, and the 1950s–60s, when a deep-water channel opened at Matagorda Bay along the mid-Texas coast, …
‘Biblification’ In The Service Of Colonialism: Jerusalem In Nineteenth‐Century Photography, Issam Nassar
‘Biblification’ In The Service Of Colonialism: Jerusalem In Nineteenth‐Century Photography, Issam Nassar
Faculty Publications – History
Photography presented Palestine as a biblical site most relevant to Europe. It highlighted the presence of minorities (Christian or Jewish) who might need protection and who had close ties to Europe; and it presented the rest of the inhabitants as a mass of backward and uncivilised individuals. The images that invaded European and American homes contributed to the shaping in the European mind of an image of Palestine as a dream land, or to use Doumani’s words, ‘waiting to be reclaimed both spiritually and physically’
Early Local Photography In Jerusalem: From The Imaginary To The Social Landscape, Issam Nassar
Early Local Photography In Jerusalem: From The Imaginary To The Social Landscape, Issam Nassar
Faculty Publications – History
The history and development of photography in Jerusalem is a topic intimately connected with the religious significance and the complex socio-political history of the city. Several studies have been published on the subject. However, they deal, almost in their totality, with either European or early Zionist photography. The study of the development of photography as a craft practised by Jerusalem's indigenous population has been almost totally neglected. With the exception of a short chapter in a book written in Hebrew, no studies have been conducted on the subject.1 The topic is both vast and complex. The following essay offers an …