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Review Of Shared Spaces And Divided Places: Material Dimensions Of Gender Relations And The American Historical Landscape., Mark Tebeau Nov 2012

Review Of Shared Spaces And Divided Places: Material Dimensions Of Gender Relations And The American Historical Landscape., Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

Reviews the book "Shared Spaces and Divided Places: Material Dimensions of Gender Relations and the American Historical Landscape," edited by Deborah L. Rotman and Ellen-Rose Savulis.


Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau Jul 2012

Review Of Asbestos And Fire: Technological Tradeoffs And The Body At Risk., Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

Book review of Asbestos and Fire: Technological Tradeoffs and the Body at Risk by Rachel Maines.


Review Of Next To Godliness: Confronting Dirt And Despair In Progressive Era New York City, Mark Tebeau Jul 2012

Review Of Next To Godliness: Confronting Dirt And Despair In Progressive Era New York City, Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

Review of Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City by Burnstein, Daniel Eli.


Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark Tebeau Mar 2012

Review Ofunderwriting: The Poetics Of Insurance In America, 1722-1872, By E. Wertheimer, Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

No abstract provided.


Review Of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure In America From Colonial Times To The Present, By M.V. Melosi, Mark Tebeau Mar 2012

Review Of The Sanitary City: Urban Infrastructure In America From Colonial Times To The Present, By M.V. Melosi, Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

No abstract provided.


Sculpted Landscapes: Art & Place In Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006, Mark Tebeau Mar 2012

Sculpted Landscapes: Art & Place In Cleveland's Cultural Gardens, 1916-2006, Mark Tebeau

Mark Tebeau

Perhaps the world's first peace garden, the Cleveland Cultural Gardens embody the history of twentieth-century America and reveal the complex interrelations between art and place. This essay uses the Cleveland Cultural Gardens as a lens through which to explore how art and place have intersected over time. It explores how communities have negotiated questions of national, ethnic, and American identity and embedded those identities into the vernacular landscape. It considers how the particulars of place were embedded into a public garden and asks whether it is possible for public art to transcend its place both in terms of geography and …