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Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, ...

Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty, ...

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

In this generously illustrated book, acclaimed Berkeley art historian Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby gives us the definitive account of a history that leads from Napoleon's encounter with the gigantic monuments of ancient Egypt to the building of ...
Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic ...

Land, Nation and Culture, 1740-1840: Thinking the Republic ...

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Warmest thanks to Jessica Buskirk for her help with the research toward this article, to Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby and Anne Wagner for their advice, and to Christopher Hallett for his generous and pointed comments on the text. Some of the ideas ...
The Invention of the Model: "Artists and Models in Paris, ...

The Invention of the Model: "Artists and Models in Paris, ...

Susan Waller

For discussions of particular works confronting the conventions of history painting and the beau idéal, see Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby (1995), 'Rumor, Contagion and Colonization in Gros's Plague Stricken of Jaffa, 1804,' Representations 51 ...
Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of ...

Emulation: David, Drouais, and Girodet in the Art of ...

Thomas E. Crow

David O'Brien selflessly gave me access to key unpublished documents he had found in the course of his own research, while Mark Ledbury and Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby signaled others. I am grateful to Bernadette Fort and Ann Bermingham ...
Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the ...

Playing with Earth and Sky: Astronomy, Geography, and the ...

James Housefield

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby, Colossal: Engineering the Suez Canal, Statue of Liberty , Eiffel Tower, and Panama Canal; Transcontinental Ambition in France and the United States during the Long Nineteenth Century (New York: Periscope, Prestel,  ...
Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-revolutionary France

Extremities: Painting Empire in Post-revolutionary France

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

This highly original book examines six of these paintings and argues that their disturbing, erotic depictions of slavery, revolt, plague, decapitation, cannibalism, massacre, and abduction chart the history of France's empire and colonial ...
Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance

Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance

Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby

Sojourner Truth.” Featuring the largest collection of Truth’s photographs ever published, Enduring Truths is the first book to explore how she used her image, the press, the postal service, and copyright laws to support her activism and ...
An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the North Atlantic ...

An Economy of Colour: Visual Culture and the North Atlantic ...

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Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby The Oath of the Ancestors by Lethière 'le mulâtre': celebrating. 34 Theodore Gericault, Raft of the Medusa, 1 8 1 9, oil on canvas, 490 x 7 1 6cm . ' 35 Theodore Gericault, Study for Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19,.
St. Paul's Parish Register: Stafford-King George Counties, ...

St. Paul's Parish Register: Stafford-King George Counties, ...

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M. Mary Grigsby and John Fewel, Oct, 14, 1726. M. Benjamin Grigsby and Anne Foley (?), Sept. 5, 1727. M. Margaret Grigsby and John Smith, Nov. 5, 1728. 2° D, John Grigsby supposed to be 107 years old, Oct. 11, 1730. M. Thomas Grigsby ...
Other Mr. Darcy: Did You Know Mr. Darcy Had an American Cousin?

Other Mr. Darcy: Did You Know Mr. Darcy Had an American Cousin?

Monica Fairview

May I present—” “Mr Robert Darcy! We have met. How are you, my boy? Miss Bingley, delighted to see you again.” “You are acquainted with Mr Darcy?” said Caroline, taken aback, for she could not imagine how they could have met.
The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'

The Cambridge Companion to 'Pride and Prejudice'

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The cover of Monica Fairview's The Other Mr. Darcy (2009) observes, ' Unpredictable courtships appear to run in the Darcy family'; Darcy's American cousin, Robert Darcy, makes his move after wit— nessing Caroline Bingley collapsing to the ...
Darcy on the Hudson: A Pride and Prejudice Re-Imagining

Darcy on the Hudson: A Pride and Prejudice Re-Imagining

Mary Lydon Simonsen

When Fitzwilliam Darcy, Georgiana Darcy, and Charles Bingley set sail from England to New York, each travels with a different purpose.
Darcy's Temptation: A Sequel to the Fitzwilliam Darcy Story

Darcy's Temptation: A Sequel to the Fitzwilliam Darcy Story

Regina Jeffers

Upon his return from dealing with a family conflict, Mr. Darcy--who is four months' married to Elizabeth and awaits the birth of their first child--is attacked on the road and left helpless, only to find himself in the care of another woman ...
A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of ...

A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of ...

John Burke

... with this Robert Darcie, her husband, leaving issue by him, Sir Robert Darcy, of Danbury. John Darcy, of Tolshunt. The elder son, SIR ROBERT DARCY, died in the 9th Edward IV., and left a son, THOMAS DARCY, Esquire of the body to King  ...
Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Presidio of ...

Golden Gate National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), Presidio of ...

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COMMENTS STATEMENT OF ROBERT DARCY VVINDSURFERS CLUB MR. DARCY: Good morning, my name is Robert Darcy. I am a boardsailor and windsurfer. In looking at the general management plan, I am concerned about traffic, ...
The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice ...

The Disappearance of Georgiana Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice ...

Regina Jeffers

Elizabeth and Darcy search the unfamiliar and menacing Scottish countryside for Darcy's sister Georgiana, sorting through the cavalcade of suspects, from the dastardly Wickham to the strange and mysterious Urquhart family.
Mr. Darcy's Angel of Mercy

Mr. Darcy's Angel of Mercy

Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mr. Darcy's Angel of Mercy - A Novella: Two years after the conclusion of The Great War, those affected by the conflagration are still trying to put their lives back together, including Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy.
The Case of the Nearsighted Neighbor

The Case of the Nearsighted Neighbor

Linda Lee Maifair

Fifth-grader Darcy's recently widowed neighbor cannot find his glasses anywhere, but when Luke, a classmate, explains to Darcy about the special reading class he attends, Darcy solves the mystery of the glasses with ease.
MR Darcy's Valentine: Darcy and Elizabeth What If? #7

MR Darcy's Valentine: Darcy and Elizabeth What If? #7

Jennifer Lang

After she rejects him he wishes his day undone, and a chuckle from a cupid ornament signals the start of some very unusual events. For Mr Darcy cannot progress to Valentine's Day until he has won the love of Elizabeth Bennet.
College Life through the Eyes of Students

College Life through the Eyes of Students

Mary Grigsby

Author Mary Grigsby uses the voices of students themselves to discuss how they view, adjust to, and participate in the college student culture of a large midwestern university and to explore what they think of their educational experiences.
Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star

Fitzwilliam Darcy, Rock Star

Heather Lynn Rigaud

Darcy's as hot as he is talented.
Mr. Darcy's Bite

Mr. Darcy's Bite

Mary Simonsen

by Mary Lydon Simonsen If the two of them weren't so stubborn... by Mary Lydon Simonsen Maggie went in search of a. It's obvious to Georgiana Darcy that the lovely Elizabeth Bennet is her brother's perfect match, but Darcy's pigheadedness ...
The Darcy Brothers

The Darcy Brothers

Cassandra Grafton

"Easy-going Theophilus Darcy is the opposite of his controlled older brother.
How College Works

How College Works

Daniel F. Chambliss

Both Cathy Small and Mary Grigsby also found that students rarely became friends with classmates. Small, My Freshman Year; Mary Grigsby, College Life. 17. Each of the factors that we find leads to social-tie formation has been found by ...
Noodlers in Missouri: Fishing for Identity in a Rural Subculture

Noodlers in Missouri: Fishing for Identity in a Rural Subculture

Mary Grigsby

NoodlersinMissouri FishingforIdentityinaRuralSubculture Mary Grigsby Truman State University Press Kirksville, Missouri NoodlersMissouri in fishing for identity in a rural subculture Mary Grigsby Truman State University Press Kirksville, ...
A Way of Life, Like Any Other: A Novel

A Way of Life, Like Any Other: A Novel

Darcy O'Brien

Darcy O'Brien will make them think of Joyce. Or of Flann O'Brien. Or of what Joyce said of Flann O'Brien: “That's a real writer, with the true comic spirit.” When A Way of Life, Like Any Other was published in 1977, Darcy O'Brien was teaching at ...
Kim Dzong Il: Przemysł propagandy

Kim Dzong Il: Przemysł propagandy

Paul Fischer

Darcy Paquet, The Golden Age ofKorean Cinema: Seven Directors. Data nieznana. Darcy Paquet, Korean Directors in the 1970s. Data nieznana. Darcy Paquet, Shin Sang Ok in the 1950s. Data nieznana. Table Talk Hwang Jang-Yop and ...
Mr. Darcy's Challenge

Mr. Darcy's Challenge

Monica Fairview

Once again, Darcy finds himself faced with impossible choices: helping Elizabeth when she is certain to marry someone else, or holding onto his dignity by turning his back on the Bennets once and for all.Pride and love are at loggerheads as ...
Mr. Darcy's Rival

Mr. Darcy's Rival

Kara Louise

Mr.Darcy has learned he must prepare himself when he and his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, make their yearly visit to his aunt, particularly when it comes to Lady Catherine’s expectation that he marry her daughter, Anne.
Mr Darcy's Rescue: Darcy and Elizabeth What If? #2

Mr Darcy's Rescue: Darcy and Elizabeth What If? #2

Jennifer Lang

What if Elizabeth had befriended Georgiana in Ramsgate?

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