Mogul Empire--Social life and customs; Drinking of alcoholic beverages--India--History; Drug abuse--India
Intoxicant use in Mughal India was not only widespread, it also represented an important part of the empire's history and culture. The influence of intoxicants - specifically opium and alcohol - has often been overlooked in secondary literature,...
Women in motion pictures--India; Motion pictures--India
My study examines women-centric cinema in India that are in Hindi. In these films women have revolted against the injustice. The content analysis of the movies (parallel and middle) focuses on representation of women-centered issues. The Parallel...
African American women artists; Poetry--Social aspects; Music--Social aspects; Art--Social aspects;Shange, Ntozake. For colored girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is enuf.; Walker, Kara Elizabeth. Gone.; India.Arie. Video.;...
The creative expressions of three black women artists--Ntozake Shange, Kara Walker, and India. Arie--are explored using optimal consciousness-an Afrocentric framework by Linda James Myers. This concept advocates that the role of the artist is to...
English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700; Geographical discoveries in literature
It is the purpose of this thesis to show what influence the sixteenth century voyagers had on the Elizabethan writers. For expediency, we have divided these voyages into two classes: namely, the early, from Columbus, 1492, to Vasca de Gama, 1498;...
In studying the culture of any people we learn that no group has been absolutely independent of influences from other people. No man indeed can say that he has attained anything of value absolutely by himself; an individual must give credit to the...
Linseed oil is the oil from the plant linum usitatissiumum. It is not a new oil, for we read that the Greeks and Romans used it, not as it is used today, but as a food, and it is still used for that purpose in some countries, especially in Russia,...
Leaf from a nineteenth century Persian language history book produced in India, most likely Jaipur, in AH 1284. The date, according to the Islamic calendar, is counted from 622 CE when the Prophet Muhammad made his Hijra or Hegira, moving from...
Leaf from a nineteenth century Persian language history book produced in India, most likely Jaipur, in AH 1284. The date, according to the Islamic calendar, is counted from 622 CE when the Prophet Muhammad made his Hijra or Hegira, moving from...
"Soon after the creation of Composition VII, in late November, Kandinsky painted Dreamy Improvisation [Träumerische Improvisation] on 3 December 1913 followed by Light Picture [Helles Bild] and Black Lines [Schwarze Striche] in mid-December....
Caption information: Tusche [India ink] / sig. u. dat.: u. r. Philip Guston 1970 [Signed and dated: lower right: Philip Guston 1970] / Alle Marlborough Gallery, London.
Stern wheelers; Steamboats; Boat & ship industry; Howard Ship Yards and Dock Company
Port side of P.D. STAGGS, sitting with steam up, at the bank of Ohio River at Howard Shipyard. P.D. STAGGS, a stern-wheel packet with wood hull (161 ft. x 28.6 ft. x 4.4 ft.), was built by Howard in 1893. Owned by Alex Kendall and Captain A. T....
Portrait of performer Marion Giroux wearing an off-the-shoulder dress. She starred in "My Friend from India" at Macauley's Theatre in February 1897, the occasion for the inscription of this portrait. Giroux also appeared in "Why...
Promotional ad in the New York Tribune for J. M. Barrie's "A Kiss for Cinderella," starring Maude Adams, which apparently played at the Hollis St. Theatre in New York in January 1917. It features four images from the play, with actors...
Portrait of right profile of performer Marion Giroux, with head tilted back, wearing and off-the-shoulder lace dress. She starred in "My Friend from India" at Macauley's Theatre in February 1897, the occasion for the inscription of this...
Bales of cotton covering a large area in front of a large paddle boat or paddle steamer. In the foreground two African-American men sit on the bales. Other men are in the background. Title: 12479 - Cotton! Cotton! Cotton! Levee, New Orleans, La....
University of Louisville--Faculty; University of Louisville--Students; International students; Students;
Mrs. Meta Riley Emberger confers with international students in the English Laboratory on the University of Louisville Belknap Campus. The students sit around a table; Emberger stands behind them. There is a large bookcase full of books behind her...
