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In hundreds of iconic, smart, angry, clever, unforgettable images, Signs of Resistance chronicles what truly makes America great: citizens unafraid of speaking truth to power.Two hundred and forty images from British rule and women's suffrage to the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War; from women's equality and Black Lives Matter to the actions of our forty-fifth president and the Women's March offer an inspiring, optimistic, and visually galvanizing history lesson about the power people have when they take to the streets and stand up for whats right

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Chapter One Ancient Times -- The Cave -- The First Settlements -- The Sumerian House -- Cities of Ancient Egypt -- The Egyptian House -- The Splendor of Babylon -- The Grid Plan -- Cities of Ancient Greece -- The Greek House -- Overlapping Cities -- Cities of the Roman Empier -- Roman Insula -- The Celtic Forts -- Chapter Two Middle and Modern Ages -- Cities in the Middle Ages -- The Medieval House -- Jerusalem, the Holy City -- Pre-Columbian Cities -- Inca Cities -- The Inca Housing -- The Mongolian Yurt -- The Chinese Siheyuan -- Classical China -- The Renaissance City -- Renaissance Urban House -- The Baroque City -- The Evolution fo the Garden -- Chapter Three Contemporary Age -- The Neoclassical City -- Industrial Cities -- House of the Working Class -- A New Urban Landscape -- Bourgeois House -- Large Metropolises -- The Apartment Building -- Megacities -- Underground Urbanism -- Restructuring Cities -- The Futuristic Urbanism -- The Self-Sustainable Home -- Home Automation -- Glossary -- For More Information -- For Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Der erste Band der 2015 von Costanza D'Elia gegründeten Zeitschrift "Visual History. Rivista internazionale di storia e critica dell'immagine" wird mit einem Zitat aus "L'orologio" ("Die Uhr") eingeleitet, einer der bedeutendsten politischen Romane der italienischen Nachkriegszeit, den der Schriftsteller und Maler Carlo Levi 1950 veröffentlichte. Die Auswahl der Zeilen erfolgte nicht zufällig: Ein Mensch, verzweifelt ob der "Unfähigkeit zu leben", stößt "in immer neue Wissensgebiete vor, auf der ständigen Suche nach etwas, das ihm hoffnungslos verborgen bleiben würde".

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Defining childhood -- Conflicting conceptions -- Modern childhood -- Childhood and adult psychology -- Pictures of childhood -- Scope and outline -- 1 Children as Worthy Subjects -- Antiquity -- Medieval morphology and limited pictorial functions -- The sacred and secular of the Renaissance -- Seventeenth-century developments -- Eighteenth-century sentiment -- Nineteenth-century Romanticism -- Mass production and photography -- Twentieth-century proliferation -- Twenty-first-century digital saturation -- 2 Children as Family Members -- Families are not all the same -- Families as spiritual union -- Families as bonds of ancestry and property -- Families as bonds of affection -- Happy snaps and power -- Digitally networked families -- Public families as pedagogy -- Dysfunctional families as pedagogy -- Controlling the image -- 3 Children as Gendered -- Patriarchy and feminism -- Clothes and color -- Attributes and activities -- Girls fight back -- Shifting sands -- 4 Children as Adults -- Historical integration -- Exceptional children -- Premature sexuality -- Dependence reasserted -- Separation ensured -- 5 Children as Schooled -- Students as organic wholes -- Students as God-fearing -- Students as good citizens in the making -- Students as consumers -- Students realizing their individual potential -- Control and agency -- 6 Children as Aesthetic Objects -- Aesthetics and aestheticism -- Aesthetically beautiful children -- The culture of cuteness -- Aesthetics and its opposites -- Aestheticism and anxiety -- Aestheticism, innocence, and reality -- 7 Children as Victims -- Child sacrifice -- Infanticide and filicide -- War and famine -- Destitution -- Beatings and abuse -- Child labor -- Child pornography -- Memorializing children -- Counternarratives -- Sins and sorrows -- 8 Children as Threats.