Stephen Fox

Samuel Cunard, Isambard Brunel, and the Great Atlantic Steamships

Transatlantic

Ellen Beasley

The guidebook also addresses more recent architectural episodes, such as the growth of the city's highly acclaimed medical center, the development of its neighborhoods, and the evolution of its beach front.

Galveston Architecture Guidebook

Stephen R. Fox

Tells about the Italian and German nationals held for interrogation in 1942

An Oral History of the Relocation of Italian Americans During World War II

The Unknown Internment

Michelangelo Sabatino

Barrie Scardino Bradley

Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Houston’s foremost modern architect in the 1950s, Barnstone came to prominence for his designs with partner Preston M. Bolton, which transposed the rigorous and austere architectural practices of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to the hot, steamy coastal plain of Texas. Barnstone was a man of contradictions—charming and witty but also self-centered, caustic, and abusive—who shaped new settings that were imbued, at once, with spatial calm and emotional intensity. Making Houston Modern explores the provocative architect’s life and work, not only through the lens of his architectural practice but also by delving into his personal life, class identity, and connections to the artists, critics, collectors, and museum directors who forged Houston’s distinctive culture in the postwar era. Edited by three renowned voices in the architecture world, this volume situates Barnstone within the contexts of American architecture, modernism, and Jewish culture to unravel the legacy of a charismatic personality whose imaginative work as an architect, author, teacher, and civic commentator helped redefine architecture in Texas.

The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone

Making Houston Modern

A Most Improbable Union is the story of two people at the dawn of the 20th century, opposite in class and culture, one from western New York and the other Germany, one a Daughter of the American Revolution (Carolyn) the other (Conrad) a 'coal dealer.' Carolyn, the daughter of a wealthy manufacturer, marinated in a world of conservative economic theory and practice, and matching politics. Conrad, the second son of a shoemaker with little or no interest in politics. His ancestors, ground up by endless cycles of poverty, the pawns of endless European wars and resultant migrations, were never the 'sons' or 'daughters' of anything so grand as a revolution. Those who knew the pair scratched their heads in amazement at their merger. All agreed it was most improbable ... FROM THE BOOK: Anna Maria Bauer held out her arms to the boy. In one hand she clutched a bowl from which a spoon threatened to tumble as the S.S. Belgenland corkscrewed through the swells, its steel-plated sides groaning in protest. Those moans became a chorus when echoed by the steerage passengers, as though the two, flesh and steel, were one. Occasionally, the trough was steep enough to lift the propellers clear of the water, vibrating the vessel as though God himself had reached down and given it a good shake.

The DAR and the Coal Dealer

A Most Improbable Union

During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States. In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the varied perspectives of first class, steerage, officers, and crew. The dynamic evolution of the Atlantic steamer is traced from Brunel's Great Western of 1838 to Cunard's Mauretania of 1907, the greatest steamship ever built.

Sarah Amelar

Timeless modernism might sound oxymoronic and yet the work of Phifer and partners is most aptly described in this way. Great buildings of any style achieve their stature through a clear demonstration of the principals of proportion, composition, balance as coupled with that oh-so-essential spark of life, without which all the rest will fail. In Phifer's work we see these things harmoniously joined, whether it be in the breathtaking Salt Point House in New York, the refined North Carolina Museum of Art, or the elevated Salt Lake City Courthouse. Luxurious volume bound in cloth incorporating the most important work of Thomas Phifer and Partners, including: North Carolina Museum of Art, Salt Point House (NY, NY), Fishers Island House (NY), Iowa House (IA), an Apartment in New York, Rice University Pavilion (TX), Taghkanic Hosue, (Taghkanic, NY), an office building in Washington, DC, Salt Lake City Courthouse, City Lights (NY, NY), Seoul Language School (Korea), Herzelia House (Israel), Millbrook House (NY)

Thomas Phifer and Partners

One of the least-known aspects of World War II is the internment of German «enemy aliens» in the United States. This narrative goes beyond other internment studies in its use of internee interviews and access to Justice and War Department personnel files. Fox concludes that rather than offering a reasonable assessment of the aliens' danger to United States internal security, the Justice Department incarcerated them - and excluded several hundred United States citizens - because of their German backgrounds, alleged disloyal statements and associations, socioeconomic class, or their characters and personalities.

A Biography of German American Internment & Exclusion in World War II : Memory and History

America's Invisible Gulag

Schulausgabe. Niederländisch für die Sekundarstufe I

Taal vitaal op school 1. 2 CDs

Gerd Simons

Taal totaal

This collection is composed of organizational papers relating to the Scientia Institute at Rice University, the purpose of which is to promote scholarship and research in the general area of history of science and culture for the benefit of the university and Houston community. It includes copies of the organization's charter, by-laws, budgets, speakers, meeting minutes, and general information.

An Architectural Tour

Rice University

Howard Barnstone

John F. Staub

David Courtwright

Jerome Iowa

Houston and the South

The Architecture of John F. Staub

"This ambitious study of Staub's work by architectural historian Stephen Fox goes beyond a description of Staub's houses. Fox analyzes the roles of space, structure, and decoration in creating, defining, and maintaining social class structures and expectations and shows how Staub was able to incorporate these elements and understandings into the elegant buildings he designed for his clients. In the process, he contributes greatly to a fuller understanding of Houston's emergence as a premier American city."--BOOK JACKET.

The Country Houses of John F. Staub

Using an engaging storytelling approach, Culture and Psychology introduces students to culture from a scientific yet accessible point of view. Author Stephen Fox integrates art, literature, and music into each chapter to offer students a rich and complete picture of cultures from around the world. The text wholly captures students’ attention while addressing key concepts typically found in a Psychology of Culture or Cross-Cultural Psychology course. Chapters feature personalized, interdisciplinary stories to help students understand specific concepts and theories, and encourage them to make connections between the material and their own lives.

Culture and Psychology

The electrifying story of Raphael Semmes and the CSS Alabama, the Confederate raider that destroyed Union ocean shipping and took more prizes than any other raider in naval history. In July, 1862, Semmes received orders to take command of a secret new British-built steam warship, the Alabama. At its helm, he would become the most hated and feared man in ports up and down the Union coast—and a Confederate legend. Now, with unparalleled authority and depth, and with a vivid sense of the excitement and danger of the time, Stephen Fox tells the story of Captain Semmes's remarkable wartime exploits. From vicious naval battles off the coast of France, to plundering the cargo of Union ships in the Caribbean, this is a thrilling tale of an often overlooked chapter of the Civil War.

Stephen Fox

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