My primary focus is on the written word, whether in pen and ink or printed, but with an awareness that this cannot be divorced from the wider material world it was used to describe. Written descriptions do not reflect the sum of knowledge about women’s clothing and textiles, and were not its only or perhaps…
Intro – Describing Women’s Clothing in England
Descriptions of clothing and textiles increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth-century England, entangled with an expanding world of consumer goods that has already been well traced by historians. More importantly, what did it mean to consumers themselves? Much work has devoted its energies to addressing these questions, and the response has largely…
Tourism and Taste – Eating in US National Parks
Romantic sensibilities have significantly shaped the past of the national parks, and cosmopolitan tastes stand to shape their future. Romanticism, a movement that emphasized individual self-expression, emotion, imagination, nature, and the per-sonal experience of the sublime (Swiggett 1903), gained traction in nineteenth-century Europe as a critique of the Enlightenment rationality that had ushered in the…
Security at AWS – SAA-C03 Guide
As you move to the AWS cloud, you need to consider a number of security factors, including the following: For example, each EBS volume has multiple copies replicated within the data center where they are created. Amazon S3 objects are replicated across at least three separate availabil-ity zones within the selected AWS region, producing a…
Platform as a Service (PaaS) – SAA-C03 Guide
PaaS cloud providers enable your company’s developers to create custom applica-tions on a variety of popular development platforms, such as Java, PHP, and Python and Go. Your choice of language and development framework will determine the PaaS vendor you select. Using a PaaS provider means that developers don’t have to manually build and manage the…
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – SAA-C03 Guide
Many cloud services offered by AWS are defined as IaaS services, and are defined in this book as foundational services that are used by every customer (see Figure 1-7). Virtualized servers (Amazon EC2), container services (Amazon ECS), and database services (Amazon RDS) are hosted on a fast private software-defined network (SDN). Each customer’s IaaS services…