BORINAGE

bôrēnäzhˈ, region, Hainaut prov., S Belgium, surrounding Mons and extending to the French border. Traditionally a coal-mining district, most of the mines have been closed. Glass-making and metallurgy are the region's primary industries.

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books on: Borinage  - 105 results

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Benelux: An Economic Geography of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg
Book by R. C. Riley, G. J. Ashworth; Holmes & Meier, 1975
Subjects: Benelux Countries--Economic Conditions
...10 II-50 51-200 201-500 500 Total Borinage 2 13 16 4 4 39 Centre I 10 13 3 2 29 Charleroi...Occidental SIDEHO operating in the western Borinage, and there are similar bodies in the Borinage-Centre, Charleroi, Namur and Liege districts...
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Van Gogh: A Self-Portrait; Letters Revealing His Life as a Painter
Book by W. H. Auden, Vincent van Gogh; New York Graphic Society, 1961
Subjects: Artists--Correspondence, Reminiscences, Etc
...district in the south of Belgium, the Borinage, as an evangelist. The requirement...coveted appointment. He then went to the Borinage on his own, giving Bible lessons, visiting...a draftsman Vincent stayed on in the Borinage the whole winter 1879-1880, without...
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Peaceful Conquest: The Industrialization of Europe, 1760-1970
Book by Sidney Pollard; Oxford University Press, 1981
Subjects: Industrialization--Europe--History
...but it was the western section, the Borinage , which was forced by its deeper mines...Charleroi East Hainaut section, whereas the Borinage , which installed its first in 1737...and the earliest were installed in the Borinage , where the depth of pits compared with...
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The Democratic Socialism of Emile Vandervelde: Between Reform and Revolution
Book by Janet Polasky; Berg Publishers Ltd., 1995
Subjects: Socialism--Europe--History--19th Century, Socialism--Europe--History--20th Century, Vandervelde, Emile--1866-1938
...mostly representing the miners of the Borinage, who loudly proclaimed their impatience...delegates from the mining regions of the Borinage and Charleroi. The Belgian Workers Party...militants in the Liege, Charleroi, and the Borinage basins launched their strike. As the...
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Van Gogh and Gauguin: Electric Arguments and Utopian Dreams
Book by Bradley Collins; Westview Press, 2001
Subjects: Gauguin, Paul--1848-1903--Friends And Associates, Gauguin, Paul--1848-1903--Psychology, Gogh, Vincent Van--1853-1890--Friends And Associates, Gogh, Vincent Van--1853-1890--Psychology, Psychoanalysis And Art
emergency trip to the Borinage. Theodorus managed to temporarily...ultimately his career as a painter. The Borinage period saw the waning of Vincents...view from his window. But in the Borinage Vincent started to make sketches of...
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journal articles on: Borinage  - 3 results

 
 
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The Good Fight: the Spanish Civil War and U.s. Left Film Criticism
Journal article by Christopher Robé; Framework, Vol. 51, 2010
...faces?"15 By the time he came to shoot Misere au Borinage/Borinage ( Joris Ivens, BE) in 1932, a film on the Belgian...elements."18 It continues to describe the impact Borinage had upon Ivenss aesthetic approach: "Photography...
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The Production of Outrage: the Iraq War and the Radical Documentary Tradition
Journal article by Jane M. Gaines; Framework, Vol. 48, 2007
Subjects: Armored vehicles, Digital video, Documentary films, Terrorism
...politically endowed is developed and tested; to the Europeans in the 1930s who picked up the struggle in films like Misere au Borinage ( Joris Ivens, Henri Storck, BE, 1933) and Las Hurdes/Land Without Bread (Luis Bunuel, ES, 1932); to the U.S...
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Vincent: the Self-Portraits
Journal article by W. W. Meissner; Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Vol. 62, 1993
Subjects: Self-Portraits--Psychological Aspects
...would have admitted him to the theology school. In desperation, he sought to become a preacher to the poor miners of the Borinage, sacrificing himself in a saga of self-deprivation, mortification, and self-denial that would warm the heart of the...


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magazine articles on: Borinage  - 2 results

 
 
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Treasures from the Van Gogh Museum
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), November 1998
Subjects: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Art museums, Gogh, Vincent van--Exhibitions, Museums
...be another false start. Van Gogh abandoned the lessons and, after a brief spell of training as an evangelist, went to the Borinage mining region in the south of Belgium. His ministry among the miners led him to identify deeply with them and their families...
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Van Gogh & Company
Magazine article; USA Today (Society for the Advancement of Education), Vol. 133, September 2004
Subjects: Art, Modern--Criticism and interpretation, Art, Modern--Exhibitions, Gogh, Vincent van--Criticism and interpretation, Gogh, Vincent van--Exhibitions, Gris, Juan--Criticism and interpretation, Gris, Juan--Exhibitions, Modern art--Criticism and interpretation, Modern art--Exhibitions, Modernism (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Modernism (Art)--Exhibitions, Mondrian, Piet--Criticism and interpretation, Mondrian, Piet--Exhibitions, Painting (Art)--Criticism and interpretation, Painting (Art)--Exhibitions, Painting--Criticism and interpretation, Painting--Exhibitions, Picasso, Pablo--Criticism and interpretation, Picasso, Pablo--Exhibitions, Seurat, Georges--Criticism and interpretation, Seurat, Georges--Exhibitions
...known preacher in the Dutch Reformed Church. In the autumn of" 1880, after more than a year living as a pauper in the Borinage, van Gogh began to study at LEcole des Beaux-Art in Brussels. There, he began to understand the rudiments of perspective...


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encyclopedia articles on: Borinage  - 4 results

 
 
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Borinage
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BORINAGE borenazh , region, Hainaut prov., S Belgium, surrounding Mons and extending to the French border. Traditionally a coal-mining...
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Jemappes
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
JEMAPPES zh map , town, Hainaut prov., S Belgium. It is a coal-mining center of the Borinage region. Manufactures include iron and steel. At Jemappes in 1792 the French under Dumouriez defeated the Austrians under Duke...
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Belgium
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...declined in recent years, and the production of steel and chemicals are concentrated in the Sambre and Meuse valleys, in the Borinage around Mons , Charleroi , Namur , and Liege, and in the Campine coal basin. Liege is a major steel center. A well-established...
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Mons
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Located at the junction of the Canal du Centre and the Conde-Mons Canal, it is the processing and shipping center of the Borinage district, and the closing of most of the coal mines has caused economic hardship. It is also a manufacturing center. Known...


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