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Tombs of the Great Leaders
Gwendolyn Leick
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Description for Tombs of the Great Leaders
Hardcover. Combining history, architecture and travel writing, Tombs of the Great Leaders is a fascinating and revealing study of the political tomb, from Bronze Age tumuli to those built in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Num Pages: 336 pages, 115 black and white. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 229 x 29. Weight in Grams: 990.
Tombs of the Great Leaders traces the development of the political tomb since the Bronze Age tumuli, and looks in depth at those built in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Each presentation of a site clearly explains the history and context of the leader, their death, the creation of the mausoleum and an eyewitness account from the author of the tomb as it is today. Gwendolyn Leick investigates the memorial sites housing Communist leaders from Lenin in Moscow to Mao Zedong in Beijing, to Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, and Kim Il-Sung in North Korea. It also looks at the ... Read more
Tombs of the Great Leaders traces the development of the political tomb since the Bronze Age tumuli, and looks in depth at those built in the twentieth and twenty-first century. Each presentation of a site clearly explains the history and context of the leader, their death, the creation of the mausoleum and an eyewitness account from the author of the tomb as it is today. Gwendolyn Leick investigates the memorial sites housing Communist leaders from Lenin in Moscow to Mao Zedong in Beijing, to Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, and Kim Il-Sung in North Korea. It also looks at the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780232003
SKU
V9781780232003
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About Gwendolyn Leick
Gwendolyn Leick is Senior Lecturer at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London.
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