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Regional & national history
paperback. Leading scholar K. C. Chang challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient China. This strikingly illustrated book is a persuasive demonstration of the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to the study of early civilizations. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBJF; HBLA; HBTB; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780674048089
- ISBN
- 9780674048089
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.26
€ 35.99
€ 30.26
hardcover. Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 colour & 121 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSE; 3H; 3JB; ACND; AKL; HBJD; HBLH; HRCL; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1229.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 360
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271019680
- ISBN
- 9780271019680
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 132.76€ 109.04
€ 132.76
€ 109.04
Paperback. This work explores the ways in which Nazi Germany used art and media to portray their country as a champion of Kultur and civilisation. Revealing how multiple domains of cultural activity served to conceptually de-humanize Jews, this work shows how the seeds of the Holocaust were sown Editor(s): Etlin, Richard A. Num Pages: 368 pages, 62 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJH; AB; GTB; HBJD; HBTZ1; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 165 x 23. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226220871
- ISBN
- 9780226220871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 36.57
€ 46.99
€ 36.57
hardcover. Between 1850 and 1880, thousands of women moved to New York City to study art and pursue careers as painters, designers, illustrators, and engravers. This book reconnects their accomplishments to the city's conspicuously democratic art institutions, its burgeoning illustrated press, and the prevailing aesthetic ideal known as the Unity of Art. Series: Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America S. Num Pages: 328 pages, 55 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 662.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780812240719
- ISBN
- 9780812240719
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 91.45
€ 91.45
Hardback. Investigates how historians since 1945 wrote about music, art, architecture, theater, film, and dance in Nazi Germany and how their accounts were colored by politics of the Cold War, the fall of communism, and the wish to preserve the idea that true art and politics cannot mix. Series: Weimar & Now: German Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 438 pages, 22 b/w. BIC Classification: 1D; AC; AVC; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition /First Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520282346
- ISBN
- 9780520282346
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 64.08€ 49.95
€ 64.08
€ 49.95
Paperback. A wickedly funny history of America in its most memorable images Num Pages: 251 pages, 202 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AKLC; HBJK; JP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 828.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 251
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780814720158
- ISBN
- 9780814720158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 42.39
€ 46.99
€ 42.39
Paperback. This book decodes the rhetoric of China's turbulent decade, a time of both brutal iconoclasm and radical experimentation in the arts, to offer new insights into works that have transcended their times. Editor(s): King, Richard. Series: Contemporary Chinese Studies Series. Num Pages: 318 pages, 65 illustrations, 23 in colour. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJ; ACBP; HBJF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 19. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 318
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774815437
- ISBN
- 9780774815437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.77
€ 41.99
€ 36.77
Paperback. Brings to life the ancient Romans whom modern scholarship has largely ignored: slaves, ex-slaves, foreigners, and the freeborn working poor. Written for a wide audience, this book illuminates the dynamics of a discerning and sophisticated population, overturning much accepted wisdom about them, and opening our eyes to their cultural diversity. Num Pages: 396 pages, 24 color illustrations, 134 b/w photographs, 21 line illustrations, 3 tables, 2. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; ACG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 930.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 396
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520248151
- ISBN
- 9780520248151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 49.99€ 35.74
€ 49.99
€ 35.74
Paperback. In this study, originally published in Norway as Fra Principat Til Dominat, Professor L'Orange sets down the essence of his thought on the crucial period of transition from decentralization to standardization in civic and cultural life-a period not unlike our own. Num Pages: 131 pages, 67ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 212 x 11. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691003054
- ISBN
- 9780691003054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 55.92€ 41.44
€ 55.92
€ 41.44
Hardback. Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 162 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813145167
- ISBN
- 9780813145167
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 48.25
€ 48.25
Paperback. Exploring the political forces that shaped Impressionism, this work proposes that at the heart of the modern is a "guilty secret" - the need of the dominant, mainly bourgeois, classes in Paris to expunge from historical memory the haunting nightmare of the Commune and its socialist ideology. Series: Princeton Series in Nineteenth-Century Art, Culture & Society. Num Pages: 256 pages, 162 halftones. BIC Classification: ABA; ACVT; HBJD; HBLL; HBTB; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 191 x 254 x 13. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780691015552
- ISBN
- 9780691015552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 64.08€ 47.40
€ 64.08
€ 47.40
Hardcover. Demonstrates the central significance of rhetoric in ancient responses to and receptions of Roman art. Editor(s): Elsner, Jas; Meyer, Michel. Num Pages: 524 pages, 129 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 183 x 248 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1190.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107000711
- ISBN
- 9781107000711
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 130.67
€ 130.67
Paperback. In most contemporary historical writing the picture of modern life in Habsburg Central Europe is a gloomy story of the failure of rationalism and the rise of protofascist movements. This book tells a different story, focusing on the Czech writers and artists distinguished by their optimistic view of the world in the years before WWI. Series: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSBH; HBJD; HBL; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 17. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349295326
- ISBN
- 9781349295326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 63.71
€ 63.71
Hardback. Provides a deeply researched account of contemporary Asian art movements, focusing on the work of a select group of internationally renowned and politically engaged artists. Series Editor(s): Jones, Amelia; Meskimmon, Marsha. Series: Rethinking Art's Histories. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations, black & white|Illustrations, colour. BIC Classification: 1F; AC; HBJF; HBTB; JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 259 x 18. Weight in Grams: 630.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719090646
- ISBN
- 9780719090646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 141.69
€ 141.69
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719099571
- ISBN
- 9780719099571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 48.43
€ 48.43
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; ACG; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801494017
- ISBN
- 9780801494017
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 35.86
€ 38.99
€ 35.86
Paperback. An illustrated history of arts, crafts and design of the first peoples of South America. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1QDAK; 3H; 3JB; HBJK; HBLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 283 x 217 x 8. Weight in Grams: 564. an Illustrated History of the Arts, Crafts and Design of the First Peoples of South America, Shown in 250 Rich and Vibrant Photographs. 128 pages, Illustrations, maps. An illustrated history of arts, crafts and design of the first peoples of South America. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1KLSR; 1QDAK; 3H; 3JB; HBJK; HBLC. Dimension: 283 x 217 x 8. Weight: 556.
- Publisher
- Anness Publishing
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780191386
- ISBN
- 9781780191386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.67
€ 11.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. A cultural and political interpretation of the portraits, reliefs, allegories and historical paintings commissioned for the US Capital between 1815 and 1860. It seeks to give the reader an enhanced appreciation for the racial and ethnic implications of these works. Series: Perspectives on the Art & Architectural History of the United States Capitol. Num Pages: 292 pages, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; ACV; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; JFC; JFSL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 23. Weight in Grams: 685.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press Ohio
- Number of pages
- 292
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0212660
- ISBN
- 9780821413425
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; HBJK; HBW; JWG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Texas State Historical Association,U.S. United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781625110008
- ISBN
- 9781625110008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 33.59
€ 38.99
€ 33.59
Paperback. Reveals the power behind the English longbow - one of history's most devastating weapons Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3H; HBJD; HBLC; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 287
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752449517
- ISBN
- 9780752449517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.35
€ 21.99
€ 20.35