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c 1700 to c 1800

Hardback. From 1650 to 1900 Paris was the undisputed centre of fashion and taste in Europe. This book traces the story of Parisian decorative arts from the reign of Louis XIV to the triumph of art nouveau, through a selection of 150 masterpieces from the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Series: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Num Pages: 608 pages, 800 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 1DDN; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; AFT; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 311 x 254 x 51. Weight in Grams: 3752.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
Slp
Number of pages
608
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300191295
ISBN
9780300191295
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 249.52
€ 194.34

Hardback. In 1798 Robert Morris - "financier of the American Revolution", confidante of George Washington, recent US Senator - plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtor's prison and public contempt. Setting Morris' tale in the context of the nation's founding, this title focuses on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure. Series: The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-century Culture & History. Num Pages: 416 pages, 56 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 662.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196047
ISBN
9780300196047
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.64

Hardback. Explores the print culture of 18th-century London, focusing on the correspondences between images and consumer objects. In this text, the author considers such themes as the display of objects in still lifes and markets, the connoisseur's fetishistic gaze, and the fusion of body and ornament in satires of fashion. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 55 colour images + 101 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JF; ACQ; AFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 262 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196351
ISBN
9780300196351
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Hardback. In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style of history painting. This book explores the responses of key artists of the period to Boydell's venture. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 288 pages, 50 colour images + 95 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; ACQ; AFC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 261 x 24. Weight in Grams: 1180.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Yale University Press
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300196689
ISBN
9780300196689
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

Hardback. Exploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood. Series: The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. Num Pages: 420 pages, 100 color + 300 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; ACQ; AFKB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 284 x 34. Weight in Grams: 2130.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Yale University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300204346
ISBN
9780300204346
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.41
€ 50.65

Hardcover. The spectacular legacy and importance of early American cartographers. Num Pages: 160 pages, 60 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HBWF; RGV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 330 x 304 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1456.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393060324
ISBN
9780393060324
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.28
€ 65.26

Paperback. "Gaines has a deft understanding of the Washington-Lafayette relationship .. [and] a knack for wielding substantial research with aplomb."-San Francisco Chronicle Num Pages: 512 pages, 16 pages of illustrations; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
1st PAPERBACK
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393333510
ISBN
9780393333510
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.11

Paperback. A concise anthology including a wide range of eighteenth-century music. Series Editor(s): Frisch, Walter. Num Pages: 336 pages, printed music items. BIC Classification: 3JF; AVG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 181 x 231 x 18. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393920185
ISBN
9780393920185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.64

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
309
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393929188
ISBN
9780393929188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 51.99
€ 46.64

Paperback. Updated and revised, this edition presents expanded information on the foreign policy of the Jefferson period. A final chapter covers the events of 1989 and after, into the Clinton administration. Num Pages: 864 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; 3JJ; JPQB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 155 x 37. Weight in Grams: 1180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393964745
ISBN
9780393964745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 61.79
€ 61.13

Paperback. "Leckie is a gifted writer with the ability to explain complicated military matters in layperson's terms, while sustaining the drama involved in a life-and-death struggle. His portraits of the key players in that struggle.. are seamlessly interwoven with his exciting narrative. Num Pages: 400 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJD1; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; JWL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 237 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 594.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471390206
ISBN
9780471390206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.32

Hardcover. We think of Tutankhamun's age as one of rich tombs and religious obsession, but it was also a time of complicated and ultimately successful political machinations and military campaigns. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JF; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471743583
ISBN
9780471743583
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Hardback. To be one of 'the middling sort' in urban England in the late seventeenth or eighteenth century was to live a life tied, one way or another, to the world of commerce. This study offers a view of middling society during the hundred years that separated the Glorious Revolution from the factory age. Num Pages: 358 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JD; 3JF; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB; JFSC; JFSJ; JHBK; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 485.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
First edition.
Number of pages
358
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520202603
ISBN
9780520202603
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 62.98
€ 49.59

Paperback. Offers an account of life in late eighteenth-century India. This book presents an Indian's view of the British conquest of India and conveys the vital role taken by Indians in the colonial process, especially as they negotiated relations with Britons both in the colonial periphery and the imperial metropole. Num Pages: 214 pages, 16. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1DBR; 1FKA; 3JF; BG; DNF; WTLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 223 x 15. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520207172
ISBN
9780520207172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Novels have been a respectable component of culture for so long that it is difficult for twentieth-century observers to grasp the unease produced by novel reading in the eighteenth century. This title shows how the earliest novels in Britain, published in small-format print media, provoked early instances of the modern anxiety. Num Pages: 325 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 2AB; 3JD; 3JF; DSBD; DSK; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 554.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520212961
ISBN
9780520212961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 30.31

Paperback. Explores a key period in the making of the modern West. Although the notion of 'dual revolutions,' economic in Britain and political in France, has been vigorously challenged, this book finds that 'revolutionary' is an apt description of the important cultural transformations that took place in both France and Britain at the onset of modernity. Editor(s): Jones, Colin; Wahrman, Dror. Num Pages: 306 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JF; 3JH; GTB; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 166 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520229679
ISBN
9780520229679
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 26.81

Paperback. Exploring the phenomenon of divorce in American society, this book looks at divorce as a legal action, as an individual experience, and as a cultural symbol in its era of institutionalization. It analyzes the legal and legislative aspects of divorce and the public response to them. Num Pages: 249 pages, 8 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; JFC; JHBK; LA; LNM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 68.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
249
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520231962
ISBN
9780520231962
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Hardback. Presents a study of representations of Jews in eighteenth-century France - both by Gentiles and Jews themselves. This work offers fresh perspectives on the Enlightenment and French Revolution, on Jewish history, and on the nature of racism and intolerance. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 339 pages, 1 b/w illustration. BIC Classification: 3JF; 3JH; HBJD; HBLH; HBLL; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 302 x 32. Weight in Grams: 698.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
339
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520235571
ISBN
9780520235571
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

Paperback. An analysis of Pueblo Indian pottery, Pueblo and Spanish blankets, and Spanish religious images that links economic change to social and cultural change in the New Mexico. It charts the creation of a culturally innovative and dominating Hispanic settler - or vecino - community during the final decades of the eighteenth century. Num Pages: 353 pages, 12 figures, 19 b/w photographs, 9 maps, 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 3JF; 3JH; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 463.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
353
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520251595
ISBN
9780520251595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.93

Hardback. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Num Pages: 280 pages, 122 color illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1430. Vernacular Painting in High Qing China. 280 pages, col. Illustrations. Traditional Chinese collectors, like present-day scholars of Chinese painting, have favored the 'literati' paintings of the Chinese male elite, disparaging vernacular works, often intended as decorations or produced to mark a special occasion. This book deals with the field of Chinese pictorial art history. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JD; 3JF; ACQ; AFC. Dimension: 257 x 216 x 31. Weight: 1438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520258570
ISBN
9780520258570
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.36
€ 65.36

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