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Paperback. Editor(s): St.George, Robert Blair. Num Pages: 432 pages, 40. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3J; GTB; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 599.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780801483929
- ISBN
- 9780801483929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 39.32
€ 43.99
€ 39.32
Hardback. The lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and early modern Europe. This study examines how humanist authors received, criticized, and rewrote the traditional stories of exemplary virtue for patrons and audiences who were surprisingly open to their textual experiments. Num Pages: 544 pages, 6 photos, 2 charts. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3H; HBJD; HBLC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 953.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231129763
- ISBN
- 9780231129763
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 80.11€ 61.56
€ 80.11
€ 61.56
Hardback. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Num Pages: 280 pages, 43 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 602. Museums, Archaeology and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire. Series: Ahmanson-Murphy Fine Arts Book S. 280 pages, 43 b&w photographs, 2 maps. Analyzes how and why museums emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. This work argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1F; 1QDT; 3JH; GM; GTB; HBJF; HBLL. Dimension: 231 x 161 x 24. Weight: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520233355
- ISBN
- 9780520233355
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.65€ 64.59
€ 83.65
€ 64.59
Hardback. A riveting account of private art collectors' passion from Roman times to the present Num Pages: 232 pages, 17 b/w illus. BIC Classification: GM; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300208528
- ISBN
- 9780300208528
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.20
€ 36.99
€ 27.20
Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRCS; HRCV9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780800796952
- ISBN
- 9780800796952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.50
€ 21.50
Hardback. Based on a body of information and data, this volume recounts the history of five continents over a long stretch of time and in a comparative approach. It gives a range of views of the construction and collapse of the modern colonial empires of Europe, the United States of America and Japan. Translator(s): Everson, Andrene. Series: European Expansion & Global Interaction. Num Pages: 264 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845453381
- ISBN
- 9781845453381
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 164.30
€ 164.30
Hardcover. Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially those involved with interactions among meaning, embodiment, and subjectivity. Series: Culture, Mind and Society. Num Pages: 223 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HRKT; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137409591
- ISBN
- 9781137409591
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 127.20
€ 127.20
Paperback. In 1500 few Europeans regarded nature as a subject worthy of inquiry. Yet years later the first museums of natural history had appeared in Italy, dedicated to the marvels of nature. Drawing on archives of visitors' books, letters, and pleas for patronage, this title reconstructs the lost social world of Renaissance and Baroque museums. Series: Studies on the History of Society & Culture. Num Pages: 449 pages, 30 b&w reproductions, 1 map, 6 museum floor plans, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1DST; GM; HBJD; HBLH; HBTB; P; WN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 150 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 449
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520205086
- ISBN
- 9780520205086
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.12
€ 38.99
€ 28.12
Hardcover. This book breaks new ground in the historiography of Mexico during the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz by subjecting to detailed analysis the traditional belief that the ideology of the intellectual/political elite known as 'the scientists' was grounded in the philosophical ideas of Herbert Spencer. Series: Liverpool Latin American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HPCD; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781382561
- ISBN
- 9781781382561
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.70
€ 139.70
Paperback. Things exist, and therefore undoubtedly resist us, but in doing so they offer affordances, resources, opportunities. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782798569
- ISBN
- 9781782798569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
hardcover. This book presents a comprehensive defence of legal positivism on the basis of a novel account of social conventions. Marmor argues that the law is founded on constitutive conventions, and that consequently moral values cannot determine what the law is. Num Pages: 200 pages, bibliography. BIC Classification: HPQ; LAB; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198268970
- ISBN
- 9780198268970
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 169.09
€ 169.09
paperback. Translator(s): Bass, Alan. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 201 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780226143316
- ISBN
- 9780226143316
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.25
€ 21.99
€ 20.25
Hardback. This book examines Anglican missionary work in nineteenth-century British Columbia at several scales: the local ethnographic literature; histories of contact and conflict in mainland B.C. from the early nineteenth century; the theology and sociology of mission; and the recent critical literature on European colonialism. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBC; HBJK; HBLL; HBTQ; HBTR; HRCX7; JFC; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 449.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780774806541
- ISBN
- 9780774806541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.09
€ 112.09
Hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages, 21. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 243 x 41. Weight in Grams: 744.
- Publisher
- Zena Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780951106969
- ISBN
- 9780951106969
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.82
€ 26.99
€ 23.82
Paperback. Series: Africa@War. Num Pages: 64 pages, 90 b/w & 10 colour photos, 10 tables, 15 maps. BIC Classification: 1DSP; 1H; 3JJPK; 3JJPL; HBJH; HBLW3; HBWS; JWH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 297 x 6. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Helion & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911096320
- ISBN
- 9781911096320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.96
€ 26.99
€ 19.96
Paperback. Portugal is a country that has sometimes been dismissed as small and relatively unimportant. This title demonstrates that the contrary is true, showing that Portugal has been crucial to the development of Europe and the modern world. It offers a fresh appraisal of Portuguese history and its role in the world. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSP; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Reaktion Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781861895196
- ISBN
- 9781861895196
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.32
€ 42.32
Paperback. An illustrated brief history of Portugal written for non-specialist foreign readers. Also included in the book is a historical gazetteer, short biographies, chronological tables and maps. Translator(s): Fonss, Ursula. Series: Aspects of Portugal S. Num Pages: 180 pages, tables, 16 maps, 32pp illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DSP; HBJD; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 180
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857542110
- ISBN
- 9781857542110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.03
€ 26.99
€ 20.03
Paperback. Tells the story of Pompey during the Second World War. This book uses nearly 200 photographs to illustrate events in Portsmouth from 1939 to 1945, from the first days of war to the Blitz, from D-Day to VJ Day, also covering the post-war reconstruction of the city. Num Pages: 128 pages, around 200. BIC Classification: 1DBKESH; 3JJH; HBJD1; HBWQ; WQH; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 10. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 07th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752442969
- ISBN
- 9780752442969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.43
€ 17.99
€ 16.43
Hardback. Hagiography,or writing about and illustrating the lives of saints, was one of the most creative areas for artistic inspiration in the Middle Ages. This book explores the sumptuously illustrated saints' lives that were made in medieval Europe. Num Pages: 455 pages, 8 color illustrations, 149 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; 3F; AKLB; DSB; HBJD; HBLC; HRCC1; HRCC2; HRCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 264 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1058.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Number of pages
- 455
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780520223202
- ISBN
- 9780520223202
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.33€ 53.34
€ 68.33
€ 53.34
Hardback. Sheds light on the relationship between portraiture, social affirmation and the myth of Antiquity as it was experienced and elaborated in 18th-century Rome. This book offers insights and readings into how the experience of the City in terms of abstract or concrete appropriation affected the ways of portraying innate or visiting elite sitters. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations, black & white. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3JF; AGHF; HBTB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 170 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780719075964
- ISBN
- 9780719075964
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 7.28
€ 19.99
€ 7.28