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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. Collects twenty essays that explore the Virginia story in the Civil War era. This title examines Robert E Lee and the issues confronting his men, such as soldier morale and religious conversion. It emphasizes the wartime home front - in some cases reexamining its connection with the battlefront - or explore questions of gender, race, or religion. Editor(s): Wallenstein, Peter; Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 b&w illustration. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBTB; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813928289
ISBN
9780813928289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.55

paperback. Creating gender on page, stage, and screen Editor(s): Watson, Elwood; Shaw, Marc Edward. Num Pages: 252 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JM; JFCA; JFSJ2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253222701
ISBN
9780253222701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.25

Paperback. Editor(s): Weinhauer, Klaus; McElligott, Anthony; Heinsohn, Kirsten. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: 1DFG; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 225 x 16. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9783837627343
ISBN
9783837627343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.04
€ 42.27

Hardback. Scholars from the fields of literature, history, and art history apply a range of methodologies to newly discovered works by women writers and to other sources concerning women writers in China from 1600 to 1900. Editor(s): Widmer, Ellen; Chang, Kang-i Sun. Num Pages: 560 pages, 41 half-tones. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 2GDC; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; DSBD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 41. Weight in Grams: 926.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
560
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804728713
ISBN
9780804728713
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 232.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Zhang, Xinshi; Huang, Hongwen. Num Pages: 175 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 7 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JM; KJMV6; TC; THX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 282 x 206 x 8. Weight in Grams: 635.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642053399
ISBN
9783642053399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 107.26

Presents essays that share a common concern with investigating Enlightenment categories of historical understanding and determining how these categories helped shape Enlightenment culture. This work addresses the question of how eighteenth-century writers make sense of the past for their own practical, aesthetic, and ideological purposes. Editor(s): Zionkowski, Linda; Thomas, Professor Downing A. Num Pages: 300 pages, 12, 12 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801887956
ISBN
9780801887956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.52

Harvey, Strolling Players in Albany, Montreal, and Quebec City, 1797 and 1810: Performance, Class, and EmpireWoodruff D. Smith, Corruption and Eighteenth-Century Social Science: Mapping the Space of Political Economy Editor(s): Zionkowski, Linda; Thomas, Professor Downing A. Num Pages: 312 pages, 12, 12 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; AB; DSBD; HBTB; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 544.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801892974
ISBN
9780801892974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.66

Paperback. Focusing on the centuries in which the phenomenon of collecting came powerfully into its own, this title analyzes the radical recontextualization of celebrated paintings by Raphael, Caravaggio, and Rubens; brings to light a lost holy tower from fifteenth-century Bavaria; and offers new insights into the meaning of 'sacred' and 'profane'. Editor(s): Ebert-Schifferer, Sybille. Num Pages: 288 pages, 86 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3J; ACN; ACQ; ACV; AGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 19. Weight in Grams: 766.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606060421
ISBN
9781606060421
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.68

Hardcover. This work, covering the years 1816-1820, makes the contents of some of the tens of thousands of sales catalogues published during the 19th century accessible to scholars. Information provided includes sales dates and lot numbers, prices and names of buyers and sellers, and locations of auctions. Num Pages: 583 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: 1DB; 3JH; ABQ; ACV; AFC; GBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
583
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892363957
ISBN
9780892363957
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 159.14
€ 119.68

Hardback. Offers a collection of emotionally charged photographs that document a poignant day in American history. This title offers a photo-essay documenting the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom of August 28, 1963, the historic day on which Dr Martin Luther King Jr delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech at the base of the Lincoln Memorial. Num Pages: 128 pages, 79 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBFC; 3JJPK; AJB; AJCR; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 226 x 16. Weight in Grams: 708.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606061213
ISBN
9781606061213
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 25.78

Paperback. The autobiography of Jean Paul Getty, American oil executive, multimillionaire and art collector. Getty tells how he amassed his fortune, discusses the prospects of democracy, lists the seven things men should know about women, and recounts conversations at Oxford with the future King of England. Num Pages: 360 pages, 64 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; BGBA; KNBP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 746.
Publisher
J. Paul Getty Museum
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892367009
ISBN
9780892367009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.90

Hardcover. In 1984 the Getty Museum acquired a collection of Italian Renaissance majolica, or tin-glazed earthenware. This volume catalogues this collection of 45 objects spanning 400 years, including a pair of 18th-century candlesticks representing mythological scenes and a tabletop with hunting scenes. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 colour, 270 duotone & 17 line illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1DST; 3J; AC; AFPC; AGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 305 x 228 x 29. Weight in Grams: 1905.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892366705
ISBN
9780892366705
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 88.41
€ 72.72

Hardback. Much of how WWI is understood today is rooted in the artistic depictions of the brutal violence and extensive destruction that marked the conflict. This book examines how the physical and psychological devastation of the war altered the course of 20th-century artistic Modernism. Num Pages: 192 pages, 67 full-colour & 23 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JJF; ACXD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 263 x 17. Weight in Grams: 888.
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606064313
ISBN
9781606064313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.48

An abridged version of a collection originally published in 1961, the 42 stories here are written by Jewish writers of the 20th century, including Sholem Aleichem, Abraham Raisin and Joseph Opotashu. They offer a testament to the mother tongue through the trials of Americanization. Illustrator(s): Craft, Dana. Editor(s): Goodman, Henry. Translator(s): Goodman, Henry. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 208 pages, 3 photographs, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ACY; 3JJ; FYB; HBJK; HBLW; JFFN; JFSR1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 526.
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Edition
Abridged ed
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815606697
ISBN
9780815606697
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.32

Hardback. Looks at the work of three artists who paved the way for ceramics to be considered fine art. This title focuses on artists John Mason (b 1927), Kenneth Price (b 1935), and Peter Voulkos (1924-2002) and their radical early work in post-war Los Angeles where they formed the vanguard of a new California ceramics movement. Num Pages: 240 pages, 131 colour & 37 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACX; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 284 x 227 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1218.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606061053
ISBN
9781606061053
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.05
€ 42.00

Hardback. In this revised and greatly expanded edition of the original Companion, some 80 of the very best modern scholars come together to offer an original assessment of English Renaissance literature and culture. Editor(s): Hattaway, Michael. Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 1264 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3H; 3JB; DSBD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 250 x 174 x 76. Weight in Grams: 2492.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
1264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405187626
ISBN
9781405187626
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.80

Hardback. Describes how Western art institutions and vocabulary were transplanted to Japan in the late nineteenth century, exposing the politics through which the words, categories, and values that structure our understanding of the field came to be while revealing the historicity of Western and non-Western art history. Num Pages: 416 pages, 17 full-colour, 19 b&w & 12 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 3JH; ACBP; ACXJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 272 x 198 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1418.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781606060599
ISBN
9781606060599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 76.62
€ 72.76

Paperback. A study of the work of William Henry Fox Talbot, who is credited with being the inventor of photography as we know it. It reproduces 50 of his photographs from the Getty Museum's collection, along with commentary on each. There is also an edited transcript of a colloquium on Talbot's career. Series: In Focus. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JH; ACV; AJB; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 194 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892366606
ISBN
9780892366606
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.93

Paperback. This is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a commentary. Also included is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Man's career. Series: In Focus. Num Pages: 144 pages, 50 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJC; WTHM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 196 x 152 x 9. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892365111
ISBN
9780892365111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.82

Paperback. A catalogue of the almost life-size porcelain animals created for the elector of Saxony and king of Poland, Augustus the Strong, in 1735. This was perhaps the most significant commission for porcelain ever executed in Europe. The text discusses the challenges and solutions the work demanded. Num Pages: 48 pages, 30 colour & 17 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; ACQ; AFPC; AGC; AGN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 260 x 205 x 3. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
48
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780892366446
ISBN
9780892366446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.05

Hardcover. Editor(s): Allen, Aaron; Spence, Cathryn. Series: Scottish History Society 6th Series. Num Pages: 668 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JD; HBJD1; HBLH; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 146 x 58. Weight in Grams: 984.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Scottish History Society
Edition
6th
Condition
New
SKU
V9780906245392
ISBN
9780906245392
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 50.25

Paperback. Devoted to a decade of British life, this series contains around 300 photographs and each picture tells a tale, of occurrences big and small, which have shaped the people and the face of Britain. Series: Twentieth Century in Pictures. Num Pages: 300 pages, full colour throughout, includes approx 300 photos. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPR; AJC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 884.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
AE Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906672157
ISBN
9781906672157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Paperback. HRH Queen Elizabeth II was crowned Queen of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth, in Westminster Abbey on 2 June, 1953 at the age of 27, the 40th monarch since William the Conqueror and the great-great granddaughter of Queen Victoria. This title celebrates the life and long reign of Queen Elizabeth II. Num Pages: 300 pages, full colour throughout, 250 photographs. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJP; 3JM; AJC; BGR; HBJD1; HBLW3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 188 x 21. Weight in Grams: 924.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
AE Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907708077
ISBN
9781907708077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.98

Hardback. An important contribution to the understanding of twentieth-century Anglicanism and evangelicalism Editor(s): Atherstone, Andrew; Maiden, John. Series: Studies in Modern British Religious History. Num Pages: 338 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JJ; HRCC91; HRCC99. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 244 x 164 x 33. Weight in Grams: 716.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843839118
ISBN
9781843839118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.97

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