A History of Spaces

DescriptionSince antiquity, Roman architecture and planning have inspired architects and designers. In this volume, Diane Favro and Fikret Yeg l of...

With the Internet, a new space, cyberspace, has formed, been rapidly integrated into daily life, and become the fourth living space for human being...

This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the ...

How are forbidden histories told and transmitted among young people in Israel/Palestine? What can their stories teach us about their everyday exper...

Description'Remembering Popular Music's Past' capitalises on the growing interest, globally, in the preservation of popular music's material past a...

Reducere. Early twentieth-century African American men in northern urban centers like New York faced economic isolation, segregation, a biased criminal justi...

A timely and coherent collection on conversion studies of the Early Modern period, considering themes of conversion, materiality, embodiment and ea...

Reducere. Kashmir remains one of the world's most militarized areas of dispute, having been in the grips of an armed insurgency against India since the late ...

DescriptionThis revealing portrait of the Dutch Empire repositions our understanding of modern empires from the terrestrial to the oceanic. It high...

Reducere. In Plain Sight explores how the poetry of nineteenth-century American women that was once so visible within American culture could have, with the e...

Reducere. he Coastal Atlas of Ireland is a celebration of Ireland's coastal and marine spaces. Drawing on written contributions from over 100 authors from ac...

Description With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly...

Unearthing new discoveries for scholars, practitioners and undergraduates, this book charts the socio-political history of five 'lost' venues and t...

The fashion show and its spaces are sites of otherness, representing everything from rebellion and excess through to political and social activism....

Reducere. A fascinating examination of the role of lighting in ancient Egyptian culture Artificial lighting is one of the earliest tools used by humans. By t...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as...

Reducere. Antifascist and socialist monuments pervaded the landscape of the former German Democratic Republic (1949-89), presenting a distorted vision of the...

Reducere. Between 1536 and 1601, at the request of the colonial administration of New Spain, indigenous artists crafted more than two hundred maps to be used...

DescriptionIn this innovative study, Tyler Whitney demonstrates how a transformation and militarization of the civilian soundscape in the late nine...

Since its early days as a boomtown on the Florida frontier, Tampa has had a lively history rich with commerce, cuisine, and working-class communiti...

Reducere. From the civility of Westminster's newly paved streets to the dangerous pleasures of Vauxhall Gardens and the grand designs of the Universal Regist...

Reducere. Reflecting the growing scholarly interest in transnational and comparative approaches to studying the past, British Atlantic, American Frontier off...

The 23 chapters in this volume explore the material culture of sanctity in Latin Europe and the Mediterranean between c. 1000 and c. 1220, with a f...

Focusing on British "Jacobin" politics in the 1790s and its return in later years, this book stresses performative aspects of radicalism, and space...

Reducere. Increasingly, women and minorities are entering fields where white male power is firmly entrenched. The spaces they come to occupy are not empty or...

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an environmental history of t...

Reducere. James Beard Foundation Book AwardsWINNER OF THE 2009 JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INTERNATIONAL COOKBOOK AWARD WINNER OF THE 2009 IACP BEST INTERNATIONAL...

A readable account of the book as an object: a history of the page as well as a history of the book. Drawing an arc from the medieval scriptorium t...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

Reducere. PUBLIC HISTORY PROVIDES A BACKGROUND IN THE HISTORY, PRINCIPLES, AND PRACTICES OF THE FIELD OF PUBLIC HISTORY Public History: An Introduction from ...

Reducere. DescriptionExamines the critical role of urban taverns in the social and political life of colonial and revolutionary America From exclusive "city ...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

DescriptionSince 1750, the world has become ever more connected, with processes of production and destruction no longer limited by land- or water-b...

Reducere. The built environment along the U.S.-Mexico border has long been a hotbed of political and creative action. In this volume, the historically tense ...

This engaging environmental history explores the rise, fall, and rebirth of one of the nation's most important urban public landscapes, and more si...

Reducere. Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. A...

Devised as an alternative to classical models, this book features the model of Controversy Spaces, a heuristic tool for the reconstruction of proce...

This book examines spatialised practices of remembrance and its role in reshaping societies from prehistory to today; it presents a reflection on t...

A History of the Church through its Buildings takes the reader to meet people who lived through momentous religious changes in the very spaces wher...

Prairie Fairies draws upon a wealth of oral, archival, and cultural histories to recover the experiences of queer urban and rural people in the pra...

Reducere. The Truckee River is central to the survival of humanity that has long clustered around its banks. Yet it has often been treated as no more than a ...

Focussing on the Australian South Sea Islander minority community this volume employs a variety of theoretical arguments in order to contribute a n...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Britt RusertExposes the influential work of a group of black artists to confront and refute scientific racism. Traversing t...

COVID-19 pandemic has created the most significant disruption of education systems that history has ever recorded in all continents. Closures of sc...

Across early modern Europe, men and women from all ranks gathered medical, culinary, and food preservation recipes from family and friends, experts...

Marshall Watson's first book reveals how to make traditional interiors fresh. Known for his meticulously researched, European-inspired style, Marsh...

Noel Kingsbury and Maayke de Ridder explores how landscape, history and culture in the Netherlands have given rise to distinctive gardens and publi...

DescriptionThe Touch is a new collaboration between Nathan Williams of Kinfolk and Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen of Norm Architects that welcome readers int...

Reducere. Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a...

Reducere. In a country where violence and the threat of violence is a constant weather for queer black people, where can the spirit rest? With lush language,...

The United States of Medievalism contemplates the desires, dreams, and contradictions inherent in experiencing the Middle Ages in a nation that is ...

Prolific prize-winner Jeremy Black charts the development and historical and global variety of fortifications and the destructive siege implements ...

DescriptionIf we place women at the center of our account of China's last two centuries, how does this change our understanding of what happened? T...

In the Shadow of Freud's Couch: Portraits of Psychoanalysts in Their Offices uses text and images to form a complex portrait of psychoanalysis toda...

Reducere. New York City History is essential reading not only for fans of regional history, but for readers who wish to understand the American experience th...

Reducere. There are fundamental tasks common to every society: children have to be raised, homes need to be cleaned, meals need to be prepared, and people wh...

Reducere. You've read the history and the background, now meet the families! This companion book to Meeting Families Where They Are traces the advocacy journ...

Reducere. "This book is indeed complete with every aspect of design material selection, installation and care considered... Appropriate as a coffee table boo...

Reducere. A major contribution to both art history and Latin American studies, A Culture of Stone offers sophisticated new insights into Inka culture and the...

A genuinely comparative study of the different trajectories and experiences of independent African states. This expanded, revised and updated new e...

DescriptionAn illustrated exploration of fandom that combines academic essays with artist pages and experimental texts.Fandom as Methodology examin...

DescriptionThe close interdependency of animal emissaries and new media from early European colonial encounters with the exotic to today's prolifer...

Reducere. DescriptionWith its wide-open spaces, seemingly endless expanses of farmland, and charming small towns, Kansas is truly the heartland of America.A ...

DescriptionIn Fighting for Our Place in the Sun, Richard D. Benson II examines the life of Malcolm X as not only a radical political figure, but al...

Reducere. Queer history is a living practice. Talk to any group of LGBTQ people today, and they will not agree on what story should be told. Many people desi...

Henry Moore (1898-1986), known as the ``Picasso of Sculpture, `` is regarded as one of the most important sculptors of the twentieth century and th...

The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history.Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jame...

Reducere. To survey the work of Mexican architect Javier Senosiain (born 1948) requires a journey through a particular trajectory in the history of architect...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

A remarkable overview of Russian history and culture, from the 18th century to the 20th.Illustrations: 107 illustrations, 45 in colour