Copper, Brass and Bronze of Iran: From the Late 14th to the Mid-18th Century in the Hermitage Collection, Hardcover - Anatoli Ivanov

In Western Europe the Golden Age of Islamic metalwork in Iran was (and is) generally considered to be the earlier period, and later metalwork was c...

In this comprehensive survey of two hundred years of Iran's political history, Mehran Kamrava examines the rise and fall of the Qajar and Pahlavi d...

A detailed examination of the English glass industry with an emphasis on the archaeological evidence.

The American Revolution is universally seen as a colossal defeat of the powerful British Empire by colonial rebels. Yet the British emerged from th...

"3rd impression with second supplement published 2011"--Tp. verso.

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Good Coverage of coastal and mountain scenery.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Peter J GreenIllustration(s): 231 black and white illustra...

Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty, Hardcover

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Armour Never Wearies is the first volume to bring together all the hitherto scattered evidence - archaeological, literary and artistic - for the fo...

Reducere. English speakers have 12 centuries of Christian poetry to draw upon. The examples in this anthology come from all Christian sources including Angli...

Features the most significant submarines ever built, with each entry including a description of the submarine's development and history, a colour p...

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Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Adam KidsonCollection: Edexcel GCE History 2015Publication date: 2015Dimensions: 221 x 276 x 19Cover...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

Publisher: ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonAuthor(s): Mikhail SuslovNumber of pages: 302Collection: Soviet and Post-Soviet Polit...

Reducere. An exhaustive survey of the history of disability in a single volume. An eye-opening look into how various cultures have conceived of the concept o...

In October 1971 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, held a celebration to commemorate the 2500th anniversary of the founding of the Persian Empire...

Reducere. In the mid-17th century, the Iroquois Confederacy launched a war for control of the burgeoning fur trade industry. These conflicts, known as the Be...

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The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s):...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCIllustration(s): 8 colour & 74 bw illusNumber of pages: 328Collection: Material Culture of Art and DesignPublic...

"The Origins of the Consumer Revolution in England explores the rise of consumerism from the end of the medieval period through to the beginning of...

'The Empire Strikes Back?' injects the empire back into the domestic history of modern Britain. It takes as its premise the idea that the empire wa...

Felice Giardini and Professional Music Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century London explores Giardini's influence on British musical life through his m...

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In his day, he was more successful and popular than his fellow German, contemporary and friend, J.S. Bach.He had studied law, but during his long m...

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Reducere. The world of Cajsa Andersdotter is a non-fictional book which lets the reader follow the fate of an impoverished Swedish family from about 1760 to ...