Hands: A Pictorial Archive from Nineteenth-Century Sources, Paperback - Jim Harter

More than just a five-digit grasping appendage, the extraordinary human hand is capable of a virtually infinite range of expression. Here are over ...

Japan was the first Asian nation to face the full impact of modernity. Like the rest of Japanese society, Buddhist institutions, individuals, and t...

Reducere. Women's fashions during the second half of the nineteenth century offered a delightful display of styles reflecting English, French, and American t...

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Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of ...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

Reducere. A fascinating exploration of three individuals in fin-de-si cle France who pushed the boundaries of gender identity. Before the term "transgender" ...

Reducere. Rich selection of royalty-free motifs from famous British reference. Striking, varied designs suitable for any number of graphic projects. Images i...

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Reducere. Natural philosophy encompassed all natural phenomena of the physical world. It sought to discover the physical causes of all natural effects and wa...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book aims to uncover and explore the ideas of notable people in the story of Christian universalism from the time of the Reformatio...

This edited collection offers multi-disciplinary reflections and analysis on a variety of themes centred on nineteenth century executions in the UK...

Reducere. DescriptionOver 60 images relating to Halloween in a full-color paperback. Part of Applewood's Pictorial America series, the book features images d...

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For four decades Sources of Chinese Tradition has served to introduce Western readers to Chinese civilization as it has been seen through basic wri...

Reducere. The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre a...

Jerry White's London in the Nineteenth Century is the richest and most absorbing account of the city's greatest century by its leading expert. Lond...

Contemporary artists and designers are finding the wood engraving one of the most highly desirable sources of illustration for many design purposes...

This extraordinary collection of engravings provides designers and commercial artists with a magnificent sourcebook of Victorian-era plant images a...

Reducere. China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship...

Reducere. Beginning with an examination of the relationship between Hegel and Goethe, L with discusses how Hegel's students, particularly Marx and Kierkegaar...

In this magisterial biography of Karl Marx, likely to be definitive for many years to come (John Gray, New York Review of Books), historian Jonatha...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this engaging text provides a concise history of Korea from the beginning of human settlement in the re...

The Hammers of Towan: A Nineteenth-Century Cornish Family, centres around the life of Appleby's great-grandfather Philip Henry Hammer, his three wi...

Throughout history rivers have always been a source of life and of conflict. This book investigates the Central Commission for the Navigation of th...

DescriptionJames Waite has been a skilled railway photographer for many years. In this book he has brought together photographs of many of the worl...

Based on J. G. Heck's ``Bilder Atlas zum Convenations Lexicon, `` published in German in the nineteenth century, the ``Iconographic Encyclopaedia o...

Reducere. A satirical, sea-floor look at popular culture, as showcased through the lives of a lovable shark and his oceanic cronies. "Sherman's Lagoon" is a ...

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

Reducere. Atop a scenic bluff overlooking the Mississippi River and downtown Dubuque there once lay a graveyard dating to the 1830s, the earliest days of Ame...

Publisher: Froglets Publications LtdAuthor(s): Bob OgleyIllustration(s): 250ill.(some col.).Number of pages: 256Publication date: 2003Dimensions: 2...

First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introducti...

Reducere. The intent of this publication is not to answer the perennially-nagging Why question related to suffering. Rather, this book is designed to direct ...

Reducere. This book reconstructs how a group of nineteenth-century labor reformers appropriated and radicalized the republican tradition. These "labor republ...

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A fifth edition of this classic textbook, revised and updated throughout.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Stephen F. EisenmanIllustration(s...

Reducere. This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century...

'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...

The Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834 is one of the most important pieces of social legislation ever enacted. Its principles and the workhouse system ...

Our understanding of history is often mediated by popular culture, and television series set in the past have provided some of our most indelible i...

Tracing a mid-nineteenth-century revolution in understandings of old and second-hand books, David McKitterick reveals a transformation in values th...

Tanguy Viel's parody/pastiche of the American novel is subtle and experimental; it tells a story at the same time as it implicitly poses questions ...

This history of Europe from the French Revolution to the First World War weaves together political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Reducere. Nineteenth-Century Philosophy, Paperback

DescriptionServing as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of...

This book aims to intervene in current critical contexts for the study of nineteenth-century literature within the academy and beyond. Topics discu...

Reducere. The development of the piano, together with changes in culture and society, led to the transformation of song into a major musical genre. This stud...

Suitable for those interested in music and nineteenth-century European culture, this work presents a survey of the most popular period in music his...

In the 19th century Europe changed more rapidly and radically than during any prior period. This volume offers an approach to understanding one of ...

Reducere. This volume brings together a series of lectures A. V. Dicey first gave at Harvard Law School on the influence of public opinion in England during ...