The World in Dress. Costume Books across Italy, Europe, and the East, Paperback - Giulia Calvi

This Element contributes to the expanding field of early modern cultural studies in a global perspective by exploring how costume books and albums ...

This volume presents the first multidisciplinary bioarchaeological analysis to reconstruct life conditions in ancient Tuscany between Late Antiquit...

As Europe's borderlands emerged from Soviet rule, the author travelled from the Baltic to the Black Sea, through Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine and th...

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How did writing histories of the world change after the discovery of America? Focusing on a set of case studies, this book explores creative works ...

Description World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic ...

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An exploration of Eastern spirituality from one of the 20th century's greatest psychological thinkers. This collects Jung's writings on The Tibetan...

Part of the Walking the Lake District Fells series, this guidebook covers a wide range of routes to 35 Lakeland summits that can be climbed from Am...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner examines how specific types of food were prepared and eaten during feasting rituals in prehistoric Europe and the Near...

Whether victorious or not, Central European states faced fundamental challenges after the First World War as they struggled to contain ongoing viol...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): J MillsNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 216 x 21Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedesc...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Lou (University of Brighton, UK) TaylorNumber of pages: 324Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 233 x 158 x ...

From West African masquerades to Venetian carnivals and New York society galas, fancy dress has long been used to convey important social and polit...

Reducere. Dress DesignPatterns of Various Reigns from Antique CostumeBy Talbot HughesFrom Prehistoric to Nineteenth Century VictorianThe designing and making...

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Reducere. Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Llewella (University of East Anglia, UK) ChapmanIllustration(s): 8 colour and 46 bw illusNumber of p...

Graphic account of the Parthian victory over Rome at Carrhae. A Penetrating study of the clash between two of the great empires of the ancient worl...

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DescriptionThis new title continues Bradt's coverage of lesser-known but increasingly popular Italian regions and is the only guide available to Fr...

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Reducere. Part war drama, part romance, Storm from the East is the second epic fantasy adventure in Joanna Hathaway's Glass Alliance series. War has begun in...

The 1956 Suez War, fought between Egypt and the improbable coalition of Britain, France, and Israel, was a key turning point in the history of the ...

This edited collection explores memories and experiences of genocide, civilian casualties, and other atrocities that occurred after the Second Worl...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Charles (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA) ThepautNumber of pages: 272Collection: ...

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The central issues discussed in this new collected work in the highly successful ancient textiles series are the relationships between fiber resour...

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

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DescriptionPoetry. Spanning across continents and generations, Jason Eng Hun Lee's ambitious first collection maps the poet's formative childhood e...

Reducere. Thinkers of the East is a collection of anecdotes and 'parables in action' illustrating the eminently practical and lucid approach of Eastern Dervi...

This book examines the connections between the British Empire and French colonialism in war, peace and the various stages of competitive cooperatio...

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Petr (Charles University, Prague) SzczepanikIllustration(s): 15 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Collecti...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the slave trade *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading It has often been said t...

DescriptionHow socialist architects, planners, and contractors worked collectively to urbanize and develop the Global South during the Soviet eraIn...

Deep down, most people think that happiness comes from having or doing something. Here, in Alan Watts's groundbreaking third book (originally publi...

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DescriptionA View from The East represents a second edition built upon expanded archival research and a contextualizing of the organization within ...

The brutal Japanese treatment of allied prisoners of war, as well as countless thousands of Chinese civilians, during World War 2 has been well doc...

Reducere. "Look to the East: A Ritual of the First Three Degrees of Freemasonry" by Ralph P. Lester is the classic and easy to understand guide for every Mas...

Publisher: Berghahn BooksNumber of pages: 418Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 230 x 230 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Julia Barba...

Reducere. The fifth and largest volume of the eight books in the 18-volume official British History of the Second World War describing the war in the Mediter...

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