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The Making of a Market

Juliette Levy

• Hardcover | Engels
• During the nineteenth century, Yucatán moved effectively from its colonial past into modernity, transforming from a cattle-ranching and subsistence-fa... Lees meer

This Far by Faith

• Hardcover | Engels
• The history of the Diocese of Pennsylvania is in many ways a history of the Episcopal Church at large. It remains one of the largest and most influent... Lees meer

The Romanesque Wooden Doors of Auvergne

Walter Cahn

• Hardcover | Engels | College Art Association Monograph | nr. 30
• Contents Introduction vii Abbreviations xi List of Illustrations xiii 1. The Setting 1 2. The Puy Doors: Description and Style 11 3. Description and I... Lees meer

Trade in Strangers

Marianne S Wokeck

• Paperback | Engels
• American historians have long been fascinated by the "peopling" of North America in the seventeenth century. Who were the immigrants, and how and why ... Lees meer

Universities Under Dictatorship

• Hardcover | Engels
• Dictatorships destroy intellectual freedom, yet universities need it. How, then, can universities function under dictatorships? Are they more a suppor... Lees meer

Selected Letters of William Michael Rossetti

Roger Peattie

• Paperback | Engels
• William Michael Rossetti (1829-1919) always presented himself as the third Rossetti: a civil servant and critic unworthy to be compared with his broth... Lees meer

Sustaining Human Rights

Michelle D Bonner

• Paperback | Engels
• The "disappearance" and torture of many people during the worst days of the authoritarian regimes that ruled many Latin American countries in the 1970... Lees meer

Out of the Shadows

• Hardcover | Engels
• Since the beginning of scholarly writing about the informal economy in the mid-1970s, the debate has evolved from addressing survival strategies of th... Lees meer

The Bernward Gospels

Jennifer P Kingsley

• Hardcover | Engels
• Few works of art better illustrate the splendor of eleventh-century painting than the manuscript often referred to as the "precious gospels" of Bishop... Lees meer

Sacred Shock

Glenn Peers

• Hardcover | Engels
• "So a miracle leaves its frame, and one epiphanic detail Illuminates an entire epoch" --Derek Walcott, from Tiepolo's Hound Art did not exist in Byzan... Lees meer

Documenting Spain

Jordana Mendelson

• Paperback | Engels | Refiguring Modernism | nr. 2
• The news media have given us potent demonstrations of the ambiguity of ostensibly truthful representations of public events. Jordana Mendelson uses th... Lees meer

Emancipation and Illusion

Marie Fleming

• Paperback | Engels
• In this comprehensive analysis of Jürgen Habermas's philosophy and social theory, Marie Fleming takes strong issue with Habermas over his understandin... Lees meer

Melusine; Or, the Noble History of Lusignan

Jean D'Arras

• Hardcover | Engels
• Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant ... Lees meer

Studies in Romance Literatures

James Nicolopulos

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Romance Literatures
• In The Poetics of Empire in the Indies , James Nicolopulos investigates literary representations of sixteenth-century Iberian colonialism and imperial... Lees meer

The Passion Story PB

• Paperback | Engels
• No story is more central to Western culture than the crucifixion of Jesus Christ in the New Testament, and none better demonstrates the power of repre... Lees meer

Feminist Interpretations of Saint Augustine

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Reading the Canon | nr. 29
• Since the establishment of Christianity in the West as a major religious tradition, Augustine (354-430 CE) has been considered a principal architect o... Lees meer

Feminist Interpretations of Maurice Merleau-Ponty

• Hardcover | Engels | Re-Reading the Canon
• More than sixty years ago, Simone de Beauvoir identified the importance of Maurice Merleau-Ponty's writings to feminist theory. His exploration of the... Lees meer

Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France

Tracy Adams

• Hardcover | Engels
• In Christine de Pizan and the Fight for France , Tracy Adams offers a reevaluation of Christine de Pizan's literary engagement with contemporary polit... Lees meer

Constitutive Visions

Christa J Olson

• Paperback | Engels | Rhetoric and Democratic Deliberation | nr. 9
• Examines the history of national identity in Ecuador from 1857 to 1946. Brings together recent work in rhetoric, visual culture, transnationalism, and... Lees meer

Undeclared War

Edward Keynes

• Paperback | Engels
• "During the 20th century," this book contends, "aggressive Presidents and supine Congresses have transformed the President's constitutional authority ... Lees meer

The Continuity of the Conquest

Wendy Marie Hoofnagle

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized cultu... Lees meer

Seeking Nature's Logic

David B Wilson

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Scottish Enlightenment was a vital moment in the history of Western civilization. As one modern admirer of Scotland cogently wrote: "No small nati... Lees meer

Milton Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | Milton Studies | nr. 42
• Published annually by Duquesne University Press as an important forum for Milton scholarship and criticism, Milton Studies focuses on various aspects ... Lees meer

Art and Form

Sam Rose

• Hardcover | Engels | Refiguring Modernism | nr. 28
• This important new study reevaluates British art writing and the rise of formalism in the visual arts from 1900 to 1939. Taking Roger Fry as his start... Lees meer