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  Details: This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents-including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists-that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials...

    Details: Product Description In A New Republic, one of America's most respected historians offers a major statement on the nature of our political system and a critical look at the underpinnings of our society. American democracy, says John Lukacs, has been transformed from an exercise in individual freedom...

  Details: Europe's social model – its system of welfare and social protection – is regarded by many as the jewel in the crown. It is what helps to give the European societies their distinctive qualities of social cohesion and care for the vulnerable. Over recent years, however, the social...

  Brand: Hodder Education Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 224 Release Date: 03-11-1994 EAN: 9780340559291 Package Dimensions: 8.7 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches Languages: English

  Details: The Modern History of Japan covers Japanese history from approximately 1800--the last decades of rule by the military lords of the Tokugawa family--to the start of the twenty-first century. It begins when a crisis-ridden political and social order intersected with fast emerging Euro-American power. It then analyzes Japan's...

  Brand: Granta Books Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 840 Release Date: 01-08-2005 EAN: 9781862078048 Package Dimensions: 9.0 x 6.5 x 2.6 inches Languages: English

  Brand: The New Press Color: Pink Binding: hardcover Format: Import Number Of Pages: 481 Release Date: 01-05-2001 Details: Offers thrity-nine articles, chapters, or prefaces by noted figures in French Greco-Roman studies. EAN: 9781565843769 Package Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.4 x 1.5 inches Languages: English

  Details: One of the best-known historians working today, and a world-renowned expert on the ancient world, presents a brilliant account of the lives of the stonemasons, scribes, and painters who created some of Egypt's finest treasures. Illustrated with both color photos and black-and-white drawings, this groundbreaking study goes back...

      Details: Product Description Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, published a wide variety of works including poems, plays, letters and treatises of natural philosophy, but her significance as a political writer has only recently been recognised. This major contribution to the series of Cambridge Texts includes the first...

    Details: This is a study of the genesis, evolution, adaptation and subordination of the Kikuyu squatter labourers, who comprised the majority of resident labourers on settler plantations and estates in the Rift Valley Province of the White Highlands. The story of the squatter presence in the White Highlands...

    Details: The practice of piracy dates back thousands of years. This riveting chronicle provides a glimpse into the vivid history of "sea thieves," from ancient Greek, Roman, and Norse brigands to the pirates of the Golden Age?the infamous seventeenth century buccaneers of the Caribbean’s Spanish Main.Delve into the...

    Details: Early Modern English Drama: A Critical Companion is a collection of 27 contributed introductory essays on individual plays from the early modern period. Each essay, written by an authoritative scholar, addresses not only a play, but a specific cultural or literary epic, from London to the law,...

     

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    Details: The world's major religions-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-find a common root in one man: Abraham. Yet Abraham looms so large in the realm of world religions that he has remained a ward of the Divine rather than a flesh-and-blood citizen of Humanity. In his monumental new book, David...

   

   

    Details: This insightful collection of essays is a commentary on the last six years of the Middle East peace process, in which Edward Said has been virtually a lone voice in the West supporting the rights of the Palestinian people. Said questions the efficacy of Arafat's leadership, which...

    Details: Martin Daunton provides a clear and balanced view of the continuities and changes that occurred in the economic history of Britain from the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the Festival of Britain in 1951.In 1851, Britain was the dominant economic power in an increasingly global economy. The...

  Details: In this groundbreaking, highly provocative examination of the Renaissance, Jerry Brotton and Lisa Jardine raise questions about the formation of cultural identity in Western Europe. Through an analysis of the circulation of art and luxury objects, the authors challenge the view that Renaissance culture defined itself in large...

   Displaying the particular vitality of the global traditions of Marxism and neomarxism at the beginning of the twenty-first century,New AsianMarxisms collects essays by a diverse group of scholars―historians, political scientists, literary scholars, and sociologists―who offer a range of studies of the Marxist heritage focusing on Korea, Japan, India, and...

    Details: This is a concise introduction to the history of the ancient Near East during the last millennium bc: Phoenicia, Palestine, the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian empires, the Persian Achaemenid empire, the empire of Alexander, and the vast Persian Seleucid empire founded by Seleucus around 300 bc and defeated...

Author: Smith, Jim Edition: 1 Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 368 Release Date: 13-08-2002 Details: A gripping account of the final American bombing mission of World War II and how it prevented a military coup that would have kept Japan in the war.How close did the Japanese come to not...

   

Author: Bradford, Ernle Brand: The History Press   Details: Ernle Bradford is a great historian of the Mediterranean and its peoples. He served in the Royal Navy during the Second World War with The Odyssey always at the foot of his bunk. Having settled in Malta after the war, he...

    Details: Around the turn of the nineteenth century, the north-western littoral of India—largely comprising of Gujarat, Kathiawad, Cutch and Sind—was battered by piratical raids. These attacks disrupted coastal trade and embarrassed the English East India Company by defying the very boundaries of law and sovereignty that the Company...

  Brand: University of Pennsylvania Museum Publications Edition: Illustrated Binding: paperback Format: Import Number Of Pages: 448 Release Date: 05-12-2007 Part Number: Illustrated Details: Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Sweeping across scholarly disciplines, Back to Nature shows that, from the moment of their conception, modern ecological...

  Details: Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones....

  Details: Jawaharlal Nehru wrote the book ‘The Discovery of India’, during his imprisonment at Ahmednagar fort for participating in the Quit India Movement (1942 – 1946). The book was written during Nehru’s four years of confinement to solitude in prison and is his way of paying an homage to...

  Brand: Cambridge University Press Edition: 2 Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 271 Release Date: 14-02-2011 Part Number: YES4278598 Details: Jane Austen's stock in the popular marketplace has never been higher, while academic studies continue to uncover new aspects of her engagement with her world. This fully updated edition of...

  Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 148 Release Date: 01-12-2008 Details: Continuum s Reader s Guides are clear, concise and accessible introductions to classic works of philosophy. Each book explores the major themes, historical and philosophical context and key passages of a major philosophical text, guiding the reader towards a...

  Details: Reading books is a kind of enjoyment. Reading books is a good habit. We bring you a different kinds of books. You can carry this book where ever you want. It is easy to carry. It can be an ideal gift to yourself and to your loved ones....

  Brand: Orient Blackswan Features: Book - a concise history of indian literature in english Language: english Binding: paperback Binding: paperback Release Date: 01-01-2017 EAN: 9788178244846 Package Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches

  Features: Language Published: English Binding: unknown_binding Part Number: 10438 EAN: 9789390035861 Package Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.6 x 0.7 inches Languages: English

  Brand: PEARSON EDUCATION   Binding: paperback Number Of Pages: 424 Release Date: 01-01-2014 Details: Modern India provides an insight into the historiography of India and its freedom struggle from the colonial era to the year of Independence. It uses archival data from various sources and collates it with new...

  Binding: hardcover Number Of Pages: 240 Release Date: 29-05-2012 Details: America's economic growth for the past three decades has been largely attributed to the willingness of Chinese laborers to slave away in factories. As China begins to take on a more significant role in international affairs and as commodity...