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Report copyright infringementby Peter Warren (Author), Warren Peter (Author)A descriptive inventory, with numerous drawings and photographs, of more than 3,500 stone vases from the Minoan civilisation of ancient Crete. With few exceptions, Dr Warren has studied the vases in corpora. He arranges them into types, discusses the various stones used and their sources, methods of manufacture, the probable usage and purpose of the vases, and their relation to metal and clay vessels. A special study ...

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney Museum of American Art (Created by)This stunning collection of paintings by Frank Duveneck showcases the work of one of America's most beloved artists. Spanning Duveneck's career from the mid-19th to early 20th century, this collection includes many of his most iconic works.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the Unite...

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Report copyright infringementby Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (Author), Lionel Strachey (Author)Step into the captivating world of 18th-century France with "Memoirs of Madame Vig?Lebrun," a first-hand account by the celebrated artist Marie Louise Elisabeth Vig?Lebrun. This meticulously prepared edition offers a unique window into the life of a remarkable woman who achieved international acclaim as a portrait painter. Vig?Lebrun's memoirs provide invaluable insights into the artistic and socia...

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Report copyright infringementby Mark A. Cheetham (Author)Kant, Art, and Art History: Moments of Discipline is the first systematic study of Kant's reception and influence on the visual arts and art history. Arguing against Kant's transcendental approach to aesthetic judgment, Cheetham examines five "moments" of his influence. The final chapter focuses on Kant's "image," both in contemporary and posthumous portraits, with respect to his status as the image of philosophy within a disciplinary h...

The Royal Bavarian Castles: Herren Chiemsee, Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, Linderhof And Berg

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Steinberger (Author), Franz Speiser (Translator)The Royal Bavarian Castles: Herren Chiemsee, Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, Linderhof And Berg is a book written by Hans Steinberger. It is a comprehensive guide to the five magnificent castles located in the Bavarian region of Germany. The book provides an in-depth look at the history, architecture, and design of each castle, as well as the stories behind their creation.The castles covered in the book inclu...

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Report copyright infringementby Sonny Seals (Author), Andrew Young (Foreword by), Doug Thompson (Contribution by)Author BiographySonny Seals (Author) SONNY SEALS is the coauthor, with George S. Hart, of the award-winning Historic Rural Churches of Georgia (Georgia), published in 2016. Also with George S. Hart, he is a cofounder of Historic Rural Churches of Georgia, a nonprofit formed in 2013 for the purpose of researching and documenting some of Georgia's most historic and architecturally s...

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Report copyright infringementby Roger Fry (Author)""Cezanne: A Study of His Development"" by Roger Fry is a comprehensive exploration of the life and work of French post-impressionist artist Paul Cezanne. The book examines the various stages of Cezanne's artistic development, from his early Impressionist-inspired works to his later, more abstract creations. Fry delves into Cezanne's techniques, such as his use of color and form, and discusses the artist's influence on the development of moder...

Queer Beauty: Sexuality and Aesthetics from Winckelmann to Freud and Beyond

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Report copyright infringementby Whitney Davis (Author)The pioneering work of Johann Winckelmann (1717-1768) identified a homoerotic appreciation of male beauty in classical Greek sculpture, a fascination that had endured in Western art since the Greeks. Yet after Winckelmann, the value (even the possibility) of art's queer beauty was often denied. Several theorists, notably the philosopher Immanuel Kant, broke sexual attraction and aesthetic appreciation into separate or dueling domains. In t...

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Report copyright infringementby Caroline Bugler (Author)This beautifully illustrated full-color hardback explores the life and work of one of the leading lights of Post-Impressionism - Paul Gauguin. Gauguin's vision of a tropical arcadia in the South Seas has beguiled generations of gallery goers, but a close look at his life and art reveals a complex man in constant search for a primitive paradise that was elusive. Caroline Bugler explores Gauguin's extensive travels and artistic experiment...

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Report copyright infringementby A. R. Willcox (Created by)This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is importan...

Caribbean Women and Their Art: An Encyclopedia

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Report copyright infringementby Mary Ellen Snodgrass (Author)This is a chronology of creative contributions made by Caribbean women. Among the arts covered in this volume are quilting, beadwork, dancing, diaries and memoirs, folk music, landscaping, sculpture, theatrics, etc. Entries are cross-referenced and include further readings drawn from an exhaustive bibliography of sources.Author BiographyMary Ellen Snodgrass is the author of several award-winning reference volumes, including Encyclop...

The Routledge Companion to African American Art History

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Report copyright infringementby Eddie Chambers (Editor)This Companion authoritatively points to the main areas of enquiry within the subject of African American art history. This book will be of interest to graduate students, researchers and professors and may be used in African American art, visual culture, and culture classes.Author BiographyEddie Chambers is Professor in the Department of Art and Art History, at the University of Texas, Austin. Number of Pages: 522 ...

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Report copyright infringementby N. John Hall (Author) Number of Pages: 175 Dimensions: 0.41 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: January 01, 1980

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Report copyright infringementby Hans Steinberger (Author), Franz Speiser (Translator)The Royal Bavarian Castles: Herren Chiemsee, Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, Linderhof And Berg is a comprehensive book about the magnificent castles of Bavaria, Germany. Written by Hans Steinberger, the book delves into the history and architecture of five of the most famous castles in the region: Herren Chiemsee, Neuschwanstein, Hohenschwangau, Linderhof, and Berg.The book begins with an introduction to the...

MERCEDES-BENZ, The modern SL cars, The R230: From the SL280 to the SL65 AMG Black Series - Paperback

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Report copyright infringementby Bernd S. Koehling (Author)Mercedes SL R230 - The Modern Icon with a Vario-RoofThe Mercedes SL R230 brought Stuttgart's roadster tradition into the 21st century. With its retractable Vario-Roof, cutting-edge safety systems, and a wide range of powerful engines, the R230 quickly became one of the most admired luxury convertibles of its era. Today, it is a rising modern classic-coveted by collectors and enthusiasts worldwide. This 220-page guide, updated in Novemb...

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Report copyright infringementby Dorothy Mindenhall (Author)For most people, the city of Victoria, British Columbia, is a time capsule of Victorian and Edwardian buildings. Unbuilt Victoria examines some of the architectural plans that were proposed but rejected and lets the reader decide whether any of these projects deserve to have come off the drawing board.Author BiographyDorothy Mindenhall is an architectural historian with a particular interest in the Victorian era. She was a contributor...

The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania: A Record of Building Before 1860 Based Upon the Western Pennsylvania Architectural Survey, a Project o

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Report copyright infringementby Charles Morse Stotz (Author)A new edition of this long unavailable classic reproduces photographic prints made from original negatives and features an extensive analytical introduction by the noted architectural historian Dell Upton.Before the 1936 publication of The Early Architecture of Western Pennsylvania, the architectual heritage of a region prominent in the history of early America had been almost totally neglected. Based on a four-year survey conducted ...

The Decline and Crash of the American Economy

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Report copyright infringementby Joel Kurtzman (Author)I call these problems the Decline and Crash of American economy because they are pulling down our standard of living, threatening our wealth, and weakening our standing in the world, not just in an overnight 508-point collapse of the stock market, but in a slow, steady, unrelenting decline of the economy as a whole. And there is little evidence that the correct steps are being taken--at any level--to end that decline. This book is not mean...

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Report copyright infringementby N. G. Butlin (Author), Noel George Butlin (Author)The economic significance of Aboriginal culture for the British colonizers of Australia is rarely addressed and, until now, has not been closely studied by an economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered...

Sapiens. de Animales a Dioses / Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Paperback

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by Yuval Noah Harari (Author)El libro de no ficción del AÑOUn best seller internacional con más de un millón de ejemplares vendidos.Lúcido e iluminador: la historia de la humanidad en un solo volumen.Este es el fascinante relato de nuestra extraordinaria historia: de simios sin importancia a amos del mundo. Cómo logró nuestra especie imponerse en la lucha por la existencia? Por qué nuestros ancestros recolectores se unieron para crear ciudades y reinos? Cómo llegamos a creer en dioses, en n...

Who Will Feed China?: Wake-Up Call for a Small Planet

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Report copyright infringementby Lester Russell Brown (Author), Linda Starke (Editor)To feed its 1.2 billion people, China may soon have to import so much grain that this action could trigger unprecedented rises in world food prices. In Who Will Feed China: Wake-up Call for a Small Planet, Lester Brown shows that even as water becomes more scarce in a land where 80 percent of the grain crop is irrigated, as per-acre yield gains are erased by the loss of cropland to industrialization, and as fo...

The Agony of Argentine Capitalism: From Menem to the Kirchners

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Report copyright infringementby Paul Lewis (Author)This diagnostic history of Argentina's economic prostration is full of timely lessons for readers in the United States about how an irresponsible capitalist elite and cynical politicians can lead a wealthy nation to throw it all away. They say those who do not learn from history are bound to repeat it. Thus the importance of this book. The Agony of Argentine Capitalism: From Menem to the Kirchners is the capstone of a magisterial trilogy expl...

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John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People - Hardcover

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by Randall Woods (Author)A magisterial journey through the epic life and transformative times of John Quincy Adams In this masterful biography, historian Randall B. Woods peels back the many layers of John Quincy's long life, exposing a rich and complicated family saga and a political legacy that transformed the American Republic. Born the first son of John and Abigail Adams, he was pressured to follow in his father's footsteps in both law and politics. His boyhood was spent amid the furor of...

U.S. Development Aid--An Historic First: Achievements and Failures in the Twentieth Century

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Report copyright infringementby Samuel Hale Butterfield (Author)The first comprehensive account of U.S. development aid policies and implementation operations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, this work is a unique contribution to world history and to the extensive literature on Third World development. Butterfield begins with the remarkable story of why, in 1949, President Truman surprised Americans with his unprecedented development aid policy. He then describes the major alterations in U...

Family and Favela: The Reproduction of Poverty in Rio de Janeiro

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Report copyright infringementby Julio Pino (Author)As a history of family life in the squatter settlements of Rio de Janeiro from the 1940s to the 1960s, this study shatters the myth of household disorganization said to be the norm among the urban poor. Using quantitative evidence, field reports by social workers, newspaper accounts, and the recollections of the squatters themselves, the study dissects household structure, economic activity, living standards, and political participation among...

The Bringing of Wonder: Trade and the Indians of the Southeast, 1700-1783

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Report copyright infringementby Michael Morris (Author)In the relations between colonial European traders and the Indians of the southern backcountry, trade was a powerful manipulative tool used by both sides in their attempts to control each other. This anthropological and sociological study examines how European traders sought out native women as cultural instructors, translators, and sexual companions. The network of native women, fur traders, and colonial diplomats functioned as an invisi...

The Encyclopedia of Native-American Economic History

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Report copyright infringementby Bruce Johansen (Author)Economic themes underlie many aspects of Native American history from the fur trade, the devastating impact of European diseases, and the taking of Native American land to the current issues of uranium mining on Navajo land and casino gambling. Yet this is the first encyclopedia to analyze Native American history against an economic background. Describing the impact of Euro-American settlement from a Native American perspective, the book ...

A Workforce Divided: Community, Labor, and the State in Saint-Nazaire's Shipbuilding Industry, 1880-1910

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Report copyright infringementby Leslie a. Schuster (Author)In this study of the life and work of Saint-Nazaire's shipbuilding workers in the 30 years before World War I, Schuster shows that the consequences of industrial production for workers differed sharply according to their resources and experiences. She details the competing identities and divergent values maintained by shipbuilding workers, demonstrating that they were fostered by the interaction between state programs, industrial prod...

Liberalism and Social Reform: Industrial Growth and Progressiste Politics in France, 1880-1914

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Report copyright infringementby David M. Gordon (Author)This book examines the heroic spirit of French industrial capitalism prior to World War I, and the role certain industrialists played in ensuring the success and stability of the country's economic and political order. It focuses in particular on the success of innovative manufacturers in France's chief industrial centers, the Nord, Loire, and Lorraine, where failing industrialists were saved through the introduction of new manufacturing...

Affirmative Action: A Documentary History

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Report copyright infringementby Jo Ann Robinson (Editor)Examining affirmative action and its history through these 400 documents that trace its roots and development, this work is an invaluable reference resource. Race, gender, and disability, as they pertaing to affirmative action, are also explored. By providing a thorough presentation of the arguments both for and against, this reference encourages critical thinking as it details the ins and outs of the debate. From government reports to c...

Historical Dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940

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Report copyright infringementby James Stuart Olson (Author), James Stuart Olson (Other)Today when most Americans think of the Great Depression, they imagine desperate hoboes riding the rails in search of work, unemployed men selling pencils to indifferent crowds, bootleggers hustling illegal booze to secrecy-shrouded speakeasies, FDR smiling, or Judy Garland skipping along the yellow brick road. Hard times have become an abstraction. But there was a time when economic suffering was real, when...