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Islamic Imperialism A History (Second Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780300198171, Yale University Press, September 2013
304 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of the rise and fall of universal empires and, no less important, of imperialist dreams. So a...
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£10,99
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In Irons Britains Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy
ISBN: PB: 9780300204988, Yale University Press, August 2013
412 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
A sailing ship that becomes stalled with its bow to the wind is said to be "in irons". In this groundbreaking examination of America's Revolutionary War economy, the phrase is an apt metaphor for the inability of that economy to free itself from the...
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£26,50
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In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
ISBN: PB: 9780300204995, Yale University Press, August 2013
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and...
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£23,00
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Imran Qureshi
ISBN: PB: 9780300197754, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2013
65 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, 50 colour illus.
Named the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2013, Imran Qureshi combines traditional motifs and techniques of Islamic art with contemporary reflections on the relationship between Islam and the West. His investigations into ornamentation reference...
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£6,95
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Interaction of Color
ISBN: PB: 9780300179354, Yale University Press, July 2013
192 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 64 colour illus., 16 line illus.
Josef Albers' "Interaction of Color" is a masterwork in art education. Conceived as a handbook and teaching aid for artists, instructors, and students, this influential book presents Albers' singular explanation of complex colour theory principles. O...
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£12,99
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Ireland and the Picturesque Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700-1840
ISBN: HB: 9780300185386, Yale University Press, May 2013
288 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 120 colour images, 45 black&white illus.
That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliche, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long eighteenth century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque's development and a...
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£45,00
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Irony; or, Self-Critical Opacity of Postmodern Architecture
ISBN: HB: 9780300181517, Yale University Press, May 2013
272 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 26 colour images, 103 black&white illus.
In this fascinating reassessment of postmodern architecture at the end of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Petit addresses the role of irony and finds a vitality and depth of dialectics largely ignored by historical critiques. A look at five individua...
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£55,00
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Imperial Gothic Religious Architecture and High Anglican Culture in the British Empire, 1840-1870
ISBN: HB: 9780300187038, Yale University Press, April 2013
384 pp., 28x23 cm, 60 colour images, 230 black&white illus.
The Gothic Revival movement in architecture was intimately entwined with 18th – and 19th – century British cultural politics. By the middle of the 19th century, architects and theorists had transformed the movement into a serious scholarly endeavour,...
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£50,00
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In the Olden Time Victorians and the British Past
ISBN: HB: 9780300190427, Yale University Press, April 2013
224 pp., 24.1x19.1 cm, 80 colour images, 20 black&white illus.
In this richly textured and wide-ranging survey of Victorian attitudes to the past, Andrew Sanders builds on Roy Strong's ground-breaking book And when did you last see your father?: The Victorian Painter and British History (1978). Sanders explores...
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£40,00
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Impressionist Line from Degas to Toulouse-Lautrec Drawings and Prints from the Clark
ISBN: PB: 9780300191936, Yale University Press, March 2013
160 pp., 26.7x24.1 cm, 80 colour illus.
This book offers a new look at works by notable French artists represented in the collection of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Colour reproductions of fifty-eight works – ranging from chalk drawings by Charles Francois Daubigny and Ed...
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£30,00
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