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Imagining Black America
ISBN: HB: 9780300197815, Yale University Press, May 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Scientific research has now established that race should be understood as a social construct, not a true biological division of humanity. In "Imagining Black America", Michael Wayne explores the construction and reconstruction of black America from t...
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£50,00
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In the Shadow of Velazquez A Life in Art History
ISBN: HB: 9780300203967, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 24.1x17 cm, 40 colour images, 60 black&white illus.
In this lucid, witty book, the eminent art historian Jonathan Brown examines links between his personal life and his study of Hispanic art of the Golden Age. His adventures are offered as a model for understanding how art history is shaped by life ex...
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£35,00
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Impressions of a Lost World A Century of Chinese Photography, 1860-1950
ISBN: HB: 9780300196566, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, April 2014
240 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 250 colour and black&white illus.
The flourishing of photography as a medium in the mid-19th century coincided with a rise in curiosity about China on the part of the Western world. As the number of foreigners living and travelling in China increased, early photographs of China were...
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£45,00
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In Flanders Fields The Great War Seen from the Air, 1914-1918
ISBN: HB: 9780300196580, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, December 2013
396 pp., 25.4x29.8 cm, 532 black&white illus.
Aerial photography was a relatively new technology at the onset of World War I and was embraced as an indispensable tool of wartime intelligence by all nations involved in the conflict. As a result, thousands of photographs taken from the air over th...
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£45,00
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Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition
ISBN: PB: 9780300163872, Yale University Press, December 2013
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus., 3 maps
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing togethe...
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£23,00
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Itinerant Languages of Photography
ISBN: HB: 9780300174366, Yale University Press, November 2013
224 pp., 27.9x22.9 cm, 70 colour images, 80 black&white illus.
While photographs have been exchanged, appropriated and mobilized in different contexts since the 19th century, their movement is now occurring at an unprecedented speed. "The Itinerant Languages of Photography" examines photography's capacity to cir...
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£30,00
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Impressionist France Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet
ISBN: PB: 9780300196955, Yale University Press, October 2013
320 pp., 27.9x24.1 cm, 359 colour illus.
Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competin...
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£25,00
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Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art at the Dallas Museum of Art
ISBN: PB: 9780300187571, Yale University Press, September 2013
144 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 150 colour illus.
"Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art" offers a series of intimate case studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013,...
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£16,99
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Inspiration to All Who Enter Fifty Works from Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
ISBN: PB: 9780300196429, Yale University Press, September 2013
128 pp., 22.2x21 cm, 61 colour illus.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, one of the world's great treasure houses for rare books, comes this sumptuously illustrated curators' choice of fifty of the Library's most pri...
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£16,99
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Introduction to Contemporary Spoken Arabic A Conversational Course on DVD, Part 2
ISBN: PB + DVD: 9780300159042, Yale University Press, September 2013
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
This text-and-DVD package can be used to improve the conversational skills of second- to third-semester beginning Arabic students. It helps students as they begin to express themselves in Arabic, guiding them through language functions such as introd...
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£30,00
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