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Influences Art, Optics, and Astrology in the Italian Renaissance
ISBN: PB: 9780226421667, ISBN: HB: 9780226922843, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 14 colour plates, 12 halftones, 14 line drawings
Today few would think of astronomy and astrology as fields related to theology. Fewer still would know that physically absorbing planetary rays was once considered to have medical and psychological effects. But this was the understanding of light rad...
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Global Rivalries Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade
ISBN: PB: 9780226050676, ISBN: HB: 9780226050539, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 line drawings, 12 tables
As the economies of China, India, and other Asian nations continue to grow, these countries are seeking greater control over the rules that govern international trade. Setting the rules carries with it the power to establish advantage, so it's no sur...
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Peoples on Parade Exhibitions, Empire, and Anthropology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: HB: 9780226700960, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
392 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 117 halftones, 18 colour illus.
In May 1853, Charles Dickens paid a visit to the "savages at Hyde Park Corner", an exhibition of thirteen imported Zulus performing cultural rites ranging from songs and dances to a "witch-hunt" and marriage ceremony. Dickens was not the only Londone...
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