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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.117,00 €
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From earliest times, angels have been seen as instruments of salvation and retribution, agents of revelation, and harbingers of hope. In effect, angels are situated at the intersections of diverse belief structures and philosophical systems. ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.85,80 €
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Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.28,00 €
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Originally published in 1923, this book examines the history of glass-making in England from its origins in Imperial Roman techniques to the end of WWI. The text is richly illustrated with drawings and photographs of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.28,00 €
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Originally published in 1910, this book analyses Greek and Roman painting techniques, using evidence from ancient writings and archaeological remains, including those from Pompeii. Laurie examines how ancient artists could have created certain colours from ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.35,46 €
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Originally published in 1921, this book contains the second half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Casson lists the sculptural and architectural ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.35,46 €
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Originally published in 1912, this book contains the first half of the catalogue of the sculptures held in the collection of the Acropolis Museum in Athens. In this volume, Dickins lists the museum's assortment of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.37,32 €
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First comprehensive English-language book on the largest city in the Americas before the 1400s. Teotihuacan is a UNESCO world heritage site, located in highland central Mexico, about twenty-five miles from Mexico City, visited by millions ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.42,50 €
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This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the cultural and intellectual changes wrought ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.28,40 €
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Originally published in 1988, this book offers an important insight into the so-called 'martyrdom movement' that occurred in Córdoba in the 850s. It includes a biographical treatment of the ninth-century Cordoban priest Eulogius, who witnessed ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.155,43 €
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Verdi's enduring presence on the opera stages of the world and as a subject for scholarly study by researchers in various disciplines has placed him as a central figure within modern culture. The composer's undisputed ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.35,00 €
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This volume elucidates Bourbon colonial policy with emphasis on Madrid's efforts to reform and modernize its American holdings. Set in an Atlantic world context, the book highlights the interplay between Spain and America as the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.37,00 €
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Sharon A. Stanley analyzes cynicism from a political-theoretical perspective, arguing that cynicism isn't unique to our time. Instead, she posits that cynicism emerged in the works of French Enlightenment philosophers, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.31,16 €
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The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.565,00 €
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The Cambridge World Prehistory provides a systematic and authoritative examination of the prehistory of every region around the world from the early days of human origins in Africa two million years ago to the beginnings ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.135,00 €
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In this book, Sarah Rolfe Prodan examines the spiritual poetry of Michelangelo in light of three contexts: the Catholic Reformation movement, Renaissance Augustinianism, and the tradition of Italian religious devotion. Prodan combines a literary, historical, ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.95,00 €
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Approximately 50,000 Spaniards were extrajudically executed in Republican Spain, following the failure of the military rebellion in July 1936. This mass killing of 'fascists' - the 'Red Terror' - seriously undermined attempts by the Republican ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.32,32 €
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This is the first complete economic and social history of Brazil in the modern period in any language. It provides a detailed analysis of the evolution of the Brazilian society and economy from the end ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.30,00 €
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This book examines the application of drawing in the design process of classical architecture, exploring how the tools and techniques of drawing developed for architecture subsequently shaped theories of vision and representations of the universe ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.225,00 €
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The life and career of George Frideric Handel, one of the most frequently performed composers from the Baroque period, are copiously and intricately documented through a huge variety of contemporary sources. This multi-volume major publication ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2014)
pvp.37,00 €
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In this book, Rachel Kousser draws on contemporary reception theory to present an approach to Hellenistic and Roman ideal sculpture. She analyzes the Romans' preference for retrospective, classicizing statuary based on Greek models as opposed ...