Libros de la editorial ASHGATE

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  • EARLY GOTHIC COLUMN-FIGURE SCULPTURE IN FRANCE "APPEARANCE, MATERIALS, AND SIGNIFICANCE"

    SYNDER, JANET E.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0065-3
    • EAN: 9781409400653
    • Páginas: 308
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.100,00 €

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    Richly illustrated, Early Gothic Column-Figure Sculpture in France is a comprehensive investigation of church portal sculpture installed between the 1130s and the 1170s. At more than twenty great churches, beginning at the Royal Abbey of ...

  • EMPRESS EUGÉNIE AND THE ARTS "POLITICS AND VISUAL CULTURE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY"

    MCQUEEN, ALISON

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0585-6
    • EAN: 9781409405856
    • Páginas: 474
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.108,78 €

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    Reconstructing Empress Eugénie's position as a private collector and a public patron of a broad range of media, this study is the first to examine Eugénie (1826-1920), whose patronage of the arts has been overlooked ...

  • THE GEOMETRY OF CREATION "ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING AND THE DYNAMICS OF GOTHIC DESIGN"

    BORK, ROBERT

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6062-0
    • EAN: 9780754660620
    • Páginas: 488
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.111,24 €

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    The flowering of Gothic architecture depended to a striking extent on the use of drawing as a tool of design. By drawing precise "blueprints" with simple tools such as the compass and straightedge, Gothic draftsmen ...

  • HERNANDO DE LOS RÍOS CORONEL AND THE SPANISH PHILIPPINES IN THE GOLDEN AGE

    CROSSLEY NEWSOME , JOHN

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2564-9
    • EAN: 9781409425649
    • Páginas: 230
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.225,00 €

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    Whilst much scholarly work has been focused on Spain's American colonies, much less is known about Spanish colonization of the Pacific. As such, this book fills an important gap in our knowledge, directing attention both ...

  • THE ARCHITECTURE OF JAMES STIRLING AND HIS PARTNERS JAMES GOWAN AND MICHAEL WILFORD

    BAKER, GEOFFREY

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0926-7
    • EAN: 9781409409267
    • Páginas: 512
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.117,91 €

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    Sir James Stirling was arguably the greatest British architect of the twentieth century, and of comparable interest and stature to Sir Edwin Lutyens. This book provides the most comprehensive critical survey of Stirling's work to ...

  • ASTROLABES FROM MEDIEVAL EUROPE

    KING, DAVID A.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2593-9
    • EAN: 9781409425939
    • Páginas: 414
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.157,21 €

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    This is the fourth set of studies in the Variorum series by David King, a leading authority on the history of astronomy in Islamic civilization and on medieval astronomical instruments, European as well as Islamic. ...

  • TREASURE, TREASON AND THE TOWER "EL DORADO AND THE MURDER OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH"

    SELLIN, PAUL R.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2025-5
    • EAN: 9781409420255
    • Páginas: 330
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.59,90 €

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    In this remarkable book, the oft-told narrative of Sir Walter Raleigh is blown apart through the chance discovery of hitherto neglected Dutch correspondence found in a Swedish archive. Following an exciting paper-trail through Jacobean history ...

  • FRANCIS BEDFORD, LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITISH CULTURE "THE ARTIST AS ENTREPRENEUR"

    SPENCER, STEPHANIE

    ASHGATE (2011)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0853-6
    • EAN: 9781409408536
    • Páginas: 212
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.100,00 €

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    Focusing on one broadly representative figure, Francis Bedford, this study emphasizes how photographs operated to form and transmit cultural ideas and values. The first writing on Bedford since the 1970s, the book examines the work ...

  • REIMAGINING THE TRANSATLANTIC, 1780-1890

    ALMEIDA, JOSELYN M.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6967-8
    • EAN: 9780754669678
    • Páginas: 294
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.105,00 €

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    In her thought-provoking study of Britain's relationship with Latin America and the Caribbean during the Romantic and Victorian periods, Joselyn M. Almeida makes a compelling case for extending the critical boundaries of current transatlantic and ...

  • FRANCE AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR

    HURCOMBE, MARTIN

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2082-8
    • EAN: 9781409420828
    • Páginas: 254
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.85,47 €

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    In this wide-ranging study of French intellectuals who represented the Spanish Civil War as it was happening and in its immediate aftermath, Martin Hurcombe explores the ways in which these individuals addressed national anxieties and ...

  • VISUAL INTERFACE DESIGN FOR DIGITAL CULTURAL HERITAGE "A GUIDE TO RICH-PROSPECT BROWSING"

    RUECKER, STAN

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0422-4
    • EAN: 9781409404224
    • Páginas: 206
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.90,00 €

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    Browsing for information is a significant part of most research activity, but many online collections hamper browsing with interfaces that are variants on a search box. Research shows that rich-prospect interfaces can offer an intuitive ...

  • NEW APPROACHES TO MEDIEVAL ARCHITECTURE

    BORK, ROBERT

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2228-0
    • EAN: 9781409422280
    • Páginas: 250
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.112,66 €

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    This collection of essays presents the exciting and innovative work being done in the field of medieval architectural history by scholars affiliated with AVISTA, one of the most active sponsors of such research in the ...

  • WOMEN'S LITERACY IN EARLY MODERN SPAIN AND THE NEW WORLD

    CRUZ, ANNE J.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-2713-1
    • EAN: 9781409427131
    • Páginas: 280
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.182,00 €

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    Containing essays from leading and recent scholars in Peninsular and colonial studies, this volume offers entirely new research on women's acquisition and practice of literacy, on conventual literacy, and on the cultural representations of women's ...

  • THE TURK AND ISLAM IN THE WESTERN EYE, 1450-1750

    HARPER, JAMES G.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6330-0
    • EAN: 9780754663300
    • Páginas: 336
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.110,00 €

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    Unprecedented in its range - extending from Venice to the New World and from the Holy Roman Empire to the Ottoman Empire - this collection is the first book in English to probe the place ...

  • THE MANCHESTER ART TREASURES EXHIBITION OF 1857 "ENTREPRENEURS, CONNOISSEURS AND THE PUBLIC"

    PERGAM, ELIZABETH A.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-1830-6
    • EAN: 9781409418306
    • Páginas: 382
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.118,30 €

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    An overdue study of a groundbreaking event, this is the first book-length examination of the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857. Intended to rehabilitate Manchester's image at a heady time of economic prosperity, the Exhibition ...

  • NEW PERSPECTIVES ON MUSIC AND GESTURE

    GRITTEN, ANTHONY

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-6462-8
    • EAN: 9780754664628
    • Páginas: 326
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.82,52 €

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    Building on the insights of the first volume on Music and Gesture (Gritten and King, Ashgate 2006), the rationale for this sequel volume is twofold: first, to clarify the way in which the subject is ...

  • MUSEUM EDUCATOR'S HANDBOOK

    TALBOYS , GRAEME K.

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0152-0
    • EAN: 9781409401520
    • Páginas: 0
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.84,50 €

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    Described by GEM (Group for Education in Musuems) as 'a very informative and practical book...worth having on any museum shelf', the "Museum Educator's Handbook" is a thorough and practical guide to setting up and running ...

  • THE ARTICULATION OF EARLY ISLAMIC STATE STRUCTURES

    DONNER, FRED M.

    ASHGATE (2011)

    valoración

    • ISBN: 978-0-86078-721-1
    • EAN: 9780860787211
    • Páginas: 420
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.162,89 €

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    This volume reprints nineteen articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic state under the "rightly-guided" and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE). The articles (five of which originally appeared in languages other than English ...

  • THE MUSEUMS OF CONTEMPORARY ART "NOTION AND DEVELOPMENT"

    LORENTE, JESÚS PEDRO

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-1-4094-0586-3
    • EAN: 9781409405863
    • Páginas: 330
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.106,34 €

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    Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new and expanded edition of his groundbreaking 1998 ...

  • READING THE ROYAL MONUMENT IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE

    CHASTEL-ROUSSEAU, CHARLOTTE

    ASHGATE (2011)

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    • ISBN: 978-0-7546-5575-6
    • EAN: 9780754655756
    • Páginas: 234
    • Fecha de edición: 2011

    pvp.95,00 €

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    Reading the Royal Monument in Eighteenth-Century Europe is the first in-depth study of the major role played by royal monuments in the public space of expanding cities across eighteenth-century Europe. Using the royal public statues ...