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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
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In this new archaeological study, Arthur Demarest brings the lost pre-Columbian civilization of Maya to life. In applying a holistic perspective to the most recent evidence from archaeology, paleoecology, and epigraphy, this theoretical interpretation emphasises ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.45,00 €
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The conflict between National Socialism and Ernst Barlach, one of the important sculptors of the twentieth century, is an unusual episode in the history of Hitler's efforts to rid Germany of 'international modernism'. Barlach did ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.114,40 €
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Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a new approach to understanding the Achaemenid empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual sources to demonstrate that the two-hundred ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.550,00 €
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Textiles have been essential to the everyday lives of all societies. Besides helping provide protection and warmth, they have fulfilled social, cultural, military, legal and symbolic functions, and have been an essential part of the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
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This book is the first comprehensive study of the impact of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa. Timothy Insoll charts the historical background as well as the archaeological evidence attesting to the spread of Islam across the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
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Rome stands today for an empire and for a city. The essays gathered in this volume explore some of the many ways in which the two were interwoven. Rome was fed, beautified and enriched by ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
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Donald Kuspit argues here that art is over because it has lost its aesthetic import. Art has been replaced by "postart," a term invented by Alan Kaprow, as a new visual category that elevates the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.33,00 €
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Revival and Reform in Early Modern Islam is at once an intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, and a history of a transitional period in Yemeni history. This was a time when a society dominated by ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.130,00 €
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Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy is the first systematic study of the function, character, and commissions of art created for and used in conventual communities. Anabel Thomas challenges the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.87,00 €
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In this book West explores what 'theatre' meant to Medieval and Renaissance writers and places Renaissance drama, for the first time, within the influential context of the encyclopedic writings produced at the time. It was ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.36,23 €
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How were the architectural ideas behind great Roman building projects carried out in practice? Roman Builders is the first, general interest book to address this question. Using the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon, the Coliseum, ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.29,00 €
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Jonathan Berkey's book surveys the religious history of the peoples of the Near East from roughly 600 to 1800 CE. The opening chapter examines the religious scene in the Near East in late antiquity, and ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.30,00 €
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In this wide-ranging book, Arnold Whittall considers a group of important composers of the twentieth century, including Debussy, Webern, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Bartók, Janácek, Britten, Carter, Birtwistle, Andriessen and Adams. He moves skilfully between the cultural ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.27,00 €
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How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
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Velázquez's Las Meninas was sequestered in the Spanish royal collections from 1656, when it was painted, until the opening of the Museo del Prado in 1819. From that moment, it has been one of the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2003)
pvp.34,00 €
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Why did some Latin American labor-based parties adapt successfully to the contemporary challenges of neoliberalism and working class decline while others did not? Drawing on a detailed study of the Argentine Peronism, as well as ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.35,00 €
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Myths inspired Greek and Roman artists to rise to the challenge of conveying flowing narratives in static form. This book describes the different ways painters, sculptors and other artists explored and exploited the dense forest ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.176,00 €
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The fact that bodies decay after death has concerned humans throughout the ages. Many cultures have attempted to arrest this decay, so that bodies are preserved (or mummified) in a state as near to life ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.30,00 €
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This accessible guide for students, teachers and performers at all levels unravels the complexities of musical performance and focuses on key aspects of learning, playing and responding to music. A survey of performance through the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.59,00 €
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Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans. The sub-continent has one of the ...
