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CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.33,60 €
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This book is the first in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Volume 1 charts the development ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.36,00 €
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This book is the second in a three-volume history of Mexico, a major work that conveys the full sweep of Mexican history in all its social, economic, and political diversity. Focusing on the period from ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.128,00 €
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Throughout the early modern period, the villas of Frascati played a central role in Roman social politics. In the mid-sixteenth century, humanists and churchmen built villas on ancient ruins and pursued the ancient ideal of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.128,76 €
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Giovan Pietro Bellori was one of the most important intellectuals of seventeenth-century Italy. Best known today for his art criticism and biographies of artists he knew personally, such as Nicholas Poussin, in his own day ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.106,00 €
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This book examines the fierce debate on the styles and forms of garden design that took place in England c. 1870-1914. Focusing on the wild garden, the cottage garden, the formal garden and the synthesis ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.26,00 €
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When, in the sixteenth century, the Spanish conquistadors defeated the Aztec empire in Mexico and the Inca empire in Peru, their dreams of finding treasure in the New World were amply fulfilled. What they also ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.83,00 €
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Understanding Cinema analyzes the moving imagery of film and television from a psychological perspective. Per Persson argues that spectators perceive, think, apply knowledge, infer, interpret, feel and make use of knowledge, assumptions, expectations and prejudices ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.111,00 €
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Spanning the life of this ancient city almost from its inception in 331 BCE through its transformation into a Christian metropolis, Alexandria's monumental tombs provide the single richest source of information about the ancient city. ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.99,87 €
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History was an important element of Roman Republican culture, as revealed by the numerous historical accounts and panegyrics written during this period. Roman patrons also exploited the visual arts to convey messages about history whose ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.89,38 €
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The architectural facade addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying, or dissembling, interior arrangements. In this book, Charles Burroughs tracks the emergence of the facade in late-medieval Florence and then follows the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.284,00 €
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This two-volume set of The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.89,00 €
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Wiktor Stoczkowski, a palaeo-anthropologist, argues that the theories of human origins developed by archaeologists and physical anthropologists from the early nineteenth century to the present day are structurally similar to Western folk theories, and to ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.31,10 €
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This clear and accessible introduction describes the life of the Orthodox Churches of the Christian East from the accession of the Emperor Constantine in 312 up to the year 2000. It explores the nature of ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.129,00 €
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Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone wishing to engage with medieval Jewish history needs to know about the manuscripts ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.175,50 €
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Giovanni Baglione (c.1566-1643) was one of the most successful painters in seventeenth-century Rome. Now he is among the most despised artists of all time. In 1603 he was the target of scurrilous verses circulated around ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.31,59 €
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Social memory - the shared remembrances of group experience - creates shared identity, and provides people with both an image of their past and a design for their future. But how are we to conceive ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.105,00 €
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Drawing Acts is about drawing, both as art and act. Taking the study of drawings beyond the traditional agenda of connoisseurship, David Rosand explores the significance of the making of drawings, the meaning in the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.128,76 €
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Architecture in the Age of Stalin: Culture Two examines the cultural mechanisms that affected the evolution of architecture in Russia during the Stalinist period. Defining two conflicting trends - Culture One and Culture Two - ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.27,20 €
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By the middle of the 20th century, abstraction was the accepted language of art as practiced by painters and articulated by critics, who began to investigate its historical and theoretical dimensions. Abstract Art in the ...
CAMBRIDGE U. P. (2002)
pvp.27,20 €
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Madawi al-Rasheed traces its extraordinary history from the age of emirates in the nineteenth century, through the 1990 Gulf War, to the present day. She fuses chronology with analysis, personal experience with oral histories, and ...