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As a whole, Cuban history, culture, and art are often misconstrued with a heritage specific to Havana. In "Cuba's Wild East," Peter Hulme attempts to right this wrong, focusing on ...

This volume explores the architectural features and urban character of Harat al-Bilad, the principal settlement of Manah, an important oasis of central Oman. Originally a frontier settlement, Harat al-Bilad straddles ...

This book explores a part of Europe's cultural and social landscape that has until now remained largely unmapped: the exciting body of creative work emerging since the 1970s from contact ...

Argentina's Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, spread, and use of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive study of ...

The Lady Lever Watercolours provides a fully illustrated catalog raisonné of the important collection of over 300 British watercolors and drawings in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, which holds one ...

This pioneering volume argues that cinema and television in Spain only make sense when considered together as twin vehicles for the screen fiction that has come to dominate the twenty-first ...

Bookcondition: NEW. AS NEW. NUEVO COMO NUEVOIn this erudite and comprehensive study, Adrian Pearce offers a detailed survey of British trade with Spanish America in the latter half of the ...

This book investigates Wells' interest in cinema and related media technologies, by placing it back into the contemporary cultural and scientific contexts giving rise to them. It plugs a gap ...

This collection of essays draws together questions of value and evaluation in relation to studies of historical and contemporary art and artists, within a broad 'social history of art' conceptual ...

Recently, a flurry of new projects, such as the Tate Modern and the London Eye, has brought the world's attention to the sometimes overlooked southern half of London. Less densely ...

This eagerly awaited book is the first to assess the oeuvre of the Black Audio Film Collective (BAFC), one of Britain's most influential artistic groups. It reconsiders the entire corpus ...

Liverpool is a place of myths both as generated by its inventive inhabitants and as envisaged from afar. As infamous Liverpudlian raconteur George Melly points out, the city is 'aware ...

Between 1810 and 1825, 7,000 English, Scottish and Irish mercenaries sailed to Gran Colombia to fight against Spanish colonial rule under the rebel forces of Simón Bolívar. Their motives were ...

Mark Lewis's films are remarkable not only for their rich and highly seductive qualities, but also for their extraordinary ability to undermine those characteristics that define mainstream and avant-garde cinema. ...

The struggles for independence in Latin America during the first half of the nineteenth century were accompanied by a wide-ranging debate about political rights, nationality and citizenship. In South American ...

During the 1980s and early 1990s, Peru suffered one of the bloodiest civil wars in contemporary Latin America as the state attempted to quell the insurrection launched by the Partido ...

The emergence of Herculaneum pottery in early nineteenth-century Liverpool marked a pivotal moment in the clay arts. This book provides a comprehensive history of Herculaneum pottery-highly sought after in North ...

Though more than a generation has passed since the revolutionary fervour of the Summer of Love of 1967, the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From recurring debates ...

Between Resistance and Adaptation explores the Spanish colonization of the Chocó, a lowland region of present-day Colombia that was crucial to Spanish interests in Latin America because of its large ...

The Tate Liverpool Critical Forum series was established to present papers given at annual academic conferences organised jointly by Tate Liverpool and the University of Liverpool, and related to a ...