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The Turk and Islam in the Western Eye, 1450-1750: Visual Imagery Before ... - Google Books
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The first book in English to approach the topic in this way, this collection probes the place that the Ottoman Turks occupied in the early modern Western imaginaire, and the ways in which this occupation expressed itself in the visual arts. Individual…
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Paolo de Matteis: Neapolitan Painting and Cultural History in Baroque Europe - Livio Pestilli - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WbdTd1gI9wMC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22Bernardo+De+Dominici%22+1683&source=bl&ots=tDDWDT0_Dr&sig=t
Following a meticulous examination of the ways in which posterity's impression of de Matteis has been conditioned by a biased biographical and literary tradition, Livio Pestilli devotes rich, detailed analyses to the artist's most significant…
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Food and War in Twentieth Century Europe - Google Books
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Wars cannot be fought and sustained without food and this unique collection explores the impact of war on food production, allocation and consumption in Europe in the twentieth century. A comparative perspective which incorporates belligerent, occupied and…
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Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1ogI-bSeKikC&pg=PR7&dq=%22Deborah+Mailman%22&hl=de&sa=X&ei=NEKkVO67FITKOcSGgJAM&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAQ
Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures. Contributors show that Shakespeare, regardless of the…
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From Local Patriotism to a Planetary Perspective: Impact Crater Research in ... - Dr Martina Kölbl-Ebert - Google Books
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The Nördlinger Ries and Steinheim Basin, two geological structures in Germany, were traditionally viewed as volcanic edifices until they were recognized as impact craters in the 1960s. The changing views about the craters’ origins mark a paradigm shift in…
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The Politics of the Piazza: The History and Meaning of the Italian Square - Eamonn Canniffe - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=TXOmz1NjiVgC&pg=PA194&lpg=PA194&dq=Piazzale+del+Impero&source=bl&ots=HE7ns7kvkW&sig=56MMY9ySEfTK
Through a detailed study of the principal spaces of Italian cities, this book explores the relationship between political systems and their methods of representation in architecture. It examines approximately 70 significant piazzas and situates these in…
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Reassessing Suez 1956: New Perspectives on the Crisis and Its Aftermath - Google Books
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The nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 triggered one of the gravest international crises since the Second World War. The fiftieth anniversary of the Suez crisis in 2006 presented an ideal opportunity to revisit and reassess this seminal episode in…
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The Piano in Nineteenth-century British Culture: Instruments, Performers and ... - Google Books
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The publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, launched a proliferation of research on music for the piano during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It also expanded research into the developments of…
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European Film Music - Google Books
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The vast majority of writing on film music is concentrated on Hollywood in particular and on a canon of North American scores and films more generally. Recent scholarship acknowledges other traditions of film scoring but little has been written about Euro
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Images of Idiocy: The Idiot Figure in Modern Fiction and Film - Martin Halliwell - Google Books
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This book traces the concept of idiocy as it has developed in fiction and film in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It focuses particularly on visual images of idiocy and argues that writers as diverse as Gustave Flaubert, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph…