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  • "Capitalism and Slavery" Revisited

    The Impact and Legacy of Eric Williams's Trailblazing Work

    by Natalie A. Zacek, Ph.D, Erica Williams Connell, Catherine Hall, Devin Leigh, Stephen Mullen, Gervase Phillips, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Dexnell Peters, Christer Petley ...
    Reexamining a seminal work on British capitalism and Caribbean slavery and its continuing reverberations in the twenty-first centuryEric Williams’s Capitalism and Slavery (1944), with its insightful and provocative theses about the relationship between Caribbean slavery and the growth of the British economy and the Industrial Revolution, has proved an enduring and controversial book. Never out of ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

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  • The Routledge History of Italian Americans

    Edited by William Connell, Stanislao Pugliese ...
    Series series Routledge Histories
    The Routledge History of Italian Americans weaves a narrative of the trials and triumphs of one of the nation’s largest ethnic groups. This history, comprising original essays by leading scholars and critics, addresses themes that include the Columbian legacy, immigration, the labor movement, discrimination, anarchism, Fascism, World War II patriotism, assimilation, gender identity and popular ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

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  • Tech-Noir Film

    A Theory of the Development of Popular Genres

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    From the postapocalyptic world of Blade Runner to theJames Cameron mega-hit Terminator, tech-noir has emerged as a distinct genre, with roots in both the Promethean myth and the earlier popular traditions of gothic, detective, and science fiction. In this new volume, many well-known film and literary works—including The Matrix, RoboCop, and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein—are discussed with reference ... Read more

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  • Bricks & Mortals

    Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made

    by Tom Wilkinson ...
    We don't just look at buildings: their facades, beautiful or ugly, conceal the spaces where we live. We are born, work, love, and die in architecture. We buy and sell it, rent and squat it, create and destroy it. All of these aspects of buildings-economic, erotic, political, and psychological-are crucial if we are to understand architecture properly. And because architecture molds us just as much ... Read more

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  • Painting Culture

    The Making of an Aboriginal High Art

    by Fred R. Myers, Nicholas Thomas ...
    Series series Objects/Histories
    Painting Culture tells the complex story of how, over the past three decades, the acrylic "dot" paintings of central Australia were transformed into objects of international high art, eagerly sought by upscale galleries and collectors. Since the early 1970s, Fred R. Myers has studied—often as a participant-observer—the Pintupi, one of several Aboriginal groups who paint the famous acrylic works. ... Read more

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  • 1st Grade American History: Early Pilgrims of America

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    Did you know that children are more photographic than they are textual? Science says so; therefore, it important to use the right resources that would tap their interest. With that, a good tool to use when teaching about history is a picture book. Picture books illustrate what words fail to create pictures. They are engaging and are a highly relaxing approach to learning. Buy a copy today! ... Read more

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  • Fully Exposed

    The Male Nude in Photography

    by Emmanuel Cooper ...
    Fully Exposed is a pioneering cultural history of the photography of the male nude which sets the photographer and the model within our cultural and historical perceptions and prejudices. This second edition extends the book's coverage so that the story from the beginnings of the medium to the present day is complete.Fully Exposed is lavishly illustrated with over two hundred and fifty photographs ... Read more

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  • Art & Visual Culture 1850-2010: Modernity to Globalisation

    Edited by Steve Edwards, Paul Woods ...
    An innovatory exploration of art and visual culture. Through carefully chosen themes and topics rather than through a general survey, the volumes approach the process of looking at works of art in terms of their audiences, functions and cross-cultural contexts. While focused on painting, sculpture and architecture, it also explores a wide range of visual culture in a variety of media and methods. ... Read more

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  • The Noisy Renaissance

    Sound, Architecture, and Florentine Urban Life

    by Niall Atkinson ...
    From the strictly regimented church bells to the freewheeling chatter of civic life, Renaissance Florence was a city built not just of stone but of sound as well. An evocative alternative to the dominant visual understanding of urban spaces, The Noisy Renaissance examines the premodern city as an acoustic phenomenon in which citizens used sound to navigate space and society.Analyzing a range of ... Read more

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  • The Florentine Artist, Illustrated.

    by E H & E W Blashfield ...
    An essay written and illustrated by the Blashfields on the Florentine Artist and their role in the renascence. ... Read more

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  • Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture

    Edited by Elana Shapira, Alison J. Clarke ...
    This new volume addresses the lasting contribution made by Central European émigré designers to twentieth-century American design and architecture. The contributors examine how oppositional stances in debates concerning consumption and modernism's social agendas taken by designers such as Felix Augenfeld, Joseph Binder, Josef Frank, Paul T. Frankl, Frederick Kiesler, Richard Neutra, and R. M. ... Read more

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