History by Region
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Chinese Museums: Strategies and Promotion of Contemporary Chinese Art [Paperback]
Ornella De Nigris(Author)
$30.00ISBN: 9788869771439
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: Art
Over the last 30 years, the Chinese system of art museums has enjoyed an unprecedented pace of development. Following a general and ongoing renovation of China’s entire system of national art institutions, there has been an impressive prolif... .... Learn More -
Faith in Democracy: The Political Power of Religion during the Military Dictatorship in Brazil [Paperback]
Massimo Sciarretta(Author)
$34.99ISBN: 9788869773754
Published by : Mimesis International
Series: History
The current work historically reconstructs the role played by the Brazilian Catholic Church during the military dictatorship that governed the country from 1964 to 1985. If in Latin America the denial of identity and rights has for centuries gone ... .... Learn More -
Playing With Apartheid: Racism, Australian Sport & South Africa [Paperback]
Roger Bell(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781922669018
Published by : Australian Scholarly Publishing
In no country were contests over racism in sport more bitterly fought, more protracted or important than in Australia. In the wake of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa in 1960, sport became a fault-line in international campaigns against ra... .... Learn More -
Kunst, Klang, Musik: Die Festkultur der europäischen Mächte im barocken Rom [Hardback]
Tocias C. Weißmann(Author)
$85.00ISBN: 9783777438962
Published by : Hirmer Verlag GmbH
Series: Römische Studien der Bibliotheca Hertziana
Volume: 50
Rom bildete im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert die zentrale Bühne für die Außendarstellung der europäischen Mächte. Zur Feier dynastischer und militärischer Ereignisse empfingen die auswärtigen Gesandten die römisc... .... Learn More -
The Normans in Ireland: Leinster, 1167–1247 [Paperback]
Richard A. Lomas(Author); Richard Lomas(Author)
$30.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781910900338
Published by : John Donald
The Norman invasion of Britain, as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, is well known, but the later invasion of Ireland is much less well documented. Yet much of what we see today in Irish heritage has Norman roots. Ireland and Britain have many simi... .... Learn More -
Scotland’s Lost Branch Lines: Where Beeching Got It Wrong [Hardback]
David Spaven(Author)
$50.00ISBN: 9781839830198
Published by : Origin
The infamous ‘Beeching Axe’ swept away virtually every Scottish branch line in the 1960s. Conventional wisdom viewed these losses as regrettable yet inevitable in an era of growing affluence and rising car ownership. This ground-breaki... .... Learn More -
When Britain Went Decimal: The Coinage of 1971 [Hardback]
Mark Stocker(Author)
$40.00ISBN: 9781912667567
Published by : Spink Books
The United Kingdom was the last major nation-state in the world to adopt decimal currency, 50 years ago in 1971. Why was it so slow to do so? What changed politicians’ and peoples’ minds about it in the 1960s? Were Britain’s plan... .... Learn More -
Un filo rosso: Guerra, spie e il sogno di Ventotene [Paperback]
Gabryela Dancygier(Author); Paola Stoppioni(Author)
$23.00ISBN: 9788859621577
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Nuove ricerche di storia
Volume: 12
Based on exclusive testimonies and unpublished archival documents, the book reconstructs some events that occurred during the Second World War in the town of Reggello (Florence) and in his surroundings. .... Learn More -
I Medici: Il potere di una dinastia [Paperback]
Fabrizio Ricciardelli(Author)
$25.00ISBN: 9788856404661
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 43
The Medici dynasty is one of the most famous in history. The story of the family was inextricably bound with Florence, the city of the Renaissance, and influenced its destiny from the time of Cosimo the Elder (1389-1464) up to the reign of Gian Ga... .... Learn More -
The Medici: The Power of a Dynasty [Paperback]
Fabrizio Ricciardelli(Author)
$25.00ISBN: 9788856404678
Published by : Edizioni Polistampa
Series: Storie del mondo
Volume: 43
The Medici dynasty is one of the most famous in history. The story of the family was inextricably bound with Florence, the city of the Renaissance, and influenced its destiny from the time of Cosimo the Elder (1389-1464) up to the reign of Gian Ga... .... Learn More
