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Ivory, rare woods, drugs, diamonds, magicians, dancing girlsthe author covers all classes of unusual imports, their places of origin, their lore, their effort on costume, dwellings, diet, and on painting, sculpture, music, and poetry.This book is not a statistical record of commercial imports and medieval trade, but rather a "humanistic essay, however material its subject ...
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Imperial Connections
India in the Indian Ocean Area 1860-1920
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25805-1
EAN 9780520258051
An innovative remapping of empire, Imperial Connections offers a broad-ranging view of the workings of the British Empire in the period when the India of the Raj stood at the center of a newly globalized system of trade, investment, and migration. Thomas R. Metcalf argues that India itself became a nexus of imperial power that ...
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PVP: 25,56 €
ISBN 978-0-520-07723-2
EAN 9780520077232
Uniquely comprehensive and comparative, praised for its devotion to social and cultural developments as well as politics and economics, "The Epic of Latin America" is once again revised and brought up to date, with chapters on the great upheavals of the 1980s. The book received the Gold Medal of the Commonwealth Club of California for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 319 páginas
PVP: 42,35 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25817-4
EAN 9780520258174
Rich with details of everyday life, this multifaceted social and cultural history of China's leading metropolis in the twentieth century offers a kaleidoscopic view of Shanghai as the major site of Chinese modernization. Engaging the entire span of Shanghai's modern history from the Opium War to the eve of the Communist takeover in 1949, Wen-hsin ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 378 páginas
PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25795-5
EAN 9780520257955
In the 1930s and 40s, Los Angeles became an unlikely cultural sanctuary for a distinguished group of German artists and intellectuals including Thomas Mann, Theodore W. Adorno, Bertolt Brecht, Fritz Lang, and Arnold Schoenberg who had fled Nazi Germany. During their years in exile, they would produce a substantial body of major works to address ...
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PVP: 22,43 €
ISBN 978-0-520-04210-0
EAN 9780520042100
Alexander Herzen's own brilliance and the extraordinary circumstances of his life combine to place his memoirs among the greatest works of the modern era. Born in 1812, the illegitimate son of a wealthy Russian landowner, he became one of the most important revolutionary and intellectual figures of his time: as theorist, polemicist, propagandist, and political ...
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Written for those who want to know more about the Middle East than the mainstream media is willing or able to tell, this book begins by examining a question that has been asked by numerous commentators since September 11, 2001: 'Why do they hate us?' Jeremy Salt offers the background essential for understanding the Middle ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 1022 páginas
PVP: 91,00 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25637-8
EAN 9780520256378
Since its first publication in 1965, this collection has been widely hailed as the best available text of William Blake's poetry and prose. It is now expanded to include a new foreword by Harold Bloom, his definitive statement on Blake's greatness.
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Micheline Ishay recounts the dramatic struggle for human rights across the ages in a book that brilliantly synthesizes historical and intellectual developments from the Mesopotamian Codes of Hammurabi to today's era of globalization. As she chronicles the clash of social movements, ideas, and armies that have played a part in this struggle, Ishay illustrates how ...
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The Road to 9/11
Wealth, Empire and The Future of America
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 432 páginas
PVP: 17,25 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25871-6
EAN 9780520258716
This is an ambitious, meticulous examination of how U.S. foreign policy since the 1960s has led to partial or total cover-ups of past domestic criminal acts, including, perhaps, the catastrophe of 9/11. Peter Dale Scott, whose previous books have investigated CIA involvement in southeast Asia, the drug wars, and the Kennedy assassination, here probes how ...
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This selection of Gertrude Stein's work is taken from the period between 1905 and 1936, when the iconic modernist poet was engaged in an astounding number of still-surprising literary experiments, whose innovations continue to influence all the arts. Editor Joan Retallack has chosen complete texts or selections that lend themselves to a clarified vision of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 280 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25643-9
EAN 9780520256439
We tend to suppose that the ancient Greeks had primitive ideas of the self, of responsibility, freedom, and shame, and that now humanity has advanced from these to a more refined moral consciousness. Bernard Williams's original and radical book questions this picture of Western history. While we are in many ways different from the Greeks, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 360 páginas
PVP: 31,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25195-3
EAN 9780520251953
This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power.
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Ulysses Annotated
Notes for James Joyce's Ulysses
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 698 páginas
PVP: 54,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25397-1
EAN 9780520253971
Don Gifford's annotations to Joyce's great modern classic comprise a specialized encyclopedia that will inform any reading of "Ulysses. "The suggestive potential of minor details was enormously fascinating to Joyce, and the precision of his use of detail is a most important aspect of his literary method. The annotations in this volume illuminate details which ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 358 páginas
PVP: 65,50 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25196-0
EAN 9780520251960
This new, compact Selected Poems offers for the first time a balanced survey of Robert Creeley's entire sixty years of poetic accomplishment. It showcases the works that made him one of the most beloved and significant writers of the past century while inviting a new recognition of his enduring commitments, fluency, and power. "Benjamin Friedlander, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 331 páginas
PVP: 19,72 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25383-4
EAN 9780520253834
This well-illustrated, highly accessible book at last gives general readers and students a compact, yet comprehensive and authoritative history of the twelve years of the Third Reich--from political takeover of January 30, 1933 to the German capitulation of May 1945. Originally published to rave reviews in Germany, A Concise History of the Third Reich describes ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 423 páginas
PVP: 19,72 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25415-2
EAN 9780520254152
National Book Award - Poetry, National Book Foundation, 1973 This deluxe edition of Virgil's epic poems, recounting the wanderings of Aeneas and his companions after the fall of Troy, contains an introduction by Allen Mandelbaum and fourteen powerful renderings created by Barry Moser to illustrate this volume.
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 184 páginas
PVP: 29,62 €
ISBN 978-0-520-25267-7
EAN 9780520252677
Throughout Spain's tumultuous twentieth century, women writers produced a dazzling variety of novels, popular theater, and poetry. Their work both reflected and helped to transform women's gender, family, and public roles, carving out new space in the literary canon. This multilingual collection of essays by both scholars and creative artists explores the diversity of Spanish ...
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