Author: Donald Preziosi
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: art, history, oxford, critical, anthology
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2009-04-15
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0199229848
ISBN-13: 9780199229840
Here is a new edition of Donald Preziosi’s masterful selection of the most influential and innovative writing on art history of the past two centuries. The book includes over thirty pieces by seminal thinkers and writers from Winckelmann, Kant, and Hegel to Foucault, Carol Duncan, and Mary Kelly on such subjects as aesthetics and anthropology, postmodern automatons, semiotics and iconography, performative acts, the museum as ritual, digital art, and many others. Each of the book’s eight thematic sections offers an introduction providing background information, further reading, and
Author: Ch Kindleberger
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: history, economic, europe, western, financial
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-03-31
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0415436532
ISBN-13: 9780415436533
This is the first history of finance - broadly defined to include money, banking, capital markets, public and private finance, international transfers etc. - that covers Western Europe (with an occasional glance at the western hemisphere) and half a millennium. Charles Kindleberger highlights the development of financial institutions to meet emerging needs, and the similarities and contrasts in the handling of financial problems such as transferring resources from one country to another, stimulating investment, or financing war and cleaning up the resulting monetary mess. The first half of the
Author: T. D. Dungan
Publisher: Westholme Publishing
Keywords: history, weapons, missile, first, combat, ballistic
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-10-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1594160120
ISBN-13: 9781594160127
In August 1944, Londoners thought the war might be over by Christmas. But on September 8, 1944, in the London suburb of Chiswick, a thunderous double-boom was heard followed by a huge plume of black smoke rising high into the air. Several minutes later another explosion rocked the earth near Epping. There had been no warnings, no drone of aircraft above, just sudden devastation. "Operation Penguin," the German V-2 offensive, had begun. The A-4 rocket, better known as the V-2, Vergeltungswaffen Zwei, or "Vengeance Weapon 2," was the first ballistic missile to be used in combat. Soaring over 50
Author: Nancy Reagin
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: history, culture, pop, wiley, twilight
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-04-12
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0470581786
ISBN-13: 9780470581780
The first look at the history behind Stephenie Meyer’s bestselling Twilight series, timed to release with the third movie, Eclipse The characters of the Twilight Saga carry a rich history that shapes their identities and actions over the course of the series. Edward, for instance, may look like a seventeen-year-old teen heartthrob, but was actually born in 1901 and died during the Spanish Influenza of 1918. His adopted sister, Alice, was imprisoned in an insane asylum in 1920 and treated so badly there that even becoming a vampire was a welcome escape. This book is the first to e
Author: Maurice Keen
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: history, penguin, medieval, europe
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1991-09-12
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0140136304
ISBN-13: 9780140136302
This is a fascinating, three-dimensional picture of the politics, society and religion of medieval Europe, the age that had as its great theme the unity of Christendom. Maurice Keen examines tribal wars, the Crusades, the growth of trade and the shifting patterns of community life as villages grew into towns and towns into sizeable cities. He explores how Papal victories, by blurring the distinction between temporal and spiritual matters, eventually undermined the spiritual authority of the Church. And he discusses how the Hundred Years War escalated from a feudal dispute into a full-scale nat
Author: Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: history, learned, american, everything, don, need
Number of Pages: 678
Published: 2004-04-13
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0060083824
ISBN-13: 9780060083823
Who really discovered America? What was "the shot heard ’round the world"? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Did he or didn’t he? From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than 500 years of American history. In this updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history.
Author: James H. Madison
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: history, pages, documents, world, war
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-11-13
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 019533812X
ISBN-13: 9780195338126
World War II: A History in Documents illustrates the major themes and issues of the Second World War, including its causes, course, and consequences. Paying attention to both the European and Pacific Theaters--as well as to homefront and battle front issues--author James H. Madison blends discussions of diplomacy and strategy with insights into the lives of ordinary people around the world, including factory workers, soldiers, mothers, propagandists, political leaders, and survivors.Set in thoughtful contexts, these powerful and telling documents encourage students to compare different nations
