Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain 9781442664272, 9781442645127

Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain 1442645121, 9781442645127

Collecting and displaying finely crafted objects was a mark of character among the royals and aristocrats in Early Moder

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Imperial Simla : The Political Culture of the Raj 9780195625882, 0195625889

Explores the political, strategic, social and psychological factors which led to Simla becoming an important health reso

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Man in an Artificial Landscape. The Marvels of Civilization in Imperial Roman Literature 9004036431, 9789004036437

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Print Culture and the Formation of the Anarchist Movement in Spain, 1890-1915

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The Art of Objects: The Birth of Italian Industrial Culture, 1878-1928 1487502834, 9781487502836

The Art of Objects is a cultural history of early Italian industrialism, set against the political, social, and intellec

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Empire and Memory: The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture 0521836220, 9780521836227

Despite the fact that the Roman Republic came to an undeniable end in 31 BC with the accession of the emperor Augustus,

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The Poetics of Piracy: Emulating Spain in English Literature 0812244753, 9780812244755

With its dominance as a European power and the explosion of its prose and dramatic writing, Spain provided an irresistib

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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.

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Jade Mountains and Cinnabar Pools: The History of Travel Literature in Imperial China [Illustrated] 0295744472, 9780295744476

First-hand accounts of travel provide windows into places unknown to the reader, or new ways of seeing familiar places.

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The Poetics of Ruins in Renaissance Literature

The book argues that the Renaissance was the Ruin-naissance, the birth of the ruin as category of discourse that inspire

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