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The story of modern British art history told through the stories of its women. Consider for a moment the history of modern art in Britain; you may st

Told through the words of those whose lives the meetinghouse shaped, Facing the Past uncovers a hidden past.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

An interpretative history of global urbanity in the 1920s and 1930s, from the vantage point of Bombay, London, and Shanghai, that follows the life of

'Steels ambities, haar voorstellingsvermogen en haar filosofische en cultuurhistorische beschrijvingen zijn prikkelend genoeg om rond te dolen in de s

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857.

Compelling images of cinnamon-robed monks confronting the guns and clubs of Burma's military junta outraged the world in September 2007. Then communic

Abbate and Parker's A History of Opera is the first full new history of opera in sixty years - now in paperback in an updated second edition'The best