Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First
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What we consume has become the defining feature of our lives: our economies live or die by spending,...
The Oxford History of Western Music: Music from the Earliest Notations to the Sixteenth Century
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The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by...
The Task of the Cleric: Cartography, Translation, and Economics in Thirteenth-Century Iberia
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Composed in early thirteenth-century Iberia, the Libro de Alexandre was Spain's first vernacular...
The Courtesan and the Gigolo: The Murders in the Rue Montaigne and the Dark Side of Empire in Nineteenth-Century Paris
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The intrigue began with a triple homicide in a luxury apartment building just steps from the...
Piercing the Horizon: The Making of a Twentieth-Century American Space Luminary
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We all know the names: Grissom, Armstrong, Cernan-legends of the space age whose names resonate with...
Visualizing the Nineteenth-Century Home: Modern Art and the Decorative Impulse
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The nineteenth century - the Era of the Interior - witnessed the steady displacement of art from the...