Orson Welles in Italy
Alberto Anile and Marcus Perryman
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Fleeing a Hollywood that spurned him, Orson Welles arrived in Italy in 1947 to begin his career...
Ramon Griffero: Your Desires in Fragments and Other Plays
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This volume contains a translated collection of plays by the important, but little-known to the...
Russian Modernisation: Structures and Agencies
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Russia's post-Soviet modernisation is complex and subject to changing interpretations among Russian...
Setting the East Ablaze: Lenin's Dream of an Empire in Asia
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'Let us turn our faces towards Asia', exhorted Lenin when the long-awaited revolution in Europe...
Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years: Tourist Third Cabin
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias
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'Tourist Third Cabin' offers a window into a bygone era in which modern steamships like the Queen...
The Politics of Fresh Water: Access, Conflict and Identity
Catherine M. Ashcraft and Tamar Mayer
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Water scarcity is not simply the result of what nature has to offer but always involves power...
The Sainte-Chapelle and the Construction of Sacral Monarchy: Royal Architecture in Thirteenth-century Paris
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This book offers a novel perspective on one of the most important monuments of French Gothic...
Turkey: A Modern History
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This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation...
Merz to Emigre and Beyond: Avant-Garde Magazine Design of the Twentieth Century
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Merz to Emigre and Beyond is an historical survey of avant-garde cultural and political magazines...
Storybook Style: Americas Whimsical Homes of the 1920s
Arrol Gellner and Douglas Keister
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Storybook style, fairy tale, Disneyesque, Hansel and Gretelthese are all synonyms for what is surely...