The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics...
Canada's Dream Shall be of Them: Canadian Epitaphs of the Great War
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There could be no truer witness to the enormity of the First World War, and its terrible cost in...
Christie's: The Jewellery Archives Revealed
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For centuries, the stories of the world's great jewellery collections have lain hidden within the...
In Space We Read Time: On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlogel and Gerrit Jackson
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History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular...
Natural Magic: Salted Paper Prints in North America
Jordan Bear, Russell Lord, Lisa Volpe and Keith F. Davis
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The salted paper print process and the daguerreotype were invented, for all practical purposes,...
No Idle Hands: The Myths & Meanings of Tramp Art
Laura M Addison, Leslie Umberger and Eric Zafran
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Tramp art describes a particular type of wood carving practiced in the United States and Europe...
Photographs, Museums, Collections: Between Art and Information
Elizabeth Edwards and Christopher Morton
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The status of photographs in the history of museum collections is a complex one. From its very...
The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington
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In 2006 journalist Joanna Moorhead discovered that her father's cousin, Prim, who had disappeared...
Wild Horses of Cumberland Island
Anouk Masson Krantz and Oliver Ferguson
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A longtime favourite getaway for America's most influential families, Cumberland Island, off the...
A Silence That Speaks: A Family Story Through and Beyond the Holocaust
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Susan's mother, Lucy Fowler nee Smetana, was a Viennese Jew who fled to Nottingham, England, in 1938...