The History of European Jazz: The Music, Musicians and Audience in Context
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The increased circulation of people and ideas within Europe is not matched by an awareness of a...
The Illustrated Sourcebook of Signs & Symbols: A Fascinating Directory of More Than 1200 Visual Images, with an Expert Analysis of Their History and Meaning
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This is a fascinating directory of more than 1200 visual images, with an expert analysis of their...
Transnationalism, Diaspora and Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia in Britain
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The geo-political area of what once constituted Yugoslavia has been a region of significant...
Who Owns America's Past?: The Smithsonian and the Problem of History
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In 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29...
Basilius Besler's Florilegium: The Book of Plants
Klaus Walter Littger and Werner Dressendorfer
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Botanical beauty: Basilius Besler's complete Hortus Eystettensis of 1613 A magnificent pictorial...
Politics and Society in Early Modern Iraq: Mamluk Pashas, Tribal Shayks, and Local Rule Between 1802 and 1831
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1 This study deals with the Mamliik period in Iraqi history (1750- 1831), and more particularly with...
The Horror! The Horror!: Comic Books the Government Didn't Want You to Read!
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For the first time in over fifty years, author Jim Trombetta uncovers a rare visual treasury of some...
Vargic's Miscellany of Curious Maps: The Atlas of Everything You Never Knew You Needed to Know
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EXPLORE THE WORLD AS YOU NEVER KNEW IT WITH VARGIC'S ASTONISHING MISCELLANY OF CURIOUS MAPS. This...
Women and Things, 1750 1950: Gendered Material Strategies
Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin
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In contrast to much current scholarship on women and material culture which focuses primarily on...
Baudelaire the Damned: A Biography
Frederic William John Hemmings
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First published in 1982, this penetrating, immensely readable biography of the brilliant poet,...