Landscapes and Gardens for Historic Buildings: A Handbook for Reproducing and Creating Authentic Landscapes
Rudy J. Favretti and Joy Putman Favretti
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It's been more than forty years since the second edition of this landmark guide to the preservation...
Political Economies of Empire in the Early Modern Mediterranean: The Decline of Venice and the Rise of England 1450-1700
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Against the backdrop of England's emergence as a major economic power, the development of early...
Drink and Culture in Nineteenth-century Ireland: The Alcohol Trade and the Politics of the Irish Public House
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The vibrant Irish public house of the nineteenth century hosted broad networks of social power,...
Economics of Planning Policies in China: Infrastructure, Location and Cities
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Decades of fast economic growth and rapid urbanization have significantly changed the "faces" of...
Financing in Europe: Evolution, Coexistence and Complementarity of Lending Practices from the Middle Ages to Modern Times: 2017
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This book explores the evolution of credit and financing in Europe from the Middle Ages through to...
High Street Heroes: The Story of British Retail in 50 People
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WHEN BUSINESSMAN John Timpson started his retailing career in 1960, there were no supermarkets, no...
Ida B. Wells: Social Activist and Reformer
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Born into slavery in 1862, Ida B. Wells went on to become an influential reformer and leader in the...
From Cult to Culture: Fragments Toward a Critique of Historical Reason
Jacob Taubes, Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Amir Engel and Jan Assmann
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After launching his career with the 1947 publication of his dissertation, Occidental Eschatology,...
Myth of the Western: New Perspectives on Hollywood's Frontier Narrative
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Offers significant re readings of key classic and contemporary Westerns. Myth of the Western re...
Time and the Word: Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures
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Time and the Word presents the first significant theological account of the foundations and methods...