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 Education of the Eye: Painting, Landscape, and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Britain
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The Education of the Eye examines the origins of visual culture in eighteenth-century Britain. It...
Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-first-century Families
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The institution of marriage is at a crossroads. Across most of the industrialized world, unmarried...
Making Magnificence: Architects, Stuccatori, and the Eighteenth-Century Interior
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This book tells the remarkable story of the craftsmen of Ticino, in Italian-speaking Switzerland,...
Social Policy and Planning for the 21st Century: In Search of the Next Great Social Transformation
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The greatest problems facing humanity today are climate change, poverty, and the increasing...
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...