The Real Tales of Hoffmann: Origin, History, and Restoration of an Operatic Masterpiece
Placido Domingo, Michael Kaye and Vincent Giroud
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Of all operas in the standard repertory, none has had a more complicated genesis and textual history...
The Holy Roman Empire: A Thousand Years of Europe's History
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THE SUNDAY TIMES AND ECONOMIST BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2016 'A definitive study of the amorphous state...
The Megalithic Architectures of Europe
Luc Laporte and Christopher Scarre
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Megalithic monuments are among the most striking remains of the Neolithic period of northern and...
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...