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Napoleonic Objects and Their Afterlives

Two centuries after Napoleon Bonaparte's death, this edited volume brings together a diverse group of historians, art historians, and museum professionals to critically examine the enduring power of visua…

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New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars of 49-30 BCE

Offering new and original approaches to the Roman civil wars of 49-30 BCE, the eleven papers presented here for the first time shed light on this crucial moment in the forging of Roman identity. They enga…

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James Bradley Wells
HoneyVoiced

This new translation of Pindar's songs for victorious athletes marries philological rigour with poetic sensibility in order to represent the beauty of his language for a modern audience as closely as poss…

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The Materiality of Ancient Greek Identities, 9th to 2nd Centuries BCE

Material culture is the physical trace of what was used to construct and define identities in the past, and is therefore a key source of evidence for archaeologists and ancient historians investigating an…

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Rebecca Sweetman
The Archaeology of the Cyclades in the Roman and Late Antique Periods

The Cycladic islands have traditionally been considered as backwaters during the Roman and Late Antique periods. Through analysis of the material culture produced from the late first century BCE through t…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Liv Mariah Yarrow
The Roman Republic to 49 BCE

The narrative of Roman history has been largely shaped by the surviving literary sources, augmented in places by material culture. The numerous surviving coins can, however, provide new information on the…

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Moujan Matin, Michael Tite
Glazed Ceramics of the Islamic World 700-1600 CE

Of all the material culture of the Islamic World prior to the sixteenth century, only ceramics survive in a way which forms a continuous representative visual history. As such, ceramics provide a unique c…

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Kevin Moore
Museums and Popular Culture

What are museums for? How far should museums shift from their traditional focus on high culture to explore popular culture? How can the passion people feel for popular material culture best be conveyed in…

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Kevin Moore
Museums and Popular Culture

What are museums for? How far should museums shift from their traditional focus on high culture to explore popular culture? How can the passion people feel for popular material culture best be conveyed in…

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The Social Life of Objects in Early Development

This book fills a gap in early developmental psychology by providing a critical reconsideration of the status of artifact objects as protagonists of children's actions and communication. The main thesis e…

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Bérengère Primat, Jean Hubert Martin
Nothing Too Beautiful for the Gods

This book argues that globalisation challenges the Western idea of art and explores how different cultures express spirituality through art. Text in English and French.Globalization has forced us to stop …

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Collective Threads

Anna Andreeva (1917-2008) was a Soviet textile designer and leading artist at the famous Red Rose Silk Factory in Moscow from 1944 to 1984. The former Giraud silk factory, nationalized in 1919 after the O…

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Collecting the "Other Americas"

The term "Pre-Columbian art" once described the material culture produced in the Americas, mostly south of the US-Mexico border, prior to the arrival of Europeans. Museums across the United Stat…

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A Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterranean

A Companion that examines together two pivotal periods of Greek archaeology and offers a rich analysis of early Greek cultureA Companion to the Archaeology of Early Greece and the Mediterraneanoffers an o…

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Hanchao Lu
Shanghai Tai Chi

Shanghai Tai Chi offers a masterful portrait of daily urban life under socialism in a rich social and political history of one of the world's most complex cities. Hanchao Lu explores the lives of people f…

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The Spanish Civil War in 100 Objects

Analysing 100 material objects which helped to shape the Spanish Civil War, this textbook explores one of the seminal events of 20th century through a unique material culture lens. From the plane that car…

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Toyin Falola
Daily Life in Postcolonial Africa

Delve into the ways Africa has transformed since the continent was freed from colonial rule.In its exploration of the complex and ever-changing fabric of African lives after the end of colonial power, thi…

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Laura Pfuntner
Urbanism and Empire in Roman Sicily

Sicily has been the fulcrum of the Mediterranean throughout history. The island's central geographical position and its status as ancient Rome's first overseas province make it key to understanding the de…

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Staci Bu Shea
Dying Livingly

A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic and poetic experience of living life led by death.Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays and lyrica…

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