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María Félix
María Félix (1914-2002) left her mark on Mexican and European film as well as fashion, art and jewellery design. Cartier created one-of-a-kind pieces; Leonora Carrington and Diego …
Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic
Benjamin Rush (1745-1813) casts a long shadow over American medicine as well as over the social and political history of the American republic. The Philadelphia physician involved …
Faith by Aurality in China’s Ethnic Borderland
Illuminates how voice, faith, and hearing become intertwined with technologies of sound reproduction and mobility amid the rapidly transforming religious landscape of China's …
The Stuart Image
Based on a lifetime's work in the field, Sir Roy Strong offers an expert and engaging new look at portrait painting in Stuart England, studying the sitters as much as the artists. …
Stukeley and Stamford, Part II
A series of drawings of medieval buildings in Stamford, made in the 1730s by William Stukeley, provide important new evidence for the history of the town, while documents relating …
Orchestral Masterpieces under the Microscope
A must-have for any conductor, conducting student and orchestral librarian. How does a conductor know whether the score they use is what the composer wrote? How do orchestral …
Old English Scholarship in the Seventeenth Century
Old English scholars of the mid-seventeenth century lived through some of the most turbulent times in English history, but the upheaval inspired them to produce landmark texts in …
The Medieval Changeling
The first comprehensive study of medieval changelings and associated attitudes to the health and care of children in the period. The changeling - a monstrous creature swapped for a …
Ransoming Prisoners in Precolonial Muslim Western Africa
Examines African debates on captivity, legal and illegal enslavement, and religious and ethnic identity in the era of West African jihads. In this pioneering study—the first to …
Women and the British Army, 1815-1880
This book explores the world of women who married, or dealt with British soldiers below the rank of officer during the nineteenth century, including fiancées, wives, mothers, …
Ramón Gómez de la Serna
A celebrity in his own day, who gave lectures dressed as Napoleon or seated on the back of an elephant, Ramón Gómez de la Serna is the most representative writer of the interwar …