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Skilled Compositor, 1850-1914
For the first time since its invention over 500 years ago, the print medium is being challenged as the primary means of recording and communicating ideas. Indeed, within the …
Das Bild Der Iren Und Irlands Im «Punch» 1841-1921
Vorgepragt sowohl durch bis in die Antike zuruckreichende negative Irlandklischees englischer Historiographie, Reiseliteratur und Buhnendarstellungen als auch beeinflusst durch den …
Travel Marketing and Popular Photography in Britain, 1888-1939
This book explores how popular photography influenced the representation of travel in Britain in the period from the Kodak-led emergence of compact cameras in 1888, to 1939. The …
The French Wars 1792-1815
A highly original and critical introduction to the revolutionary and napoleonic conflicts. It illuminates the less well-known areas of the subject, such as the changing atttitude …
Nordic Private Collections of Chinese Objects
This book explores the ways in which Nordic private collectors displayed their collections of Chinese objects in their homes.This leads to a reconsideration of how to define …
WPA Posters in an Aesthetic, Social, and Political Context
This book examines posters produced by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a federal relief program designed to create jobs in the United States during the Great …
A Royal Renaissance Treasure and its Afterlives
At centre stage in this volume is the Royal Clock Salt, an exceptional national treasure from the courtly culture of the Renaissance. Most probably made in Paris around 1530 by …
Victorian Idyll in Art and Literature
Resonating with contemporary ecological and queer theory, this book pioneers the theorization of the Victorian idyll, establishing its nature, lineaments, and significance as a …
Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Empire and Industry
The 19th century in Western culture was a time of both confidence and turbulence. Industrial developments resulted in a number of benefits from a growing middle class to …
Women Artists and the Decorative Arts 1880-1935
This title was first published in 2002. To date, studies explaining decorative practice in the early modernist period have largely overlooked the work of women artists. For the …
Fashion beyond Versailles
As the epicenters of style and innovation, the cities of Paris and Versailles dominate studies of consumerism in seventeenth-century France, but little scholarship exists on the …
Regional Dress
Traditional dress is a common phenomenon across much of Western Europe, often originating in elaborate practices for rural religious events. Yet despite its fundamentally local …