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Devil(Hardback)
a Mask Without a Face
Reaktion Books
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23/05/1995
Examining who he is, and particularly how and why he looks the way he does as a response to changing political and social conditions, this book discusses what the Devil has looked like in painting a...
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Trading Territories(Electronic book text)
Mapping the Early Modern World
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
Offering an account of the status of maps and geographical knowledge in the Early Modern world, this work focuses on how early European geographers mapped the territories of the Old World (Africa an...
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The Art of Suicide(Electronic book text)
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
This is a history of the representation of suicide from the ancient world to the 20th century. After looking at instances of death in ancient Greece, the author discusses the contrast between the ab...
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Eyewitnessing(Electronic book text)
The Uses of Images as Historical Evidence
Reaktion Books
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15/06/2011
Eyewitnessing evaluates the worth of images as historical evidence, examining religious, political, advertising and commodified images. Peter Burke challenges the conventional view that images repre...
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Men In Black(Electronic book text)
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
Men's clothes went black in the nineteenth century: Dickens, Ruskin and Baudelaire all asked why it was, in this age of supreme wealth and power, that men wanted to dress as if going to a funeral. F...
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Bodies Politic(Electronic book text)
Disease, Death and Doctors in Britain, 1650-1900
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
Takes a critical look at representations of the body in death, disease and health, and at images of the healing arts in Britain from the mid-seventeenth to the twentieth century.
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Picturing Tropical Nature(Electronic book text)
Reaktion Books
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01/02/2012
In this work, Nancy Stepan explores the ways in which the Tropics, in particular tropical nature, places, animals and people, were imagined and presented in European culture from the 19th century on...
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