During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview...

"Views of Difference: Different Views of Art" von Catherine King ist ein Band der Reihe "Art and Its Histories". Das Buch untersucht die Rolle, die unterschiedliche Sichtweisen auf Kunst in verschiedenen historischen und kulturellen...

"Life and Work: Writers, Readers, and the Conversations between Them" von Tim Parks ist eine Sammlung von Essays, die sich auf die Beziehung zwischen Schriftstellern und ihren Lesern konzentrieren. Parks untersucht das Zusammenspiel...

"The Language Demands of School" is an edited volume that fills a gap in the current literature by addressing what kind or kinds of English we require of K-12 English Learner students from an evidence-based perspective. "The Language...

This study of the renowned designer-maker Ernest Gimson (1864-1919) combines biography with analysis of his work as an architect and designer of furniture, metalwork, plaster decoration, embroidery, and more. It also examines Gimson's...

Drawing on a plethora of original interviews, Phillips constructs a new narrative of Syria's war, examining the international dimension in depth. von Phillips, Christopher

"Berlin of George Grosz: Drawings, Watercolours & Prints 1912-1930" von George Grosz ist eine umfassende Sammlung von Kunstwerken, die das Berlin der frühen 20. Jahrhunderts darstellen. Das Buch enthält Zeichnungen, Aquarelle und Drucke,...

This is a detailed, authoritative, and easy-to-use guide to the architectural wealth of England's second city, the "workshop of the world." Birmingham's major buildings include its splendid English Baroque cathedral, pioneering Neo-Roman...

Europe is, in world terms, a relatively minor peninsula attached to the Eurasian land mass, yet it became one of the most innovative regions on the planet. This title sees Europe not in terms of states and shifting land boundaries, but...

This volume publishes in their entirety the surviving diaries of Richard Burton, written between 1939 and 1983. They cover his career and the years of his celebrated marriages to Elizabeth Taylor. They reveal him as a fully rounded human...

"Errata: An Examined Life" von George Steiner ist eine autobiografische Reflexion, in der der Autor sein Leben und seine Karriere als einer der weltweit führenden Intellektuellen betrachtet. Steiner erzählt von seiner Kindheit in Paris...

Das Buch "Iran: A Modern History" von Abbas Amanat gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über die Geschichte Irans vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Es deckt eine breite Palette von Themen ab, darunter soziale, kulturelle und politische...