Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Subjects: “…Painting, Spanish.…”
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The development of pre-state communities in the ancient Near East studies in honour of Edgar Peltenburg /

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Corinth in contrast : studies in inequality /

Table of Contents: “…"You were bought with a price" : freedpersons and things in 1 Corinthians / Laura Salah Nasrallah -- 5. Painting practices in Roman Corinth : Greek or Roman? …”
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Dutch culture in the Golden Age by Price, J. L.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Structures and change -- The shape of Dutch culture -- Painting and graphic art -- Literature -- Humanism and the reptile of letters -- Science and technology -- God and truth -- The culture of politics -- The influence of the Dutch Golden Age -- The waning of the Golden Age.…”
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Achaemenid culture and local traditions in Anatolia, Southern Caucasus and Iran new discoveries /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Askold Ivantchik, Vakhtang Licheli -- Picturing Persian victory : the painted battle scene on the Munich wood / Lâtife Summerer -- An Achaemenid "palace" at Qarajamirli (Azerbaijan) : preliminary report on the excavations in 2006 / Ilyas Babaev, Iulon Gagoshidze, Florian S. …”
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Allied looting in World War II thefts of art, manuscripts, stamps and jewelry in Europe / by Alford, Kenneth D.

Table of Contents: “…A passion for Lucas Cranach paintings -- pt. 3. Plundering priceless manuscripts -- pt. 4. …”
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Mao's new world political culture in the early People's Republic / by Hung, Chang-tai, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Tiananmen Square : space and politics -- Ten monumental buildings : architecture of power -- Yangge : the dance of revolution -- Parades -- The red line : the Museum of the Chinese Revolution -- Oil paintings and history -- Devils in the drawings -- New year prints and peasant resistance -- The cult of the red martyr -- The Monument to the People's Heroes.…”
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African histories : new sources and new techniques for studying African pasts / by Brizuela-Garcia, Esperanza

Table of Contents: “…Archaeobotany and cultivation in Africa -- Early written evidence of state and society in classical northeastern Africa -- Linguistic evidence and the Bantu expansion -- Archaeological evidence for the development of African cities -- African memories and perspectives of the Atlantic slave trade -- Islamic sources and versions of Swahili origins -- Intellectual history and cultural nationalism in West Africa -- Planning, photography, and the struggle for power in colonial Africa -- Remembering decolonization through ethnography and popular painting in Central Africa -- Literature and decolonization in Africa -- Textbooks and tribunals in the aftermath of crises -- Anthropology and the gendering of the study of AIDS in Africa -- Epilogue: African histories and histories of Africa.…”

The Basque country a cultural history / by Woodworth, Paddy, 1951-

Table of Contents: “…-- A short version of a long history : from the Stone Age to the Civil War -- Bai, bai, Urdaibai : cave paintings, painted trees, tree of Gernika-- The fronton at the heart of life : the power and beauty of pelota -- Cinco villas : Pio Baroja, flying Mari, sword dances, and sorcery -- Gastronomy : some answers to the most urgent Basque question -- Wow, Bilbao! …”
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The nonconformists culture, politics, and nationalism in a Serbian intellectual circle, 1944-1991 / by Miller, Nick, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Simina 9a in a new Yugoslavia -- Nonconformist initiations -- Ćosić : engagement and disillusionment, 1956-1966 -- Drama and politics: Mihiz in the sixties -- The suicide and rebirth of the painting: Mića Popović, 1959-1974 -- Fragmented Serbia -- Ćosić and Popović return to Serbia -- From principle to catharsis -- The children of Cain -- The limits of revelation -- The legend of Simina 9a in Serbia's modern history.…”
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Lake Garda : gateway to D.H. Lawrence's Voyage to the sun /

Table of Contents: “…Lawrence and music -- part VIII. Lawrence and painting.…”
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National monuments and nationalism in 19th century Germany by Pohlsander, Hans A., 1927-

Table of Contents: “…-- German nationalism in the 19th century from the beginnings to Ernst Moritz Arndt -- German nationalism in the 19th century from Heinrich von Kleist to "Die Wacht am Rhein" -- The repression of German nationalism -- Monuments to German culture -- Ludwig I of Bavaria , the Walhalla, the Befreiungshalle, and related monuments -- Monuments to German arms -- From Prussia to Germany -- "Heil Dir im Siegerkranz" -- The Iron Chancellor -- Historicizing painting of the 19th century -- Epilogue.…”
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Catalonia a cultural history / by Eaude, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Birth and rebirth of a nation -- The first town in Spain (Portbou) -- Mediterranean : the center of the earth (Tarragona) -- Romanesque Catalonia : the Pyrenees -- Glory and rapine : Poblet and Athens -- The poet-priest and the indiano (Verdaguer) -- The Lancashire of Spain : Gaudí and Güell, Geniuses -- Fleeing the straight and narrow : Gaudí and Reus -- Modern painting : Rusiñol at Sitges (Picasso) -- The terminal beach : Salvador Dalí -- Feet rooted to the red earth : Joan Miró -- I Come from a silence : Raimon -- Tourism and war -- The sweaty groin, Barcelona's Raval -- The Gothic Quarter, Barcelona -- Mass migration and mass tourism : Lloret -- Plain and river. …”
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Cleopatra a sphinx revisited /

Table of Contents: “…Rowland -- HRH Cleopatra : the last of the Ptolemies and the Egyptian paintings of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema / Margaret Mary DeMaria Smith -- Glamour girls : Cleomania in mass culture / Maria Wyke and Dominic Montserratá -- Every man's Cleopatra / Giuseppe Pucci -- Cleopatra : the sphinx revisited / Peter Green.…”
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Petrified utopia happiness Soviet style /

Table of Contents: “…A joyful Soviet childhood : licensed happiness for little ones / Catriona Kelly -- Utopian naturalism : the epic poem of kolkhoz happiness / Evgeny Dobrenko -- Luxuriating in lack : plentitude and consuming happiness in Soviet paintings and posters, 1920s-1953 / Helena Goscilo -- Tasty and healthy : Soviet happiness in one book / Gian Piero Piretto -- "It's grand to be an orphan!" …”
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Signs of power in Habsburg Spain and the New World

Table of Contents: “…C�ardenas Bunsen -- The politics of salvation in El Greco's Escorial paintings and Cervantes's La numancia / E.C. Graf -- Spain succored by religion : Titian and Lope de Vega's La dragontea / Jason McCloskey.…”
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A companion to the Neronian age

Table of Contents: “…Whitton -- The Carmina Einsidlensia and Calpurnius Siculus' Eclogues / John Henderson -- Seneca's Philosophical Writings : Naturales Quaestiones, Dialogi, Epistulae Morales / Jonathan Mannering -- Senecan Tragedy / Emma Buckley -- Lucan's Bellum Ciuile / Philip Hardie -- Petronius' Satyrica / Tom Murgatroyd -- Persius / Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols -- Columella, De Re Rustica / Christiane Reitz -- Literature of the World : Seneca's Natural Questions and Pliny's Natural History / Aude Doody -- Greek Literature Under Nero / Dirk Uwe Hansen -- Buildings of an Emperor : how Nero transformed Rome / Heinz-Jürgen Beste and Henner von Hesberg -- Portraits of an Emperor : Nero and the Sun / Marianne Bergmann -- Neronian Wall-Painting : A Matter of Perspective / Katharina Lorenz -- Part IV. …”
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Samothracian connections essays in honor of James R. McCredie /

Table of Contents: “…Koob -- A Fayum teacher's manual, Alexandrian Pavilion architecture, and Augustan wall-painting / R.R.R. Smith -- Homer in Florina / Ioannis Akamatis -- Colleagues and students who worked with James R. …”
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Tales from the expat harem foreign women in modern Turkey /

Table of Contents: “…A computer specialist in her forties struggles to thwart amorous advances of tireless would-be suitors as she tours eastern Turkey -- Last stop on the Orient Express -- The painting or the boy / Eveline Zoutendijk. When a devout hotel employee objects to an Ottoman painting hung in the lobby of a hotel, the Dutch hotel owner must decipher the paintings mystery and decide a course of action -- Conversion in Erzurum / Susan Fleming Holm. …”
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