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A.J.P. Taylor was arguably the most influential and popular British historian of the 20th century. This biography explores Taylor's activities as historian, Oxford don, broadcast journalist, husband and friend during a brilliant life punctuated by success, failure and frequent controversy.

An analysis of the course of Western intellectual history between AD 400 and 1400. It surveys the comparative modes of thought and varying success of Byzantine, Latin-Christian and Muslim cultures, and then proceeds from the 12th-century revival of learning to the high Middle Ages and beyond.

Compares and contrasts the historical course of Britain and America, exploring the significance of their similarities and differences over a period of two centuries. This book includes wide-ranging analyses of such issues as industrialization and urbanization, democracy and politics.

This reader begins with an introduction on the craft of the essay which explores the history and diverse purposes of the form, and the struggle of learning to write in it. Eight essays on a range of subjects follow, demonstrating the wide range of possibilities available to the writer today.

In this critical biography of the man hailed as the second greatest playwright in the English language, Sally Peters explores Shaw's background and beliefs, interests and obsessions, relations with men and women, prose writings and dramatic art.

Argues that the concept of employee ownership has deep roots extending back to the political and economic vision of America's founders. The authors discuss the founding generation's ideas about personal economic independence, explain how we have strayed from those ideas, and proposes practical solutions for bringing employment practices back.

The articulated human figure made of wax or wood has been a common tool in artistic practice since the 16th century. This book locates the artist's mannequin within the context of an expanding universe of effigies, avatars, dolls and shop window dummies.

Bedfordshire is one of the smallest English counties but encompasses a great variety in landscape and architecture. Its major monument is Woburn Abbey, one of the finest Georgian country houses in England. This edition contains separate introductions, gazetteers and photographs for Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire and Peterborough.

Showcasing more than thirty ancient bronzes from the exceptional holdings of the Shanghai Museum, this illustrated book offers a compelling overview of the beauty of Chinese bronzes and the traditions surrounding them. It also features an essay that serves as an introduction to these masterpieces.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. This book explains why the collecting frenzy took place. It locates it in the fragile and nostalgic atmosphere of the interwar years, dominated by neo-romanticism and cultural protectionism.

Gathers the biographies of the most eminent men and women in the history of American law. Encompassing a range of individuals who have devised, replenished, expounded, and explained law, this title presents the entries devoted to more than 700 subjects selected for their significant and lasting influence on American law.

Introduces students of diverse backgrounds and different levels of language ability to Spanish phonetics and phonology. This book explains important linguistic concepts, from the basic to the challenging.

This work questions the extent to which the American Constitution furthers democratic goals. It reveals the Constitution's potentially antidemocratic elements and explains why they are there, compares the American constitutional system to other democratic systems, and more.

What is the role of rhetoric in a civil society? This text considers this question by examining the work of writers from Plato to Jane Austen and locates a line of thinking that values rhetoric but also raises questions about the viability of rhetorical practice.

An examination of the dying process as it is experienced in painful and debilitating diseases from the point of view of the sufferers and their families. The author considers the idea of assisted suicides, and also reflects on religious, moral and legal issues involved in someone's death.

A captivating look at Parisian fashions of the 1960s and how the ready-to-wear revolution influenced haute couture

Published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville and curated by Karen Wilkin and Marcelle Polednik, held at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, January 28-May 14, 2017, and the Portland Museum of Art, Maine, June 16-September 10, 2017.

This biography of George IV, king between 1820 and 1830, provides a reassessment of the monarch's character, reputation and achievement. E.A. Smith does not minimize the king's faults but focuses on the positive qualities of his achievement in politics and in the patronage of the arts.

Since the 1950s, the Central Intelligence Agency has published an in-house journal, "Studies in Intelligence". This book, which presents the most interesting articles from the journal, provides revealing insights into CIA strategies and into events in which the organization was involved.

A century has passed since the assassination of Austria-Hungary's Archduke Ferdinand, yet the repercussions of the devastating global conflict that followed still echo. In this book, the author turns the spotlight on twelve particular events of the First World War that continue to shape the world today.

Encompasses the history of the Papacy, from its beginnings nearly two thousand years ago to the election of Francis I.

A study of democratization, which proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the years, is not just a series of exceptions. It examines the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratization is reversible.

Features thousands of images rendered by photomechanical reproduction that served a populist, mid-century encyclopaedia are reconfigured with 21st-century hindsight and idiosyncratic connections that convey social and artistic commentaries.

Reveals the fascinating history of the cabinet of curiosities belonging to the Cobbe family, who created it around 1750 at Newbridge House and developed it over the following century. In this book, the enormous range of surviving objects and specimens is illustrated by photographs and has been catalogued by scholars in the respective fields.

Exploring the relationship with painted portraits, conventions, settings, sitting, making and multiple production, this book argues that the new centrality and aesthetic ambition of the sculptural portrait were informed by Enlightenment notions of perception and selfhood.