Featuring 60 beautiful and detailed maps, Atlas of Empires tells the story of how and why the great empires of history came into being, operated, and ultimately declined, and discusses the future of the empire in today's globalized world.
A multi-disciplinary study of the notion of the baroque, using examples of music, art, visual culture, literature and architecture, revealing it to be a global phenomenon -- .
Offering engaging meditations on solitude, absence and stillness, Peter Davidson shows north to be a goal rather than a destination, a place of revelation that is always somewhere ultimate and austere.
Baroque in its extravagance of language, in its delight in the bizarre and the prodigious, this collection presents a cabinet of curiosities, a world of ruined palaces, ghostly... Læs mere
In these painterly essays Davidson reflects on art, place, history and landscape. Distance and Memory is his testament to the cold, clear beauty of the north.
This book presents a wide-ranging and original meditation on cartographies of connection in all the arts of the baroque period. -- .