The subject of this study is a relatively rare category of artefacts, bronze and terracotta statuettes that represent deities, human figures and animals, introduced in the northwestern provinces by Roman troops from the end of the 1st century BCE onwards.
This book traces the origins of the exhibition space by studying its visual and written imagery in the early modern period.
This book is dedicated to convincing readers of the clarity of the message from the filmmakers from the post-Fukushima period that There must be no more nuclear weapons. There must be no more nuclear power generation.
This book examines the particularities and consequences of these otherworldly encounters in early Ireland, attending in particular to the question of gender... Læs mere
Genevra Sforza (ca. 1441-1507) lived her long life near the apex of Italian Renaissance society... Læs mere
The catastrophic Sicilian earthquake of 1693 led to the rebuilding of over 60 towns in the island's south-west. This is the first book-length study in English of this interesting area of early modern architecture.
Exhibiting Antonio Canova: Display and the Transformation of Sculptural Theory argues that the display of Canova’s sculptures in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries acted as a catalyst for discourse across a broad range of subjects.
This book examines how community remembers one of the most gruesome acts of violence in the 20th century: the anti-communist violence in 1965 in Indonesia. Through a case study in a rural district in East Java, this research presents complexities of memory culture of violence.
Vietnam: A War, Not a Country explores the conflicting ways in which the American-Vietnamese War has been collectively remembered and represented from the perspective of the war’s three primary belligerents: the Vietnamese communists, the South Vietnamese, and the Americans.
Taking up the challenges of the datafication of culture, as well as of the scholarship of cultural inquiry itself, this collection contributes to the critical debate about data and algorithms.
The essential objective of this study is to unpack the complicity between historians and secularization theory in the... Læs mere
Anabel Thomas investigates an unfinished commission for a fresco by Francesco di Bartolomeo Alfei in 1454, through extensive analysis of previously unpublished records, examining Alfei's relationships with Sienese society members, fellow artisans, and government officials.