Het bruisende en trendy karakter van het hedendaagse Barcelona vindt zijn oorsprong in de periode rond 1900. De essays in dit boek schetsen een beeld van Barcelona uit zijn gouden periode, aangevuld met een selectie poezie en literatuur van die tijd. Mercatorfonds, 2007; 215 pp.; NL; ills. b/w & col; hbVan/List Price € 39,95 Voor/Our Price € 15,00Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 62 %
Blood transfusion today is a routine medical procedure. Yet in the 17th century the idea of giving somebody blood rather than blood letting was dangerously unconventional. French mathematician Jean-Baptiste Denis, who had an interest in medicine was the first person to perform a blood transfusion on a human being. This fascinating tale of madness, corruption and intrigue roams from Classical Greece to 17th-century London and Paris.Wiley, 2003; 223 pp.; EN; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 27,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,99Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
In the second Empira Paris, there were a dozen courtesans who were generally known as la garde - they were the queens of their profession, the women whom visiting princes thought it essential to see. Richardson presents her own version of la garde -12 of the most distinguished courtesans in Paris during their golden age.Castle Books, 2004; 177 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 19,95 Voor/Our Price € 8,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 55 %
Robert Irwin offers both a brilliant defense of Orientalism and a masterful intellectual history of the Orientalists and their work, which has provided the West with glimpses of the social and religious practices of Asian cultures. Irwin surveys the history of Orientalism from the Greeks through the Middle Ages to its height in the 18th and 19th centuries.Overlook, 2006; 410 pp.; EN; index; hbVan/List Price € 35,00 Voor/Our Price € 12,50Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
In this book Bernard Lewis illuminates the role of religion in the Middle East, describing how it has shaped society for good and ill. From various sources, he brings together writings on religion and government in the region, highlighting the interrelationship between them that is quite different from Western societies.Oxford, 2010; 208 pp.; EN; hbVan/List Price € 24,95 Voor/Our Price € 9,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 60 %
In this brilliant reassessment of British aristocratic culture the author demonstrates how the transformation of audience behaviour at London's Italian opera -from the sociable, interactive spectatorship in the 1780s to the quiet, polite listening of the 1870s- served as a sensitive barometer of the aristocracy's changing authority. She explores how the opera participated in patronage culture and urban sociability of the British elite prior to the Reform Act of 1832.New Hampshire, 2007; 390 pp.; EN; index; ills. b/w; hbVan/List Price € 47,50 Voor/Our Price € 16,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 64 %
The Dutch slave trade, slavery and abolitionism have long remained unduly neglected issues in the burgeoning international debate on capitalism, modernity and antislavery. Fifty Years Later now offers a thorough and wide-ranging discussion of antislavery in the Netherlands and in the Dutch colonial world.Univ. of Pittsburgh; 272 pp.; EN; index; pbVan/List Price € 22,50 Voor/Our Price € 8,75Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 61 %
Friedrich der Grosse ist eie=ne der facettenreichsten Personlichkeiten der eorpaischen Geschichte. Er wollte von seinen Zeitgenossen und der Nachwelt als Grosser anerkannt werden -als Feldherr, Dichter, Philosoph und Kunstfreund. Die Ausstellung mit aussagestarken Originalzeugnissen und das Begleitbuch erlauben den Blick hinter die Maske des Konigs. Sie offenbaren in 12 Themenkomplexen Friedrichs Personlichkeit und Charakter, seine Ideen, sein Denken und Handeln.Hirmer, 2012; 420 pp.; GE; ills. b/w & col; hbhb € 43,95
This stunning book covers the historical, literary, and artistic grandeur of Spain during its Golden Age, 1492-1649. This lavishly illustrated volume explores Golden Age paintings alongside architecture and sculpture to give a complete picture of the sumptuousness of the era.Vendome, 2008; 304 pp.; EN; index; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 65,00 Voor/Our Price € 27,95Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
Dit rijk geillustreerde boek vertelt het verhaal van de islamitische beschaving vanaf de bedoeienmaatschappij, de wieg van de islam, naar de kalifaten en de gouden eeuw van de islam. Dit boek wil de bekoring en schoonheid overbrengen van de middeleeuwse islam.Davidsfonds, 2010; 207 pp.; NL; index; ills. col; hbVan/List Price € 34,95 Voor/Our Price € 15,00Uw prijsvoordeel/You save: 57 %
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