Designed to be a useful travel companion. Descriptions and interpretation show the monuments of Athens in a different way and help visitors to understand the historical, artistic and political events that contributed to their creation. 95 col. illus. German language edition.

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9789606878770 | Published: 2015

The "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and problems in early Islamic history.

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9781937040550 | Published: 2016

This is the first book to study representations of the non-Western world in European modernist cinema. In offering new perspectives on the history of Soviet montage cinema and on the British documentary movement, it connects with the growing body of work analysing manifestations of orientalism, Eurocentrism and colonial discourse in the cinema.

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9780859896047 | Published: 2000

In the first book-length study to concentrate specifically on Britain, Jamie Sexton examines the rise of avant-garde and experimental film-making between the wars.

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9780859898102 | Published: 2008

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9780859898973 | Published: 2015

This collection of essays assesses the work of a number of American intellectuals, including Susan Sontag, F.O. Mathieson, Daniel Bell and Hannah Arendt, who have addressed issues of culture and its multifaceted relations to politics, history, sociology and literary criticism.

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9780859894043 | Published: 1995

"An American in Victorian Cambridge" is a richly detailed account of student life in the Cambridge of the 1840s. The rationale for the book, which is as appealing today as it was then, is that this is pre-eminently a book about an American student at an English university. In this new edition, some substantial additions have been made.

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9780859898256 | Published: 2008

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9780859898249 | Published: 2008

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9780859898980 | Published: 2015

Offers scholars, rabbis, and anyone interested in liturgical history a bibliography of Jewish liturgy published in the United States up to 1925. Catalogues prayer books, devotionals, memorials, children's prayers, hymnals, and scores. Includes four indices - Geographical, Name, Title, and Liturgical.

Hardback    £20.00
9780878209125 | Published: 1997