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Fonthill Media Ltd The Foreign Policy of the Third Reich: 1933-1939
Book SynopsisEvery phase of the Third Reich's foreign policy was determined by its authoritarian leader, Adolf Hitler. Following his rise to power, his political acuity and utter lack of scruple enabled him to achieve numerous diplomatic successes against the well-intentioned but largely ineffectual Anglo-French democracies. First by duplicity, then by bluff and bluster, and finally by brinkmanship, Hitler succeeded in establishing a strengthened and united Greater Germany (Grossdeutschland) in preparation for a Second Great War. This book examines in depth the revanchist foreign policy of Hitler's Germany from 1933 to 1939: the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, German rearmament, the introduction of compulsory military service and the enlargement of the German Armed Forces, the remilitarization of the Rhineland, the notorious Hossbach Conference, the Austrian 'Anschluss', the Munich Conference, the brazen seizures of Bohemia-Moravia and the Memel District, the Danzig crisis, the cynical brokering of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, and the German invasion of Western Poland.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I: German Diplomacy and the Inaction of the Western Powers; Part II: Annexation and Expansion; Part III: Preparations for War; Appendix A: The Reich Defence Law, 21 May 1935; Appendix B: The Hossbach Memorandum, 10 November 1937; Appendix C: Operation Otto: The Planned Invasion of Austria, 11 March 1938; Appendix D: Operation Green: The Secret Plan for an Aggressive War against Czechoslovakia, 30 May 1938; Appendix E: The Munich Agreement, 29 September 1938; Appendix F: Decree Regulating the Status of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, 16 March 1939; Appendix G: Memorandum from the German Government Denouncing the Anglo- German Naval Agreement, 27 April 1939; Appendix H: The Pact of Steel (The German-Italian Alliance) and Secret Additional Protocol, 22 May 1939; Appendix I: The Nazi-Soviet Pact (Treaty of Non-Aggression Between Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and Secret Additional Protocol, 23 August 1939; Appendix J: Proposal for a Settlement of the Problem of Danzig and the Polish Corridor and of the German-Polish Minorities Question, 31 August 1939; Appendix K: Directive No. 1 for the Conduct of the War, 31 August 1939; Endnotes; Bibliography; Index.
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Oxbow Books Butrint 6: Excavations on the Vrina Plain Volume
Book SynopsisButrint 6 describes the excavations carried out on the Vrina Plain by the Butrint Foundation from 2002–2007. Lying just to the south of the ancient port city of Butrint, these excavations have revealed a 1,300 year long story of a changing community that began in the 1st century AD, one which not only played its part in shaping the city of Butrint but also in how the city interacted and at times reacted to the changing political, economic and cultural situations occurring across the Mediterranean World over this period. Volume II discusses the finds from the Vrina Plain excavations.This volume provides an insight into how the Vrina Plain community lived, worked and ultimately died and includes chapters on the medieval and post-medieval ceramics from the excavations, analysis of the human and faunal remains, environmental evidence, Roman and Medieval coins, a detailed study of the small finds as well as a discussion of the glass including a report on a number of glass cakes, ingots of raw glass associated with glass working that were found during the excavations.The volume also reports on five lead seals dating from the late 9th to the 10th century, an uncommon find but one which when considered with the contemporary coins suggests that for 100 years the Vrina Plain was Butrint.Trade ReviewThese volumes, which are also excellent on the editorial plan, contribute to strengthening the decisive centrality of the Butrint project in the context of Mediterranean archaeological experiences of the last thirty years, also because the quality of the scientific approach is accompanied by an updated reflection on the main themes that touch on the transformation of ancient society in its passagetowards the Middle Ages. * Archeologia Medievale *Table of Contents1. The Medieval and Post-Medieval pottery finds from the Vrina Plain excavations. Joanita Vroom 2. The Ancient and Early Byzantine Coins from Vrina Plain. Sam Moorhead 3. Byzantine and Early Modern Coins (9th – 17th centuries). Pagona Papadopoulou 4. Lead seals. Pagona Papadopoulou 5. The human skeletons from the Vrina Plain Todd W. Fenton, Angela Soler, Carolyn V. Hurst, and Jared Beatrice 6. Vrina Plain Small Finds John Mitchell Appendix: The conservation of the Vrina Plain small finds Pippa Pearce 7. The Vessel Glass of the Vrina Plain: A Catalogue Karen Stark 8. Glass cakes and glass tesserae from the Vrina Plain Nadine Schibille 9. The Faunal Remains Richard Madgwick 10. Aquatic resource exploitation at the Vrina Plain from the 1st to the 13th century AD Rena Veropoulidou 11. Hand-collected shell. Matt Law and Richard Madgwick 12. The archaeobotanical evidence of the Vrina Plain settlement Alexandra Livarda
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Oxbow Books Twelfth-Century Sculptural Finds at Canterbury
Book SynopsisThis study reconstructs twelfth-century sculptural and architectural finds, found during the restoration of the Perpendicular Great Cloister of Christ Church, Canterbury, as architectural screens constructed around 1173. It proposes that the screens provided monastic privacy and controlled pilgrimage to the Altar of the Sword's Point in the Martyrdom, the site of Archbishop Thomas Becket's murder in 1170.Excavations in the 1990s discovered evidence of a twelfth-century tunnel leading to the Martyrdom under the crossing of the western transept. Construction would have required rebuilding the crossing stairs and the screens flanking the crossing. The roundels, portraying lions, devils, a 'pagan', Jews, and a personification of the synagogue, are reconstructed on the south side of the crossing as a screening wall framing the entrance to this tunnel. The quatrefoils with images of Old Testament prophets are reconstructed as a rood screen on the west side of the crossing. In the Martyrdom, a screen is proposed with perhaps the earliest known sculptural representation of Thomas Becket. The rood screen, located behind the Altar of the Holy Cross, would have provided a visual focus during Mass, monastic processions, and sermons, especially during Christmas and Holy Week. The row of prophets, pointing upwards at the Rood, would have functioned as the visual equivalent of the dialogue of the ‘Ordo prophetarum’ that predicted the Messiah as proof to Jews and other unbelievers of Christian redemption. The roundels, just around the corner on the south screening wall, can be interpreted as representing the unbelieving Other and forces of evil warning pilgrims to seek penance at the altar of the newly canonized St Thomas.In addition to this new interpretation, a catalog raisonné and an account of the discovery of the finds offers material for future research that has been unavailable to previous studies. All the finds were photographed by the author as the restoration progressed;16 pieces of which have since been lost, making some of the unpublished photographs essential evidence of the archaeological record.Trade ReviewThis book will be essential for any student of late 12th-century sculpture. * Medieval Archaeology *The sculptural finds dramatically illustrate the seamless nature of European art and society in Romanesque times; a society joined, not separated, by the Channel. * Current Archaeology *This book should stimulate new discussions on the topography of this extraordinary cult, by far the most famous in western Europe. * British Archaeology *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of illustrations Part I Screens and the Cult of St Thomas Introduction 1. Previous studies and the location of the finds The king reliefs Earlier scholarship Prior Chillenden’s constructions Conclusion 2. Dating of the sculpture and architectural fragments Carving techniques Figurative sculpture Foliage decoration Architectural motifs Regional impact Conclusion 3. Christ Church, Canterbury (1170–1175) Becket’s murder in the north arm of the transept Analysis of Gervase’s description Crossing of the western transept South arm of the transept North arm of the transept (the Martyrdom) Late twelfth-century alterations in the crossing Prior Odo (1168–1175) Pilgrimage (1171–1175) Conclusion 4. Reconstruction of the screens in the western transept The Martyrdom North–south partitioning screen and north screen East side of partitioning screen and north screen West side of partitioning screen Southern entrance to the tunnel Excavations South screen East side of the crossing Rood screen Conclusion 5. The quatrefoils: prophecy and the theology of redemption The gestures of the prophets The rood screen as a liturgical focus Prophetic testimony in images and texts Liturgical drama Ysagoge in Theologiam Inscribed images of prophets and liturgical texts The Incarnation: Advent and Christmas Mass at the Altar of the Holy Cross The Passion: Holy Week Conclusion 6. The roundels: the Church’s Other Lions, demons, Jews and a pagan Synagoga The unbeliever Canterbury’s Jewish community Conclusion Conclusion Plates, Reconstructions Part II Twelfth-Century Finds from the Perpendicular Great Cloister Introduction to the catalogue Catalogue A. Statue segments B. Quatrefoils C. Roundels D. Shaft-rings E. Arch elements Hood-moulds and head-stops Beaded hood-moulds Voussoirs F. String-course and related elements G. Capitals and base H. Purbeck elements Comparative charts with dimensions of the limestone finds Bibliography Index
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Archaeopress Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies
Book SynopsisThe Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian Peninsula. Meeting for the first time in 1968, the Seminar covers a wide range of subjects including but not limited to archaeology, epigraphy, history, ethnography, art, architecture, linguistics, and literature from prehistory to the early twentieth century. The 55th Seminar for Arabian Studies marked the first in-person gathering for this event since 2019, with the Seminar cancelled in 2020 and hosted entirely online in 2021. Drawing upon lessons learned from the 54th Seminar, this year’s presentations were available in a hybrid in-person and online format, which allowed for broader attendance among those unable to travel to Berlin. The Editorial Team for the Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies is proud to present the published presentations from the 55th Seminar, and we look forward to future volumes as colleagues from around the world come together (in-person and virtually) to contemplate Arabian studies.Table of ContentsGuidelines and Transliteration Editor’s Foreword In Memoriam. ʿAbd al‑Raḥmān al‑Ṭayyib al‑Anṣārī, 1935–2023 MASPAG 2022 archaeological survey — methodological perspectives and preliminary results – Guido Antinori, Francesco Del Bravo, Francesco Genchi, Alessandro Di Ludovico & Marco Ramazzotti New information on late antique to early Islamic ceramic production and distribution in the Gulf. Petrography of samples from Siraf, Bushehr, and Fulayj – José C. Carvajal López, Seth M.N. Priestman & Myrto Georgakopoulou† GlaViWo — a 3D virtual world for an Arabist – Elisabeth Cerny & Ronald Ruzicka The protohistoric and antique landscapes of Qaryat al‑Faw. The Saudi Heritage Commission Archaeological Mapping Project (2021–2022) – Guillaume Charloux, François Cristofoli, Thomas Creissen, Majed Alanizi, Antoine Darchambeau, Alessia Prioletta, Sabrina Save, Jérémie Schiettecatte, Najla Alsuair, Abdu Elah al‑Tarib, Quentin Vitale & Alexandrine Wadel An Abbasid settlement horizon in the oasis of Khaybar: the al‑Ḥurḍah site – Guillaume Chung-To Preliminary analyses of vernacular earthen architecture in the gardens of al‑ʿUlā oasis (Saudi Arabia) – Pascale Clauss-Balty, Yasmin Kanhoush, Sarra Ben Bader & Julien Charbonnier The Al‑Mudhaybi Regional Survey: field seasons 2021 and 2022 – Stephanie Döpper, Jonas Kluge & Maria Pia Maiorano Long-distance trade in al‑ʿUlā from the Mamluk period to the twentieth century AD: technological, morphological, and compositional study of glass bangles collected in al‑ʿUlā oasis (Hejaz, Saudi Arabia) – Cassandra Furstos, Maria Paola Pellegrino, Anne Leschallier, Yasmin Kanhoush & Julien Charbonnier New light on the Neolithic fertile coast: recent excavations on Ghagha Island (Abu Dhabi Emirate, UAE) and the emergence of domestic architecture in ancient Arabia – Noura Hamad Al Hameli, Richard Thorburn Cuttler, Mark Jonathan Beech, Rémy Crassard, Ahmed Abdalla Elfaki, Peter Magee & Kevin Lidour The Palaeolithic record of Abu Dhabi Emirate in the light of recent discoveries in the Eastern Region – Marc Händel, Norbert Buchinger, Ali Al Meqbali & Peter Magee The Islamic Fortifications Project on Soqotra: Jebel Hawari fort (SHP200) – Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Enzo Cocca, Emanuel Demetrescu & Ahmed Saeed Ahmed Al‑Orqbi The Early Bronze Age in the Hajar oases: new investigations of the settlement, funerary, and monumental site of al‑Dhabi 2 (Bisya, Oman) – Mathilde Jean, Martin Sauvage, Olivia Munoz, Victoria de Castéja, Théo Mespoulet, Josselin Pinot & Kaïna Rointru The Wādī Sūq archaeological landscape of Bāt (Dhahirah Governorate, Oman) and its interregional significance – Taichi Kuronuma, Takehiro Miki & Yasuhisa Kondo Characterizing techniques and marine resource exploitation for Iron Age and late Islamic lime production on Jubail Island (Abu Dhabi): the 2021 archaeological investigations – Aurore Lambert, Corentin Biets, Benjamin Durand, Célia Casado, Élodie Lassalle, Paloma Lorente-Sebastián, Thibaut Peres, Jan Veron, Samara Broglia de Moura, Mark Jonathan Beech, Richard Thorburn Howard Cuttler & Peter Magee First results of the 2020 and 2021 seasons of the Saudi-French Archaeological and Epigraphic Mission to Najrān in the area of Ḥimā (Najrān, Saudi Arabia) – Silvia Lischi, Jérôme-François Haquet, Yamandú Hieronimus Hilbert & Alessia Prioletta Late second-millennium soft-stone vessels revisited: defining a primary marker for an Iron Age I horizon in south-east Arabia – Eric Olijdam & Christian Velde A newly discovered late antique monastery and Islamic town on Sīnīya Island, Umm al‑Quwain – Timothy Power, Michele Degli Esposti, Robert Hoyland & Rania Hussein Kannouma Fulayj: a Sasanian to early Islamic fort in the Sohar hinterland – Seth Priestman, Nasser Al‑Jahwari, Eve MacDonald, Derek Kennet, Kawther Alzeidi, Mark Andrews, Vladimir Dabrowski, Vladimer Kenkadze, Rosalind MacDonald, Tatia Mamalashvili, Ibrahim Al‑Maqbali, Davit Naskidashvili & Domiziana Rossi The 2021 field season at Kalba: results of the excavations and geo-archaeological surveys – Christoph Schwall, Michael Brandl, Mario Börner, Susanne Lindauer, Katleen Deckers, Simone Riehl, Anja Cramer, Christoph Hauzenberger, Eisa Yousif & Sabah A. Jasim The Oman Border Fence Project 2021: a journey through the hydraulic, agricultural, and funerary landscapes of al‑ʿAyn – Peter Sheehan, Mohammed Khalifa, Malak Al Ajou, Nour Al Marzooqi, Maickel Van Bellegem, Anabela Ferreira, Jaber Al Merri, Timothy Power, Anne Benoist, Louise Purdue, Maria-Paola Pellegrino, Enrica Tagliamonte & Hélène David-Cuny Saruq al‑Hadid: a centre of metallurgic production and social cohesion – Tatiana Valente The necropolis of Al Qusais (Dubai, UAE): preliminary results of the 2020 excavation and reassessment of the data from the 1970s and 1990s excavations – Tatiana Valente, Fernando Contreras, Bernardo Vila, Adrián Fernández, Bader Al Ali, Mansour Karim & Hassan Zein Titles of papers read at the Seminar for Arabian Studies held at Humboldt Universität 5–7 August 2022
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Verso Books Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War
Book SynopsisAmericans see the Democratic Party as the anti-war party: vacillating flipfloppers in the eyes of conservatives; or, in the liberal view, restrained, measured wagers of war as "last resort." In November 2006, voters put the Democrats into Congress to bring an end to the Iraq war. Yet the Democrats supported the "surge," giving Bush more money than he himself requested, and voted through the next $459.6 billion defense budget.In this hard-hitting examination of their role in the War on Terror, political analyst and satirist Dennis Perrin shatters the myth of the reluctant-warrior Democrats. He explores Democrat collusion in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and support for Israeli assaults on Gaza and Lebanon, while revealing their overlooked appetite for planning wars and selling them to the electorate. Compelling and bleakly humorous, Savage Mules shows a party at odds with its public image on this key issue in the race for the White House.Trade Review"Michael O'Donoghue was the most innovative satirist of his generation. Thankfully, this book forsakes the tabloid sensationalism of so many less show-business biographies, and honestly captures its subject and his unique creativity. I loved it." Chevy Chase "Laughter is a faculty that supposedly separates us from the beasts. But there is such a thing as a comedy animal, and Dennis Perrin has netted him with great aplomb. Humor, in the right hands, is no laughing matter." Christopher Hitchens "A humorous yet unsparing look at us - the sporting public." USA Today "Fascinating." New York Times Book Review"
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Verso Books The Eitingons: A Twentieth-Century Story
Book SynopsisLeonid Eitingon was a KGB assassin who dedicated his life to the Soviet regime. He was in China in the early 1920s, in Turkey in the late 1920s, in Spain during the Civil War, and, crucially, in Mexico, helping to organize the assassination of Trotsky. "As long as I live," Stalin said, "not a hair of his head shall be touched." It did not work out like that.Max Eitingon was a psychoanalyst, a colleague, friend and protégé of Freud's. He was rich, secretive and-through his friendship with a famous Russian singer- implicated in the abduction of a white Russian general in Paris in 1937. Motty Eitingon was a New York fur dealer whose connections with the Soviet Union made him the largest trader in the world. Imprisoned by the Bolsheviks, questioned by the FBI. Was Motty everybody's friend or everybody's enemy?Mary-Kay Wilmers, best known as the editor of the London Review of Books, began looking into aspects of her remarkable family twenty years ago. The result is a book of astonishing scope and thrilling originality that throws light into some of the darkest corners of the last century. At the center of the story stands the author herself-ironic, precise, searching, and stylish-wondering not only about where she is from, but about what she's entitled to know.Trade ReviewUnlike the hordes of amateur historians who have mobbed the world's libraries over the past decade on the theory that reconstructing lineage equates to personal discovery, Wilmers is up to something that commands general attention. -- Christopher Glazek * New Yorker *Wilmers' adventures in digging through [the Eitingons'] lost world makes Mary-Kay one of the book's most intriguing characters. * Harper’s *Like characters in some Russian Jewish Stalinist Freudian capitalist 20th-century fairy tale, the Eitingons are larger than life, their fates bitter and all too human. * New York Times *A superbly written book, The Eitingons is much more than a family history, for the author has a deep knowledge of the cultural and political context, whether of twentieth-century America or the Soviet Union, in which they lived. It stands as an intimate portrait of a world that seems far removed from our own. * The Observer *The Eitingons is a riveting history of the twentieth century. It deals with war, displacement, murder, espionage, the Jewish diaspora and psychoanalysis. It explains Trotsky's assassination, the growth of Freud's teachings, the importance of the fur trade, the uses of money and the lure of the past. There is a lightness and a truthfulness in the narrative that makes you turn every page with pure fascination. -- Colm TóibínWilmers pieces together what she can of the shadowy life of Leonid Eitingon, a high-level KGB killer ... and looks for clues that her grandfather's cousin Max, a protégé of Freud in Berlin, and Motty, a New York fur trader, were also working for Stalin. What emerges is a fascinating story of family secrets and silences. * New Statesman *Well researched, bold, and revealing, Wilmers's book transforms a series of dark family secrets into an illuminating experience for anybody brave enough to delve into the enigma of family history. * Publishers Weekly *Compelling... [Wilmers] has produced a deeply-researched family chronicle, which bears only a trace resemblance to the memoirs that dominate the book industry. * Barnes and Noble Review *
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Four Courts Press Ltd King and Warrior in Early North-West Europe
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Four Courts Press Ltd Louth: The Irish Revolution, 1912-23
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Four Courts Press Ltd Winning the Vote for Women: The 'Irish Citizen'
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Four Courts Press Ltd The Irish Revenue Police, 1832-1857: A complete
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Four Courts Press Ltd Epigraphy in an intermedial context
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Four Courts Press Ltd Church and Settlement in Ireland
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Four Courts Press Ltd An Ulster Slave Owner in the Revolutionary
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Four Courts Press Ltd The Making of medieval Derry
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Four Courts Press Ltd A history of the Irish Red Cross
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Four Courts Press Ltd Households of God: The Regular Canons and
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Four Courts Press Ltd The Museum Building of Trinity College Dublin: A
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Four Courts Press Ltd The operations of the Irish House of Commons,
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Riverside Book Company Arabs and Normans in Sicily and the South of Italy
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Pindar Press L'art monumental en Normandie et dans l'Europe du
Book SynopsisMaylis Baylé has had the advantage of a dual training in history and the history of art. She is a director of research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Université de Paris I), author of a work on the Romanesque sculpture of Normandy, and an authority in the field of Romanesque monumental art. A method of rigorous analysis that "integrates physical examination and stylistic study has "enabled her to follow the activity and the advances of the workshops of sculptors in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, particularly in Normandy, their links with English art well before 1066, and the importance of Burgundy and the Île-de-France in the transmission of artistic developments. The sculpture of the eleventh century is closely related to the styles of miniature painting and the luxury arts these "rapports are maintained for a long time in Normandy, England and Scandinavia, where they persist well beyond the end of the Romanesque period. These contacts between scriptoria and sculptors, along with an obvious community of styles between the various forms of artistic creation, constitute a recurring 'leitmotiv' through this collection of articles and lead to a new approach to Romanesque art. Another aspect of Maylis Baylé's work relates to "techniques of construction and the history of medieval "architecture, with several points of interest: the artistic revival around the year 1000 and the relations attested then between Normandy, Maine, Anjou, Beauvais and England, and the structure of walls and techniques of vaulting. Monographs of monuments constituting significant stages of this "development, in Normandy, the Loire, Champagne and the Bourbonnais illustrate various aspects of these problems. For some earlier articles, Dr Baylé has added a scientific and bibliographical update.Table of ContentsIntroduction Sculpture préromane et romane: Les chapiteaux de la chapelle Sainte-Paix à Caen Aspects de la sculpture normande autour de 1100: à propos de Graville-Sainte-Honorine La sculpture à Lonlay-l'Abbaye et dans ses prieurés Le décor sculpté de Saint-Georges-de-Boscherville La sculpture du XIe siècle à Jumièges La sculpture dans la Normandie méridionale: à propos d'Autgeuil et de Lonlay-l'Abbaye Interlace Patterns in Norman Romanesque Sculpture Les chapiteaux de Stogursey (Somerset), ancien prieuré de Lonlay-l'abbaye Les ateliers de sculpture dans le Cotentin (1100-1150) Chapiteaux de Saint-Thomas d'Argentan Les ateliers de sculpture de Saint-Etienne de Caen (1066-1120) La sculpture préromane en Normandie Réminiscences Scandinaves dans la sculpture romane de Normandie Frises et dalles sculptées en Normandie Vestiges romans de Saint-Gervais de Rouen L'Adoration des Mages de Saint-Paul de Rouen Saint-Symphorien de Domfront Sculpture et polychromie dans l'art roman de Normandie Place de Saint-Germain-des-Prés (Paris) dans le cheminement des formes au XIe siècle Les sculptures de la rotonde de Dijon La tradition ornementale dans la sculpture romane La sculpture du XIIe siècle à Bayeux Le décor végétal du XIIe siècle en Normandie Architecture: Les monuments juifs de Rouen et l'architecture romane L'influence des italiens dans l'art roman de Normandie: légende ou réalité? Relations entre massif de façade et vaisseau de nef en Normandie avant 1080 Norman Architecture around the Year 1000 La brique dans l'architecture préromane et romane Structures murales et voûtements dans l'architecture romane de Normandie Les représentations de l'architecture dans les manuscrits Ancienne abbatiale Notre-Dame de Bemay Saint-Symphorien de Ponthion Saint-Aignan-sur-Cher Saint-Pierre d'Yzeure Bibliographie de l'auteur Notes complémentaires Index
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University of Exeter Press Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in
Book SynopsisThe British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation. The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists – practitioners, academics and individual researchers – who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era. Trade Review ‘Virtually everything in this admirable volume deserves to be noticed.’ (Screening the Past, Issue 22, Jan. 2008) ‘It is the first of these proceedings to be published by the University of Exeter Press, which offers a new and more attractive design, and the contributons themselves are equally good’ (Early Popular Visual Culture: 6,3. November 2008) Table of ContentsContents: Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Alan Burton and Laraine Porter; Location, Location, Location: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930; Bryony Dixon (Curator of Silent Film at the BFI's National Film and Television Archive); On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence; Tony Fletcher (founder member of The Cinema Museum in London); The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema; Paul Moody (lecturer in Media Studies at Uxbridge College); Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films; Simon Brown (senior lecturer in Film Studies at Kingston University); Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema; Christine Gledhill (Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sunderland); "The Plucky Girl" and the "Pigeon to Pluck": Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London; Judith Cowan (archive researcher at the ITN archive working on the Reuters Collection); Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama; Judith McLaren (teacher of English at St Paul's School in London); The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature; Ivo Blom (lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Comparative Arts Studies of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam); The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study; Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College London); Everyone's Doing the Riviera Because It's So Much Nicer in Nice; Amy Sargeant (Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art and Architecture); The City of the Future; Patrick Keiller (films include London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997); research fellow at the Royal College of Art in London); Co-operation and the Contestation of Public Space; Alan Burton (teacher at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria); Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life; Mick Eaton (recent TV work includes 'Shipman', a factual drama about Britain's most prolific serial murderer); Index.
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University of Exeter Press Picture Perfect: Landscape, Place and Travel in
Book SynopsisThe British cinema has drawn extensively on our national landscapes. Filmmakers have explored the entrenched myth of an idyllic rural tradition, intimately bound up with a popular definition of national heritage. Conversely, within a documentary-realist framework, they have looked at the contemporary urban aesthetic, derived partly from a Victorian tradition of social investigation. The fifth in a series of volumes from the annual British Silent Cinema Festival held in Nottingham (and the first to be published by Exeter), this collective study offers an original treatment of the relationship between pre-1930 cinema and landscape. The Nottingham festival from which this collection derives brought together a group of leading specialists – practitioners, academics and individual researchers – who between them provide a detailed investigation into the national cinema before the sound era. Trade Review ‘Virtually everything in this admirable volume deserves to be noticed.’ (Screening the Past, Issue 22, Jan. 2008) ‘It is the first of these proceedings to be published by the University of Exeter Press, which offers a new and more attractive design, and the contributons themselves are equally good’ (Early Popular Visual Culture: 6,3. November 2008) Table of ContentsContents: Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Alan Burton and Laraine Porter; Location, Location, Location: Landscape, Place and Travel in British Cinema Before 1930; Bryony Dixon (Curator of Silent Film at the BFI's National Film and Television Archive); On Location in Edwardian Britain: Urban and Rural Violence; Tony Fletcher (founder member of The Cinema Museum in London); The Marketing of Landscapes in Silent British Cinema; Paul Moody (lecturer in Media Studies at Uxbridge College); Narrative and Pictorialism in Post-Pioneer Hepworth Films; Simon Brown (senior lecturer in Film Studies at Kingston University); Pastoral Transformations in 1920s British Cinema; Christine Gledhill (Professor of Cinema Studies at the University of Sunderland); "The Plucky Girl" and the "Pigeon to Pluck": Characters, Locations and Entertainment Forms in Rogues of London; Judith Cowan (archive researcher at the ITN archive working on the Reuters Collection); Trainers and Temptresses: The British Racing Drama; Judith McLaren (teacher of English at St Paul's School in London); The First Cameraman in Iceland: Travel Film and Travel Literature; Ivo Blom (lecturer in Film Studies at the Department of Comparative Arts Studies of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam); The Anglo-Boer War in North London: A Micro-Study; Ian Christie (Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College London); Everyone's Doing the Riviera Because It's So Much Nicer in Nice; Amy Sargeant (Senior Research Fellow at the Paul Mellon Centre for the Study of British Art and Architecture); The City of the Future; Patrick Keiller (films include London (1994) and Robinson in Space (1997); research fellow at the Royal College of Art in London); Co-operation and the Contestation of Public Space; Alan Burton (teacher at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria); Billy Merson's Monologue: Blighted My Life; Mick Eaton (recent TV work includes 'Shipman', a factual drama about Britain's most prolific serial murderer); Index.
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Merrion Press Brian Lenihan: In Calm and Crisis
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Vallentine Mitchell & Co Ltd Great Philanthropists: Wealth and Charity in the
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Helion & Company ZweybrüCken in Command: The Reichsarmee in the
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Wordwell Books Studio & State: The Laverys and the Anglo-Irish
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Casemate Publishers Armies of Bismarck's Wars: Prussia, 1860–1867
Book SynopsisOn July 3rd, 1866, a Prussian army overwhelmed and defeated an Austrian army near the fortress city of Königgrätz in a bloody battle that lasted all day. The foremost power in Germany and central Europe had been reduced to a second rate player. The event caused alarm in the rest of the Western world. How was a country like Prussia able to upset the balance of power in Europe, when only sixteen years earlier Austria’s treaty of Olmützit had put it in its place? Its performance as an Austrian ally had been less than stellar in the 2nd Schleswig War of 1864. Yet within five years a Prussian-led army would humble France and a Prussian King would be crowned Emperor of a united Germany. The history of the world would be changed forever.The story of this army is the subject of The Armies of Bismarck’s Wars, a new book by acclaimed military author and artist, Bruce Bassett-Powell. He chronicles its growth from the end of the Napoleonic Wars to the reforms of the 1860s, as well as giving a full account of the wars against Denmark and Austria, showing how the confluence of the lives of Kaiser Wilhelm I, Helmuth von Molkte and Otto von Bismarck provided the ingredients that created such an irresistible force.This lavishly illustrated book describes the history and battles of the Prussian army, as well as lesser known details concerning its rise to prominence. The growth and influence of the General Staff is also examined, along with the recruitment and training of officers and men. The author fully describes the organisation of Prussia’s army and its fledgling navy, as well as the weapons with which they fought, in particular giving a detailed account of their dress and accoutrements, accompanied by 24 full-page colour illustrations of over 70 uniforms.
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Trine Day A Memoir of Injustice: By the Younger Brother of
Book SynopsisIncluding previously undisclosed information on one of the most significant and mysterious events in modern American history, this account debunks the myth that James Earl Ray was a racist and documents his actual location on one of the critical days leading up to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. The memoir also reveals photographs of James Earl Ray when he was ill in prison and gives the key to a code used by the brothers in planning a prison break. Presenting a mesmerizing perspective on the manipulation of the media in reporting on race relations, the working middle class, and the U.S. criminal justice system, this account broadcasts an urgent call to action to correct some of the many injustices that surround these events, such as the U.S. government's refusal to rigorously test the alleged murder weapon, and encourages support for new federal legislation.
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Les Belles Lettres Thomas d'Aquin, l'Astrologie, Les Operations
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