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  • The Routledge Handbook of the History of Naples since the Late Middle Ages

    Edited by Alida Clemente, Amedeo Feniello, Paolo Frascani ...
    This book offers a comprehensive, interdisciplinary exploration of Naples—a city of profound historical depth and multifaceted complexity situated at the geographic and cultural crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean. Spanning from the Late Middle Ages to the present day, it examines the intricate relationships between power, society and urban transformation that have shaped its distinctive ... Read more

    $325.00 USD

  • Micro-geographies of the Western City, c.1750–1900

    Edited by Alida Clemente, Dag Lindström, Jon Stobart ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Historical Geography
    This book examines the overlapping spaces in modern Western cities to explore the small-scale processes that shaped these cities between c.1750 and 1900. It highlights the ways in which time and space matter, framing individual actions and practices and their impact on larger urban processes.It draws on the original and detailed studies of cities in Europe and North America through a micro ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

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  • Depicting Canada’s Children

    Edited by Loren Lerner ...
    Series series Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
    Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Italian Renaissance

    Culture and Society in Italy

    by Peter Burke ...
    In this brilliant and widely acclaimed work, Peter Burke presents a social and cultural history of the Italian Renaissance. He discusses the social and political institutions which existed in Italy during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries and analyses the ways of thinking and seeing which characterized this period of extraordinary artistic creativity. Developing a distinctive sociological ... Read more

    $29.95 USD

  • The Making of Home

    The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes

    by Judith Flanders ...
    The idea that 'home' is a special place, a separate place, a place where we can be our true selves, is so obvious to us today that we barely pause to think about it. But, as Judith Flanders shows in her best and most ambitious work to date, "home" is a relatively new idea.In The Making of Home, Flanders traces the evolution of the house from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century across ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Venice

    The Remarkable History of the Lagoon City

    by Dennis Romano ...
    A sweeping and comprehensive history of Venice--from its formation in the early Middle Ages to the present day--that traces its evolution as a city, city-state, regional power, and overseas empire. No city stirs the imagination more than Venice. From the richly ornamented palaces emerging from the waters of the Grand Canal to the dazzling sites of Piazza San Marco, visitors and residents alike ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • The Return of Curiosity

    What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century

    by Nicholas Thomas ...
    Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Public Art in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    by James S. McLean, Annie Gérin ...
    Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established ... Read more

    $36.79 USD

  • Housing and Dwelling

    Perspectives on Modern Domestic Architecture

    Edited by Barbara Miller Lane ...
    Housing and Dwelling collects the best in recent scholarly and philosophical writings that bear upon the history of domestic architecture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Lane combines exemplary readings that focus on and examine the issues involved in the study of domestic architecture, taken from an innovative and informed combination of philosophy, history, social science, art, ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Dante

    A Life

    by Alessandro Barbero ...
    Translated by Allan Cameron ...
    Dante brings the legendary author—and the medieval Italy of his era— to vivid life, describing the political intrigue, battles, culture, and society that shaped his writing.Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy has defined how people imagine and depict heaven and hell for over seven centuries.However, outside of Italy, his other works are not well known, and less still is generally known about the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Sleepwalking into a New World

    The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century

    by Chris Wickham ...
    Series series The Lawrence Stone Lectures
    "A fresh look into how communes in the mid-12th century successfully prepared Italian power structures for the cultural significance they would later have." — Publishers WeeklyAmid the disintegration of the Kingdom of Italy in the eleventh and twelfth centuries, a new form of collective government—the commune—arose in the cities of northern and central Italy. Sleepwalking into a New World takes a ... Read more

    $23.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Settling and Unsettling Memories

    Essays in Canadian Public History

    by Nicole Neatby, Peter Hodgins ...
    Settling and Unsettling Memories analyses the ways in which Canadians over the past century have narrated the story of their past in books, films, works of art, commemorative ceremonies, and online. This cohesive collection introduces readers to overarching themes of Canadian memory studies and brings them up-to-date on the latest advances in the field.With increasing debates surrounding how ... Read more

    $54.99 USD