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Lawrence L. Langer, perhaps the most important literary critic of the Holocaust, here explores the use of Holocaust themes in literature, memoirs, film, and painting. Among the authors he examines...

The collection of Early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery in London is one of the finest and most comprehensive in the world. This book provides a survey of European...

The book titled The Celts by the author Frank Delaney. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The flowering of civilization, the rebirth of classical scholarship and the serendipitous coming together of some of the greatest artists the world has ever known: this is the traditional view...

Known for their remarkable mosaic work, the 'Cosmati' stoneworkers of the 12th and 13th centuries left a legacy of some of the most beautiful ornament in the world, Distinguished by...

During the Renaissance, a profound transformation occurred in Western culture, fuelled in large part by the rediscovery of the mythological, pagan imagination. This large-format and highly illustrated book provides new...

In the Lives of Images , Peter Mason examines four striking case studies involving the production and transmission of visual images of non-European peoples. Beginning with what has been taken...

The book titled Art and Design in Europe and America, 1800-1900 by the author Victoria and Albert Museum. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

A stimulating series of journeys through the 'back country' behind the fabled French Riviera taking the visitor to unexplored mountain landscapes, perched villages, wayside chapels and the pathways taken by...

A celebration of William Guilfoyle-botanist, landscape designer, tourist and writer Explore the grand gardens and forests of Europe and Britain with esteemed landscape designer William Guilfoyle, as he did with...

Fifty years after his seminal Tate gallery London exhibition, 'The Elizabethan Image', leading authority Roy Strong returns with fresh eyes to the subject closest to his heart, The Virgin Queen,...

In a new addition to the Pelican History of Art series, leading architectural historian Eric Fernie presents a fascinating survey of Romanesque architecture and the political systems that gave rise...

In this fascinating book, one of the foremost art historians in the world traces how cast shadows have been depicted in Western art through the centuries. E.H. Gombrich points out...

An epic history of the birth of news in Europe 'Highly ambitious and impressive ... a rich, multifaceted and thought-provoking book' Noel Malcolm, Times Literary Supplement News moves. It is...

An examination of how the Jews real and imagined so challenged the Christian majority in medieval Europe that it became a society that was religiously and culturally antisemitic in new...

This is a composite biography of the queens and royal bedfellows of these centuries, and provides a fascinating picture of their political importance and the many factors that affected their...

The children of survivors of the Holocaust, the second generation, are in middle life, their own children already independent. This volume contains a collection of personal reflections of the child...

Looks at the king and his beliefs, domestic problems, and foreign policy.

In a complex world, who is allowed to be complicated? Who is entitled to a messy life full of triumphs, mistakes and tedium? Until recently, not Black women. Kimberly McIntosh...

This title helps you discover the dramatic world of the Celts and Vikings. You can find out about every aspect of the lives of the Vikings and the Celts, their...

Rule your kitchen with fire and blood! This regal collection of 60 recipes will bring Westerosi cuisine to your table, with dishes like sweet pumpkin soup, royal boar ribs, and...

From New York Times bestselling author Eliot Schrefer comes an exuberant YA historical coming-of-age novel about a rising star French pianist, navigating his way into high society as he explores...

From one of our leading experts on disinformation, this inventive biography of the rogue WWII propagandist Sefton Delmer confronts hard questions about the nature of information war: what if you...

This, the fourth volume to be published in the series Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History, charts the development of theatrical presentation at a time of great cultural and political...

The winner of a 1988 Somerset Maugham Award, this is a kaleidoscopic series of portraits from an era of tumultuous change in Europe as it was experienced and communicated by...

Age range 3 to 8 Enter a world of friendship, honour, and duty to your King in 17th century France with this beautifully illustrated adaptation of the classic French novel...

This volume contains speeches from great works of European drama that have either been translated or adapted by Robert David MacDonald, awarded the Goethe Medal for Services to German literature'

This book is a major history of the dramatic and enduring changes in the daily lives of poor European women and men in the nineteenth century. Rachel G. Fuchs conveys...

To comprehend the Freudian revolution, it is necessary to understand the private as well as the public man. This work, which uses illustrations assembled from family collections, manuscripts, letters and...

Do you love trains? Do you love adventure? If so, join Tom Chesshyre on his meandering rail journey across Europe from London to Venice. Escaping the rat race for a...

A definitive new biography of the Byzantine emperor Justinian Justinian is a radical reassessment of an emperor and his times. In the sixth century CE, the emperor Justinian presided over...

In nineteenth-century Italy, the wife of General Garibaldi bakes biscuits as a peace offering for the defeated French army.

One of the most celebrated heroines of the Second World War, Odette Churchill was 27 and living in England with her English husband and their three children when war broke...

Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the...

A characteristic of 20th- and 21st-century artistic production is that casual acquaintances and close intimates, friends, lovers, or sometimes even rivals come together to work collaboratively on the realization of...

The full-color series for both domestic and overseas destinations designed for the independent traveler. The Discover Guides -- feature special essays that vividly reveal the spirit of each destination, --...

A sweeping, original history of occupation and resistance in war-torn Europe Across the whole of Nazi-ruled Europe the experience of occupation was sharply varied. Some countries - such as Denmark...