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The American Spirit: A Study Of The Idea Of Civilization In The United States
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Edition: First EditionCondition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA landmark work of American intellectual history, The American Spirit: A Study of the Idea of Civilization in the United...
The Rise Of American Civilization: Volume I: The Agricultural Era
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Author: Charles A. Beard & Mary R. BeardBinding: HardbackPublished: The Macmillan Company, 1927Condition:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: YellowedMarkings: No markingsThis seminal historical work,...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
Emperor of Rome: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Author: Professor Mary Beard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 512 Cruel control freaks, diligent workaholics or extravagant teenagers? What were the emperors of Rome really like? In her international best-seller...
Classics
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The Progressive Historians: Turner/Beard/Parrington
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Edition: 1st ed.,Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears; clipped. Page Condition: Good. Markings: unmkd. Binding condition: Intact. At the crossroads of history and intellectual biography, Richard Hofstadter's...
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome matters.Its history of empire, conquest, cruelty and excess is something against which we still judge ourselves. Its myths and stories - from Romulus and Remus to the Rape...
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her books and TV presenting....
The Dictionary of Fashion History
- What is an Apollo knot? - Who wore a Welch wig? - When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History...
Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations
Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her books and TV presenting....
Emperor of Rome: The Instant Sunday Times Bestseller
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN & NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERBLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023'Extraordinary ... a deliciously varied tapestry of detail...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
'The reigning Queen of Classics' Spectator'Mary Beard is the best in the business' Dan Snow'Excellent' Guardian'Enthralling' Sunday TimesBritain's most famous classicist asks: what are civilisations?Central to this huge question are...
Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith
Focusing on the arrival of the human figure as a subject of art, Mary Beard examines the history of beauty in civilisation. Beginning with the Jericho painted skulls from 10,000...
Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern
Author: Mary Beard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 392 What does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to...
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE POL ROGER DUFF COOPER PRIZE* A Book of the Year in the Times; Telegraph; Spectator; Financial Times; Observer; Waterstones and Daunt...