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Category : Auction catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and the Celebrated Vignali Collection of Napoleon Relics Removed from Saint Helena and Other Items of Napoleonic Interest from Various Sources
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books, Manuscripts and the Vignali Collection of Napoleon Relics Removed from Saint Helena, and Other Items of Napoleonic Interest from Various Sources
Author: Christie, Manson & WoodsPublisher:
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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, & Einstein's Brain
Author: Harvey RachlinPublisher: Garrett County Press
ISBN: 1939430917
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Leap across time with bestselling author Harvey Rachlin as he collects over 50 of the most fascinating objects in the world, under one book. The Mounted Hide of Stonewall Jackson's Battle Horse, The Black Obelisk, The Rosetta Stone, George Washington's False Teeth, Vice Admiral Lord Nelson's Uniform Coat, The Elephant Man's Skeleton, and Lincoln's Death Bed are just some of the objects Rachlin explores with wit, pick and an amazing sense of spectacle. Publisher's Weekly calls Lucy's Bone's, Sacred Stones, and Einstein's Brain "entertaining and enlightening." Library Journal declares Rachin's work "fascinating." Parade says it is "detailed and authoritative." It is also intensely moving as Rachlin weaves together seemingly disparate histories into a holistic statement that celebrates human endeavor. This book is not simply wonderful -- it is full of wonder.
Catalogue of Printed Books Manuscripts and the Celebrated Vignali Collection of Napoleon Relics Removed from Saint Helena
Author: Internationale Bibliographie der Antiquariats-, Auktions- und Kunstkataloge
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Category : Bibliography of bibliographies
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Bibliographie der Antiquariats-, Auktions- und Kunstkataloge
Author: A St. Helena Who's who
Author: Arnold ChaplinPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The Vatican Collections
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870993216
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Nearly three hundred illustrations and a text reveal the entire range of the Vatican's artistic holdings, replete with priceless masterworks from all periods.
The Imagined Immigrant
Author: Ilaria SerraPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 0838641989
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Using original sources--such as newspaper articles, silent movies, letters, autobiographies, and interviews--Ilaria Serra depicts a large tapestry of images that accompanied mass Italian migration to the U.S. at the turn of the twentieth century. She chooses to translate the Italian concept of immaginario with the Latin imago that felicitously blends the double English translation of the word as "imagery" and "imaginary." Imago is a complex knot of collective representations of the immigrant subject, a mental production that finds concrete expression; impalpable, yet real. The "imagined immigrant" walks alongside the real one in flesh and rags.
Imperial City
Author: Susan Vandiver NicassioPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226579743
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
In 1798, the armies of the French Revolution tried to transform Rome from the capital of the Papal States to a Jacobin Republic. For the next two decades, Rome was the subject of power struggles between the forces of the Empire and the Papacy, while Romans endured the unsuccessful efforts of Napoleon’s best and brightest to pull the ancient city into the modern world. Against this historical backdrop, Nicassio weaves together an absorbing social, cultural, and political history of Rome and its people. Based on primary sources and incorporating two centuries of Italian, French, and international research, her work reveals what life was like for Romans in the age of Napoleon. “A remarkable book that wonderfully vivifies an understudied era in the history of Rome. . . . This book will engage anyone interested in early modern cities, the relationship between religion and daily life, and the history of the city of Rome.”—Journal of Modern History “An engaging account of Tosca’s Rome. . . . Nicassio provides a fluent introduction to her subject.”—History Today “Meticulously researched, drawing on a host of original manuscripts, memoirs, personal letters, and secondary sources, enabling [Nicassio] to bring her story to life.”—History