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Languages : fr
Pages : 0
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Objets d'art d'Extrême-Orient
Author: The Shrine to Music Museum
Author: Shrine to Music Museum (University of South Dakota)Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 72
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The Seduction of the Mediterranean
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134871392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Through an explanation of forty figures in European culture, ^The Seduction of the Mediterranean argues that the Mediterranean, classical and contemporary, was the central theme in homoerotic writing and art from the 1750s to the 1950s. Episodes of exile, murder, drug-taking, wild homosexual orgies and court cases are woven into an original study of a significant theme in European culture. The myth of a homoerotic Mediterranean made a major contribution to general attitudes towards Antiquity, the Renaissance and modern Italy and Greece.
France and the South Pacific since 1940
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: University of Hawaii Press
ISBN: 9780824815585
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
Objets d'art d'Extrême-Orient
Author: The New Langwill Index
Author: William WaterhousePublisher: T. Bingham
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 566
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This book is an entirely new work rather than a revision of Lyndsay Langwill's sixth edition. It is the standard work in its field, the most comprehensive work on wind instrument makers in any language and a major reference tool for collectors and researchers. Some features of the New Langwill Index are: Entries for nearly 6500 makers and inventors, active from the beginning until the middle of the 20th century; Nearly 400 representations of maker's marks; An index of makers under workplace, listing over 1000 localities; A comprehensive bibliography of over 600 titles. - Publisher.
Objets d'art d'Extrême-Orient
Author: Objets d'art d'Extrême-Orient : céramique de la Chine et du Japon, bois sculptés et laques, ivoires et netsuke, pierres dures diverses, bronzes et métaux divers, émaux cloisonnés, peintures chinoises et thibétaines, meubles et étoffes, etc...
Author: André PortierThe Last Colonies
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052141461X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
This comprehensive and authoritative book is about the last colonies, those remaining territories formally dependent on metropolitan powers. It discusses the surprisingly large number of these territories, mainly small isolated islands with limited resources. Yet these places are not as obscure as might be expected. They may be major tourist destinations, military bases, satellite tracking stations, tax havens or desolate, underpopulated spots that can become international flashpoints, such as the Falklands. The authors find that at a time of escalating nationalism and globalization, these remnants of empire provide insights into the meanings of political, economic, legal and cultural independence, as well as sovereignty and nationhood. This book provides a broad-based and provocative discussion of colonialism and interdependence in the modern world, from a unique perspective.
Colonialism and Homosexuality
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134644590
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Colonialism and Homosexuality is a thorough investigation of the connections of homosexuality and imperialism from the late 1800s - the era of 'new imperialism' - until the era of decolonization. Robert Aldrich reconstructs the context of a number of liaisons, including those of famous men such as Cecil Rhodes, E.M. Forster or André Gide, and the historical situations which produced both the Europeans and their non-Western lovers. Colonial lands, which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century included most of Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans and the Caribbean, provided a haven for many Europeans whose sexual inclinations did not fit neatly into the constraints of European society. Each of the case-studies is a micro-history of a particular colonial situation, a sexual encounter, and its wider implications for cultural and political life. Students both of colonial history, and of gender and queer studies, will find this an informative read.