Humanities - Page 163

Women's Dress in the Ancient Greek World

The clothing and ornament of Greek women signalled much about the status and the morality assigned t...

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Ancient Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction

The tradition of ancient philosophy is a long, rich and varied one. Julia Annas gives a succinct acc...

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Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic

An engaging look at the founder of one of the most important philosophical schools of ancient Greece...

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China After Mao: The Rise of a Superpower

'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan*A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESM...

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Pan-Asianism and the Legacy of the Chinese Revolution

An intellectual history of pan-Asianist discourse in the twentieth century.Recent proposals to reviv...

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Red Internationalism: Anti-Imperialism and Human Rights in the Global Sixties and Seventies

In Red Internationalism, Salar Mohandesi returns to the Vietnam War to offer a new interpretation of...

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Anti-Leftist Politics in Modern World History: Avoiding 'Socialism' at All Costs

Systemic and political hostility against the 'left', real and contrived, has been a key, yet under-r...

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How Things Fall Apart: What Happened to the Cuban Revolution

A powerful account of the decline of the Cuban Revolution, told through the lives of five ordinary C...

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Saving Freud: A Life in Vienna and an Escape to Freedom in London

'Astonishing… In the American journalist Andrew Nagorski this tale has found its ideal narrator'SEBA...

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Blood and Power: The Rise and Fall of Italian Fascism

'Clear, cool, plainly written and devastating' Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Times Literary SupplementA major...

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Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa

A revelatory new account of the magus—the learned magician—and his place in the intellectual, so...

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Botticelli's Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance

A New Yorker Best Book of 2022 A Guardian Book of the Day “Brilliantly conceived and executed, Bot...

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La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

'Everything about Venice,' observed Lord Byron, 'is, or was, extraordinary – her aspect is like a dr...

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The Fall of Robespierre: 24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the hi...

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Defectors: How the Illicit Flight of Soviet Citizens Built the Borders of the Cold War World

A broad-ranging history of defectors from the Communist world to the West and how their Cold War tre...

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