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J. Eric S. Thompson The rise and fall of Maya civilization
Engels | 288 pagina's | Gollancz, etc., London | 1956
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Frederic V. Grunfeld Prophets without honour
a background to Freud, Kafka, Einstein and their world
Engels | 349 pagina's | Hutchinson, London | 1979
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Hidden futures
death and immortality in Ancient Egypt, Anatolia, the Classical, Biblical and Arabic-Islamic world
Non-fictie
Engels | 253 pagina's | Amsterdam University Press, [Amsterdam] | 1994
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Robert Irwin For lust of knowing
the Orientalists and their enemies
Geschiedenis van de oriëntalistiek, waarin recente discussies en kritiek, zoals van Edward Said, uitvoerig aan de orde komen.
Non-fictie
Engels | 409 pagina's | Allen Lane the Penguin Press, London | 2006
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Victoria De Grazia Irresistible empire
America's advance through twentieth-century Europe
The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today.
Engels | The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, London | 2006
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Sarah Clegg Woman's lore
4000 years of sirens, serpents and succubi
Non-fictie
Engels | 8 pagina's | Head of Zeus, London | 2023
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Umberto Eco On beauty
Beauty is both a history of art, and a history of aesthetics. Eco draws on the histories of both art and aesthetics to define the ideas of beauty that have informed sensibilities from the classical world to modern times. Taking in painting, sculpture, architecture, film, photography, the decorative arts, novels and poems, it offers a rich panorama of this huge subject. It traces the philosophy of aesthetics through history and examines some of the many treatises that have sought to define it. Eco...
Engels | 438 pagina's | Secker & Warburg, London | 2004
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Markman Ellis The coffee-house
a cultural history
Engels | 304 pagina's | Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London | 2004
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History, religion, and culture
British intellectual history, 1750-1950
Engels | 289 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [etc.] | 2000
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American culture in the Netherlands
Non-fictie
Engels | 196 pagina's | VU University Press, Amsterdam | 1996
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Donald W. Engels Classical cats
the rise and fall of the sacred cat
Engels | 227 pagina's | Routledge, London [etc.] | 1999
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Jonathan Dollimore Death, desire and loss in western culture
Engels | 383 pagina's | Penguin, London [etc.] | 1999
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Jean-Claude Schmitt Ghosts in the Middle Ages
the living and the dead in Medieval society
Engels | 290 pagina's | University of Chicago Press, Chicago [etc.] | 1998
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Thomas A.P. van Leeuwen The springboard in the pond
an intimate history of the swimming pool
Beschrijving van zwembaden als bouwkundige werken en van relatie tussen mens en water
Engels | 321 pagina's | MIT Press, Cambridge, MA [etc.] | 1998
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Richard H. Pells Not like us
how Europeans have loved, hated, and transformed American culture since World War II
Bibliografie : p. 416-426. - Met reg. How the cultures on each side of the Atlantic have transformed one another. The reasons why the Europeans never became truly Americanized and why it was a good thing that they didn't. From the Cold war with its strategie to introduce in Europe the American way of life, up till the present: cultural impact of American movies and the growing globalization of the media business.
Engels | 444 pagina's | BasicBooks, New York, NY | 1997
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Paul Binski Medieval death
ritual and representation
Engels | 224 pagina's | British Museum Press, London | 1996
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Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen Science and culture under William and Mary
Non-fictie
Engels | 48 pagina's | Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, [Amsterdam] | 1992
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Cultural atlas of the Viking world
Overzicht betreffende culturele aspecten van de Vikingen (eind 8e eeuw tot eind 11e eeuw)
Engels | 240 pagina's | Facts on File, New York | 1994
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The panorama of the Renaissance
Non-fictie
Engels | 367 pagina's | Thames and Hudson, London | 1996
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