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Jonathan Conlin
Published in the National Gallery's Bicentenary year, this is the story of how one of the world's finest collections of paintings was formed by (and for) the people of Britain
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New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's greatest cultural institutions. Its holdings encompass a vast range-including paintings, sculptures, costumes, instruments, and arms and armor-and span…
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An analysis of the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne from multiple historical, economic, and social perspectives.
The last of the post-World War One peace settlements, the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne departed…
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This book is a groundbreaking bottom-up history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, exploring both its triumphs and its failings.
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First published in Great Britain in 2013 by Atlantic Books –Title page verso.
The Pleasure Garden, from Vauxhall to Coney Island draws together the work of musicologists, art historians, and scholars of urban studies and landscape design to explore the attractions and interactions…
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Universally acknowledged as the father of capitalism, the eighteenth-century Scottish thinker Adam Smith is best known for developing the concept of the ‘invisible hand’. The ‘hand’ helped to explain how…
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If you’ve ever wanted to find out more about the theorists who gave us the “invisible hand’, Keynesianism, "creative destruction’, behavioural economics and other concepts, this book is the perfect…
An introduction to the lives and works of the most influential economists of modern times.
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Dr Jonathan Conlin
Deal-maker, art collector, philanthropist - the definitive biography.
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Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken…
King of oil, deal-maker, art collector.
Freeman was an idiosyncratic and imaginative polymath who saw past and present as interwoven and had a gift for bringing history alive. A colourful and outspoken Victorian, he provides a…
Novelist, poet, priest and controversialist, Charles Kingsley (1819-1875) epitomises the bustling Victorian man of letters. As this inter-disciplinary collection of chapters demonstrates, however, he was far from a typical Victorian…
Includes essays that draw on fresh research into Charles d'Eon de Beaumont’s unusual life, exploring how a gender identity could come to be negotiated. This collection contributes to d'Eon’s rehabilitation…
They All Made Peace- What is Peace? is the first publication to consider the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and its legacy a century on. A stellar group of historians…
