Author: Sir John Carr
Publisher:
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Author: Albert Gorton GREENE
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: Peter McNeil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019164028X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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We live in a world obsessed by luxury. Long-distance airlines compete to offer first-class sleeping experiences and hotels recommend exclusive suites where you are never disturbed. Luxury is a rapidly changing global industry that makes the headlines daily in our newspapers and on the internet. More than ever, luxury is a pervasive presence in the cultural and economic life of the West - and increasingly too in the emerging super-economies of Asia and Latin America. Yet luxury is hardly a new phenomenon. Today's obsession with luxury brands and services is just one of the many manifestations that luxury has assumed. In the middle ages and the Renaissance, for example, luxury was linked to notions of magnificence and courtly splendour. In the eighteenth century luxury was at the centre of philosophical debates over its role in shaping people's desires and oiling the wheels of commerce. And it continues to morph today, with the growth of the global super-rich and increasing wealth polarization. From palaces to penthouses, from couture fashion to lavish jewellery, from handbags to red wine, from fast cars to easy money, Peter McNeil and Giorgio Riello present the first ever global history of luxury, from the Romans to the twenty-first century: a sparkling and ever-changing story of extravagance, excess, novelty, and indulgence.

Author: Thompson Cooper
Publisher: London : G. Bell
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1230

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Category : Catalogs, Booksellers'
Languages : en
Pages : 1002

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Author: Thompson Cooper
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 762

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Author: Jennifer Ham
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136669183
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos. The essays document a persistent return of animality, a becoming animal that has always existed within and at the margins of Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the present.

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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Author: Mark Philp
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754653134
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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"By bringing together historians of Britain and France to examine the dynamics of the conflict between the two nations in this period, this book measures its impact on their domestic political cultures, and its effect on their perceptions of each other. In so doing it will encourage scholars to examine in more detail aspects of popular mobilization which have hitherto been largely ignored, such as the resurgence of loyalism in 1803, and to see contributions in the light of the dual contexts of domestic political conflict and their war with each other. The book contributes both new detail to our understanding of the period and a better overall understanding of the complex place that each nation came to occupy in the consciousness of the other."--BOOK JACKET.

Author: Albert D. S. Bell
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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