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Queens, Regents and Potentates (Women of Power)

Authors:Theresa M. Vann, Theresa M. Vann,
Publisher: Academia
Keywords: power, women, potentates, regents, queens
Number of Pages: 166
Published: 1995-10-05
List price: $80.00
ISBN-10: 0851156495
ISBN-13: 9780851156491

This series focuses on the exercise of power, influence and authority by particular categories, ranks and types of women in medieval societies, and by individual women; on the limitations, restrictions and inhibitions placed or assumed on such activity; on the opportunities open to women, and on the strategems by which women were able to give effect to these possibilities. Queens, Regents and Potentatesconcentrates on the theme of women and royal power, examining the available information about specific royal women and reassessing their access to and use of power and authority, and drawing sig

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Perspectives on European Film and History

Authors:Leen Engelen, Roel Vande Winkel,
Publisher: Academia Scientific
Keywords: history, film, european, perspectives
Number of Pages: 294
Published: 2007-10-09
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 9038210825
ISBN-13: 9789038210827

This volume addresses the representation of European history in European cinema. Through a collection of nine case studies, it offers a European perspective on historical film narratives as well as on critical issues connected with studying film and history. In-depth analyses of several contemporary historical movies and classics from film history (e.g. Der Untergang, 2004), Vera Drake (2004), The Messenger (1999), Dawn (1928)) are complemented with solid theoretical exploration and an introduction by Robert Rosenstone. Thanks to its European focus, the originality of the analyses, and the sel

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Heretical Empiricism

Author: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Keywords: empiricism, heretical
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2005-10-15
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0976704226
ISBN-13: 9780976704225

This expanded edition of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s long out-of-print Heretical Empiricism (Indiana Un. Press, 1988) includes a new introduction by Ben Lawton that discusses the relevance of the book in the 30th anniversary of the author’s death. It also features the first approved translation of "Repudiation of the Trilogy of Life," one of Pasolini’s most controversial final essays. While Pasolini is best known in the U.S. as a revolutionary film director, in Italy he was also very well known as poet, novelist, playwright, political gadfly, and scholar of the semiotics of film.

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Ol’ Man River: Geo-archaeological Aspects of Rivers and River Plains (Archaeological Reports Ghent University)

Authors:Morgan De Dapper, Frank Vermeulen, Sarah Deprez, Devi
Publisher: Academia Scientific
Keywords: archaeological, river, ghent, reports, university, plains, aspects, geo, man, rivers
Number of Pages: 628
Published: 2009-09-22
List price: $128.00
ISBN-10: 9038214049
ISBN-13: 9789038214047

This volume contains the selected proceedings of a multidisciplinary conference (Ghent, 2006), which stimulated looking at landscape evolution from the times of early human involvement in nature to much more recent historical developments.

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VISUAL CULTURE IN SHANGHAI, 1850s-1930s

Author: Jason C Kuo
Publisher: New Academia Publishing, LLC
Keywords: 1930s, 1850s, shanghai, culture, visual
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $36.00
ISBN-10: 0978771389
ISBN-13: 9780978771386

Visual Culture in Shanghai, 1850s-1930s is a study of formal and informal meanings of Haipai ("Shanghai School" or "Shanghai Style"), as seen through the paintings of the Shanghai school as well as other media of visual representation. The book provides us a point of entry into the nexus of relationships that structured the encounter between China and the West as experienced by the treaty-port Chinese in their everyday life. Exploring such relationships gives us a better sense of the ultimate significance of Shanghai’s rise as China’s dominant metropolitan center. This book will ap