History of art

This is the first book that offers a comprehensive account of video art after the Cultural Revolution in China with a special emphasis on the way it progressed together with phenomenal socio-economic transformations that began in the 1980s.

Volume Five comprises, along with introductory comments, two "e;cave by cave"e; guides.

This is the first book that offers a comprehensive account of video art after the Cultural Revolution in China with a special emphasis on the way it progressed together with phenomenal socio-economic transformations that began in the 1980s.

This book offers a new history of the ancient city of Rayy.

This book explores the dark regions of Romantic imagination in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and art.

During the nineteenth century, the American Mission Press in Beirut printed religious and secular publications written by foreign missionaries and Syrian scholars such as Nasif al-Yaziji and Butrus al-Bustani, of later nahda fame.

Drawing on extensive research, Hulsbosch explores dress and adornment of the Ambonese people of the Central Maluku Islands, in Indonesia, during the last century of Dutch colonial rule.

This book offers an avenue for understanding the parameters, scope, meanings, and impacts of environmental protest.

These essays are the revised and updated version of four lectures given in the Yarshater Lecture Series, at SOAS in London in 2013.

Prompted by recent challenges to and debates about the relative public silence concerning the effects of the Allied air war over Europe during World War II, this collection of essays examines literary, visual (film and photography), and institutional (museums) representations of the bombing of civilian targets, predominantly in Germany.