Books - "history"
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The Social Setting of Jesus and the Gospels
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PUBLISHER: Fortress Press 2002
KEYWORDS: religion religious ancient history historical Jesus
Up-Helly-Aa: A Century of Festival
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PUBLISHER: Shetland Publishing Co. 1982
KEYWORDS: James W Irvine Up Helly Aa Up-Helly-Aa festiva social history
The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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PUBLISHER: Oxford University Press 1964
KEYWORDS: Tale of Genji Japan Japanese history court
Gandhara: The Memory of Afghanistan
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PUBLISHER: Assouline 2001
KEYWORDS: Afghanistan art history social artistic archaeology
Enduring Hardship: The Chinese Laundry in Canada
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PUBLISHER: Canadian Museum of Civilisation 2003
KEYWORDS: Canada Canadian history Chinese laundry workers
The Chinese Potter: A practical history of Chinese ceramics
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PUBLISHER: Phaidon 2001
KEYWORDS: Margaret Medley China Chinese history art ceramics craft potter pottery
The Psychology of Perspective and Renaissance Art
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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 1988
KEYWORDS: Michael Kubovy Renaissance art artists technique history perspective
Values of Beauty: Historical Essays in Aesthetics
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PUBLISHER: Cambridge University Press 2005
KEYWORDS: Paul Guyer history essays philosophy beauty sense perception aesthetics
The Art of Japanese Ceramics
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PUBLISHER: Weatherhill/Heibonsha 1972
KEYWORDS: Japan Japanese art arts craft history ceramic ceramics
Jazz Modernism: from Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce
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PUBLISHER: Alfred A. Knopf 2002
KEYWORDS: jazz music history criticism literature 20th century art modernism
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
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PUBLISHER: John Murray 2008
KEYWORDS: Alice Albinia Tibet Indus River history
Cham Sculpture and Indian Mythology
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PUBLISHER: Danang Publishing House 2009
KEYWORDS: sculpture art history India Indian ancient mythology legend legends
The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently ... and Why
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PUBLISHER: Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2009
KEYWORDS: Richard E Nisbett social history Asia Westerners sociology
Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China
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PUBLISHER: Duke University Press 1996
KEYWORDS: China Chinese culture history garden gardens
Wilderness of Mirrors
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PUBLISHER: The Lyons Press 2003
KEYWORDS: David C Martin history espionage crime CIA spies
A Short History of Byzantium
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PUBLISHER: Penguin 1998
KEYWORDS: John Julius Norwich Byzantium ancient history Eastern Roman Empire Rome christianity
How the World Made the West
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PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury 2025
KEYWORDS: Josephine Quinn history Western civilisation civilization ancient modern
Kingd and Queens of England
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PUBLISHER: Octopus 1976
KEYWORDS: Alan Palmer England Great Britain British kings queens royalty royal family history politics political
Japan: A Modern History
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PUBLISHER: W. W. Norton & Company 2002
KEYWORDS: James L McClain Japan Japanese modern social history
The Great Fire of London
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PUBLISHER: Historical Publications 1986
KEYWORDS: 17th seventeenth century English British history England London great fire