To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting
If you like book To Have And To Hold: An Intimate History Of Collectors and Collecting here is the list of books you may also like
Buy this book on AmazonSimilar books (20)
-
-
La invención de América
En la historia de los alucinantes viajes impulsados por los motivos más diversos, destaca el de Colón, en 1492, por su inesperado América llegó a ser el más espectacular de los acontecimientos históri…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other
The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spa…
Buy this book on Amazon -
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
In SPQR, an instant classic, Mary Beard narrates the history of Rome "with passion and without technical jargon" and demonstrates how "a slightly shabby Iron Age village" rose to become the "undispute…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
The Second Sex
Newly translated and unabridged in English for the first time, Simone de Beauvoir’s masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a groundbreaking exploration of inequality a…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (Paradigm)
Everywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy—everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganiz…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Great Cat Massacre: And Other Episodes in French Cultural History
When the apprentices of a Paris printing shop in the 1730's held a series of mock trials and then hanged all the cats they could lay their hands on, why did they find it so hilariously funny that they…
Buy this book on Amazon -
Island Beneath the Sea
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité -- known as Tété -- is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. Though her child…
Buy this book on Amazon -
The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller
The Cheese and the Worms is a study of the popular culture in the sixteenth century as seen through the eyes of one man, a miller brought to trial during the Inquisition. Carlo Ginzburg uses the trial…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-
-
-
-
-
El llano en llamas
El "Llano en llamas" es hoy un clásico de la literatura mexicana e hispanoamericana, y probablemente uno de los volúmenes de cuentos más traducido a otros idiomas en el mundo entero. Obra aparentement…
Buy this book on Amazon -
-
-