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Louisa Waterford (1818-91), modest, retiring, of good family, renowned for her beauty, and with extraordinary grace, was the embodiment of a Victorian ideal of womanhood. But like the age itself, her …

The book tells the story of how the British consular service in the Aegean, in the years of the British protectorate of the Ionian Islands (1815-1864) became an agency for the retrieval, excavation a …

The main themes of this volume are the identification of ”visions”, ”messages”, and ”meanings” in various facets of Byzantine culture and the possible differences in the perception of these vis …

In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the ”baroque”. For example, Annibale Ca …

– What is an Apollo knot? – Who wore a Welch wig? – When were Zouave jackets the height of fashion? This new edition of The Dictionary of Fashion History further updates the landmark work of C. Wille …

From artist to curator, couturier to fashion blogger, ”creative” professional identities can be viewed as social practices, enacted, performed and negotiated through the media, the public, and indu …

Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion showcases the global fashion industry”s efforts to reduce the negative impacts associated with fashion production and consumption. Illustrated throughout w …

If postmodernism is indeed ”the cultural logic of late capitalism”, why did typical postmodernist themes like ornament, colour, history and identity find their application in the architecture of th …

The Social Design Reader explores the ways in which design can be a catalyst for social change. Bringing together key texts of the last fifty years, editor Elizabeth Resnick traces the emergence of t …

Theatre was at the very heart of culture in Graeco-Roman civilizations and its influence permeated across social and class boundaries. The theatrical genres of tragedy, comedy, satyr play, mime and p …