Origins of Judaism
An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal
ISBN: PB: 9780300276657,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
384 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 18 black&white illus.
Groundbreaking research that utilizes archaeological discoveries and ancient texts to revolutionize our understanding of the beginnings of Judaism.
Throughout much of history, the Jewish way of life has been characterized by strict adherence to the...
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£20.00
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Collecting Mesoamerican Art before 1940
A New World of Latin American Antiquities
ISBN: PB: 9781606068724,
Getty Publications,
February 2024
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
336 pp., 25,4x17,8 cm, 91 colour illus., 27 black&white illus., 1 table, 1 map
This book traces the fascinating history of how and why ancient Mesoamerican objects have been collected. It begins with the pre-Hispanic antiquities that first entered European collections in the sixteenth century as gifts or seizures, continues thr...
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£55.00
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World of Songye
Passions and Collections
ISBN: HB: 9780300267020,
Yale University Press,
Mercatorfonds,
October 2023
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
416 pp., 31,7x25,0 cm, 300 colour and black&white illus.
The ultimate and authoritative introduction to Songye culture, sculpture, masks, and iron forging.
This lavishly illustrated book brings a new approach to the masterpieces of Songye, a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the C...
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£160.00
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Early Modernity and Mobility
Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800
ISBN: HB: 9780300247534,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
584 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
584 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period.
"Early Modernity and Mobility" explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in early modern Europe and Asia. From 1512, w...
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£60.00
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Revolutionary Things
Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
ISBN: HB: 9780300259018,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 46 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 46 black&white illus.
How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals.
Historian Ashli White explores the circulation of material culture during the Americ...
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£40.00
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Amongst the Ruins
Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
ISBN: HB: 9780300259285,
Yale University Press,
April 2023
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 80 colour illus.
304 pp., 23,4x15,2 cm, 80 colour illus.
"Amongst the Ruins" explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed under 3,000-year-old peat, others lost to rising...
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£25.00
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Development of Complex Societies in Southeastern Shandong, China
Settlement Patterns from the Neolithic to the Han Period
ISBN: PB: 9780913516331,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
352 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 222 black&white illus.
352 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 222 black&white illus.
A comprehensive account of a pioneering archaeological project in the province of Shandong that transformed understandings of regional settlement patterns.
From 1995 to 2007, researchers from China and the United States conducted a systematic, full-...
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£30.00
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Codice Maya de Mexico
Understanding the Oldest Surviving Book of the Americas
ISBN: PB: 9781606067888,
Getty Publications,
October 2022
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
96 pp., 22,9x15,2 cm
An in-depth exploration of the history, authentication, and modern relevance of Codice Maya de Mexico, the oldest surviving book of the Americas. Ancient Maya scribes recorded prophecies and astronomical observations on the pages of painted books. Al...
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£21.99
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Egypt and the Classical World
Cross-Cultural Encounters in Antiquity
ISBN: PB: 9781606067376,
Getty Publications,
July 2022
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
202 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, colour illus.
From Mycenaean weaponry found among the cargo of a Bronze Age shipwreck off the Turkish coast to the Egyptian-inspired domestic interiors of a luxury villa built in Greece during the Roman Empire, Egypt and the Classical World documents two millennia...
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£45.00
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Tutankhamun
Excavating the Archive
ISBN: HB: 9781851245857,
Bodleian Library Publishing,
April 2022
144 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, illus.
144 pp., 25,9x23,7 cm, illus.
In 1922, as Egypt became an independent nation, the tomb of the young king Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact royal burial from ancient Egypt. The excavation of the small but crowded tomb by Howard Carter and his team generat...
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£30.00
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