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History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation
Trafalgar 1805-2005
Av Holger Hoock
Häftad, 2007
318 kr
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This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the extraordinary celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of …
The King's Artists
The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840
Av Holger Hoock
Inbunden, 2003
4074 kr
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This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the …
The King's Artists
The Royal Academy of Arts and the Politics of British Culture 1760-1840
Av Holger Hoock
Häftad, 2005
1094 kr
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This is the story of the forging of a national cultural institution in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain. The Royal Academy of Arts was the dominant art school and exhibition society in London and a model for art societies across the British Isles and North America. This is the …
Scars of Independence
America''s Violent Birth
Av Holger Hoock
E-bok, 2017
177 kr
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A magisterial new work that rewrites the story of America’s founding When we think of the American Revolution, we think of brave patriots coming together to resist a tyrannical ruler in defense of noble ideals. It’s a stirring narrative, and one the founders did their best to encourage after the …
Empires of the Imagination
Politics, War, and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850
Av Holger Hoock
E-bok, 2010
288 kr
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Between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries, Britain evolved from a substantial international power yet relative artistic backwater into a global superpower and a leading cultural force in Europe. In this original and wide-ranging book, Hoock illuminates the manifold ways in which the culture of …
