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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In(...)
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In(...)
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November 2024
November 2024
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The great transformation: China's road from revolution to reform
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China’s gradual opening to the world—the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people’s rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted. Hardcover edition.
The great transformation: China's road from revolution to reform
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Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world. In this rigorous account, Westad and Chen construct a panorama of catastrophe and progress in China. They chronicle China’s gradual opening to the world—the interplay of power in an era of aged and ailing leadership, the people’s rebellion against the earlier government system, and the roles of unlikely characters: overseas Chinese capitalists, American engineers, Japanese professors, and German designers. This is a story of revolutionary change that neither foreigners nor the Chinese themselves could have predicted. Hardcover edition.
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November 2024
November 2024
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280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
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280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
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- Orthodox Eastern Church In art.,
- Église orthodoxe Dans l'art.,
- Orthodox Eastern Church,
- Art, Byzantine.,
- Christian art and symbolism Byzantine Empire Medieval, 500-1500.,
- Art byzantin.,
- Art chrétien Empire byzantin Médiévale, 500-1500.,
- Christian art and symbolism Medieval,
- Byzantijnse kunst.,
- Byzantine Empire,
- Proceedings.,
- works of art.,
- Art,
- Œuvres d'art.
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University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998.
University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998.
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Heaven on earth : art and the Church in Byzantium / edited by Linda Safran.
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280 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm
Heaven on earth : art and the Church in Byzantium / edited by Linda Safran.
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University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998.
University Park, Penn. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©1998.
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- Orthodox Eastern Church In art.,
- Église orthodoxe Dans l'art.,
- Orthodox Eastern Church,
- Art, Byzantine.,
- Christian art and symbolism Byzantine Empire Medieval, 500-1500.,
- Art byzantin.,
- Art chrétien Empire byzantin Médiévale, 500-1500.,
- Christian art and symbolism Medieval,
- Byzantijnse kunst.,
- Byzantine Empire,
- Proceedings.,
- works of art.,
- Art,
- Œuvres d'art.
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and(...)
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and(...)
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Making noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & beyond
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific.
Making noise: From Babel to the Big Bang & beyond
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When did the "silent deeps" become cacophonous and galaxies begin to swim in a sea of cosmic noise? Why do we think that noises have colors and that colors can be loud? How loud is too loud, and says who? Attending, as ears do, to a surround of sounds at once physical and political, Hillel Schwartz listens across millennia for changes in the Western experience and understanding of noise. From the uproarious junior gods of Babylonian epics to crying infants heard over baby monitors, from doubly mythic Echo to amplifier feedback, from shouts frozen in Rabelaisian air to the squawk of loudspeakers and the static of shortwave radio, Making Noise follows "unwanted sound" on its surprisingly revealing path through terrains domestic and industrial, urban and rural, legal and religious, musical and medical, poetic and scientific.
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November 2011
November 2011
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and(...)
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A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and(...)
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Tower to tower: gigantism in architecture and digital culture
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A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture-the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures-from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure.
Tower to tower: gigantism in architecture and digital culture
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A cultural history of gigantism in architecture and digital culture, from the Eiffel Tower to the World Trade Center. The gigantic is everywhere, and gigantism is manifest in everything from excessively tall skyscrapers to globe-spanning digital networks. In this book, Henriette Steiner and Kristin Veel map and critique the trajectory of gigantism in architecture and digital culture-the convergence of tall buildings and networked infrastructures-from the Eiffel Tower to One World Trade Center. They show how these two forms of gigantism intersect in the figure of the skyscraper with a transmitting antenna on its roof, a gigantic building that is also a nodal point in a gigantic digital infrastructure.
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May 2020
May 2020
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Architectural Theory
Architectural Theory
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The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval(...)
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The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval(...)
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The Gothic enterprise : a guide to understanding the medieval cathedral
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The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, 'The Gothic Enterprise' considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. Scott discusses why an impoverished people would commit so many social and personal resources to building something so physically stupendous and what this says about their ideas of the sacred, especially the vital role they ascribed to the divine as a protector against the dangers of everyday life. Scott's narrative offers a wealth of fascinating details concerning daily life during medieval times.
The Gothic enterprise : a guide to understanding the medieval cathedral
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The great Gothic cathedrals of Europe are among the most astonishing achievements of Western culture. Evoking feelings of awe and humility, they make us want to understand what inspired the people who had the audacity to build them. This engrossing book surveys an era that has fired the historical imagination for centuries. In it Robert A. Scott explores why medieval people built Gothic cathedrals, how they built them, what conception of the divine lay behind their creation, and how religious and secular leaders used cathedrals for social and political purposes. While most books about Gothic cathedrals focus on a particular building or on the cathedrals of a specific region, 'The Gothic Enterprise' considers the idea of the cathedral as a humanly created space. Scott discusses why an impoverished people would commit so many social and personal resources to building something so physically stupendous and what this says about their ideas of the sacred, especially the vital role they ascribed to the divine as a protector against the dangers of everyday life. Scott's narrative offers a wealth of fascinating details concerning daily life during medieval times.
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January 2006, Berkeley
January 2006, Berkeley
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History until 1900
History until 1900
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''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' delves into Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which investigates regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, revealing the disruptive impacts of(...)
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''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' delves into Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which investigates regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, revealing the disruptive impacts of(...)
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Tekla Aslanishvili: The Mountain Speaks to the Sea
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''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' delves into Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which investigates regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, revealing the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transportation projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus. The publication focuses on the potentiality of moving images in the making and unmaking of infrastructures. By zooming in and out on the grand narratives of infrastructural development, it assembles fragmented (hi)stories of people who live and work around sites of transit and extraction, sabotaging their material systems to challenge violent practices of statecraft. Positioned between an artist’s book and a reader, ''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' features contributions from writers and scholars in visual culture, political science and critical geography, and experiments with ways of translating film into printed matter.
Tekla Aslanishvili: The Mountain Speaks to the Sea
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''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' delves into Tekla Aslanishvili’s experimental film trilogy, which investigates regimes of infrastructural governance by examining how ports, railways, and smart city projects act as technologies of citizenship and sovereignty. Images of distant geographies are connected with future orientations, revealing the disruptive impacts of large-scale energy and transportation projects on the ecologies of the South Caucasus. The publication focuses on the potentiality of moving images in the making and unmaking of infrastructures. By zooming in and out on the grand narratives of infrastructural development, it assembles fragmented (hi)stories of people who live and work around sites of transit and extraction, sabotaging their material systems to challenge violent practices of statecraft. Positioned between an artist’s book and a reader, ''The Mountain Speaks to the Sea'' features contributions from writers and scholars in visual culture, political science and critical geography, and experiments with ways of translating film into printed matter.
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September 2025
September 2025
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Art Theory
Art Theory
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xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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- Plant layout.,
- Mass production United States.,
- Production engineering.,
- Industrial efficiency United States.,
- Implantation (Organisation),
- Production de masse États-Unis.,
- Technique de la production.,
- Efficience dans l'industrie États-Unis.,
- Industrial efficiency,
- Mass production,
- Massenfertigung,
- Industriebau,
- Fabrieksgebouwen.,
- Massaproductie.,
- United States,
- USA,
- Hochschulschrift.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
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The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production / Lindy Biggs.
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xiii, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
The rational factory : architecture, technology, and work in America's age of mass production / Lindy Biggs.
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Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1996.
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- Plant layout.,
- Mass production United States.,
- Production engineering.,
- Industrial efficiency United States.,
- Implantation (Organisation),
- Production de masse États-Unis.,
- Technique de la production.,
- Efficience dans l'industrie États-Unis.,
- Industrial efficiency,
- Mass production,
- Massenfertigung,
- Industriebau,
- Fabrieksgebouwen.,
- Massaproductie.,
- United States,
- USA,
- Hochschulschrift.
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xv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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xv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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- Modernism (Art) United States.,
- Art, American 20th century.,
- Art and industry United States.,
- Art, American.,
- Modernisme (Art) États-Unis.,
- Art américain.,
- Art américain 20e siècle.,
- Art et industrie États-Unis.,
- Art and industry,
- Modernism (Art),
- Design,
- Industrialisierung,
- Kunst,
- Moderne,
- Beeldende kunsten.,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Industriële vormgeving.,
- ARTE MODERNA seculo 20.,
- Modernisme (art) États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Design États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Art et industrie États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Architecture États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- United States,
- USA,
- Visual arts,
- Books.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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Making the modern : industry, art, and design in America / Terry Smith.
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xv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Making the modern : industry, art, and design in America / Terry Smith.
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xv, 512 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1993.
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- Modernism (Art) United States.,
- Art, American 20th century.,
- Art and industry United States.,
- Art, American.,
- Modernisme (Art) États-Unis.,
- Art américain.,
- Art américain 20e siècle.,
- Art et industrie États-Unis.,
- Art and industry,
- Modernism (Art),
- Design,
- Industrialisierung,
- Kunst,
- Moderne,
- Beeldende kunsten.,
- Modernisme (cultuur),
- Industriële vormgeving.,
- ARTE MODERNA seculo 20.,
- Modernisme (art) États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Design États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Art et industrie États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- Architecture États-Unis 20e siècle.,
- United States,
- USA,
- Visual arts,
- Books.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm
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xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm
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- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld,
- Low-income housing United States.,
- Eviction United States.,
- Poverty United States.,
- Profit United States.,
- Cities and towns United States.,
- Housing.,
- Poverty.,
- Social science Sociology Urban.,
- Social science Poverty and Homelessness.,
- Pauvres Logement États-Unis.,
- Expulsion (Droit) États-Unis.,
- Pauvreté États-Unis.,
- Profit États-Unis.,
- Villes États-Unis.,
- Logement.,
- Pauvreté.,
- housing (concept),
- poverty.,
- Cities and towns,
- Eviction,
- Low-income housing,
- Profit,
- United States.,
- Case Reports,
- Case studies,
- Creative nonfiction.,
- Essais fictionnels.,
- Études de cas.
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New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017], ©2016
New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017], ©2016
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Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm
Evicted : poverty and profit in the American city / Matthew Desmond.
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xviii, 422 pages ; 21 cm
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New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017], ©2016
New York : B\D\W\Y, Broadway Books, [2017], ©2016
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- Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld,
- Low-income housing United States.,
- Eviction United States.,
- Poverty United States.,
- Profit United States.,
- Cities and towns United States.,
- Housing.,
- Poverty.,
- Social science Sociology Urban.,
- Social science Poverty and Homelessness.,
- Pauvres Logement États-Unis.,
- Expulsion (Droit) États-Unis.,
- Pauvreté États-Unis.,
- Profit États-Unis.,
- Villes États-Unis.,
- Logement.,
- Pauvreté.,
- housing (concept),
- poverty.,
- Cities and towns,
- Eviction,
- Low-income housing,
- Profit,
- United States.,
- Case Reports,
- Case studies,
- Creative nonfiction.,
- Essais fictionnels.,
- Études de cas.
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Raja Deen Dayal : artist-photographer in 19th-century India / Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton.
Raja Deen Dayal : artist-photographer in 19th-century India / Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton.
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230 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
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230 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
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- Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905.,
- Photography India History 19th century.,
- Photographers India Biography.,
- Photographie Inde Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Photographes Inde Biographies.,
- Photographers,
- Photography,
- India History 19th century Pictorial works.,
- India History 19th century In art.,
- India History 19th century.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle Dans l'art.,
- India,
- Biographies,
- History
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[New Delhi, India] : The Alkazi Collection of Photography ; [Ahmedabad, India] : in association with Mapin Publishing, 2013.
[New Delhi, India] : The Alkazi Collection of Photography ; [Ahmedabad, India] : in association with Mapin Publishing, 2013.
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Raja Deen Dayal : artist-photographer in 19th-century India / Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton.
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230 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, portraits ; 29 cm
Raja Deen Dayal : artist-photographer in 19th-century India / Deepali Dewan and Deborah Hutton.
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[New Delhi, India] : The Alkazi Collection of Photography ; [Ahmedabad, India] : in association with Mapin Publishing, 2013.
[New Delhi, India] : The Alkazi Collection of Photography ; [Ahmedabad, India] : in association with Mapin Publishing, 2013.
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- Deen Dayal, Raja, 1844-1905.,
- Photography India History 19th century.,
- Photographers India Biography.,
- Photographie Inde Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Photographes Inde Biographies.,
- Photographers,
- Photography,
- India History 19th century Pictorial works.,
- India History 19th century In art.,
- India History 19th century.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.,
- Inde Histoire 19e siècle Dans l'art.,
- India,
- Biographies,
- History
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