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Bernard Buffet: The Invention of the Modern Mega-artist

Nicholas Foulkes - Biography & Autobiography - 2016 - 496 pages
It is said that asphyxiation brings on a state of hallucinatory intoxication...in which case the 71 year old artist who lay in his sprawling Provencal villa died happy. In the ...
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In Search of Running Rein

Tony Byles - Sports & Recreation - 2011 - 249 pages
The Epsom Derby, established back in 1780 for three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies, is today considered to be the most prestigious of the five Classics of the racing ...
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Flat Racing and British Society, 1790-1914: A Social and Economic History

Mike Huggins - History - 2000 - 310 pages
An exploration the value of racing to the working classes, the gentry and aristocracy, tracing the sport's development in an age of great scientific advances alongside the rise ...
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The Scramble for Art in Central Africa

Enid Schildkrout, Curtis A. Keim - Antiques & Collectibles - 1998 - 274 pages
Western attitudes to Africa have been influenced to an extraordinary degree by the arts and artefacts that were brought back by the early collectors, exhibited in museums, and ...
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Kierkegaard, Religion and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis of Culture

George Pattison - History - 2002 - 274 pages
Pattison examines Kierkegaard's religious thought in relation to contemporary debates about religion, culture and society.
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Family and Social Change: The Household as a Process in an Industrializing ...

Angelique Janssens - History - 2002 - 348 pages
An innovative study examining the effects of nineteenth-century industrialisation on family life.
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Killing Dragons: The Conquest of the Alps

Fergus Fleming - History - 2002 - 436 pages
In a riveting narrative of daredevils and eccentrics, Fergus Fleming gives us the breathtaking story of some of history's greatest explorers as they conquer the soaring peaks ...
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The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century

Richard Franklin Bensel - History - 2004 - 326 pages
During the middle of the nineteenth century, Americans voted in saloons in the most derelict sections of great cities, in hamlets swarming with Union soldiers, or in wooden ...
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Revolutions of 1848: A Social History

Priscilla Smith Robertson - History - 1967 - 480 pages
This social history of Europe during 1848 selects the most crucial centers of revolt and shows by a vivid reconstruction of events what revolution meant to the average citizen ...
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