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New York Splendor
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Wendy Moonan
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-23 - Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

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Design authority Wendy Moonan takes the reader on a tour of some of New York City's finest residential rooms--past and present. The selection of interiors is ab
Contemporary Japanese Thought
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Richard Calichman
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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The writings in this collection reflect some of the most innovative and influential work by Japanese intellectuals and cover a range of disciplines addressing t
The Gender of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Rita FELSKI
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In an exploration of the complex relations between women and the modern, this work challenges conventional male-centred theories of modernity. It examines the g
Jacob Burckhardt and the Crisis of Modernity
Language: en
Pages: 340
Authors: John R. Hinde
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-06-28 - Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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As a historian of the Renaissance and the rise of Christianity, Burckhardt was concerned with periods of social, political, and cultural transformation. Writing
German Cities and Bourgeois Modernism, 1890-1924
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Maiken Umbach
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-25 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban sp
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