Author : Jewel Stern
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 27,35 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780300109276
A lavishly illustrated catalogue that is the first to explore the role of modernism in 20th- century American silver design
Author : David Groom
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 38,23 MB
Release : 2010-07-10
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1445753014
This book covers the varieties of 20th Century Silver coins, from the smallest threepence up to and including the cupro-nickel Crowns. There are 240+ pages of information and identifiers to enable the collector to swiftly and definitively identify their coins with 249 photographs showing the features that distinguish each type for a particular denomination and year.Not just the major varieties are covered, like the 1926 ordinary and modified effigy halfcrowns. Also included are the minor types. For instance, there are descriptions of the wide range of minor types found on coins in the 1920s. The book also covers the varieties of the decimal cupro-nickel coins.In writing this book, the author has investigated many sources of information concerning silver varieties and has brought together all the disparate information concerning them into one informative manual, which will be invaluable to the collector.A bargain start price and a 'must have' for any serious collector of silver coinage.
Author : Cameron Silver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 15,33 MB
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Design
ISBN : 159691663X
Presents a decade-by-decade guide to the most influential looks of the past century, matching red-carpet gowns to famous celebrities while providing original designer sketches, photos of rare couture, and interviews with a range of authorities.
Author : Veena Duncker
Publisher : Nai010 Publishers
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
Essays by Mienke Simon Thomas, Eric Turner, Lynn Springer Roberts, Veena Duncker, Reinhard Sanger.
Author : Seymour B. Weyler
Publisher :
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Artists' marks
ISBN :
Author : Charles L. Venable
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 1995-02
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
This volume explores the history and development of the American silver industry. It chronicles the work of firms such as Tiffany, Gorham, Meridan Britannia, and Reed and Barton, along with that of makers such as Whiting, Wendt, Wood and Hughs, Scheibler, and Gale.
Author : Mary Corbin Sies
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 29,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780801851643
Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
Author : Christopher Silver
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,25 MB
Release : 2022-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503630567
A new history of twentieth-century North Africa, that gives voice to the musicians who defined an era and the vibrant recording industry that carried their popular sounds from the colonial period through decolonization. If twentieth-century stories of Jews and Muslims in North Africa are usually told separately, Recording History demonstrates that we have not been listening to what brought these communities together: Arab music. For decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed across North African borders. The sounds embedded in their grooves were shaped in large part by Jewish musicians, who gave voice to a changing world around them. Their popular songs broadcast on radio, performed in concert, and circulated on disc carried with them the power to delight audiences, stir national sentiments, and frustrate French colonial authorities. With this book, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia, and offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. He traces the path of hit-makers and their hit records, illuminating regional and transnational connections. In asking what North Africa once sounded like, Silver recovers a world of many voices--of pioneering impresarios, daring female stars, cantors turned composers, witnesses and survivors of war, and national and nationalist icons--whose music still resonates well into our present.
Author : Giovanni Arrighi
Publisher : Verso
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 38,46 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781859840153
Winner of the American Sociological Association PEWS Award (1995) for Distinguished Scholarship The Long Twentieth Century traces the epochal shifts in the relationship between capital accumulation and state formation over a 700-year period. Giovanni Arrighi masterfully synthesizes social theory, comparative history and historical narrative in this account of the structures and agencies which have shaped the course of world history over the millennium. Borrowing from Braudel, Arrighi argues that the history of capitalism has unfolded as a succession of "long centuries"—ages during which a hegemonic power deploying a novel combination of economic and political networks secured control over an expanding world-economic space. The modest beginnings, rise and violent unravel-ing of the links forged between capital, state power, and geopolitics by hegemonic classes and states are explored with dramatic intensity. From this perspective, Arrighi explains the changing fortunes of Florentine, Venetian, Genoese, Dutch, English, and finally American capitalism. The book concludes with an examination of the forces which have shaped and are now poised to undermine America's world power.
Author : Vivienne Becker
Publisher : N. A. G. Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9780719801716
Aiming to spotlight areas of collectability—mainly from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries—which are available to enthusiasts today, this is an important study of both well-known and forgotten jewelry fashions and trends. Each chapter—there are 22 in this second edition—concentrates on a specific topic, but there is a comprehensive cross-referencing to other chapters. Almost every item shown has been on the market in recent years. No other jewelry book reflects the antique jewelry market or collectors’ enthusiasms in quite the same way. Among the types of jewelry covered are diamond brooches, coral 19th-century gold work, piqué, silver jewels, cameos and intaglios, mosaics, Edwardian pendants, and unusual materials. "Theme" jewelry is another area described with an amazing variety of representations of animals or flowers, as well as Victorian Scottish jewelry and 19th-century archaeological revival jewels inspired by the goldwork of the Greeks, Etruscans, or ancient Egyptians. The work of individual artist-jewelers, who played such an important part in the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements, is documented, along with the glamorous, highly sought after jewels created by the great jewel houses like Cartier, Tiffany, Falize, and Van Cleef & Arpels. Finally the important "movements"—Arts and Crafts; Art Nouveau, including Liberty’s huge output; and Art Deco—are assessed. Newly added is a chapter on Retro Modern—the cocktail jewelry for the 1940s—the best of which has become eminently collectable.
