The Material Renaissance

The Material RenaissanceFocussing on the consumer demand for goods in Renaissance Italy, The Material Renaissance establishes the dynamic social character of exchange. It demonstrates that the cost of goods, including the price of the most basic items, was largely contingent upon on the relationship between buyer and seller.

This volume is an up-to-date overview of what media transformation has meant for post-communist countries in the past two decades

the two most newsworthy films of 1997 were David Cronenberg's Crash and James Cameron's Titanic

Wiener Chic narrates Vienna’s history through an interpretation of the material dimensions of Viennese cultural life – from architecture to arts festivals to the urban fabric of street chic

It is the only guide to the subject written specifically for undergraduates

This Revels Plays edition of Christopher Marlowe’s The Massacre at Paris opens up this powerful dramatisation of the French Wars of Religion to student and scholar through its comprehensive introduction

Starting with the gruesome mining of uranium by First Nation people in northern Canada

exploring the diversity and multiplicity of women’s experiences in the economy

gendered and personal identity

Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet

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‘Before Einstein’ offers the first book-length examination of the impact of pre-Relativity four-dimensional theory on literature and culture at the turn of the twentieth century

Discussion of her work as a producer and director focus on production and form