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This book explores ephemeral exhibition spaces between 1750 and 1918. The chapters focus on two related spaces: the domestic interior and its imagery, and exhib
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The museum of the East India Company formed, for a large part of the nineteenth century, one of the sights of London. In recent years, little has been remembere
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This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the a
Ephemeral Spectacles, Exhibition Spaces and Museums 1750-1918
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This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which
The Collapse of Complex Societies
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Dr Tainter describes nearly two dozen cases of collapse and reviews more than 2000 years of explanations. He then develops a new and far-reaching theory.