Davidson, Marshall B. Et Al., Horizon History Of The World In 1776

The Horizon history of the world in 1776

DAVIDSON, Marshall B.

American Heritage Pub. Co.: book trade distribution by McGraw-Hill

The Horizon book of great historic places of Europe

GREAT HISTORIC PLACES OF EUROPE is a magnificently illustrated visitor's history of Western Europe. Together, its historical and modern pictures and its informed, lively narrative by Marshall B. Davidson lead you from Scotland to Sicily, from the prehistoric caves of Lascaux to today's Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen.Mr. Davidson is a well-traveled guide, historian, and author of widely praised books and articles on the arts, antiquities, and European history. He has been a frequent visitor to Europe since 1928, when he first shipped out as a deck hand on a freighter.This book is divided into eight geographic sections: Greece, Italy, the Iberian Peninsula, France, the Low Countries, the British Isles, Scandinavia, and Germany-Austria-Switzerland. Each chapter begins with a brief review of the area's historical highlights and environs. Mr. Davidson puts you on scene, with enough grasp and reminders of a region's sweep of history to fit it into Europe's mosaic. Everywhere, the book searches out for you the most important and resplendent sites where great history was made and can still be evoked. Its wealth of more than 500 pictures shows you many of the locales--as they were, in fine old paintings and drawings; and as they are, in striking photographs.GREAT HISTORIC PLACES OF EUROPE has many uses. If you are planning to go to Europe for the first time, here are the historical highlights. Take your pick, know what you're after that best fits your interests and time, and map your route accordingly. If you've been to Europe once or many times, half the pleasure is to go again in retrospect, comparing impressions, picking up new insights on places you've seen, looking at others you've missed, and making notes for next time. If you're not going to Europe but have in imagination that can soar when inspired, GREAT HISTORIC PLACES OF EUROPE takes you on a horizon-expanding grand tour by armchair.

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The American heritage history of the writers' America,

American Heritage Pub. Co.; distribution by McGraw-Hill

A history of the United States through the key authors of every period with samples of prose and poetry, events and locations, including reviews and criticisms by each author's contemporaries

The American heritage history of the artists' America,

An historic guide to France, following the country's development through these chapter titles: From Cave Dwellers to Roman Citizens ~ The Darkness of Barbarism ~ Medieval Crucible ~ French Renaissance ~ A Splendid Century ~ Twilight of the Ancient Regime ~ The Great Storm ~ Restorations of Royalty ~ A Third Republic ~ Past, Present, and Future. A Chronology at the back sums up the country's journey through time.

The Horizon Concise History of France

History

Europe

American Heritage Pub. Co.

Discusses and photographs the diverse styles of housing popular in the United States over the centuries

The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Scribner

Tells the story of life in America in terms of the houses Americans have planned, built, and lived in. From this we can reconstruct the growth of ideas, of cultural patterns, and of practical expedients that have led to the problems and possibilities that are our present inheritance.

The American Heritage history of notable American houses

The American Heritage History of The Artists' and Writers' America

American Heritage

The first acquisitions in American Art were made almost immediately after the Museum was founded at the end of the nineteenth century. When they opened in October 1924, The American Wing’s dedicated space included sixteen period rooms, three exhibition galleries, and several alcoves and caused a sensation. A unique arrangement at the time, American antiques were presented in an orderly, chronological way. In the period rooms, furniture, silver, paintings, glass and other objects of more or less the same date were arranged together in spaces whose wood- and plasterwork were also of that date. As the Museum grew through the years in size and importance its holdings in American art grew in proportion. To accommodate its ever-increasing wealth of material and popularity, The American Wing underwent new construction to enlarge the galleries in the mid-1980s, directed by the design firm of Kevin Roche John Dinkaloo and Associates.  The 1980s incarnation of the American Wing embodied colonial home life and early Federal America by encompassing a wide-range of American art with sophisticated taste and variety of materials. Little and big treasures of American history are photographed and discussed in this book in order to celebrate the vitality and richness of American heritage. Masterpieces of painting, sculpture, prints, drawings, interior and exterior architecture, furniture, and other decorative arts are illustrated and explained in terms of their style, quality, and historical interest; it is not just a tour of the galleries, but of the collection as a whole, including objects not necessarily on display. The Museum's large selection of outstanding and typical examples provides a fair opportunity to judge the true nature of our rich and distinctive artistic heritage. [This book was originally published in 1985 and has gone out of print. This edition is a print-on-demand version of the original book.]

The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Stillinger, Elizabeth

History & Criticism

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Horizon history of the world in 1776

The Horizon book of great historic places of Europe

The American heritage history of the writers' America,

The American heritage history of the writers' America,

The American heritage history of the artists' America,

The Horizon Concise History of France

The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses

The American Heritage history of notable American houses

The American Heritage History of The Artists' and Writers' America

The American Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art