The Chelsea porcelain toys, scent-bottles, bonbonnieres, etuis, seals and statuettes

Drawing on extensive research over more than two decades, this book focuses on toys and games as resources for play.It analyses their functionalities as well as their symbolic mean...

This chapter focuses on a single flower scent—the tuberose—strongly associated with the fragrance of Victorian decadence. Contrasting with the more delicate scent of the violet exp...

This chapter focuses on the fragrance of single flower—the violet—which although often associated with the modest Victorian maiden, has an alternative literary genealogy that links...

By placing medieval sealing practices in a global and comparative perspective, the essays gathered in this volume challenge the traditional understanding of seals as tools of closu...

The output consists of the installation of a group of 105 photographs and 11 sets of objects. The subject of the research was the Kindergarten as conceived and founded by German pe...

This is a fascinating book, almost impossible to put down. It explores how the contemporary contradiction generated by post-feminist rhetoric is both produced and partially resolve...

This must-have third revised and newly expanded edition of the only single reference source for information about state symbols features over 300 information updates plus three new...