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The Waters of Rome
Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City
In this pioneering study of the water infrastructure of Renaissance Rome, urban historian Katherine Rinne offers a new understanding of how technological and scientific developments in aqueduct and fountain architecture helped...
What Art Is
A lively meditation on the nature of art by one of America's most celebrated art critics What is it to be a work of art? Renowned author and critic Arthur C. Danto addresses this fundamental, complex...
Globalizing Impressionism
Reception, Translation, and Transnationalism
For many decades, impressionism has occupied a central place in the canon of art history, but new transnational approaches to the study of nineteenth-century art have complicated the perpetuation of Francocentric histories. As the...
The Works of Samuel Johnson, Vol 18
Johnson on the English Language
This volume collects the most important statements on the English language by Samuel Johnson, one of its greatest expositors and speakers. The book includes scholarly, fully annotated editions of Johnson’s main writings on...
Nutcracker Nation
How an Old World Ballet Became a Christmas Tradition in the New World
A lively discussion of North America’s favorite ballet—its history, productions, and significance?The Nutcracker is the most popular ballet in the world, adopted and adapted by hundreds of...
Rereading Frederick Jackson Turner
"The Significance of the Frontier in American History" and Other Essays
“The best assembly of Turner’s essays now available. Faragher’s introductory and concluding commentaries add considerably to the import of the book.”—Stephen Aron, University of California, Los Angeles ...
Communicating in Chinese: Listening and Speaking
Student’s Book for Listening and Speaking
Communicating in Chinese is for the beginning learner. The series now includes three student books and two teacher activity books (available online as PDFs), and provides the framework for a proficiency-based...
The Prison and the American Imagination
How did a nation so famously associated with freedom become internationally identified with imprisonment? After the scandals of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, and in the midst of a dramatically escalating prison population, the...
Surge of Piety
Norman Vincent Peale and the Remaking of American Religious Life
The dramatic untold story of how Norman Vincent Peale and a handful of conservative allies fueled the massive rise of religiosity in the United States during the 1950s Near the height of Cold War hysteria,...
Nature's Workshop
Renoir`s Writings on the Decorative Arts
This book shows Auguste Renoir in an entirely new light, revealing an artist far more complex and thoughtful than previously believed. Seven unknown and unpublished texts written by Renoir, along with four other writings...