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Exhibiting Englishness
John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery and the Formation of a National Aesthetic
In the late 18th century, as a wave of English nationalism swept the country, the printseller John Boydell set out to create an ambitious exhibition space, one devoted to promoting and fostering a distinctly English style...
Art History in the Wake of the Global Turn
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Robespierre
A Revolutionary Life
An intimate new portrait of one of history's most controversial figures: heroic revolutionary or the first terrorist? For some historians and biographers, Maximilien Robespierre (1758–94) was a great...
For a Love of His People
The Photography of Horace Poolaw
For more than five decades of the twentieth century, one of the first American Indian professional photographers gave an insider’s view of his Oklahoma community—a community rooted in its traditional culture while also...
Artists Under Hitler
Collaboration and Survival in Nazi Germany
A penetrating inquiry into the motives, moral dilemmas, and compromises of Walter Gropius, Emil Nolde, and other celebrated artists who chose to remain in Nazi Germany “What are we to make of those cultural...
German Rocketeers in the Heart of Dixie
Making Sense of the Nazi Past during the Civil Rights Era
This thought-provoking study by historian Monique Laney focuses on the U.S. government–assisted integration of German rocket specialists and their families into a small southern community soon after World War II. In 1950,...
John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné
Volume Two: 1975–1986
The second in a projected four-volume series of the complete catalogue of works by John Baldessari Compiling four-hundred-plus unique works of art, this volume traces the shifts and developments in...
Survey of London: Battersea
Volumes 49 and 50
The south London parish of Battersea has roots as a working village, growing produce for London markets, and as a high-class suburb, with merchants’ villas on the elevated ground around Clapham and Wadsworth Commons. ...
The Parties Versus the People
How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans
A penetrating analysis of American democracy’s most urgent threat: a political system so paralyzed by partisanship it is almost incapable of placing national interest ahead of the blind pursuit of political advantage
Hell on the Range
A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West
In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s—what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"—historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican...