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The Huguenots
An unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and...
Culture Crash
The Killing of the Creative Class
When artists and artisans can’t make a living, the health of America’s culture is at risk Change is no stranger to us in the twenty-first century. We must constantly adjust to an evolving world, to...
Stalin
New Biography of a Dictator
The most authoritative and engrossing biography of the notorious dictator ever written, winner of the 2016 PROSE Award for Biography & Autobiography"Enthralling, brilliant, and groundbreaking,...
Dior
The Collections, 1947-2017
“[A]n extraordinary collection of 1,146 images that document the house's output over the past 70 years and through seven creative directors.”—Vogue In spring 1947, Christian Dior presented the first...
Flourishing
Why We Need Religion in a Globalized World
A celebrated theologian explores how the greatest dangers to humanity, as well as the greatest promises for human flourishing, are at the intersection of religion and globalization More than almost anything...
Culture
One of our most brilliant minds offers a sweeping intellectual history that argues for the reclamation of culture’s value Culture is a defining aspect of what it means to be human. Defining culture and pinpointing...
Peak Pursuits
The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century
An interdisciplinary cultural history of exploration and mountaineering in the nineteenth century European forays to mountain summits began in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries with the...
Bruce Nauman
Contrapposto Studies
An insightful examination of Bruce Nauman’s Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, Contrapposto Studies, i through vii, and related works, through both rigorous analysis and the artist’s own words
The Object of Jewish Literature
A Material History
A history of modern Jewish literature that explores our enduring attachment to the book as an object With the rise of digital media, the "death of the book” has been widely discussed. But the physical object of the...
The Invention of China
"[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy). Bill Hayton tells the story of how ‘China’ came to think of itself as China—and what it means for our world today In this compelling...