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The Migrant's Time
Rethinking Art History and Diaspora
The conditions of alienation and exclusion are inextricably linked to the experience of the migrant. This ground-breaking volume explores both the increasing emergence of the theme of migration as a dominant subject matter in...
Unseemly Pictures
Graphic Satire and Politics in Early Modern England
This engaging book is the first full study of the satirical print in seventeenth-century England from the rule of James I to the Regicide. It considers graphic satire both as a particular pictorial category within the...
The Comanche Empire
From the author of Lakota America, an award-winning history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Comanche empire “Cutting-edge revisionist western history.”—Larry McMurtry, New York Review of...
Johan Zoffany, R.A.
1733-1810
Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough....
Selected Writings of Thomas Paine
A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars. People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the...
Charter of the United Nations
Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
A text in the Yale University Press Series on Basic Documents in World Politics This volume contains the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as...
René Magritte: Newly Discovered Works
Catalogue Raisonné Volume VI: Oil Paintings, Gouaches, Drawings
René Magritte (1898–1967) was a surrealist artist whose thought-provoking works used ordinary objects to challenge how viewers perceived reality. His extensive oeuvre was documented in a comprehensive five-volume project, led...
A Deadly Legacy
German Jews and the Great War
Shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2018 This book is the first to offer a full account of the varied contributions of German Jews to Imperial Germany’s endeavors during the Great War. Historian Tim...
Rediscovering Architecture
Paestum in Eighteenth-Century Architectural Experience and Theory
The 18th-century rediscovery of the three archaic Greek-Doric temples in Paestum in southern Italy turned existing ideas on classical architecture upside down. The porous limestone temples with rough, heavy columns were entirely...
Queen Caroline
Cultural Politics at the Early Eighteenth-Century Court
As the wife of King George II, Caroline of Ansbach became queen of England in 1727. Known for her intelligence and strong character, Queen Caroline wielded considerable political power until her death in 1737. She was enthusiastic...