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The Wandering Army
The Campaigns that Transformed the British Way of War
A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries—showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe At the outbreak of the War of Austrian Succession in...
Rooted Cosmopolitans
Jews and Human Rights in the Twentieth Century
A stunningly original look at the forgotten Jewish political roots of contemporary international human rights, told through the moving stories of five key activists The year 2018 marks the seventieth...
The Last Brahmin
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and the Making of the Cold War
The first biography of a man who was at the center of American foreign policy for a generation, The Last Brahmin “sheds insight into the evolving politics of the 20th century.” (Library Journal)
Maimonides
Faith in Reason
An exploration of Maimonides, the medieval philosopher, physician, and religious thinker, author of The Guide of the Perplexed, from one of the world’s foremost bibliophiles Moses ben Maimon, or Maimonides ...
The Concrete Body
Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci
Offering an incisive rejoinder to traditional histories of modernism and postmodernism, this original book examines the 1960s performance work of three New York artists who adapted modernist approaches to form for the medium...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 2: 1853-1865
A second volume of the collected correspondence of the great African-American reformer and abolitionist features correspondence written during the Civil War years The second collection of meticulously...
Devotion
The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process “Devotion is short enough to devour at...
Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism
One of the world’s most celebrated theologians argues for a Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian...
Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art
In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states—the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires...
Victory at Sea
Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II “When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”—Ian W. Toll, New...