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Arms and Influence
“This is a brilliant and hardheaded book. It will frighten those who prefer not to dwell on the unthinkable and infuriate those who have taken refuge in stereotypes and moral attitudinizing.”—Gordon A. Craig, New York...
The Frederick Douglass Papers
Series Four: Journalism and Other Writings, Volume 1
The journalism and personal writings of the great American abolitionist and reformer Frederick Douglass Launching the fourth series of The Frederick Douglass Papers, designed to introduce readers to the...
Building the Caliphate
Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture
A riveting exploration of how the Fatimid dynasty carefully orchestrated an architectural program that proclaimed their legitimacy This groundbreaking study investigates the early architecture of the...
Disaster Mon Amour
A deep—and darkly comic—dive into the nature of disasters, and the ways they shape how we think about ourselves in the world “In this brilliant book, David Thomson tells the story of how we came to make disaster...
The Great New York Fire of 1776
A Lost Story of the American Revolution
Who set the mysterious fire that burned down much of New York City shortly after the British took the city during the Revolutionary War? New York City, the strategic center of the Revolutionary War, was the most...
Nicolaes Maes
Dutch Master of the Golden Age
An expert look at the life and captivating work of the Dutch painter Nicolaes Maes, Rembrandt’s most famous pupil This book offers a close look at the art of Dutch Golden Age painter Nicolaes Maes (1634...
Van Gogh in America
A fascinating exploration of the introduction of Vincent van Gogh’s work to the United States one hundred years later Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) is one of the most iconic artists in the world, and how he...
A Sensitive Person
A Novel
A brutally funny, carnivalesque novel about love, death, and survival, from the Czech Republic’s greatest living author Tab, an itinerant Czech actor, travels around Europe on the theater circuit with his partner,...
Alain Locke and the Visual Arts
A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance Alain Locke (1885–1954), leading theorist of the Harlem Renaissance, maintained a lifelong...
A Beautiful Ending
The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World
An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations “A masterful synthesis of the...