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Early Modernity and Mobility

Port Cities and Printers across the Armenian Diaspora, 1512-1800

Sebouh David Aslanian

A history of the continent-spanning Armenian print tradition in the early modern period  Early Modernity and Mobility explores the disparate yet connected histories of Armenian printing establishments in...

June 27, 2023, Hardcover, $85.00

The Seven Measures of the World

Piero Martin; Translated from the Italian by Gregory Conti

The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world   From the beginning of history, measurement has been interwoven into the human experience,...

June 27, 2023, Hardcover, $28.00

Futurism and Europe

The Aesthetics of a New World

Edited by Fabio Benzi and Renske Cohen Tervaert; With contributions by Niccolò D’Agati, Silvia Barisione, Manuel Barrese, Fabio Benzi, Günter Berghaus, Paolo Bolpagni, Marta Braun, Alberto Cibin, Monica Cioli, Sjoerd van Faassen, Matteo Fochessati, Gianni Franzone, Lotte Johnson, Verena Krieger, Eugenia Paulicelli, Christine Poggi, Maria Ida Talamona, Francesco Tedeschi and Maria Elena Versari

A new, expansive study on Futurism which explores for the first time its relationships with other European avant-gardes during 1912 to 1939 Futurism was originally an Italian movement established in 1909 that...

June 27, 2023, Hardcover, $65.00

The Syriac World

In Search of a Forgotten Christianity

Francoise Briquel Chatonnet and Muriel Debie; Translated by Jeffrey Haines

A comprehensive survey of Syriac Christianity from its origins in Hellenistic and ancient Near Eastern cultures to the present   Often referred to as the third main language of Christianity after Latin and Greek,...

June 20, 2023, Hardcover, $35.00

Revolutionary Things

Material Culture and Politics in the Late Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Ashli White

How objects associated with the American, French, and Haitian revolutions drew diverse people throughout the Atlantic world into debates over revolutionary ideals  “By excavating the power of material objects and...

June 20, 2023, Hardcover, $50.00

Three Powers in Heaven

The Emergence of Theology and the Parting of the Ways

Emanuel Fiano

A fresh look at how Christianity and Judaism became two distinct religions through the parting of their intellectual traditions   How, when, and why did Christianity and Judaism become separate religions? This book...

June 20, 2023, Hardcover, $85.00

The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

Matthew Kelly

A vibrant history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women   In Britain today, a mosaic of regulations protects the natural environment and...

June 13, 2023, Paper, $24.00

Van Gogh's Cypresses

Susan Alyson Stein; With contributions by Charlotte Hale, Silvia A. Centeno, Alison Hokanson, and Marina Kliger

The first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures This groundbreaking study of paintings and drawings of cypress trees...

June 13, 2023, Hardcover, $50.00

Atlas of the Senseable City

Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti

A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives   What have smart technologies taught us about cities? What lessons can we learn...

June 13, 2023, HC - Paper over Board, $35.00

About Architecture

An Essential Guide in 55 Buildings

Hugh Pearman

About Architecture is an engaging introduction to architecture, exploring the ways in which we construct our built environment, and why. Hugh Pearman guides us through the architecture that shapes our lives—from how our towns...

June 13, 2023, HC - Paper over Board, $40.00

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