The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented...

An examination of the greatest unexecuted work of art of the 20th century The plans for the gigantic Monument to the Third International were completed in 1920 by Vladimir Tatlin, the Russian painter and visionary designer who was a key...

"Detroit After Dark: Photographs from the Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts" von Chris Tysh ist eine faszinierende Sammlung von Fotografien, die das nächtliche Leben und die urbane Landschaft Detroits erkunden. Das Buch...

An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds...

In this study, Vermeer scholars examine the life and works of this 17th-century Dutch master. It analyzes his evolution from a painter of religious and mythological images to an artist who explored the psychological nuances of human...

Perhaps the world’s most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its...

"Pissarro and Pontoise: The Painter in a Landscape" von Richard Brettell bietet eine umfassende Untersuchung des Lebens und Werkes des impressionistischen Malers Camille Pissarro während seiner Zeit in Pontoise. Das Buch beleuchtet, wie...

"The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies" von S. G. Lofts ist eine wissenschaftliche Untersuchung, die sich mit der Methodologie und Philosophie der Kulturwissenschaften befasst. Das Buch basiert auf den Cassirer Lectures und...

An engaging survey of American still-life painting that reinterprets beloved works and introduces lesser-known ones, providing a compelling new synthesis of the subject The Art of American Still Life reconsiders the development and...

"Edward the Confessor" von Frank Barlow ist eine umfassende Biografie über einen der letzten angelsächsischen Könige Englands, der von 1042 bis 1066 regierte. Das Buch ist Teil der Yale English Monarchs Series und bietet eine...

"Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming" von Benjamin R. Barber untersucht die Rolle von Städten im Kampf gegen den Klimawandel. Barber argumentiert, dass Städte aufgrund ihrer Dichte, Innovationskraft und...