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Tracing continuities between literature, material culture, and pedagogical theory, William Huntting Howell uncovers an America that celebrated the virtues of humility, contingency, and connection to a complex whole over ambition, individuality, and distinction.
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Forbidden Passages is the first book to document and evaluate the impact of Moriscos-Christian converts from Islam-in the early modern Americas, and how their presence challenged notions of what it meant to be Spanish as the Atlantic empire expanded.
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This book examines one of the most important axes of the book trade in Enlightenment Europe: the... Læs mere
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Explores the origins of human thought, language, and culture. Fourteen interdisciplinary essays investigate the evolution of the human mind, brain, and cultural... Læs mere
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Contested Bodies explores how the end of the transatlantic trade impacted Jamaican slaves and their children. Examining the struggles for... Læs mere
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Apocalypse of the Alien God shows that the fundamental break between the Platonic tradition and Judeo-Christianity began when the... Læs mere
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Published in 1774, Essay on Gardens is one of the earliest texts showing the progressive shift in French taste from the classical model of the gardens at Versailles to the picturesque or natural style of garden design in the late eighteenth century.
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The story of the liberal and radical minds-including James Agee, Archibald MacLeish, Dwight Macdonald, Daniel Bell, John Hersey, and Walker Evans-who worked for conservative Henry Luce and his popular magazines Time, Fortune, and Life between 1923 and 1960.
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Details human skeletal remains from Ban Chiang, covering 2100 B.C. to A.D. 200, the study sheds light on... Læs mere
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In Christian Human Rights, Samuel Moyn asserts that the rise of human rights after World War II was prefigured and inspired by a defense of the dignity of the human person that... Læs mere
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Presents findings from botanical samples excavated during the 1993-2002 Gordion excavations. Analyzes... Læs mere
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From Civil Rights to Human Rights examines King's lifelong commitments to economic equality, racial justice,... Læs mere