The first book-length study of Horace Walpole’s scandalous The Mysterious Mother, including critical essays, an abridged script, and a facsimile edition
The selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer dating from the immediate post–Civil War years
How a woman-led citizens’ group beat a Southern political machine by enlisting federal bureaucrats and judges to protect their neighborhood from unchecked economic development
An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France
An epic account of how a new world order under Tamerlane was born out of the decline of the Mongol Empire
An intimate portrait illuminating the life and work of Amos Oz, the award-winning Israeli writer and activist
How debates over secrecy and transparency in politics during the eighteenth century shaped modern democracy
Focusing on Christianity’s core practices, a leading theologian imagines Christianity as a way of life oriented toward wisdom
The newly revised Pevsner guide to the buildings of Oxford and South-East Oxfordshire
A lavishly illustrated overview of contemporary Korean art that offers new insight into the country’s tumultuous modern history and its multifaceted and vibrant art scene
A charged biography of a notorious Nazi art plunderer and his career in the postwar art world
A lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders