At the heart of the influential Bloomsbury Group, Vanessa Bell was one of the most radical artists working in Britain in the first decades of the twentieth century
An ambitious look at how the twentieth century’s great powers devised their military strategies and what their implications mean for military competition between the United States and China
The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history
A first-of-its-kind handbook outlining best practices and common pitfalls for students and textual scholars interested in beginning to work with manuscripts
A sweeping history of the violence perpetrated by governments committed to extreme forms of secularism in the twentieth century
An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and work as seen through his close relationships and private life
The rise and fall of William J. Levitt, the man who made the suburban house a mass commodity
A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day
Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it
A panoramic, thousand-year history of Israelite religion, from the Iron Age to the birth of Judaism, by a renowned biblical scholar
How European enslavers tried to meet African consumer demand for their trade goods in the eighteenth-century transatlantic slave trade
Exploring the role the decorative arts played in the representation of Black people in European visual and material culture