A dazzling translation by Lydia Davis of the first volume of Michel Leiris's masterwork, perhaps the most important French autobiographical enterprise of the twentieth century
A groundbreaking history of abolition in the long march toward emancipation from the American Revolution through the Civil War
Relics affected everyone in medieval society. In this book, the author illustrates that the pervasiveness and variety of relics... Læs mere
Timothy Snyder traces the emergence of four rival modern nationalist ideologies from common medieval notions of citizenship.
In this nuanced portrait of Athelstan, Sarah Foot offers the first full account of the king ever written.
Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and... Læs mere
What is it to be a work of art? Part philosophical monograph and part memoiristic meditation, this book challenges the popular interpretation that art is an indefinable concept, instead bringing to light the properties that constitute universal meaning.
A companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, in which the first half is devoted to the famous University city, with its rich and varied inheritance of college buildings.