A definitive history of ideas about land redistribution, allied political movements, and their varied consequences around the world
A remarkable portrait of a web of artistic connections, traced outward from Jay DeFeo’s uniquely generative work of art
A comprehensive history of the struggle to define womanhood in America, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century
The untold story about how the internet became social, and why this matters for its future
An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations
A fresh perspective on the influential critic, offering new ways of understanding the art of the Harlem Renaissance
An impassioned case for argument’s central role in human life, by one of America’s most distinguished cultural critics
The story of the prophet Elijah’s transformation from fierce zealot to compassionate hero and cherished figure in Jewish tradition
A fascinating journey into global politics that made classical music a proxy for power, inadvertently creating the “sound of Hollywood,” and excluding hundreds of composers
The definitive account of the superior fighting force that powered the English Revolution
The latest revised volume in the Pevsner Architectural Guides, covering Birmingham and the towns and settlements of the Black Country