Richard Kurin: 4 books
by Richard Kurin
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
The Smithsonian Institution is America's largest, most important, and most beloved repository for the objects that define our common heritage. Now Under Secretary for Art, History, and Culture Richard Kurin, aided by a team of top Smithsonian curators and scholars, has assembled a literary exhibition...
Hope Diamond
The Legendary History of a Cursed Gem
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
An entertaining and well-researched history of the Hope diamond
Since its discovery in seventeenth-century India, the Hope diamond, a glimmering deep blue gem weighing over 45 carats, has been shrouded in mystery and steeped in intrigue. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Richard Kurin goes beyond...
Reflections of a Culture Broker
A View from the Smithsonian
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014
Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others....
Madcap May
Mistress of Myth, Men, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
May Yohe was a popular entertainer from humble American origins who married and then abandoned a wealthy English Lord who owned the fabled Hope diamond--one of the most valuable objects in the world and now exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. May was a romantic who had numerous...