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Mies van der Rohe
A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition, three times the length of the original...
Rome Measured and Imagined
Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a “crumbling city” populated by “broken ruins” into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists, architects, and engineers fascinated by...
by Bill Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2016
From the pencil to the puppet to the drone—the humanities and the social sciences continue to ride a wave of interest in material culture and the world of things. How should we understand the force and figure of that wave as it shapes different disciplines? Other Things explores this question by...
by Charles Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2016
Praised in recent years as a “calculating, improvisatory, essential poet” by Daisy Fried in the New York Times, Charles Bernstein is a leading voice in American literary theory. Pitch of Poetry is his irreverent guide to modernist and contemporary poetics.
Subjects range across Holocaust...
Evolving God
A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion, Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Religion has been a central part of human experience since at least the dawn of recorded history. The gods change, as do the rituals, but the underlying desire remains—a desire to belong to something larger, greater, most lasting than our mortal, finite selves.
But where did that desire come...
Boccaccio
A Critical Guide to the Complete Works
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Long celebrated as one of “the Three Crowns” of Florence, Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–75) experimented widely with the forms of literature. His prolific and innovative writings—which range beyond the novella, from lyric to epic, from biography to mythography and geography, from pastoral and romance...
The Camera Does the Rest
How Polaroid Changed Photography
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
In a world where nearly everyone has a cellphone camera capable of zapping countless instant photos, it can be a challenge to remember just how special and transformative Polaroid photography was in its day. And yet, there’s still something magical for those of us who recall waiting for a Polaroid...
by William E. Leuchtenburg
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Beginning with Woodrow Wilson and U.S. entry into World War I and closing with the Great Depression, The Perils of Prosperity traces the transformation of America from an agrarian, moralistic, isolationist nation into a liberal, industrialized power involved in foreign affairs in spite of itself.
William...
Slaves Waiting for Sale
Abolitionist Art and the American Slave Trade
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2011
In 1853, Eyre Crowe, a young British artist, visited a slave auction in Richmond, Virginia. Harrowed by what he witnessed, he captured the scene in sketches that he would later develop into a series of illustrations and paintings, including the culminating painting, Slaves Waiting for Sale, Richmond,...
by John W. Blassingame
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2008
Reissued for the first time in over thirty years, Black New Orleans explores the twenty-year period in which the city’s black population more than doubled. Meticulously researched and replete with archival illustrations from newspapers and rare periodicals, John W. Blassingame’s groundbreaking...
Black Patriots and Loyalists
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
We commonly think of the American Revolution as simply the war for independence from British colonial rule. But, of course, that independence actually applied to only a portion of the American population—African Americans would still be bound in slavery for nearly another century. Alan Gilbert asks...
Planters, Merchants, and Slaves
Plantation Societies in British America, 1650-1820
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
As with any enterprise involving violence and lots of money, running a plantation in early British America was a serious and brutal enterprise. In the contentious Planters, Merchants, and Slaves, Burnard argues that white men did not choose to develop and maintain the plantation system out of virulent...
The Work Ethic in Industrial America 1850-1920
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
The phrase “a strong work ethic” conjures images of hard-driving employees working diligently for long hours. But where did this ideal come from, and how has it been buffeted by changes in work itself? While seemingly rooted in America’s Puritan heritage, perceptions of work ethic have actually...
The Thousand-Year Flood
The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
In the early days of 1937, the Ohio River, swollen by heavy winter rains, began rising. And rising. And rising. By the time the waters crested, the Ohio and Mississippi had climbed to record heights. Nearly four hundred people had died, while a million more had run from their homes. The deluge caused...