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Tales from the Borderlands
Making and Unmaking the Galician Past
The story of the diverse communities of Eastern Europe’s borderlands in the centuries prior to World War II Focusing on the former province of Galicia, this book tells the story of Europe’s eastern borderlands,...
Dollars for Life
The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment
A new understanding of the slow drift to extremes in American politics that shows how the antiabortion movement remade the Republican Party The modern Republican Party is the party of conservative Christianity and...
Crossroads
Drawing the Dutch Landscape
An investigation into how landscape drawing informed a new Dutch identity in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, amid enormous expansion in global commerce and...
A Movement in Every Direction
A Great Migration Critical Reader
Through images and texts both historical and contemporary, this book looks at the Great Migration and its profound and ongoing impact This thoughtful interweaving of text and imagery presents a variety of...
Mission France
The True History of the Women of SOE
The full story of the thirty-nine female SOE agents who went undercover in France“The freshness and honesty of Mission France make it an ideal book for taking a new look at the secret war, at a...
Autobiographies of an Angel
A Novel
An unflinching narrative of family history in Hungary’s Jewish community and the nation’s deep complicity in the Holocaust Born in 1723 in a small German town, Johann Klarfeld is thirteen when his father dies. He is...
The Idea of Italy
Photography and the British Imagination, 1840-1900
A unique portrait of nineteenth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of the first generation of British photographers This book examines the ways in which the new medium of photography influenced the British...
Constructing Latin America
Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art
A nuanced look at how the Museum of Modern Art’s carefully curated treatment of Latin American architecture promoted U.S. political, economic, and cultural interests In the interwar period and immediately following...
The Radical Vision of Edward Burne-Jones
A bold reassessment of nineteenth-century British painter and decorative artist Edward Burne-Jones, elucidating his fundamentally radical defiance of the Victorian age Challenging the dominant characterization of...
Grafted Arts
Art Making and Taking in the Struggle for Western India, 1760-1820
Conceptualizes “graft”— the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaGrafted Arts focuses on Maratha military rulers and British East...