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The Lost Peace
How We Failed to Prevent a Second Cold War
The first account of the new Cold War—revealing how today’s renewed era of global great power competition could threaten us all Three decades after the Cold War ended, the hopes for a new and more cooperative era in...
Bernd & Hilla Becher
The first comprehensive, posthumous monograph and retrospective on Bernd and Hilla Becher, best known for their photographs of industrial structures in Europe and North America For more than five decades, Bernd ...
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,...
Cairo 1921
Ten Days that Made the Middle East
The first comprehensive history of the 1921 Cairo Conference which reveals its enduring impact on the modern Middle East Called by Winston Churchill in 1921, the Cairo Conference set out to redraw the map of the...
Picasso Ingres
Face to Face
An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso’s Woman with a Book and Ingres’s Madame Moitessier This publication examines, in detail, two extraordinary...
Survey of London: Whitechapel
Volumes 54 and 55
The Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel, shedding new light on this widely misunderstood district In these volumes, the Survey of London returns to the East End to chronicle Whitechapel...
A Revolution on Canvas
The Rise of Women Artists in Britain and France, 1760-1830
The first collective, critical historical study of women artists in Britain and France during the Revolutionary eraA Revolution on Canvas argues that women artists professionalized in unprecedented numbers...
Rodin in the United States
Confronting the Modern
A compelling examination of French sculptor Auguste Rodin from the perspective of his enthusiastic American audience This exhibition catalogue explores the American reception of French artist Auguste Rodin (1840...
George Grosz in Berlin
The Relentless Eye
A penetrating reevaluation of the period in which the German Expressionist George Grosz created his best-known, most searing satirical works This overdue investigation of George Grosz’s (1893–1959) most compelling...
The Illusion of Control
Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
A challenge to the conventional wisdom surrounding financial risk, providing insight into why easy solutions to control the financial system are doomed to fail. Finance brings prosperity and danger. We use...