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Architecture of the Islamic West
North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula, 700–1800
An authoritative survey situating some of the Western world’s most renowned buildings within a millennium of Islamic history Some of the most outstanding examples of world architecture, such as the Mosque...
The Making of Modern Art
Selected Writings
A new collection of key texts from a leading critic of modern art The critic Michael Peppiatt has been described by Art Newspaper as “the best art writer of his generation.” For more than 50 years,...
Nikolai Astrup
Visions of Norway
A compelling introduction to the life and artistic output of a trailblazing Norwegian painter, printmaker, and horticulturist Nikolai Astrup (1880–1928) was a Norwegian Expressionist artist known for...
The House of Fragile Things
A History of Jewish Art Collectors in France, 1870 - 1945
In the dramatic years between 1870 and the end of World War II, a number of prominent French Jews—pillars of an embattled community—invested their fortunes in France’s cultural artifacts, sacrificed their sons to the country...
Jewish Christianity
The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide
A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish...
That Is Not Who We Are!
Populism and Peoplehood
How can liberals offer “stories of peoplehood” that can compete with illiberal populist and nationalist stories? Rogers Smith has long argued for the importance of “stories of peoplehood” in constituting...
Grasses, Sedges, Rushes
An Identification Guide
This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown’s seminal Grasses: An Identification Guide, which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the...
Peppermint Kings
A Rural American History
An unexplored, fascinating history of nineteenth-century agrarian life, told through the engaging lens of three families central to the peppermint oil industry This unconventional history relates the...
Security Empire
The Secret Police in Communist Eastern Europe
A compelling examination of the establishment of the secret police in Communist Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Eastern Germany ?This book examines the history of early secret police forces in Poland,...
Religious Conflict in Brazil
Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century
The story of how Brazilian Catholics and Protestants confronted one of the greatest shocks to the Latin American religious system in its 500-year history This innovative study explores the transition in...