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Vagrant Figures
Law, Literature, and the Origins of the Police
In this innovative book examining eighteenth-century literary treatments of policing and vagrancy, Nicolazzo reveals the narrative, textual, and rhetorical practices that shaped the purview and scope of policing long before...
Art and Faith
A Theology of Making
Written over thirty years of painting and creating in his studio, this book is Makoto Fujimura’s broad and deep exploration of creativity and the spiritual aspects of “making.” What he does in the studio, he asserts, is...
Founding God’s Nation
Reading Exodus
In this long-awaited follow-up to his 2003 book on Genesis, biblical scholar Leon Kass explores how Exodus raises and then answers the central political questions of what defines a nation and how a nation should govern itself...
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...
John Singer Sargent Complete Catalogue of Paintings Cumulative Index
The cumulative index to John Singer Sargent: The Complete Paintings comprises two indexes covering the nine volumes of the complete catalogue raisonné: a comprehensive general index and an index of the titles of all...
Britain and Europe in a Troubled World
Is Britain a part of Europe? The nation has been ambivalent on this question since the Second World War, when the Western European nations sought to prevent the return of fascism by creating strong international ties...
Past and Prologue
Politics and Memory in the American Revolution
In Past and Prologue, Michael Hattem shows how colonists’ changing understandings of history shaped the politics of the American Revolution and the origins of American national identity. Between the 1760s...
Heinrich Heine
Writing the Revolution
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) was a virtuoso German poet, satirist, and visionary humanist whose dynamic life story and strikingly original writing are ripe for rediscovery. In this vividly imagined exploration of...
Migrants in the Profane
Critical Theory and the Question of Secularization
Migrants in the Profane takes its title from a well-known remark by Theodor W. Adorno, in which he offered a summary of the lesson conveyed in Walter Benjamin’s image of the mechanical chess-playing Turk and its hidden...
On Democracy
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing...