Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern, Hardcover - Charles Dellheim

The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has be...

A global history of the world's most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, writers and legislators, composers and entertainers,...

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

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Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.

The Sultan's Communists uncovers the history of Jewish radical involvement in Morocco's national liberation project and examines how Moroccan Jews ...

One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, sp...

A new 30th Anniversary paperback edition of an award-winning classic.Winner of the National Book Award, 1976World of Our Fathers traces the story o...

The Chicago-born artist Charles White (1918-79) was celebrated during his lifetime for depictions of African-American men, women and children that ...

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination...

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the wo...

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Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): J. C. SharmanIllustration(s): 9 maps.Number of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 23...

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In Connie Berry's third Kate Hamilton mystery, American antique dealer Kate Hamilton's spring is cut short when a body turns up at the May Fair pag...

DescriptionAt the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they ...

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Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World - Giorgio Riello

Reducere. This lively chronicle of the years 1847--1947--the century when the Jewish people changed how we see the world--is " a] thrilling and tragic histor...

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them

A shocking graphic novel account of poverty and discrimination suffered by the Chagos Islanders when their eviction by the British enforced US mili...

DescriptionA richly illustrated book, We Are Artists celebrates the life and work of fifteen female artists from around the globe and the distincti...

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The first book to examine multicultural visual art in Germany, discussing more than thirty contemporary artists and arguing for a cosmopolitan Germ...

DescriptionThe Jews' Indian investigates the history of American Jewish relationships with Native Americans, both in the realm of cultural imaginat...

DescriptionA powerful new interpretation of Catholicism's dramatic encounter with modernity, by one of America's leading intellectualsThroughout mu...

DescriptionOver the past two million years that human species have inhabited the Planet Earth they have distinguished themselves by their ability t...

This informative book invites young readers to discover the creative practices of female artists who, over their careers, broke boundaries and exce...

A panoramic insider's account of the global art industry, revealing the fascinating but mysterious workings of the world of contemporary art.Illust...

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"Belonging has been a formative struggle for me. Like most people with marginalized identities, my experience as a trans person has taught me that ...

Painful truths about the Zionist rape of Palestine and deliberate planting of anti-Semitism in Iraqi Jewish communities during David Ben-Gurion's p...

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The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throu...

DescriptionThis book is about the history and the current state of the art in the exciting field of cosmology -- the science about the Universe as ...

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Learning to Look is a collection of short and accessible essays on how we experience art. In each chapter, Alva Noe starts from an experience of a ...

From "pharma bros" to everday household budgets, just how did the pharmaceutical industry betray its own history--and how can it return to its trad...

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In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...