Schools, Periods & Styles

The main objective of this book is to dispel some of the conventionally-held views surrounding trade between Europe and Asia in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. For instance, through a comparative and comprehensive study of merchant communities, markets and commodities, the individual authors... More

This book presents an exploratory study of the Mughal state and its negotiation with local power relations. By studying the state from the perspective of the localities and not from that of the Mughal Court, it shifts the focus from the imperial grid to the local arenas, and more significantly, from... More

Anne Boleyn is prettiest of all ladies-in-waiting at the court of King Henry VIII. It isn't long before she catches the eye of the King, he is bored and unfulfilled by his marriage and with no heir apparent, he is casting his net wide. Anne is in love and cannot see why she would do well to "beware ... More

Confined to the restricted area within the city walls of Constantinople, Byzantium of the Palaiologan period (1261-1453) realized impressive cultural achievements. The so-called "renaissance" was short-lived and lacked a sustainable foundation, but it inspired new developments even in areas outside ... More

Confined to the restricted area within the city walls of Constantinople, Byzantium of the Palaiologan period (1261-1453) realized impressive cultural achievements. The so-called "renaissance" was short-lived and lacked a sustainable foundation, but it inspired new developments even in areas outside ... More

The gay cultures of Latin America expressed themselves in a variety of ways artistically, from the early 19th century to the present. "Images of Ambiente" traces the development of such art and reflects the backlash against gay American influences.... More

Earlier historians of India's economic history have argued that traditional manufacturing in India was destroyed or devitalized during the colonial period, and that "modern industry" is substantially different. Exploring new material from research into five traditional industries, Tirthankar Roy's b... More

How did the rise of metropolitan art institutions influence modernism and the modernization of art in England? This volume explores the artist as creator, notions of class and taste, and the power of institutions to affect creativity and artistic expression. Topics discussed include the radicalism o... More

Here-in a rich interweaving of considerations of connoisseurship, style, iconography, cultural and social background, and historical events-is the first extended study of the history of Florentine and Sienese painting in the later fourteenth century, in the period following the plague of the Black D... More

Georgia O'Keeffe has long been recognized as one of America's most adventurous early modernist artists. But critics often suggest that she became a revolutionary despite her American background, not because of it.Bram Dijkstra challenges that point of view. In this searching reappraisal of O'Keeffe'... More

Gothic Studies has become a significant and popular element in the English degree curriculum and a rapidly expanding international academic field. "Teaching the Gothic" provides a clear and accessible account of how scholarship on the Gothic has influenced the way in which the Gothic is taught. The ... More

This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British s... More

From the author of the bestselling "Brunelleschi's Dome" and "Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling" comes the story of the artistic civil war that raged in Paris in the 1860s--the birth of Impressionism.While the Civil War raged in America, another revolution took shape across the Atlantic, in the stud... More