This renowned textbook offers thorough coverage of all the visual arts from all parts of the world in a narrative that provides a rich contextual backgroundsocial, cultural, historical, religious, geographical, and political. This book has more than 1400 photographs and hundreds of line drawings, diagrams, and full-color maps. The text features art from the following time periods and places: prehistoric art in Europe; ancient art of the Near East,...

In this book the author tells the story of the American artists and scientists who studied in Paris, and changed America through what they learned there. He mixes famous and obscure names and delivers capsule biographies of everyone to produce a colorful parade of educated, Victorian-era American travelers and their life-changing experiences in Paris. This is the inspiring and, until now, untold story of the adventurous American artists, writers,...

"Before there was money, there was debt. Every economics textbook says the same thing: Money was invented to replace onerous and complicated barter systems--to relieve ancient people from having to haul their goods to market. The problem with this version of history? There's not a shred of evidence to support it. Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom. He shows that for more than 5,000 years, since the...

La he advertido tambin en los recuerdos de oficiales alemanes reincorporados a filas para constituir el ejrcito alemn de la posguerra que haban luchado contra los rusos en la estepa, mientras hablaban con orgullo de unos padecimientos que recordaban las experiencias de sus antepasados medievales.Y la he notado muy acentuadamente entre los oficiales de la India, sobre todo en su prontitud al recalcar que son rajputs o dogras, descendientes de los invasores...

This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight....

To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution, stressing the continuities between that struggle over the foundations of the national government and the original principles of the Revolution. This detailed study of the persistence of the nation's ideological...

El problema principal, por no decir el único, que se plantea en este libro es el de la convivencia entre grupos de diferentes culturas. El autor expresa lo que le separa de Villanueva, de Juan Goytisolo y de la postura de Francisco Márquez, investigadores que comparten su punto de vista. Con todo el respeto hacia su inmensa obra y hacia su pensamiento generoso, Bernard Vincent afirma que el voluntarismo de estos autores falta a la realidad. Quieren...

Tras más de treinta libros y toda un vida dedicada a escribir y enseñar historia, John Lukacs vuelve la vista atrás y reflexiona sobre el ayer y el hoy de su oficio, sobre las muchas mudanzas en las modas y las costumbres que ha presenciado durante su larga carrera. Y trata de imaginar un futuro, un espacio donde su labor siga teniendo sentido. Con esta sencilla base, Lukacs firma la que quizá sea su obra maestra: un libro agridulce, realista...

Desde el nacimiento oficial del anarquismo organizado en el Congreso de Saint-Imier de 1872, ninguna formación anarquista se ha visto sujeta a una tergiversación tan flagrante como la Federación Anarquista Ibérica. La FAI era un grupo de militantes del siglo xx dedicado a mantener el sindicato más grande de España, la CNT, en un camino revolucionario y anarcosindicalista. Esta obra posee dos dimensiones. La primera es descriptiva e histórica:...