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Forgetting Lot's Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the 20th century.
"Ronald Reagan, a former actor and one of America's most popular presidents, married not one but two Hollywood actresses. This book is three biographies in one, discovering fascinating connections among Jane Wyman (1917-2007), Ronald Reagan (1911-2004), and Nancy Davis (b. 1921)…
"This book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the fifteenth-century B.C. tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III. The text explores and documents the location of the tomb, field work conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the site in 1988, art-market…
This book results from a collaborative effort to reconstruct the fifteenth-century B.C. tomb of three foreign wives of Tuthmosis III. The text explores and documents the location of the tomb, field work conducted by The Metropolitan Museum of Art at the site in 1988, art-market …
"Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a s…
"Early modern Japan was a military-bureaucratic state governed by patriarchal and patrilineal principles and laws. During this time, however, women had considerable power to affect directly social structure, political practice, and economic production. This apparent contradictio…
"This volume completes Keith McMahon's acclaimed history of imperial wives and royal polygamy in China. Avoiding the stereotype of the emperor's plural wives as mere victims or playthings, the book considers empresses and concubines as full-fledged participants in palace life, w…
