English ethnicity & culture in North America
"As Van Vugt's analysis of English immigrants in the United States is an appropriate place to begin this collection, so Sutton's essay is a fitting one to conclude it. Sutton confirms in many ways a belief shared by all of us involved in this project: that as with other ethnicit…
'The Data Gaze' is concerned with understanding how data-led, data-driven and data-reliant forms of capitalism pervade organisational and everyday life.
Before his masterpiece The Rise of the Novel made him one of the most influential post-war British literary critics, Ian Watt was a soldier, a prisoner of war of the Japanese, and a forced labourer on the notorious Burma-Thailand Railway. Both an intellectual biography and an in…
"Accompanying an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this volume brings together Rembrandt's drawings after Mughal paintings and demonstrates how Rembrandt's contact with Mughal art inspired him to draw in an entirely new, refined style."--Provided by publishe…
"Accompanying an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, this volume brings together Rembrandt's drawings after Mughal paintings and demonstrates how Rembrandt's contact with Mughal art inspired him to draw in an entirely new, refined style."--Provided by publisher
"'Soft power' emerged as a concept in the late twentieth century to describe international relations based not on military or economic strength, but on influence. While the resources of 'hard power' are tangible ... force and finance ... soft power resources include ideas, knowl…
Architecture as Cosmology examines the precedents, interpretations, and influences of the architecture of one of the great buildings in the history of architecture, Lincoln Cathedral. It analyzes the origin and development of its architectural forms, which were to a great extent…