The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spa... more

Jean Jaur s was a towering intellectual and political leader of the democratic Left at the turn of t... more

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin Ameri... more

Signs of Devotion is the first longitudinal study of an Anglo-Saxon cult from its inception in the l... more

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin Ameri... more

Diego Vel zquez spent his formative years at the center of artistic life in seventeenth-century Sevi... more

response to increasing demand from the United States for henequen, the local cordage fiber. This henequen boom has often been...... more

of Hope. The book follows L pez Obrador s life from his early years in the flyspecked state of Tabasco, his university...... more

A Touch of Blossom considers John Singer Sargent in the context of nineteenth-century botany, gyneco... more