Edited by Jack M. Sasson (NHC Fellow, 1994–95), John Baines, Gary Beckman, and Karen S. Rubinson Civilizations of the Ancient Near East presents this enormously rich world from a variety of perspectives. It describes the physical world of the ancient Near East, evaulates the impact of ancient near eastern civilizations on succeeding cultures, and reconstructs … Continued
By Linda Levy Peck (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) A fascinating study of the ways in which the consumption of luxury goods transformed social practices, gender roles, royal policies, and the economy in seventeenth-century England. Linda Levy Peck charts the development of new ways of shopping; new aspirations and identities shaped by print, continental travel, and trade … Continued
By Jaroslav Folda (NHC Fellow, 1988–89; 1998–99; 2006–07) The Crusades began as expeditions called by the Pope to regain the Holy Land and liberate oppressed Christians living there. One of the least-known aspects of the Crusades is the art that was commissioned by Crusaders in the Holy Land from the time they took Jerusalem in … Continued
By Jonah Siegel (NHC Fellow, 1998–99) In this fascinating look at the creative power of institutions, Jonah Siegel explores the rise of the modern idea of the artist in the nineteenth century, a period that also witnessed the emergence of the museum and the professional critic. Treating these developments as interrelated, he analyzes both visual … Continued
By Adolfo Gilly (NHC Fellow, 1991–92; 1996–97) Cardenismo was, at the same time, a historical moment of the Mexican people, the ideology of a movement and the imaginary of an era, that of the turbulent 1930s of the 20th century. It remained in the memory as a myth, the fleeting materialization of a practical and … Continued
By Barbara J. Harris (NHC Fellow, 1994–95) Portraits of aristocratic women from the Yorkist and Tudor periods reveal elaborately clothed and bejeweled nobility, exemplars of their families' wealth. Unlike their male counterparts, their sitters have not been judged for their professional accomplishments. In this groundbreaking study, Barbara J. Harris argues that the roles of aristocratic … Continued
By Donald J. Raleigh (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) This book is the only comprehensive history of the total experience of the Russian Civil War. Focusing on the key Volga city of Saratov and the surrounding region, Donald Raleigh is the first historian to fully show how the experience of civil war embedded itself into both the … Continued
By Stephen J. Pyne (NHC Fellow, 1979–80; 2002–03) A study of five Americans–Franklin, Irving, Garrison, Emerson, and Dickinson–who wrote about being writers and their confrontation with the emerging commercial reality of the literary marketplace. 20 illustrations.
By Philip Nord (NHC Fellow, 2008–09) France’s New Deal is an in-depth and important look at the remaking of the French state after World War II, a time when the nation was endowed with brand-new institutions for managing its economy and culture. Yet, as Philip Nord reveals, the significant process of state rebuilding did not begin at … Continued
By Judith Farquhar (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2015–16) and Lili Lai In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears … Continued