Severin von Kusiemski, a European nobleman desires to be enslaved to a woman. Severin finds his ideal of voluptuous cruelty in the merciless Wanda von Dunajew. This book portrays one…

The Idea of Galicia analyzes the intellectual and cultural history of a place as an idea: how Galicia, invented in the late eighteenth century as a geopolitical artifice, gradually acquired…

This book, published in conjunction with the hundredth anniversary of the Paris Peace Conference, traces President Woodrow Wilson’s evolving thinking about the principle of national self-determination by closely examining his…

This book argues that the Enlightenment created the intellectual foundations of modern anthropology, and cultivated the anthropological pursuit of cultural perspective.

Documents the Art Institute of Chicago’s significant collection of English, French, German, Netherlandish, and Spanish paintings created before 1600. This title with conservation investigations, including the study of under-drawing and…