A brush with history

What does it mean to be a woman artist – or a feminist artist – in China today?Analyzing how Chinese women artists have reinvented traditional forms of ink and brush painting, Invi...

Learn the engaging art of Japanese sumi painting, where simple sweeps of the brush capture the essence of nature. The Japanese art tradition of Sumi-e uses brushes and in...

How people dressed throughout history often reflects how they lived at the time, and Clothing in World History gives the reader a chance to explore clothing in a given place and ti...

Living history museums are cultural institutions that merge historical exhibits with live costumed performance. While unique and vitally important, they often compromise historical...

The Concept of History reflects on the presuppositions behind the contemporary understanding of history that often remain implicit and not spelled out. It is a critique of the mode...

Abstract For Bernard Williams, philosophy and history are importantly connected. His work exploits this connection in a number of directions: he believes that philos...

In a unique approach to historical representations, the central question of this book is “what is history?” By describing “history” through its supplementary function to the field ...

Nationalism: Past as Prologue began as a single volume being compiled by Ad Akande, a scholar from South Africa, who proposed it to me as co-author about two years ago. The origina...