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Reception of James Joyce in Europe
James Joyce is now widely considered the most influential writer of the twentieth century. His name and his most important works appeared again and again in fin-de-millennium …
Byzantine Constantinople, the Walls of the City and Adjoining Historical Sites
Music in the Classical World
Music in the Classical World: Genre, Culture, and History provides a broad sociocultural and historical perspective of the music of the Classical Period as it relates to the world …
Vincent Van Gogh: Starry Night
Van Gogh's "The Starry Night" is one of the touchstones of the modern period. This essay by art historian Richard Thomson looks in depth at the artist's career--from his turn to …
Rip Van Winkle's Republic
Two centuries ago, native New Yorker Washington Irving exploded onto the literary scene of Europe with the publication of his breakout collection of stories, The Sketch Book of …
Description of Egyptian Architecture according to Denon
Cambridge History of War: Volume 4, War and the Modern World
Volume IV of The Cambridge History of War offers a definitive new account of war in the most destructive period in human history. Opening with the massive conflicts that erupted in …
War and Nationalism in China: 1925-1945
In 1937, the Nationalists under Chiang Kaishek were leading the Chinese war effort against Japan and were lauded in the West for their efforts to transform China into an …
Corpus of Rembrandt Paintings VI
A revised survey of Rembrandt's complete painted oeuvre.The question of which 17th-century paintings in Rembrandt's style were actually painted by Rembrandt himself had already …
One Family's Response To Terrorism
On January 18, 1984, Malcolm Kerr, president of the American University of Beirut and a respected scholar of Middle East politics, was shot in the back of the head as he stepped …
The New England Milton
The New England Milton concentrates on the poet's place in the writings of the Unitarians and the Transcendentalists, especially Emerson, Thoreau, William Ellery Channing, Jones …
Real Van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh's paintings and drawings are fabulously expensive. Millions of people admire his work, but are those masterpieces all genuine? To this day, the international art …