Preface 1. In the Beginning... : Magico-Religious Behavior of the Paleanthropians 2. The Longest Revolution: The Discovery of Agriculture – Mesolithic and Neolithic 3. The Mesopotamian Religions 4. Religious Ideas and Political Crises in Ancient Egy...

Contents: Series Editor's Preface Author's Preface Introduction 1670-1776 Beginnings 1776-1860 Art and the New Republic The Art of Recording America Europe and the Great Tradition The Identification of Art with America The Persistence of...

Introduction Howard Nemerov: On Poetry and Painting, With a Thought of Music Giulio Carlo Argan: Ideology and Iconology Joshua C. Taylor: Two Visual Excursions Elizabeth Abel: Redefining the Sister Arts: Baudelaire's Response to the Art of Delacroix...

This definitive work – Canada's official atlas – is the first to bring together from diverse official sources complete information on the populated places of the country. It consists of two parts: First, 48 double-page relief maps which are the mo...

Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In "The Forge and the Crucible", Mircea Eliade follows the ritualistic adventures of these ancient societies, a...

In the period domoninated by the triumphs of scientific rationalism, how do we account for the extraordinary success of such occult movements as astrology or the revival of witchcraft? From his perspective as a historian of religions, the eminent sch...

Perhaps no other critical label has been made to cover more ground than "irony", and in our time irony has come to have so many meanings that by itself it means almost nothing. In this work, Wayne C. Booth cuts through the resulting confusions by ana...

When should I change my mind? What can I believe and what must I doubt? In this new "philosophy of good reasons" Wayne C. Booth exposes five dogmas of modernism that have too often inhibited efforts to answer these questions. Modern dogmas teach that...

"A Guide to Mexican Art", a survey of more than twenty centuries of art, has a double purpose. It provides an ample version of one of the great national arts by a leading art historian, and it serves simultaneously as a practical guide to the art's o...

The Everett D. Graff Collection of Western Americana consists of some 10,000 books, manuscripts, maps, pamphlets, broadsides, broadsheets, and photographs, of which about half are described in the present catalogue. The Graff Collection displays the...