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Nov 7, 2024 | artreview.com | Roger Crowley |Yale Press |Mark Rappolt

An engaging account by Roger Crowley of the early trade wars between Spain and Portugal serves as a reminder of how money, greed and exploitation continues to shape the world This is a history of the rivalry between Spain and Portugal. But it is set a world away from Europe (or ‘two monsoons and 9,000 miles’, as historian Roger Crowley puts it) in the archipelagos of Southeast Asia.

Oct 23, 2024 | harpers.org | Ruth Franklin |Yale Press

Discussed in this essay:Alice James: A Biography, by Jean Strouse. Picador. 416 pages. $20. Family Romance: John Singer Sargent and the Wertheimers, by Jean Strouse. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 336 pages. $32. In 2001, the biographer Jean Strouse happened upon an exhibition of paintings by John Singer Sargent that featured twelve portraits of the Wertheimers, a British family of German-Jewish descent.

Sep 6, 2024 | lawliberty.org | Randall Craig Woods |Daniel N. Gullotta |Yale Press |Helen Dale

Despite a notable resurgence in interest and esteem for John Quincy Adams in recent years, his figure still lacks the magnetic allure that rivals such as Henry Clay and Andrew Jackson continue to command in the popular American imagination. To witness this firsthand, one can take a road trip across the country and see the numerous Jackson counties or towns named Jackson or Jacksonville, compared to the far fewer named for Adams.

Sep 2, 2024 | inkl.com | Yale Press

A mosaic of workers making preparations for a feast from second-century Carthage. Photograph: Print Collector/Getty Images Labor Day has come around again, and workers’ rights are now center stage in North America. Canadian railworkers nearly brought trade to a juddering halt in a dispute with rail firms. Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are courting union members as they fight for the White House even as union leaders call the Republican nominee a union-busting “scab”.

Jul 12, 2024 | hyperallergic.com | Yale Press

What follows is an excerpt from a recent conversation between David Ebony and Michael Lobel. David is a writer, critic, and curator; Michael is a professor of art history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, and is the author of the new book Van Gogh and the End of Nature. It complicates the view of Vincent van Gogh as the consummate nature painter, offering instead an artist whose images are inseparable from the modern industrial era in which he lived and worked.