Books like Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew
12 books with a reading profile close to Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman. Deep and outward-looking; a moderate read.
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The Lives of the Artists
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Giorgio Vasari’s seminal text traces the progression of Italian art from its medieval decline to its sixteenth-century peak.
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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Angela Davis connects disparate liberation efforts through a framework of intersectional internationalism.
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The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Richard Rothstein identifies the specific local, state, and federal policies that created and enforced residential segregation across the United States.
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Stravinsky
Also outward-looking · history, academic
In this biography, Stephen Walsh reconstructs the first fifty years of Igor Stravinsky’s life, spanning his upbringing in tsarist Russia to his established career in 1930s France.
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Saint Patrick Retold
by Roy Flechner
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
Roy Flechner reconstructs the life of the historical Patrick by situating his fifth-century mission within the legal and economic structures of late antiquity.
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History of Beauty
by Umberto Eco
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Umberto Eco examines the shifting definitions of aesthetics in Western civilization from ancient Greece to the dawn of the twenty-first century.
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Art Under Control in North Korea
by Jane Portal
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Jane Portal examines the institutional mechanisms through which the North Korean state dictates artistic production.
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Constantinople: Capital of Byzantium
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Jonathan Harris reconstructs the urban landscape and political culture of Constantinople during the peak of its influence around the year 1200.
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The Cambridge Companion to Debussy
Also deep and outward-looking · history, academic
This collection of essays analyzes Claude Debussy’s compositional innovations through the lenses of sonority, rhythm, and structural form.
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The Invention of the Restaurant
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Rebecca Spang traces the origins of the restaurant to eighteenth-century Paris, arguing that these establishments did not begin as places for gluttony, but as quasi-medical spas.
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Russia and the Russians
Also outward-looking · history, academic
Geoffrey Hosking analyzes the tension between the expansion of the Russian state and the development of its national identity.
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