Traces photographic history both topically and chronologically, profiles key masters, explains terms and processes, and features the landmarks in the development of photography.
Ranajit Guha develops a critique of historiography by taking issue with the Hegelian concept of world-history. That concept, he argues, reduces the world to Europe and history to what concerns the...
J.M. Roberts's renowned History of the World is widely considered the finest available one volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past, offering generations...