Drawing on the museum collections represented by the Science and Society Picture Library as well as the legendary resources of the Hulton Getty Picture Collecti

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939 held at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

An exciting account of the origins of the modern world Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market capital

As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world

Why does the world speak English? Why does every country at least pretend to aspire to representative government, personal freedom, and an independent judiciary