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Gulag Archipelago
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The Gulag Archipelago (Russian: Архипелаг ГУЛАГ, Arkhipelag GULAG) is a book by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn based on the Soviet forced labor...
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Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences
This book systematically investigates the past accomplishments and future agendas of contemporary comparative-historical analysis. Its core essays...
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Images of Myths in Classical Antiquity
Myths inspired Greek and Roman artists to rise to the challenge of conveying flowing narratives in static form. This book describes the different...
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European Conquest and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Paul Keal examines the historical role of international law and political theory in justifying the dispossession of indigenous peoples as part of the...
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Capitalism and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe
This volume presents a shared effort to apply a general historical-institutionalist approach to the problem of assessing institutional change in the...
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When Russia Learned to Read
Late Imperial Russia's revolution in literacy touched nearly every aspect of daily life and culture, from social mobility and national identity...
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An Introduction to Anglo-Saxon England
This is a lucid, authoritative and well-balanced account of Anglo-Saxon history. The third edition includes a new introduction by Simon Keynes....
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Lessons and Legacies IV
In authoritative, nonpolemical essays on some of the latest and most contentious issues surrounding the Holocaust, the contributors to this volume...
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The Cult of the Virgin Mary in Anglo-Saxon England
The cult of the Virgin Mary is associated by most medievalists with the twelfth and succeeding centuries. This book, however, provides a wide-ranging...
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Literature in the Marketplace
This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in cultural studies and the history of the book. Multidisciplinary...
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Prosperity and Plunder
In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By...
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Maitland: State, Trust and Corporation
The essays collected in State, Trust and Corporation contain the reflections of England’s greatest legal historian on the legal, historical and...
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Hindu Kingship and Polity in Precolonial India
Through the analysis of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century texts on the Hindu Kingdom of Kota in Rajasthan, Norbert Peabody explores the ways...
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Anglo-Saxon Perceptions of the Islamic World
In this book, Scarfe Beckett is concerned with representations of the Islamic world prevalent in Anglo-Saxon England. Using a wide variety of...
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Child Murder and British Culture, 1720–1900
In this wide-ranging study, Josephine McDonagh examines the idea of child murder in British culture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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Gender and the Victorian Periodical
Periodicals in the Victorian era portrayed and reinforced gender notions and ideals. Indeed, the Victorian periodical press was a critical cultural...
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Judaism and Enlightenment
This study investigates the philosophical and political significance of Judaism in the intellectual life of seventeenth and eighteenth century...
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Graphic Design, Print Culture, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel
The uniformity of the eighteenth-century novel in today’s paperbacks and critical editions no longer conveys the early novel’s visual exuberance....
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The Duel in Early Modern England
Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen...
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The Character of Credit
Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in...
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Russia’s Economic Transitions
Russia’s Economic Transitions examines the three major transformations that the country underwent from the early 1860s to 2000. The first...
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Declamation, Paternity, and Roman Identity
This book explores the much maligned and misunderstood genre of declamation. Instead of a bastard rhetoric, declamation should be seen as a venue...
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Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England
Reading, Society and Politics in Early Modern England ranges over private and public reading, and over a variety of religious, social, and scientific...
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Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art
Roman Imperialism and Provincial Art focuses on the art works created in the provinces of the Roman Empire. Heretofore marginalized, or at best...
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