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The Province of Legislation Determined
A comprehensive account of English legal thought in the age of Blackstone and Bentham for nearly a century, The Province of Legislation Determined...
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Building Capitalism
A most comprehensive empirical analysis of the economic transformation of the former Soviet bloc during the first decade after communism. It debunks...
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Council and Hierarchy
In 1311, at the council of Vienne, William Durant the Younger (c. 1266–1330), the French bishop and count, demanded that general councils ought to...
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Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States, 1750–1850
Republicanism and Liberalism in America and the German States represents the cooperative effort of a group of American and German scholars to move...
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State Identities and the Homogenisation of Peoples
Why are forced displacement, ethnic cleansing and genocide an enduring feature of state systems? In this ground-breaking book, Heather Rae locates...
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Treason and the State
This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of...
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Tacitus: Histories Book I
The first historical work by Rome’s greatest historian, Tacitus’ Histories hold a crucial place in the history of Latin literature. Book I covers...
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The New York Concert Saloon
In this book Brooks McNamara explores the world of the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century. A...
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Fashioning Adultery
This book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide...
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Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens
This book is the first in-depth study of the topic of rape in classical Athens. Its central focus is on violent sexual encounters but it also raises...
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Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England
In Women, Death and Literature in Post-Reformation England Patricia Phillippy examines the crucial literal and figurative roles played by women in...
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Herodotus: Histories Book IX
Book IX of Herodotus’ Histories provides the conclusion and climax to his work, as the victories at Plataea and Mycale complete the improbable...
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Eros and Polis
Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities,...
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Achilles in Greek Tragedy
This study examines how one of the most popular and glamorous figures of Greek mythology was imagined on the tragic stage of fifth-century Athens. Dr...
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Dynasty and Diplomacy in the Court of Savoy
This book is a major study in English of the duchy of Savoy during the period of the Thirty Years War. Rather than examining Savoy purely in terms of...
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Pilgrimage
Pilgrimage was a central feature of medieval English life which affected history, politics, art and literature. The shrines were destroyed during the...
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Politics, Religion and Popularity in Early Stuart Britain
Revisionism has had a far-reaching impact upon the history of politics and religion in early Stuart Britain. The essays collected here set out to...
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Staging Domesticity
What role does food and cooking play in how people imagine themselves and their communities? In this book Wendy Wall argues that representations of...
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The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII
This study considers the urban development of Rome in the mid- seventeenth century as conceived and guided by the Chigi pope, Alexander VII. Focusing...
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Building Capitalism
A most comprehensive empirical analysis of the economic transformation of the former Soviet bloc during the first decade after communism. It debunks...
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Hebrew Manuscripts of the Middle Ages
Hebrew manuscripts are our most important source of knowledge about Jewish intellectual, religious and everyday life in the Middle Ages, and anyone...
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Anglo-Saxon England (No. 30)
The pre-eminence of Anglo-Saxon England in its field can be seen as a result of its encouragement of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of all...
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The Natural History of Pompeii
The sudden destruction of Pompeii, Herculaneum and the surrounding Campanian countryside following the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79 preserved the...
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Kapitalismens dynamik
I Kapitalismens dynamik sammanfattar den franske historikern Fernand Braudel resultaten av sin mångåriga forskning om kapitalismens framväxt. Han...
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