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Race and Slavery in the Middle East

"A must read for any social historian of the region."-The American Historical Review The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the ninet…

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Jennifer Lunden
American Breakdown

A Silent Spring for the human body, this wide-ranging, genre-crossing literary mystery interweaves the author's quest to understand the source of her own condition with her telling of the story of the chr…

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Conor Heffernan
When Fitness Went Global

This book provides the first detailed account of how and why fitness and physical culture underwent rapid globalization in the 19th century.

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Rutgers Meets Japan

In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot…

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Rutgers Meets Japan

In 1867 Kusakabe Taro, a young samurai from Fukui, Japan, began studying at Rutgers as its first foreign student. Three years later, in 1870, his former tutor, friend, and Rutgers graduate, William Elliot…

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Saidiya Hartman
Scenes of Subjection

'One of our most brilliant contemporary thinkers' Claudia Rankine'An unrelenting exploration of slavery and freedom' New YorkerIn this radical re-evaluation of American history, Saidiya Hartman draws toge…

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Fred E. Woods
Ports to Posts

Ports to Posts is the result of more than a quarter century of research in Latter-day Saint migration narratives from the nineteenth century. Fred E. Woods takes the reader from early church beginnings in…

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Conor Heffernan
When Fitness Went Global

This book provides the first detailed account of how and why fitness and physical culture underwent rapid globalization in the 19th century.

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Susan L Roberson
Geographies of Travel

Travel writing was the most popular genre of writing in the nineteenth century. Initially published in newspapers and journals as dispatches from the road, these works allowed readers to join in on fabulo…

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Anthology of Japanese Literature

The sweep of Japanese literature in all its great variety was made available to Western readers for the first time in this anthology. Every genre and style, from the celebrated No plays to the poetry and …

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Celia Applegate
The Work of Music

George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas

In The Work of Music, Celia Applegate examines the cultural history of Austro-German music through the lens of labor from the 1648 Peace of Westphalia to the Third Reich. She explores the working world of…

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Richard Alston
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities

Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped t…

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Meike Wagner,
Performing Citizenship and German Amateur Theatricals

This open access book proposes a revision of 19th-century theatre history and examines the contribution of amateur theatre practice to European theatre, by shifting the focus to theatre as a cultural, soc…

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Francesca Mackenney
Birdsong, Speech and Poetry

"In the long nineteenth century, scientists revealed striking similarities between how birds learn to sing and how children learn to speak. This book explores how poets in this period responded to an…

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Ellen Gardner Nakamura,
Japanese Medical Lives in Transformation

At the end of the 19th century, Japanese modernizers abandoned the traditional Chinese-style medicine that had dominated for centuries, and turned instead to Western medical theory and practice. In this b…

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Carl J. Strikwerda
The Origins of the Contemporary Global Order

"Carl Strikwerda's searching account of the collapse of the informal global order before the Great War and the reconstruction of a rules-based order after 1945 is of great importance in understanding…

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Modernizing Europe's Imperial Monarchies

Up until recently, Europe's three imperial monarchies - the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires - were seen as moribund political entities, unable to accommodate the forces of political, social, economi…

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Farhat Hasan
Voices in Verses

Based on the women's biographical compendia, this is a study of the memory of women in the literary culture in early modern India.

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Securing Empire

This volume explains how security was crucial to 19th-century Empire, showing how imperial rule was characterised by international competition and cooperation against perceived threats.

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Andrew Fitzmaurice
King Leopold's Ghostwriter

A dramatic intellectual biography of Victorian jurist Travers Twiss, who provided the legal justification for the creation of the brutal Congo Free State Eminent jurist, Oxford professor, advocate to the…

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