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Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions

**SHORTLISTED FOR 2025 THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION** A startling exploration of slavery in the Islamic world from the 7th century to the present Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, dive…

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Kenneth G Peters
Georgetown's Retail Past

Step back in time and rediscover the bars and restaurants, mom-and-pop shops, and bustling storefronts that shaped historic Georgetown.Georgetown's Retail Past is a history of retail stores in the Georget…

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Alicia Broggi
J. M. Coetzee and Christianity

This book explores the nexus between religion and literature in J. M. Coetzee's writings, as they relate to his readings of key Christian thinkers and ideas. In the process, it examines Coetzee's extensiv…

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Jennifer Militello
Identifying the Pathogen

A hybrid collection blending historical research and contemporary essays to consider the nature of oppressive marriage and gender inequity.Composed as a lab notebook recording various surgeries, autopsies…

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Jane Austen,
Northanger Abbey

The Cambridge Jane Austen

Northanger Abbey is both an ingenious Gothic parody and a realistic portrait of the social education of a naive young girl in late eighteenth-century England. Conceived in the 1790s but not published unti…

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Lottery fantasies, follies, and controversies

The volume explores the ways in which the lottery was imagined in early modern and long eighteenth-century Europe. It presents a series of interconnected case studies from Denmark-Norway, the German-speak…

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Katherine Aske
Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century

Uncovering how and why eighteenth-century definitions of beauty established cultural beliefs that continue to persist, Katherine Aske explores the ways female beauty was described, interpreted, celebrated…

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Justin Marozzi
Captives and Companions

Slavery in the Islamic world has a long, diverse and controversial history. Captives and Companions is a brilliant synthesis of history and contemporary reportage that brings to life the voices of the ens…

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Andrea Wulf
The Traveller

'Andrea Wulf belongs to the small, splendid canon of writers unafraid to render fact with feeling' Maria Popova, creator of The Marginalian and author of Figuring An inspiring biography of the remarkable …

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Seongho Yi Ik: The New Compilation of the Four Beginnings and Seven Emotions

Seongho Yi Ik: The New Compilation of the Four Beginnings and Seven Emotions is the first complete English translation of Sachil sinpyeon , a seminal work by the eighteenth-century Korean philosopher Seon…

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James Calvin Davis
The Character of a Nation

What can the life and thought of an eighteenth-century clergyman and college president tell us about the political crises that threaten American democracy today, including institutional racism? The Charac…

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James Grant
Friends Until the End

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain for twenty-five years: they supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended re…

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James E Caron,
Comic Belles Lettres

Comic Belles Lettres presents a significant rethinking of standard categories in scholarship on antebellum American humor--such as Old Southwest humorists and literary comedians--to provide a richer analy…

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James Grehan
Empire of Manners

It is easy to believe that manners are empty gestures, little more than social artifice or practiced etiquette whose sole purpose is to project civility and facilitate social interaction. But if we look m…

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Robert Ross
Orchards of Privilege

Series in Ecology and History

This study of the Gamtoos River floodplain in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threat…

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Anthony Phillip Blasi
Frontier Rangers of Colonial New England

Warfare in the WildernessFew images reflect the character of hardy New Englanders like that of the eighteenth-century colonial ranger. Rugged characters such as Robert Rogers, Israel Putnam and John Stark…

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Nicole Nehrig
With Her Own Hands

Psychologist and knitter Nicole Nehrig delves into the myriad ways that art forms such as knitting, sewing and embroidery are liberating for women. Spanning continents and centuries, Nehrig brings togethe…

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David Chanoff
Anthony Benezet

Wilberforce, Clarkson, Wesley. Britain's great abolitionist activist Granville Sharp. Each of these consequential figures of the eighteenth-century Atlantic world were galvanized by the moral power of a m…

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Economic Warfare and Sanctions Since 1688

How have economic warfare and sanctions been applied in modern history, with what success and with what unintended consequences? In this book, leading economic historians provide answers through case stud…

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Johanna Frymoyer
Modernist Movements

Topic theory examines the lexicon of conventions that emerged in the late eighteenth century through which composers evoked dances, marches, hunting, the pastoral, and the supernatural. While scholars hav…

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