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Michael J. Douma
The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York

Original and deeply researched, this book provides a new interpretation of Dutch American slavery which challenges many of the traditional assumptions about slavery in New York. With an emphasis on demogr…

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Kelly Kaelin
Women, Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World

"Women , Race, and the Moravian Church in the Early Modern Atlantic World is an important and timely study marking a new direction for scholarship on the intersection of gender, race, and religion in…

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An Unavoidable Evil: Siege Warfare in the Age of Napoleon

Sieges were the exception, rather than the norm, of the Napoleonic Wars. This simple truth may seem unremarkable to the modern reader, yet it represented a significant shift from the norms of eighteenth-c…

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Anthony R. Deldonna
Naples, Capital of Dance

Renowned as a city of entertainment, Naples was unequaled in eighteenth-century Italy for the diversity of its musical life. During the reigns of Carlo di Borbone and his heir Ferdinando IV, the sponsorsh…

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Catherine Hall
Lucky Valley

Why does Edward Long's History of Jamaica matter? Written in 1774, Long's History, that most 'civilised' of documents, attempted to define White and Black as essentially different and unequal. Long deploy…

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Raymond Malewitz
Animal Illness and the Literary Imagination

This book shows how major literary works from the eighteenthcentury to the present not only reflect but also shape the thoughts and anxieties of people struggling to navigate crises brought about by anima…

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Leith Davis
Mediating Cultural Memory in Britain and Ireland

Mediating Cultural Memory is the first book to analyze the relationship between cultural memory, national identity and the changing media ecology in early eighteenth-century Britain. Leith Davis focuses o…

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Stephen A Harris
Catesby's Natural History

A beautiful reproduction of naturalist Mark Catesby's flora and fauna illustrations of North America and the Caribbean.Mark Catesby was an eighteenth-century naturalist and artist whose work on the natura…

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Wiley Blackwell Companion to French Art

A comprehensive exploration of the evolutions, innovations, and legacies of French art from the late eighteenth-century to the present Charting the artistic eras from the transformative upheavals of the F…

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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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John Lidwell-Durnin
Explaining Famine in the British Empire

Famine is humanity's oldest fear. Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoki…

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Andrea Wulf
The Traveler

Step into the life and times of George Forster, the young naturalist and revolutionary who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world and whose radical ideas about humanity and freedom made waves in …

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Cameron Sullivan
The Red Winter

**Inspired by the eighteenth-century legend of the Beast of Gévaudan,The Red Winter is a lusty, dark, queer fantasy - perfect for fans of The Witcher and Susanna Clarke. 'Charming, haunting, ambitious'T. …

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Michael G Laramie
Sentinels by the Sea

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century warfare centered on sieges, not seeking out and destroying the enemy's army in battle. A captured fortress or town was a bargaining piece in the inevitable peace treaty…

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Diana Gabaldon
The Fiery Cross

Outlander - Band 05

Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon's new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her. In the ten…

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Lelia Packer, Charles Beddington
Canaletto and Guardi

A gorgeous celebration of the beauty of Venice as conveyed in the paintings of Canaletto and his followers.Among the renowned Old Master paintings at the Wallace Collection in London is an important group…

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Andrea Wulf
The Traveller

The Traveller spreads out before us the life and times of George Forster, who journeyed to the far reaches of the known world, and whose radical ideas about humanity, equality and freedom challenged the w…

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Charles Ignatius Sancho,
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African

'In short, I write just what I think.'After a successful career in the service of an aristocratic family, Charles Ignatius Sancho (c. 1729-1780) established a successful grocery business in Westminster an…

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Xenobe Purvis
The Hounding

National Bestseller ¿ A New York Times Editor's Choice Pick ¿ A New York Times Notable Book ¿ Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, TIME and Kirkus Reviews ¿ The Crucible meets The Virgin Suicides in this…

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Anna Hope
Albion

"Albion explores the complexities of family, trauma, nature, human nature, landscape and escape in language that is as provocative as it is tender."---Miranda Cowley Heller, #1 New York Times be…

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