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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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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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Andrea Wulf
The Traveller (Traveler)

'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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Richard Tuck
Active and Passive Citizens

A powerful case for why majority rule---not representation---is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly litt…

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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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Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries, 1700-1860

Gulf South Rebels, Insurgents, and Revolutionaries is a collection of essays on the tangled yet variegated histories of rebellious actors in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Gulf South and its linke…

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A History of Irish Working-Class Writing

A History of Irish Working-Class Writing provides a wide-ranging and authoritative chronicle of the writing of Irish working-class experience. Ground-breaking in scholarship and comprehensive in scope, it…

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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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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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Daniel Defoe
The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack

The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack is a classic adventure novel by Daniel Defoe. The story follows Colonel Jack, an orphan raised in pover…

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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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Michael Sonenscher
The French Revolution

Three questions have usually been asked about the French Revolution: why did it happen? why was it so violent? and what was its legacy? These questions seem to beg other, more conceptually ambitious queri…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Ben Hughes
The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712

The First Comprehensive Investigation into the First Uprising Against Slavery in North America The New York City Slave Revolt of 1712 is the first comprehensive investigation into this major event in the …

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Zoe Ann Griffith
Egypt's Mediterranean

Egypt's Mediterranean explores the intersections of commerce and statecraft in the eighteenth-century Ottoman Empire through the lives of overlooked intermediaries who lived and worked on Egypt's Mediterr…

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