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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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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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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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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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Jörg Schaub
Modern Aesthetics and Democratic Life

In this innovative open-access study, Jörg Schaub demonstrates that the aesthetic is essential to democratic societies' aspiration to realize a life of equal freedom for all.Revisiting seminal eighteenth-…

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James Grehan
Empire of Manners

Stanford Ottoman World Series: Critical Studies in Empire, Nature, and Knowledge

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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The Governance of St Davids 1600-1740

University of Wales Press

Analyzes the restoration of St. Davids Cathedral in Wales using previously unpublished texts.This study of a previously unpublished manuscript is a significant witness to the vigorous life of St. Davids C…

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Susan Greenwood
Magical Mind

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Mysticism

This magical narrative aims to take you on a journey following a golden string first written about by the eighteenth-century poet, artist and shaman William Blake. Focused on my experience of such a journ…

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Danielle Allen
Radical Duke

When Danielle Allen discovered a parchment of the Declaration of Independence buried away in Sussex, little did she know that she had stumbled onto a larger story that fundamentally changes our understand…

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Stacey Margolis
Future Is Fiction

The Future is Fiction is the first cultural history of the idea that people have an obligation to protect the world for future generations. While political philosophers have regarded intergenerational jus…

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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…