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The Aeneidby Publius Vergilius MaroISBN 0253200458 (0-253-20045-8)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Aeneid'Book summary:"This translation with its admirable projection of the various moods throughout the poem can be recommended to both classicist and non-classicist." The Classical World
"Of all the editions of the Aeneid in English, [this] volume should be of special interest to the teacheras well as to the student." The Classical Outlook
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Alexander Pope: A Lifeby Maynard MacKISBN 0300043031 (0-300-04303-1)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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American Aurora : A Democratic-Republican Returns: the Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report Itby Richard N. Rosenfeld, Edmund S. MorganISBN 0312194374 (0-312-19437-4)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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American Aurora: A Democratic-Republican Returns The Suppressed History of Our Nation's Beginnings and the Heroic Newspaper That Tried to Report Itby William Duane, Richard N. RosenfeldISBN 0312150520 (0-312-15052-0)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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The Annals of London: A Year by Year Record of a Thousand Years of Historyby John RichardsonISBN 0304354635 (0-304-35463-5)
Hardcover, Cassell
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklinby Benjamin FranklinISBN 0300098588 (0-300-09858-8)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documentsby Louis P. MasurISBN 0312404158 (0-312-40415-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: With Related Documents'Book summary:This new edition of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" is built around J.A. Leo Lemay and P.R. Zall's text. Louis Masur's introduction sets the work in its historical context. Masur also discusses America after Franklin and why the autobiography has had such a tremendous impact on 19th- and 20th-century society and culture. The book prompts students to think critically about the text by raising fundamental issues, such as the inherent distortion that occurs in autobiography. The book also contains six portraits of Franklin. Louis Masur is the author of "Rites of Execution: Capital Punishment and the Transformation of American Culture, 1776-1865". [via]
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Black Atlantic Writers of the Eighteenth Century: Living the New Exodus in England and the Americasby Adam Potkay, Sandra BurrISBN 0312125186 (0-312-12518-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Black Society in Spanish Floridaby Jane LandersISBN 0252067533 (0-252-06753-3)
Softcover, Univ of Illinois Pr
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The Bounty Trilogyby Charles Nordhoff, James N. HallISBN 0316611662 (0-316-61166-2)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Britannia Rules: The Classic Age of Naval History 1793-1815by C. Northcote ParkinsonISBN 0297772872 (0-297-77287-2)
Hardcover, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Candideby Daniel Gordon, Francois M. VoltaireISBN 0312148542 (0-312-14854-2)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Candide'Book summary:Candide, Voltaire's biting portrayal of eighteenth-century European society, is a central text of the Enlightenment and essential reading for history students today. Preserving the text's provocative nature, Daniel Gordon's new translation enhances Candide's read-ability and highlights the text's wit and satire for twentieth-century readers. The introduction places the work and its author in historical context, showing students how the complexities of Voltaire's life relate to the events, philosophy, and characters of Candide. A related documents section - with personal correspondence to and from Voltaire - gives students another lens through which to view this influential thinker. Helpful editorial features include explanatory notes throughout the text and a chronology of Voltaire's life. [via]
Caribbean Transformationsby Sidney W. MintzISBN 0231071159 (0-231-07115-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Commerce of Everyday Life: Selections from the Tatler and the Spectatorby Erin Skye MacKieISBN 0312115970 (0-312-11597-0)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Country House Companionby Mark GirouardISBN 0300040830 (0-300-04083-0)
Hardcover, Smithmark Pub
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Earthly Necessities: Economic Lives in Early Modern Britainby Keith WrightsonISBN 0300094124 (0-300-09412-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautifulby Edmund Burke, J.T. BoultonISBN 0268000859 (0-268-00085-9)
Softcover, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
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An End to Poverty? A Historical Debateby Gareth Stedman JonesISBN 0231137826 (0-231-13782-6)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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English Sexualities, 1700-1800by Tim HitchcockISBN 0312165749 (0-312-16574-9)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Enlightenment: A Brief History With Documentsby Margaret C. JacobISBN 0312179979 (0-312-17997-9)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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European Encounters With the New World: From Renaissance to Romanticismby Anthony PagdenISBN 0300059507 (0-300-05950-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Family Life in Early Modern Times 1500-1789: The History of the European Familyby Marzio Barbagli, David I. KertzerISBN 0300089716 (0-300-08971-6)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Faustby Martin Greenberg, Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheISBN 0300056567 (0-300-05656-7)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American Peopleby Richard PriceISBN 0226680606 (0-226-68060-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People'Book summary:A classic of historical anthropology, First-Time traces the shape of historical thought among peoples who had previously been denied any history at all. The top half of each page presents a direct transcript of oral histories told by living Saramakas about their eighteenth-century ancestors, "Maroons" who had escaped slavery and settled in the rain forests of Suriname. Below these transcripts, Richard Price provides commentaries placing the Saramaka accounts into broader social, intellectual, and historical contexts.[via]
First-Time's unique style of presentation preserves the integrity of both its oral and documentary sources, uniting them in a profound meditation on the roles of history and memory. This second edition includes a new preface by the author, discussing First-Time's impact and recounting the continuing struggles of the Saramaka people.More editions of First-Time: The Historical Vision of an African American People:
French Revolutionby LefebvreISBN 0231085982 (0-231-08598-2)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The French Revolution: Class War or Culture Clash?by T. C. W. BlanningISBN 0312175213 (0-312-17521-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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French Revolution from Its Origins to 1793by Georges LefebvreISBN 0231023421 (0-231-02342-1)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'French Revolution from Its Origins to 1793'Book summary:Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute insights into the underlying forces that created the dynamics of the revolution, as well as the personalities responsible for day-to-day decisions during this momentous period. [via]
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Gibbon: Making Historyby Ray PorterISBN 0312027281 (0-312-02728-1)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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A History of South Africaby Leonard Monteath ThompsonISBN 0300087764 (0-300-08776-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Hume and Hume's Connexionsby M. A. Stewart, John P. WrightISBN 0271014237 (0-271-01423-7)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1by Adam SmithISBN 0226763749 (0-226-76374-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations/2 Volumes in 1'Book summary:"The Wealth of Nations" was recognized as a landmark of human thought upon its publication in 1776. As the first scientific argument for the principles of political economy, it is the point of departure for all subsequent economic thought. Smith's theories of capital accumulation, growth and secular change, among others, continue to be influential in modern economics.This reprint of Edwin Cannan's definitive 1904 edition of "The Wealth of Nations" includes Cannan's famous introduction, notes, and a full index, as well as a new preface written especially for this edition by the distinguished economist George J. Stigler. Mr. Stigler's preface will be of value for anyone wishing to see the contemporary relevance of Adam Smith's thought. [via]
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Jack Absoluteby C. C. HumphreysISBN 0312358229 (0-312-35822-9)
Hardcover, St Martins Pr
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Joseph Banks: A Lifeby Patrick O'BrianISBN 0226616282 (0-226-61628-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Journal of My Lifeby Arthur Goldhammer, Daniel Roche, Jacques-Louis Menetra, Rober DarntonISBN 0231061293 (0-231-06129-3)
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The Journals of James Boswell: 1762-1795by John WainISBN 0300060742 (0-300-06074-2)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kantby Stephen KornerISBN 0300027923 (0-300-02792-3)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Kant's Transcendental Idealism: An Interpretation and Defenseby Henry E. AllisonISBN 0300102666 (0-300-10266-6)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Lieutenant Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316290637 (0-316-29063-7)
Softcover, Back Bay Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lieutenant Hornblower'Book summary:The nineteenth century dawns and the Napoleonic Wars rage as Horatio Hornblower faces the fury of the French and Spanish fleets combined. Amidst the hissing of wet wads, the stifling heat of white-hot cannonshot and the clamour of a mutinous crew, new Lieutenant Hornblower will need all of his seafaring cunning to overcome his first challenge in independent command on the high seas. And while blood and violence flow thick and fast aboard a beleaguered HMS Renown, the aftermath of war promises intrigue of an entirely different order: Maria, a young senorita, who might just soften the steely resolve of a young lieutenant. This is the second of eleven books chronicling the adventures of C. S. Forester's inimitable nautical hero, Horatio Hornblower. [via]
The Life and Times of Cotton Matherby Kenneth SilvermanISBN 0231061250 (0-231-06125-0)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Life and Times of William IVby Anne SomersetISBN 0297778390 (0-297-77839-0)
Hardcover, Tuttle Pub
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural Historyby Mark GirouardISBN 0300058705 (0-300-05870-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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A Life of James Boswellby Peter MartinISBN 0300093128 (0-300-09312-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Life of James Boswell'Book summary:James Boswell (1740-1795), author of The Life of Samuel Johnson, remains one of the more celebrated biographers in modern literary history. In his monumental A Life of James Boswell, Peter Martin takes on the formidable task of writing the biographer's biography--of telling the story of a man whose numerous journals are renowned for their vivid evocation of his life and times. Martin's account is meticulous, dividing Boswell's Life into four discrete periods: "Journey to the Promised Land 1740-1763," "Travel and Marriage 1763-1769," "Stagnation: the Middle Years 1769-1782," and "Biographer and Laird of Auchinleck: Triumph and Despair 1782-1795." This broad-brush approach has the advantage of bringing some coherence to Boswell's complicated, often frenetic life: the dismal relationship with his family, and his early resistance to a career in law; the studies in London and Utrecht; the meetings with Rousseau and Voltaire, and his powerful friendship with Johnson; his salacious sexuality and fits of morbid depression; his passion for literary London. But, somehow, the vibrancy and intellectual fervor of Boswell's career fails to come through. The scope of this biography is remarkable, but its sheer wealth of detail--sometimes disconnected, and often recounted without comment or analysis--works to obscure the psychological, cultural, and political impact of Boswell's life and works. --Vicky Lebeau [via]
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Louis XVIby John HardmanISBN 0300060777 (0-300-06077-7)
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Martha Washington's Booke of Cookery and Booke of Sweetmeats: Being a Family Manuscript, Curiously Copied by an Unknown Hand Sometime in the Seventeenth Century, Which Was in Her Keeping from 1749, the Time ofby Martha Washington, Karen HessISBN 0231049315 (0-231-04931-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Middling Sort of People: Culture, Society and Politics in England, 1550-1800by Jonathan Barry, Christopher BrooksISBN 0312123566 (0-312-12356-6)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americasby Darlene Clark Hine, David Barry GasparISBN 0253210437 (0-253-21043-7)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas'Book summary:"... a much-needed volume on a neglected topic that is of great interest to scholars of women, slavery, and African American history." Drew Faust
Gender was a decisive force in shaping slave society. Slave mens experiences differed from those of slave women, who were exploited both in reproductive as well as productive capacities. The women did not figure prominently in revolts, because they engaged in less confrontational resistance, emphasizing creative struggle to survive dehumanization and abuse.
The contributors are Hilary Beckles, Barbara Bush, Cheryl Ann Cody, David Barry Gaspar, David P. Geggus, Virginia Meacham Gould, Mary Karasch, Wilma King, Bernard Moitt, Celia E. Naylor-Ojurongbe, Robert A. Olwell, Claire Robertson, Robert W. Slenes, Susan M. Socolow, Richard H. Steckel, and Brenda E. Stevenson.
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblowerby Cecil Scott ForesterISBN 0316289124 (0-316-28912-4)
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Forester's genius was not tidy, and so this story, which sets Hornblower on course at age 17, is Forester's sixth book about him, though it should have been the first. LIEUTENANT HORNBLOWER, which follows it, carries the intrepid young man another step forward in his career. [via]
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Nathan The Wiseby Lessing, Ronald SchechterISBN 0312401523 (0-312-40152-3)
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The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleonby Francois Furet, Francoise Melonio, Alexis De Tocqueville, Alan S. KahanISBN 0226805336 (0-226-80533-6)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Old Regime and the Revolution: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon'Book summary:One is sorely tempted to allow the marvelously lucid prose in Alan S. Kahan's new translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's study of the French Revolution speak for itself: "In 1789 the French made the greatest effort ever undertaken by any people to disassociate themselves from their past, and to put an abyss between what they had been and what they wished to become." But as Tocqueville found out when--with the hindsight of half a century--he examined the historical records, the revolution was really not so radical a turn of events. "True, it took the world by surprise, and yet it was the result of a very long process, the sudden and violent climax of a task to which ten generations had contributed." Thus the first volume of The Old Regime and the Revolution concerns itself with the state of affairs before 1798, getting beyond the "confused and often mistaken notions" of his contemporaries "about the manner in which business was conducted, the real practices of institutions ... the real basis of ideas and mores." Although many historians have taken on the French Revolution in the years since Tocqueville's analysis was first published, few have addressed the subject with as effective a combination of insight and clarity. --Ron Hogan [via]
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The Old Regime and the Revolution : The Complete Textby Alexis de Tocqueville, Alan S. Kahan, Francois Furet, Francoise MelonioISBN 0226805298 (0-226-80529-8)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Perfumeby Patrick SuskindISBN 0307277763 (0-307-27776-3)
Softcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Perfume'Book summary:An acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passionhis sense of smellleads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-century France, the infant Jean-Baptiste Grenouille is born with one sublime gift-an absolute sense of smell. As a boy, he lives to decipher the odors of Paris, and apprentices himself to a prominent perfumer who teaches him the ancient art of mixing precious oils and herbs. But Grenouille's genius is such that he is not satisfied to stop there, and he becomes obsessed with capturing the smells of objects such as brass doorknobs and frest-cut wood. Then one day he catches a hint of a scent that will drive him on an ever-more-terrifying quest to create the "ultimate perfume"the scent of a beautiful young virgin. Told with dazzling narrative brillance, Perfume is a hauntingly powerful tale of murder and sensual depravity.
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The Plight of Feeling: Sympathy and Dissent in the Early American Novelby Julia A. SternISBN 0226773116 (0-226-77311-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Poemsby Alexander Pope, John Everett ButtISBN 0300003404 (0-300-00340-4)
Hardcover, Yale University Press
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Politics, Language, and Time: Essays on Political Thought and Historyby J.G.A. PocockISBN 0226671399 (0-226-67139-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British Indiaby Lawrence JamesISBN 0312263821 (0-312-26382-1)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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None of this however, was planned. A series of emergencies in the eighteenth century transformed the East India Company into the most formidable war machine in Asia, and conquest gathered its own momentum. Fortunes were made, but the conscience of Britain was troubled by the despotism that was being created in its name. The result was a government that balanced firmness with benevolence, and had as its goal the advancement of India. There was resistance, both to the conquerors and, in the Indian mutiny, to the Raj they had made. This is a story of wars won against the odds and astonishing heroism, but it is also a tale of how, for many reasons millions of Indians collaborated with their new rulers and made possible the government of so many by so few. Raj contains much that is new, hidden, and controversial on areas as varied as the Mutiny, the Great Game, and the taxing of India.
The Raj, outwardly so monolithic and magnificent, was always precarious. Its masters knew that its survival ultimately depended on the goodwill of Indians, which was why pressure for self-government was met with a mixture of compromise and sternness. The twists and turns of the struggle for independence are told with a wealth of fresh material. Lawrence James galvanizes a subject already rich in incident and character: the India of the Raj was that of Clive, the Marquess Wellesley, Havelock, Kipling, Curzon, and Gandhi and a host of lesser known but vivid men and women. Raj probes their world and how they reacted to it. It will also provoke debate, using recently released official and private papers--to shed new light, flattering and unflattering, on Mountbatten and the other central and tragic events of 1946-47 that ended what had been simultaneously an exercise in benign autocracy and an experiment in altruism. [via]
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The Rise of English Nationalism: A Cultural History, 1740-1830by Gerald NewmanISBN 0312176996 (0-312-17699-6)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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Romans: The Niv Application Commentary From Biblical Text...to Contemporary Lifeby Douglas J. MooISBN 0310494001 (0-310-49400-1)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Samuel Johnson & His Worldby Margaret LaneISBN 0241892708 (0-241-89270-8)
Hardcover, Hamilton
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Satire and Sentiment 1660-1830: Stress Points in the English Augustan Traditionby Claude RawsonISBN 0300079168 (0-300-07916-8)
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Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History With Documentsby Laurent Dubois, John D. GarrigusISBN 031241501X (0-312-41501-X)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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Slave Women in Caribbean Society, 1650-1838by Barbara BushISBN 0253212510 (0-253-21251-0)
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Story of the Stoneby Cao XuequinISBN 0253192625 (0-253-19262-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Subject to Change: Reading Feminist Writingby Nancy K. MillerISBN 0231066619 (0-231-06661-9)
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Sultry Climates: Travel & Sexby Ian LittlewoodISBN 0306812215 (0-306-81221-5)
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The Surprising Effects of Sympathy : Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelleyby David MarshallISBN 0226507106 (0-226-50710-6)
Hardcover, University of Chicago Press
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Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the Novel in Franceby Joan DejeanISBN 0231062311 (0-231-06231-1)
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Two Treatises of Government and a Letter Concerning Tolerationby John Locke, Ian Shapiro, John Dunn, Ruth W. GrantISBN 0300100183 (0-300-10018-3)
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Visions and Revisions of Eighteenth Century Franceby Christine Adams, Jack R. Censer, Lisa Jane GrahamISBN 027101637X (0-271-01637-X)
Softcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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Warfare in the Eighteenth Centuryby Jeremy BlackISBN 0304362123 (0-304-36212-3)
Softcover, Cassell P L C
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White Gold: The Extraordinary Story of Thomas Pellow And Islam's One Million White Slavesby Giles MiltonISBN 0312425295 (0-312-42529-5)
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Women Critics 1660-1820: An Anthologyby Folger Collective on Early Women CriticsISBN 0253209633 (0-253-20963-3)
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Words of Fire, Deeds of Blood: The Mob, the Monarchy, and the French Revolutionby Olivier BernierISBN 0316092061 (0-316-09206-1)
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The World of Goya, 1746-1828by Richard SchickelISBN 0316508608 (0-316-50860-8)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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