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Forgotten Wars

Christopher Bayly, Tim Harper

• Paperback | Engels
• In September 1945, after the fall of the atomic bomb--and with it, the Japanese empire--Asia was dominated by the British. Governing a vast crescent o... Lees meer

A History of Modern Poetry

David Perkins

• Paperback | Engels
• There have been many books on early modernist poetry, not so many on its various sequels, and still fewer on the currents and cross-currents of poetry... Lees meer

Zhivago's Children

Vladislav Zubok

• Hardcover | Engels
• Among the least-chronicled aspects of post-World War II European intellectual and cultural history is the story of the Russian intelligentsia after St... Lees meer

Russian Origins of the First World War

Sean McMeekin

• Paperback | Engels
• The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennia... Lees meer

Franklin of Philadelphia

Esmond Wright

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press S
• The most original and most delightful of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin was publisher and printer, essayist and author, businessman and "gene... Lees meer

The Scientific Estate

Don K Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Belknap Press
• The faith in science as an ally of political and economic progress, which Franklin and Jefferson made so firm a part of the American tradition, has be... Lees meer

The Mormon Jesus

John G Turner

• Hardcover | Engels
• The nineteenth-century Mormon prophet Joseph Smith published a new scripture dominated by the figure of Jesus Christ, dictated revelations presented a... Lees meer

Cleopatra and Rome

Diana E E Kleiner

• Paperback | Engels
• With the full panorama of her life forever lost, Cleopatra touches us in a series of sensational images: floating through a perfumed mist down the Nil... Lees meer

Egg & Nest

Rosamond Purcell, Linnea S Hall, René Corado

• Hardcover | Engels
• The beauty of the robin's egg is not lost on the child who discovers the nest, nor on the collector of nature's marvels. Such instances of wonder find... Lees meer

The Business of Enlightenment

Robert Darnton

• Paperback | Engels
• "A major achievement of American scholarship and in the first rank of those which have been transforming our view of French history during the last tw... Lees meer

John Keats

Walter Jackson Bate

• Paperback | Engels
• The life of Keats provides a unique opportunity for the study of literary greatness and of what permits or encourages its development. Its interest is... Lees meer

Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Stephen Jay Gould

• Paperback | Engels
• With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature's and humanity's diversity and order. Lees meer

Blacks in Antiquity

Frank M Snowden

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press
• The Africans who came to ancient Greece and Italy participated in an important chapter of classical history. Although evidence indicated that the alie... Lees meer

The Romani Gypsies

Yaron Matras

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Gypsies" have lived among Europeans since the Middle Ages. Yet Roms still seem exotic to Westerners, who often rely on fictional depictions for what ... Lees meer

Commonwealth

Oscar Handlin, Mary Flug Handlin

• Paperback | Engels | Belknap Press
• Commonwealth , when first published in 1947, was a pioneer effort to investigate the historical role of government in the American economy. It reveale... Lees meer

The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison

William Lloyd Garrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Letters of William Lloyd Garrison | nr. 6
• This is the sixth and final volume collecting the letters of an outstanding figure in American history. During the years when these letters were writt... Lees meer

Paradise Lost

David S Brown

• Hardcover | Engels
• Pigeonholed in popular memory as a Jazz Age epicurean, a playboy, and an emblem of the Lost Generation, F. Scott Fitzgerald was at heart a moralist st... Lees meer

Dance of the Furies

Michael S Neiberg

• Paperback | Engels
• The common explanation for the outbreak of World War I depicts Europe as a minefield of nationalism, needing only the slightest pressure to set off an... Lees meer

Avengers of the New World

Laurent DuBois

• Paperback | Engels
• The first and only successful slave revolution in the Americas began in 1791 when thousands of brutally exploited slaves rose up against their masters... Lees meer

The Damnation of Theron Ware

Harold Frederic

• Paperback | Engels | John Harvard Library | nr. 21
• This Faustian tale of the spiritual disintegration of a young minister, written in the 1890s, deals subtly and powerfully with the impact of science o... Lees meer

A History of American Magazines

Frank Luther Mott

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the fourth volume of his widely acclaimed History of American Magazines (volumes two and three of which received the Pulitzer Prize), Frank Mott ca... Lees meer

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume I

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the 1960s, art patron Dominique de Menil founded an image archive showing the ways that people of African descent have been represented in Western ... Lees meer

Macaulay

Robert E Sullivan

• Hardcover | Engels
• On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victor... Lees meer

Walter Benjamin

Howard Eiland, Michael W Jennings

• Paperback | Engels
• Walter Benjamin is one of the twentieth century's most important intellectuals, and also one of its most elusive. His writings--mosaics incorporating ... Lees meer