Counsel for Kings: Wisdom and Politics in Tenth-Century Iran: Volume I: The Nasihat Al-Muluk of Pseudo-Mawardi: Contexts and Themes
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The first volume situates Counsel for Kings in its historical context. The second volume gives...
Expelling the Poor: Atlantic Seaboard States and the Nineteenth-Century Origins of American Immigration Policy
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Expelling the Poor examines the origins of immigration restriction in the United States, especially...
Trade and Peace with Old Spain, 1667-1750: A Study of the Influence of Commerce on Anglo-Spanish Diplomacy in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century
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Originally published in 1940, this book presents a study of the influence of commerce on...
Illuminators & Patrons in Fourteenth-Century England: The Psalter & Hours of Humphrey de Bohun and the Manuscripts of the Bohun Family
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A richly illustrated study of one of the treasures of the British Library, MS Egerton 3277, a...
Female Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century England: Engagement in the Urban Economy: 2016
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Aston challenges and reshapes the on-going debate concerning social status, economic opportunity,...
Show Me the Bone: Reconstructing Prehistoric Monsters in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America
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Nineteenth-century paleontologists boasted that, shown a single bone, they could identify or even...
Legalist Empire: International Law and American Foreign Relations in the Early Twentieth Century
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After 1898 the United States not only solidified its position as an economic colossus, but by...
Ingenious Impressions: Fifteenth-Century Printed Books from the University of Glasgow's Library
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The University of Glasgow's library contains over 400,000 manuscripts and printed works, built up...