The Thieves of Threadneedle Street: The Victorian Fraudsters Who Almost Broke the Bank of England
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Late in 1873, London was gripped by the astonishing story emerging from the highest court in the...
Orienting Hollywood: A Century of Film Culture Between Los Angeles and Bombay
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A new understanding of the culturally rich and historic relationship between Hollywood and...
London Quiz
Travis Elborough and Nick Rennison
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How well do you know London? Here are 400 provocative, curious and humorous questions to enlighten...
Red International and Black Caribbean: Communists in New York City, Mexico and the West Indies, 1919-1939
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This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between the two imperialist...
How to Listen to Jazz
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In How to Listen to Jazz, award-winning music scholar Ted Gioia presents a lively, accessible...
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race Culture and Americas Most Famous Opera
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Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and...
World War I on Film: English Language Releases Through 2014
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One of the central events of modern history, World War I has been poorly presented in English...
The Pew and the Picket Line: Christianity and the American Working Class
Christopher D. Cantwell, Heath W. Carter and Janine Giordano Drake
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The Pew and the Picket Line collects works from a new generation of scholars working at the nexus...
September 1st, 1939
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This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More...
Biography History
The Woman Who Had Two Navels and Tales of the Tropical
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Nick Joaquin is widely considered one of the greatest Filipino writers, but he has remained...
Fiction