Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851
James Q. Davies and Ellen Lockhart
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What does it mean to hear scientifically? What does it mean to see musically? This volume uncovers a...
The Art of Sword Combat: A 1568 German Treatise on Swordmanship
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Following the success of Jeffrey L. Forgeng's translation of Joachim Meyer's The Art of Sword Combat...
The Classic Guide to Gardening
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The Victorian age, the age of industrial revolution and expansion of cities, was also the age of an...
The Genesis of Roman Architecture
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An important new look at Rome's earliest buildings and their context within the broader tradition of...
The Medieval and Renaissance Interiors
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Illuminated manuscripts are an excellent source of information about the interiors inhabited by...
The Slave's Cause: A History of Abolition
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A groundbreaking history of abolition that recovers the largely forgotten role of African Americans...
The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental
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How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we...
The War that Ended Peace: How Europe abandoned peace for the First World War
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WINNER of the International Affairs Book of the Year at the Political Book Awards 2014Longlisted for...
The World at Their Fingertips: Eighteenth-century British Two-sheet Double-hemisphere World Maps
Ashley Baynton-Williams and Geoff Armitage
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Between 1680 and 1807 British publishers produced a sequence of double-hemisphere world maps each...
Under the Wire: How the Telegraph Changed Diplomacy
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How did the telegraph, a new and revolutionary form of communication, affect diplomats, who tended...