The Great Cat Massacre: A History of Britain in 100 Mistakes
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In 1914 a train pulled into a provincial British railway station. The porter, a curious chap, asked...
The Greenest Nation?: A New History of German Environmentalism
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Germany enjoys an enviably green reputation. Environmentalists in other countries applaud its strict...
This Great Firebrand': William Laud and Scotland, 1617-1645: Volume 36
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William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (1633-45), remains one of the most controversial figures in...
What Have Plants Ever Done for Us?: Western Civilization in Fifty Plants
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When did the British Government become the world's largest drugs pusher? What tree is frequently...
The Map
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1613: Shimon Mendiluze, a Spanish Jewish alchemist fleeing the Inquisition, is found guilty of...
The Relic Master
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The year is 1517. Dismas is a relic hunter: one who procures “authentic” religious relics for...
33 Artists in 3 Acts
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Is being an artist a radical form of entrepreneurship or a vocational calling like the priesthood?...
George Stubbs and the Wide Creation: Animals, People and Places in the Life of George Stubbs 1724-1806
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Far more than a fine horse portraitist, George Stubbs was a painter and a printmaker of the highest...
So Much Wasted: Hunger, Performance, and the Morbidity of Resistance
Patrick Anderson, Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe
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In So Much Wasted, Patrick Anderson analyzes self-starvation as a significant mode of staging...
A Great and Terrible World: The Pre-Prison Letters of Antonio Gramsci (1908-1926)
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This edition of letters by Antonio Gramsci vividly evokes the 'great and terrible world' in which he...