In Essentials, Unity: An Economic History of the Grange Movement
Jenny Bourne and Paul Finkelman
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The Patrons of Husbandry-or the Grange-is the longest-lived U.S. agricultural society and, since its...
Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian
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Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the...
The Critical Surf Studies Reader
Dexter Zavalza Hough-Snee and Alexander Sotelo Eastman
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The evolution of surfing-from the first forms of wave riding in Oceania, Africa, and the Americas to...
A Square Meal
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James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her...
Great depression FDR food history
A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,...
A Natural History of English Gardening 1650-1800
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A beautifully illustrated exploration of the quest for order within the garden, and within the...
Toupie Lowther: Her Life - a New Assessment
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Toupie Lowther appears as a walk-on character in many biographies of Radclyffe Hall and Una...
London's West End Actresses and the Origins of Celebrity Charity, 1880-1920
Catherine Hindson and Heather S. Nathans
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Today's celebrity charity work has deep historical roots. In the 1880s and 1890s, the stars of...
The Merchant of Venice
Leah S. Marcus and William Shakespeare
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This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its...
The 50 Most Influential Britons of the Past 100 Years
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Peter Pugh presents his selection of - not the best, fastest, most successful or richest - but the...