
A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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This selection of lapidary nuggets drawn from 33 of antiquity's major authors includes poetry,...
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...

Eve's War: The Diaries of a Military Wife During the Second World War
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When Jacy Wall cleaned out her attic, she didn't know that she ended up throwing away a precious...

A Moonless, Starless Sky: Ordinary Women and Men Fighting Extremism in Africa
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'Absolutely essential reading, period' Alexandra Fuller, bestselling author of Don't Lets Go to the...
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Socialist Senses: Film, Feeling, and the Soviet Subject, 1917-1940
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This major reimagining of the history of Soviet film and its cultural impact explores the...

The Material Atlantic: Clothing, Commerce, and Colonization in the Atlantic World, 1650-1800
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In this wide-ranging account, Robert DuPlessis examines globally sourced textiles that by...

White Girls
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"White Girls," Hilton Als s first book since "The Women" fourteen years ago, finds one of "The New...