Sugar and Spice: Grocers and Groceries in Provincial England, 1650-1830
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Consumers in eighteenth-century England were firmly embedded in an expanding world of goods, one...
50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights
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Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting...
In Dante's Wake: Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition
John Freccero, Danielle Callegari and Melissa Swain
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Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine...
Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle
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Shakespeare's Women and the Fin de Siecle illuminates the most iconoclastic performances of...
The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life
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The Victorian Verse-Novel: Aspiring to Life considers the rise of a hybrid generic form, the...
The World of James Bond: The Lives and Times of 007
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This book presents an insightful and thoroughly entertaining exploration of the political context of...
Belonging: A Culture of Place
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What does it mean to call a place home? Who is allowed to become a member of a community? When can...
Naked: A Cultural History of American Nudism
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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York...
Same Sex Love 1700-1957
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Family history is often seen as the stories of people who were part of a traditional family unit,...
The Domesticated Penis: How Womanhood Has Shaped Manhood
Loretta A. Cormier and Sharyn R. Jones
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The Domesticated Penis challenges long-held assumptions that, in the development of Homo sapiens,...