Lying in Early Modern English Culture: From the Oath of Supremacy to the Oath of Allegiance
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Lying in Early Modern English Culture is a major study of ideas of truth and falsehood in early...
Swimming in the Dark
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Set in early 1980s Poland against the violent decline of communism, a tender and passionate story of...
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The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815-1914
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A masterpiece which brings to life an extraordinarly turbulent and dramatic era of revolutionary...
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No Way but This: In Search of Paul Robeson
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Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr. Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who...
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
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American environmentalism is defined by its icons: the "Crying Indian," who shed a tear in response...
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay
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When Deng Xiaoping launched China on the path to economic reform in the late 1970s, he vowed to...
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Chaucer's Decameron and the Origin of the Canterbury Tales
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A possible direct link between the two greatest literary collections of the fourteenth century,...
The Grammar of Spice
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Even the most enthusiastic cooks and food lovers have jars of dusty powders inhabiting kitchen...
Lenin on the Train
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By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons,...
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