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Engineering Communism
How Two Americans Spied for Stalin and Founded the Soviet Silicon Valley
Engineering Communism is the fascinating story of Joel Barr and Alfred Sarant, dedicated Communists and members of the Rosenberg spy ring, who stole information from the United States during World War II that...
A Dangerous Mind
Carl Schmitt in Post-War European Thought
Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) was one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant and disturbing critics of liberalism. He was also one of the most important intellectuals to offer his services to the Nazis, for which he was dubbed...
The Late Medieval English Church
Vitality and Vulnerability Before the Break with Rome
The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church...
George Seferis
Waiting for the Angel: A Biography
The first biography in any language of one of the world’s greatest modernist poets Poet, essayist, diarist, novelist, and diplomat, George Seferis brought about a revolution in the way people viewed his...
Robert Southey
Entire Man of Letters
In his lifetime Robert Southey was very much the equal of his fellow “Lake poets,” Coleridge and Wordsworth, but since his death his reputation has been overshadowed by their success. In this new biography W. A. Speck argues...
Miracles in Enlightenment England
The Enlightenment, considered an age of rationalism, is not normally associated with miracles. In this intriguing book, however, Jane Shaw presents accounts of inscrutable miracles that occurred to ordinary worshippers in...
Becoming Victoria
Just eight months old when her father, Edward, duke of Kent, died unexpectedly, the princess Victoria moved significantly closer to England’s throne. The task of raising a potential female monarch assumed critical...
The Gang
Coleridge, the Hutchinsons, and the Wordsworths in 1802
“A Night or two after a worse Rogue there came, The head of the Gang, one Wordsworth by name . . .”—Coleridge, A Soliloquy of the full Moon, April 1802Over a dramatic six-month period in 1802, William...
University Life in Eighteenth-Century Oxford
This delightful social history of academic life in eighteenth-century Oxford presents a meticulous yet entertaining account of the activities of students and dons at the university: the often inordinate eating and drinking;...
God's Last Words
Reading the English Bible from the Reformation to Fundamentalism
This wide-ranging book is an intellectual history of how informed readers read their Bibles over the past four hundred years, from the first translations in the sixteenth century to the emergence of fundamentalism in the...