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The Watchman in Pieces
Surveillance, Literature, and Liberal Personhood
Spanning nearly 500 years of cultural and social history, this book examines the ways that literature and surveillance have developed together, as kindred modern practices. As ideas about personhood—what constitutes a self...
Notturno
The first complete English translation of D'Annunzio's haunting book-length prose poem Composed during a period of extended bed rest, Gabriele D'Annunzio's Notturno is a moving prose poem in which...
The Origins of Corporations
The Mills of Toulouse in the Middle Ages
Fully modern corporations appeared in fourteenth-century Toulouse, much earlier than previously believed Germain Sicard proves that Europe’s first corporations were fourteenth-century mill companies...
The Declaration of Independence in Historical Context
American State Papers, Petitions, Proclamations, and Letters of the Delegates to the First National Congresses
Political science professor Barry Shain has collected 174 letters, papers, petitions, and proclamations from the years directly preceding the creation of the Declaration of Independence that challenge many of the dominant...
Adam Smith's Pluralism
Rationality, Education, and the Moral Sentiments
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Endowed by Our Creator
The Birth of Religious Freedom in America
Rejecting the extreme arguments of today's debates, the author examines what the framers of the Constitution actually said about religious freedom The debate over the framers’ concept of freedom of...
William Beckford
First Prime Minister of the London Empire
This first-ever biography of William Beckford provides a unique look at eighteenth-century British history from the perspective of the colonies. Even in his own time, Beckford was seen as a metaphor for the dramatic changes...
The Christian Monitors
The Church of England and the Age of Benevolence, 1680-1730
This original and persuasive book examines the moral and religious revival led by the Church of England before and after the Glorious Revolution, and shows how that revival laid the groundwork for a burgeoning civil...
The Limits of Détente
The United States, the Soviet Union, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1969-1973
In the first book-length analysis of the origins of the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War, Craig Daigle draws on documents only recently made available to show how the war resulted not only from tension and competing interest...
The Words of Others
From Quotations to Culture
In this lively gambol through the history of quotations and quotation books, Gary Saul Morson traces our enduring fascination with the words of others. Ranging from the remote past to the present, he explores the formation,...