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John Brown's Spy
The Adventurous Life and Tragic Confession of John E. Cook
The first full investigation of John Brown's trusted co-conspirator and his betrayal of the doomed Harper's Ferry raidersJohn Brown's Spy tells the nearly unknown story of John E. Cook, the person...
From Peace to Freedom
Quaker Rhetoric and the Birth of American Antislavery, 1657-1761
In the first book to investigate in detail the origins of antislavery thought and rhetoric within the Society of Friends, Brycchan Carey shows how the Quakers turned against slavery in the first half of the eighteenth century...
Household Politics
Conflict in Early Modern England
Early modern English canonical sources and sermons often urge the subordination of women. In Household Politics, Don Herzog argues that these sources were blather—not that they were irrelevant, but that plenty of...
Stalin's World
Dictating the Soviet Order
Drawing on recently declassified material from Stalin’s personal archive in Moscow, this is the first attempt by scholars to systematically analyze the way Stalin interpreted and envisioned his world—both the Soviet system he...
Aristocratic Vice
The Attack on Duelling, Suicide, Adultery, and Gambling in Eighteenth-Century England
Aristocratic Vice examines the outrage against—and attempts to end—the four vices associated with the aristocracy in eighteenth-century England: duelling, suicide, adultery, and gambling. Each of the four, it was...
Languages of the Night
Minor Languages and the Literary Imagination in Twentieth-Century Ireland and Europe
In the first decades of the twentieth century, rural populations throughout Europe changed the language they used in everyday life, abandoning their traditional vernaculars—such as French patois, local Italian dialects, and...
Forging the Past
Invented Histories in Counter-Reformation Spain
Spain’s infamous “false chronicles” were alleged to have been unearthed in 1595 in a monastic library deep in the heart of the German-speaking territories of the Holy Roman Empire by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Román de...
Wollstonecraft, Mill, and Women's Human Rights
How can women’s rights be seen as a universal value rather than a Western value imposed upon the rest of the world? Addressing this question, Eileen Hunt Botting offers the first comparative study of writings by Mary...
Truth or Beauty
Science and the Quest for Order
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired—and have sometimes...
Panaesthetics
On the Unity and Diversity of the Arts
While comparative literature is a well-recognized field of study, the notion of comparative arts remains unfamiliar to many. In this fascinating book, Daniel Albright addresses the fundamental question of comparative arts: Are there...