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Maroons between Slavery and Freedom in Jamaica, Nova Scotia, and Sierra Leone
The unique story of a small community of escaped slaves who revolted against the British government yet still managed to maneuver and survive against all odds After being exiled from their native Jamaica in...
Selling the Tudor Monarchy
Authority and Image in Sixteenth-Century England
The management of image in the service of power is a familiar tool of twenty-first- century politics. Yet as long ago as the sixteenth century, British monarchs deployed what we might now describe as “spin.” In this...
Hubert Humphrey
The Conscience of the Country
"A painstaking and . . . admiring portrait" (Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal) of Hubert Humphrey, one of the great liberal politicians of the twentieth century“An outstanding account of the...
Einstein
His Space and Times
A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world’s first scientific “superstar” The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But...
Archipelago of Justice
Law in France’s Early Modern Empire
An examination of France’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean empires through the stories of the little-known people who built it This book is a groundbreaking evaluation of the interwoven trajectories of the people...
Dialogue and Dialectic
Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato
“This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight of Gadamer’s best known essays on Plato….These studies, spanning a...
Les femmes et la tradition litteraire
Anthologie du Moyen Âge à nos jours; Seconde partie: XIXe-XXIe siècles
Les Femmes et la tradition littéraire, a two-part anthology, offers a sweeping historical overview of women’s literature in France from the twelfth century to the present. Generously illustrated and richly annotated, it...
Sex and Sensuality in the Ancient World
In this fascinating book Giulia Sissa looks at sensuality and sexual desire in the Greek, Roman, and early Christian worlds, demonstrating how modern concepts of sexuality have emerged from the practices and theories...
The God of Hope and the End of the World
Do we live in a world that makes sense, not just now, but totally and forever? If, as scientists now predict, the universe is going to end in collapse or decay, can it really be a divine creation? Is there a credible...
The Recording Angel
Music, Records and Culture from Aristotle to Zappa
Second Edition
First published in 1987 and now considered a classic, The Recording Angel charts the ways in which the phonograph and its cousins have transformed our culture. In a new Afterword, Evan Eisenberg shows how...