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Hamlet's Choice
Religion and Resistance in Shakespeare's Revenge Tragedies
An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth’s England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth’s...
Sovereignty, RIP
Has the concept of sovereignty outlived its usefulness? SSocial order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without...
Bernini's Michelangelo
A novel exploration of the threads of continuity, rivalry, and self-conscious borrowing that connect the Baroque innovator with his Renaissance paragon Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598–1680), like all ambitious...
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
An Independent Woman in the Age of Revolution
The award-winning biography of Eliza Lucas Pinckney, an innovative, highly regarded, and successful woman plantation owner during the Revolutionary era“Glover not only recovers the life of a remarkable...
Edward the Confessor
Last of the Royal Blood
An authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066"In putting flesh back on Edward’s bones Licence has brought a new succession story to popular attention...
The Bookshop of the World
Making and Trading Books in the Dutch Golden Age
The untold story of how the Dutch conquered the European book market and became the world's greatest bibliophiles—“an instant classic on Dutch book history” (BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review)"[An]...
A Writing Guide for Learners of Chinese
An accessible guide to writing Chinese at the intermediate level An easy way to add more writing practice to the intermediate Chinese curriculum, this guide helps Chinese learners express themselves correctly on...
A Diplomatic History of the American Revolution
This introduction to the diplomacy of the American Revolution presents a fresh, realistic, and balanced portrait of revolutionary diplomats and diplomacy. “The best single-volume introduction to the...
Islam
A Thousand Years of Faith and Power
In its first thousand years—from the revelations to Muhammad in the seventh century to the great Islamic empires of the sixteenth--Islamic civilization flourished. While Europeans suffered through the Dark Ages, Muslims in...
Indian Survival on the California Frontier
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