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Humphry Repton
Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England
The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (1752–1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety...
James Boswell's Life of Johnson
An Edition of the Original Manuscript, Volume 2: 1766-1776
This is the second volume of the annotated transcription of James Boswell’s manuscript of The Life of Johnson, with its numerous complex revisions and wide array of supplementary materials. The transcription covers the...
Thank You, St. Jude
Women`s Devotion to the Patron Saint of Hopeless Causes
St. Jude, patron saint of hopeless causes, is the most popular saint of the American Catholic laity, particularly among women. This fascinating book describes how the cult of St. Jude originated in 1929, traces the rise in...
Spanish Imperialism and the Political Imagination
Studies in European and Spanish-American Social and Political Theory 1513-1830
From the early sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries, Spain was regarded as a unique social and political community—the most exalted, the most feared, the most despised, and the most discussed since the Roman Empire. In...
Facing Death
Where Culture, Religion, and Medicine Meet
We have learned a great deal in recent years about keeping death at bay through medical technology. We are less well informed, however, about how to face death and how to understand or articulate the emotional and spiritual...
Doctors Afield
"Our intent was to provide a book that would let the everyday practitioner understand that he or she had stories to tell, roads to walk, pictures to paint, tunes to play—and that there is life outside, even after,...
The Planets
During the last forty years, human beings have broken free of the Earth and ventured out to other worlds orbiting the Sun. We have visited every planet except Pluto, discovered dozens of new moons in orbit around other...
Epidemics and History
Disease, Power and Imperialism
"One of the best portrayals of life in Europe and the Islamic world during the medieval Great Plague. . . . Watts offers solid, stunning examples of Western idiocy that created superhighways for once-obscure microbes,...
Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory,
The Saint-Cloud porcelain manufacture in France holds a unique position in the history of European porcelain: it was the first in Europe to discover the secret of producing soft-paste porcelain, thereby breaking the monopoly...
Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age
During the seventeenth century, the Netherlands—a small country with just two million inhabitants and virtually no natural resources—enjoyed a "Golden Age" of economic success, world power, and tremendous artistic output. In...