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The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature

The Making of Felony Procedure in Middle English Literature...

Author: Elise Wang (Assistant Professor of English, Assistant Professor of English, California State University, Fullerton)
ISBN: 9780192870728
Format: Hardback
$149.95

This book is about felony prosecution in late medieval England, which it argues was shaped by literary and legal...  Read More >>

Ramism and the Reformation of Method: The Franciscan Legacy in Early Modernity

Ramism and the Reformation of Method: The Franciscan...

Author: Simon J. G. Burton (John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History, John Laing Senior Lecturer in Reformation History, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9780197516355
Format: Hardback
$210.95

Ramism and the Reformation of Method offers a fresh exploration of the philosophical and theological presuppositions...  Read More >>

Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age

Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded...

Author: Geoffrey S. Stewart
ISBN: 9781493078585
Format: Hardback
$67.99

Arming the world is the story of the development of American arms manufacturing and how ingenuity and inventiveness...  Read More >>

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland

Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland...

Author: Harriet Cornell ,  Professor Julian Goodare
ISBN: 9781837650484
Format: Hardback
$194.06

Showcases the latest research on Scotland's rural economy and society.  Read More >>

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections, and Belongings

The Global Ethiopian Diaspora: Migrations, Connections,...

Author: Dr Shimelis Bonsa Gulema ,  Professor Hewan Girma
ISBN: 9781648250880
Format: Hardback
$343.20

A comprehensive historical, geographic, and thematic analysis of the multidimensional and dynamic migration experience...  Read More >>

Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary Era, 1740–1815

Testing the Elite: Yale College in the Revolutionary...

Author: David Wilock (Wilton High School, USA)
ISBN: 9781032540054
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the extent to which the Revolutionary period (1740–1815) impacted the faculty, students, and...  Read More >>

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Early English Queens, 850–1000: Potestas Reginae

Author: Matthew Firth
ISBN: 9780367760922
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book offers a comprehensive, biography-led examination of queenship in England between 850 and 1000, tracing...  Read More >>

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and Identities in the Mediterranean (13th–16th Centuries)

The Late Byzantine Romance in Context: Narrativity and...

Author: Ioannis Smarnakis ,  Zissis D. Ainalis
ISBN: 9781032325675
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book investigates issues of identity and narrativity in late Byzantine romances in a Mediterranean context,...  Read More >>

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians in the Kingdom of Naples (1492–1541)

From Mass Conversion to Expulsion: Jews and New Christians...

Author: Nadia Zeldes
ISBN: 9780367536701
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The book explores the events that mark the last decades of Jewish presence in the kingdom of Naples from 1492 to...  Read More >>

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early Modern Poland

Santi Gucci Fiorentino, Artist and Entrepreneur in Early...

Author: Olga Maria Hajduk
ISBN: 9781032657875
Format: Hardback
$273.00

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533-c. 1600), a Florentine sculptor...  Read More >>

Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism Volume 9

Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of...

Author: Jason A. Heppler
ISBN: 9780806193731
Format: Hardback
$237.60

In the half century after World War II, California’s Santa Clara Valley transformed from a rolling landscape of...  Read More >>

Memorabilia (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate Hardcover with Jacket)

Memorabilia (Royal Collector's Edition) (Case Laminate...

Author: Xenophon ,  Henry Graham Dakyns
ISBN: 9781778780394
Format: Hardback
$105.47

The Memorabilia is a defense of Socrates, offering edifying examples of Socrates' conversations and activities....  Read More >>

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism in Nineteenth-Century France

The Harlequin Eaters: From Food Scraps to Modernism...

Author: Janet Beizer
ISBN: 9781517915902
Format: Paperback
$54.99

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Fdr's Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness

Fdr's Mentors: Navigating the Path to Greatness

Author: Michael J. Gerhardt
ISBN: 9780806542539
Format: Hardback
$65.00

Franklin Delano Roosevelt wasn't a born leader. He became one. As a boy he was in poor health, was insecure, and...  Read More >>

American Flygirl

American Flygirl

Author: Susan Tate Ankeny
ISBN: 9780806542829
Format: Hardback
$65.00

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Ascent To Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World

Ascent To Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's...

Author: David L. Roll
ISBN: 9780593186442
Format: Hardback
$65.00

The fascinating story behind the most consequential presidential transition in US history, from Franklin Roosevelt...  Read More >>

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation, Re-creation

Textiles of the Viking North Atlantic: Analysis, Interpretation,...

Author: Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author) ,  Professor Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 9781837650132
Format: Hardback
$194.06

An interdisciplinary study of the uses, meanings, and social impact of Viking Age textiles.  Read More >>

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging Society

The Korean Welfare State: Social Investment in an Aging...

Author: Kyungbae Chung (, President of the Korean Socio-Economic Society) ,  Neil Gilbert (, Milton and Gertrude Chernin Chair in Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley)
ISBN: 9780197644928
Format: Hardback
$170.95

This book examines the evolution of the Korean welfare state over the last several decades and the challenges it...  Read More >>

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of Ankh-Hap

A Mystery from the Mummy-Pits: The Amazing Journey of...

Author: Frank L. Holt (Professor of History, Professor of History, University of Houston)
ISBN: 9780197694046
Format: Hardback
$47.95

This book recounts the eventful life of Ankh-Hap, a Ptolemaic-era mummy seized in the nineteenth century from infamous...  Read More >>

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South of the Alps

Alexander the Great in Renaissance Art: North and South...

Author: Ingrid Alexander-Skipnes
ISBN: 9781032324944
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came...  Read More >>

Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame

Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11...

Author: Theodore Craig
ISBN: 9781640126008
Format: Hardback
$68.99

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Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and South African Freedom Fighters During the Cold War

Exiled in East Germany: Life Stories of Malawian and...

Author: Sebastian Pampuch
ISBN: 9783111201481
Format: Hardback
$35.72

"Recounting the life stories of Malawian and South African freedom fighters living in exile in East Germany during...  Read More >>

Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse and Regeneration (1200-900 BCE): Proceedings of the NYU-PSL International Colloquium, Paris Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, April 16–17, 2019

Ancient Western Asia Beyond the Paradigm of Collapse...

Author: Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault ,  Ilaria Calini
ISBN: 9781479834624
Format: Hardback
$187.00

New results and interpretations challenging the notion of a uniform, macroregional collapse throughout the Late...  Read More >>

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