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British History
20-Volume Set
Edited by Francis Beckett
From Lord Salisbury to Tony Blair, the books of this twenty-volume set biographically profile the nineteen men and one woman who served as Prime Minister of Britain during the twentieth century.
Distributed for Haus Publishing
2006 2400 p. 5 x 8 20-volume set 26 Boxed Set ISBN: 978-1-904950-53-0 $299.00 Your Price: $119.00
The Lisle Letters
Edited by Muriel St. Clare Byrne
The Lisle Letters consists of the personal, official, and business correspondence of the household of Arthur Plantagenet, Viscount Lisle, the illegitimate but acknowledged son of Edward IV, during the years 1533 to 1540.
“Epic in size and scope, tragic in the story it tells, it is also epic in its conception and execution, a remarkable triumph of persistence and determination.”—New York Review of Books
1981 63/4 x 91/2 six-volume set: 2 frontispieces, 94 facsimiles, 26 plates, 2 maps, foldout genealogy 27 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-08801-3 $757.00
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A Very Queer Family Indeed
Sex, Religion, and the Bensons in Victorian Britain
Simon Goldhill
“Child brides, cousin marriage, generational antagonisms, polyamory, lesbianism, homosexuality, all served with heavy dollops of graphomania and religious fervor—what could be more Victorian? As this magnificent account of the Benson family in the years between 1850 and 1940 shows, for the Victorians, nothing was more normal—or more agonizing—than queerness.” —Sharon Marcus, author of Between Women
2016 344 p. 6 x 9 8 halftones 28 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-39378-0 $35.00
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Picturing Empire
Photography and the Visualization of the British Empire
James R. Ryan
“Ryan is a skilled analyst of photographic imagery and has done an excellent job in making accessible the lessons available from archives of the visual history of Empire. . . . [A] sensitive and engrossing account of the reciprocal relationship between photography and British imperial ideology.”—Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Nuns, Music, and Defiance in Seventeenth-Century Italy
Craig A. Monson
“[A] rich tapestry of cultural life, religious history, and gender politics that puts Whoopi Goldberg’s shenanigans in Sister Act to shame. . . . Monson has rescued Vizzana and her colleagues from obscurity. Read Divas in the Convent as a reminder of music’s power to uplift, to challenge, and to transform.” —James McAuley, Washington Post
1995, 2012 296 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 4 line drawings 30 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53519-7 $33.00
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Nuns Behaving Badly
Tales of Music, Magic, Art, and Arson in the Convents of Italy
Craig A. Monson
“For centuries, more than threequarters of upper-class women in Italy were immured in convents. . . . This beautifully written, gripping book tells the stories of nuns who sought escape. Some just sang forbidden polyphony, one slipped out in disguise to catch the latest opera, and an entire convent burned down their cloister so they could all go home.”—Edward Muir, Northwestern University
2010 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 25 halftones 31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53472-5 $20.00
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Galateo
Or, The Rules of Polite Behavior
Giovanni Della Casa
“In its brevity, Galateo can almost be viewed as a kind of Renaissance Elements of Style, with the understanding that ‘style’ here means courteous behavior. . . . Timeless.”—Washington Post
“Mixes sagacity with delicious asperity. . . . It is somehow reassuring to know that idiots and bores are the same throughout the ages.”—Guardian
2013 144 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 halftones 32 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-01097-7 $15.00
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The Atheist’s Bible
The Most Dangerous Book That Never Existed
Georges Minois
“If you create false evidence in order to discredit your enemies . . . you will soon find people eager not only to believe you but also to serve the cause you have been trying to undermine. The text that is the object of Georges Minois’ study, the Treatise of the Three Impostors, provides a perfect illustration of this peculiar dynamics of deceit, credulity and paranoia.” —Times Higher Education
Revolt in the Netherlands
The Eighty Years War, 1568-1648
Anton van Der Lem
“This fresh, original, and beautifully written book offers as fine an introduction as one could wish to the revolt in the Netherlands—why it occurred, and why the Low Countries would eventually be divided against all expectation into a free north and a Spanish south. . . . A definitive study of a critical episode in the development of modern European society.” —Andrew Pettegree, author of Brand Luther
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2019 272 p. 61/4 x 91/4 74 color plates, 7 halftones 34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-086-6 $40.00
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Europe’s Steppe Frontier, 1500-1800
William H. McNeill
“A study of Hungary and the neighboring regions . . . which impressively demonstrates the impact of the open frontier on European history in its formative period. . . . [McNeill] interweaves not only the histories of a dozen or more different peoples but also the economic, religious, and social strands in the story.”—New York Review of Books
1964 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 35 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-56152-3 $28.00
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Engineering the Revolution
Arms and Enlightenment in France, 1763-1815
Ken Alder
“This is a fine work, grounded in research in French archives and a plethora of other sources. Alder has forcefully demonstrated the role of engineers in fostering social change in the eighteenth-century and revolutionary eras.”—Owen Connelly, American Historical Review
1997 496 p. 6 x 9 32 halftones, 3 maps 36 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-01264-3 $32.00
