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The Art Market and the Museum

This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century. Based on n…

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Jeanna Smialek
The Invisible Hand of Maria Edgeworth

The untold story of the nineteenth-century novelist who outsold Jane Austen and wove provocative theories into her fiction---changing economics foreverAt the end of the eighteenth century, Europe faced re…

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Nancy Yunhwa Rao
Inside Chinese Theater

"In the nineteenth century, opera emerged as a Cantonese regional culture and soon followed the Chinese diaspora to San Francisco. Nancy Yunhwa Rao brings to light the ways Chinese theaters became wo…

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Minutes of the General Association of Illinois at Their Nineteenth Annual Meeting Held at Rockford, May 1862

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Thomas Ward
Inca Garcilaso De La Vega

Thomas Ward examines Inca Garcilaso de la Vega's seventeenth-century work and how it influenced post-independence Peruvian literature in the nineteenth century. As literati struggled to define their fledg…

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Donna Giver-Johnston
Claiming the Call to Preach

Claiming the Call to Preach critically examines the dominant historical narrative that overtly or covertly has exercised its power to keep women from preaching. Donna Giver-Johnston here recovers the hist…

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Minutes of the General Association of Illinois at Their Nineteenth Annual Meeting Held at Rockford, May 1862

Reprint of the original, first published in 1862. The Antigonos publishing house specialises in the publication of reprints of historical books. We make sure that these works are made available to the pub…

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Jameson R. Sweet
Mixed-Blood Histories

An unprecedented study that puts mixed-ancestry Native Americans back into the heart of Indigenous historyHistorical accounts tend to neglect mixed-ancestry Native Americans: racially and legally differen…

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Geert Castryck
Space of Transformation

Africa in Global History

Drawing on a wide range of archives, historical publications, oral history, graphic, audiovisual and web sources, Geert Castryck presents Kigoma-Ujiji as both shaping and being shaped by global transforma…

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Jess Libow
Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. Though much of the writing about bodies was prod…

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Verity McInnis
Women of Empire

In his Rules for Wife Behavior, Colonel Joseph Whistler summed up his expectations for his new bride: "You will remember you are not in command of anything except the cook." Although their roles…

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Rose Neal
E.D.E.N. Southworth's Hidden Hand

Uncover the legacy of E.D.E.N. Southworth, the trailblazing novelist whose daring heroines and progressive ideals captivated a generation, only to be forgotten by history---until nowE.D.E.N. Southworth (E…

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Lee Alan Dugatkin
Nary a Horse Left Standing

How a devastating outbreak of horse flu in the 1870s ground city life to a halt---but ultimately revolutionized animal rights, medicine, and transportation. From a veteran science writer, evolutionary bio…

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Melissa Daggett
Eugène and Eulalie

Melissa Daggett's Eugène and Eulalie is an epic story of love, race, prosperity, and legal maneuvering. It chronicles for the first time in a comprehensive way the largely forgotten lives of Eulalie Mande…

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Elena Emma Sottilotta
Seekers of Wonder

Women's cultural and political engagement with oral tales and traditions in European peripheriesWith Seekers of Wonder , Elena Sottilotta offers the first comparative study of women's manifold roles in th…

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Lorena Féres Da Silva Telles,
Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant

Teresa Benguela and Felipa Crioula Were Pregnant examines the experiences of motherhood for enslaved African women and their descendants who navigated the realities of reproduction in nineteenth-century R…

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György Kurucz
Travel Narratives and Economic Discourse

In 1820, Count László Festetics, patron of the Georgicon-an agricultural college founded in 1797 in Keszthely-commissioned two young instructors to embark on an extended study tour across Western Europe. …

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Matthew Perkins-McVey
Intoxicated Ways of Knowing

Argues that intoxication was fundamental to German physiological, psychological, and psychiatric research during the nineteenth century. Intoxicating substances can be found lurking in every corner of mod…

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Race and Slavery in the Middle East

"A must read for any social historian of the region."---The American Historical Review The individual lives of African slaves in the Middle East, with a new afterword, new in paperbackIn the nin…

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Robert E. C. Davis
Lieutenants and Light

Lieutenants and Light provides an accurate, detailed historical study of the U.S. Army's use of the heliograph as a tactical means of communication and command and control in the desert environment of Ari…

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