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Agnes Arnold-Forster
Nostalgia

A dazzling history of a dangerous emotion, by acclaimed historian Agnes Arnold-Forster. 'Absorbing' - The Guardian 'Illuminating' - Vogue ' Fascinating' - Pandora Sykes 'Juicy' - nb.In Nostalgia , histori…

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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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Erik J. Chaput
People's Martyr

In 1840s Rhode Island, the state's seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wi…

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Alexandre Coello De La Rosa
Chaplains of the King in the Colonial Philippines

The first of two volumes on the archbishops and cathedral chapters of seventeenth-century Manila, this book fills a historiographical gap by examining the diocesan clergy of the Philippines' political man…

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Susanna Berger
The Deformation

A fascinating account of the use and meaning of visual and spatial distortions in seventeenth-century art and architectureDuring the Catholic Reformation, patrons, artists, architects, and viewers, especi…

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Holly Brewer
The King's Slaves

A provocative account of how empire and absolutism institutionalized slavery in AmericaThe original draft of the Declaration of Independence condemned British kings for supporting slavery in their empire.…

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George Savile Halifax
The Character of a Trimmer and Other Writings

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To know when to let things alone is a high pitch of good sense.George Savile, Marquess of Halifax was among the greatest statesmen of late seventeenth-century England and was a central figure in the Glori…

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Benjamin Moser
The Upside-Down World

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town. In order to make sense of …

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Isabelle Schuler
The House of Barbary

The captivating story of a young woman's pursuit of justice and her struggle with the moral complexities of revenge in seventeenth-century Switzerland.Beatrice Barbary has been raised to believe that whil…

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Madeleine Thien
The Book of Records

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and fut…

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Aisha Dad
Through the Looking Glass

Anarkali, an Orientalized persona assigned to the harem of the Mughal Emperor Akbar, is also the lover of Akbar's son, Salim, the future Mughal Emperor Jahangir. Her body and narrative occupy the liminal …

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Olga Ravn
The Wax Child

In seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed by the Devil, who comes to them as a tall hea…

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David Gilman
The Knife Maker of Venice

A young Englishman captured by slavers must survive the snakepit that is seventeenth-century Venice.Pirate raiders terrorise the coasts of Europe, seeking slaves to sell in the markets of North Africa.Whe…

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Madeleine Thien
The Book of Records

Lina and her father arrive at an enclave called The Sea, a staging post between migrations, with only a few possessions. In this mysterious and shape-shifting place, a building made of time, pasts and fut…

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Tom Cain
The Life of the Author: John Donne

A revealing and original discussion of John Donne's workJohn Donne's voice can seem deceptively modern, yet his work demands contextual reading within early modern culture. The Life of the Author: John Do…

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The Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne

This new volume in the prestigious Oxford Edition of the Sermons of John Donne contains thirteen sermons preached by Donne as Dean of St Paul's Cathedral between November 1626 and November 1628. For each …

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Sven Van Dorst
Forever Flowers

A beautifully produced, close-up look at nature and flowers in the art of the late medieval Low Countries.If flowers could talk...In Forever Flowers , conservator Sven Van Dorst offers a different perspec…

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Hugo Moreno
Where the North Ends

A dramatic story of love, fate, and redemption in a time travel adventure filled with mysticism as our hero moves between the twentieth-century and New Mexico during the Spanish Inquisition.Aspiring write…

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David Ignatius
Phantom Orbit

David Ignatius is known for his uncanny ability, in novel after novel, to predict the next great national security headline. In Phantom Orbit, he presents a story both searing and topical, with stakes as …

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Simon Jackson
George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture

"Described by one contemporary as the 'sweet singer of The Temple', George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert's own participation in seventeenth-century music…

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