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Cover of Donald Jackson Kerr: Awakening a Curate's Library

Donald Jackson Kerr: Awakening a Curate’s Library

This book is the first to provide an account of the life of Rev. William Arderne Shoults (1839-1887) and his book collecting. It is also the first detailed examination of a true survivor, his book co …

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Beate I. Allert & Christopher R. Clason: Alexander von Humboldt

Alexander von Humboldt: Perceiving the World provides an interdisciplinary exploration into Humboldt’s approach to seeing and describing the many subjects he pursued. Though remembered primarily as a …

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Julia Hauser: A Taste for Purity

In nineteenth-century Europe and North America, an organized vegetarian movement began warning of the health risks and ethical problems of meat eating. Presenting a vegetarian diet as a cure for the …

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Isaac Nakhimovsky: The Holy Alliance

A major new account of the post-Napoleonic Holy Alliance and the promise it held for liberals The Holy Alliance is now most familiar as a label for conspiratorial reaction. In this book, Isaac Nakhim …

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Thomas Larkin: The China Firm

What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading f …

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Francisco Vidal Luna & Herbert S. Klein: An Economic and Demographic History of São Paulo, 1850-1950

São Paulo, by far the most populated state in Brazil, has an economy to rival that of Colombia or Venezuela. Its capital city is the fourth largest metropolitan area in the world. How did São Paulo, …

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Corey Ross: Liquid Empire

A bold new account of European imperialism told through the history of water In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, a handful of powerful European states controlled more than a third of the land …

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Ian St John: The Historiography of Gladstone and Disraeli

This book traces the often sharply differing perspectives historians have formed with regard to the key incidents in the careers of the two foremost politicians of the Victorian age – Gladstone and D …

Cover of Peter Gay: Schnitzler's Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

Peter Gay: Schnitzler’s Century: The Making of Middle-Class Culture 1815-1914

‘This is cultural history of the first order, and it is liberal and humane history at its very best.’—David Cannadine An essential work for anyone who wishes to understand the social history of the n …

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Daniel Foliard: The violence of colonial photography

The late nineteenth century saw a rapid increase in colonial conflicts throughout the French and British empires. It was also the period in which the camera began to be widely available. Colonial aut …