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  • Goethe's Faust

    Theatre of Modernity

    Edited by Hans Schulte, John Noyes, Pia Kleber ...
    Faust has been called the fundamental icon of Western culture, and Goethe's inexhaustible poetic drama is the centrepiece of its tradition in literature, music and art. In recent years, this play has experienced something of a renaissance, with a surge of studies, theatre productions, press coverage and public discussions. Reflecting this renewed interest, leading Goethe scholars in this volume ... Read more

    $75.19 CAD

  • Thomas D. Clark of Kentucky

    An Uncommon Life in the Commonwealth

    Edited by John E. Kleber ...
    Special numbered leatherbound edition, signed by Dr. Clark!By the flip of a coin, Thomas Dionysius Clark became intertwined in the vast history of Kentucky. In 1928, Clark received scholarships to both the University of Cincinnati and to the University of Kentucky. Kentucky won the coin toss and the claim to one of the South's eminent historians.In 1990, when the Kentucky General Assembly honored ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • George Keats of Kentucky

    A Life

    by Lawrence M. Crutcher ...
    Series series Topics in Kentucky History
    John Keats's biographers have rarely been fair to George Keats (1797–1841)—pushing him to the background as the younger brother, painting him as a prodigal son, or labeling him as the "business brother." Some have even condemned him as a heartless villain who took more than his fair share of an inheritance and abandoned the ailing poet to pursue his own interests. In this authoritative biography, ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The State Trials and the Politics of Justice in Later Stuart England

    by Brian Cowan, Paul Kléber Monod, Annabel Patterson, Scott Sowerby, Stephen C Taylor, Professor Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, Newton Newton Key, Mark Knights0, Professor John Marshall1, Andrea McKenzie2 ...
    State trials provided some of the leading media events of later Stuart England. The more important of these trials attracted substantial public attention, serving as pivot points in the relationship between the state and its subjects. Later Stuart England has been known among legal historians for a series of key cases in which juries asserted their independence from judges. In political history, ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

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  • To Marry an English Lord

    Tales of Wealth and Marriage, Sex and Snobbery in the Gilded Age (An Inspiration for Downton Abbey)

    by Gail MacColl, Carol McD. Wallace ...
    "Marvelous and entertaining." —Julian Fellowes, creator of Downton AbbeyDiscover the true stories behind the women who inspired Downton Abbey and HBO's The Gilded Age, the heiresses—including a Vanderbilt (railroads), a LaRoche (pharmaceuticals), and a Rogers (oil)—who staked their ground in England, swapping dollars for titles and marrying peers of the British realm. Filled with vivid ... Read more

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    Thomas More & His Dearest Meg

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    The Whitbread Award–winning author of Queen of Scots presents a "brilliantly observed" dual biography of Sir Thomas More and his daughter ( The New York Times).Sir Thomas More's life is well known: his opposition to Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, his arrest for treason, his execution and martyrdom. Yet a major figure in his life—his beloved daughter Margaret—has been largely airbrushed out ... Read more

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  • Unworthy Republic

    The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory

    by Claudio Saunt ...
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    One Woman's Epic Flight to Freedom - And Her Long Road Back to the South

    by Karolyn Smardz Frost ...
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    A New History of the English Civil Wars

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  • Lies Across America

    What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong

    by James W. Loewen ...
    A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author"The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history."—Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New OrleansFrom the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever ... Read more

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  • Albion's Seed:Four British Folkways in America

    Four British Folkways in America

    by David Hackett Fischer ...
    Series series America: a cultural history
    This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ... Read more

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