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"The Gieses carefully a mine a large mountain of human interest and appeal."-David Herlihy, Keene Professor of History, Brown University
This new reissue of ...
"No ruling regime," writes Hamid Dabashi, "could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people." For decades, the ...
Superlatives tend to fail in describing Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior-that being said, it stands as one of the most extravagant feats in the history ...
We all know that some of the greatest inventions came from the Victorian age, the successors of which are still with us today. But this ...
'... a chill-cabinet of curiosities: hot stuff, and deeply cool ...'
Heat and fire have been at humanity's command for at least 100,000 years, but ...
The fall of the Bastille on July 14, 1789 has become the commemorative symbol of the French Revolution. But this violent and random act was ...
This seminal period of British history is a far-off world in which poverty, violence and superstition went hand-in-hand with opulence, religious virtue and a thriving ...
Despite dramatic advances in technology and equipment over the centuries, there is one vital piece of kit in most explorers' pockets that hasn't changed ...
This fourth and final volume, which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett, covers the final twenty-four years of what was, as ...
Spoken by eighty million people, Tamil is one of the great world languages, and one of the few ancient languages that survives as a mother ...
The history of Ancient Babylonia in ancient Mesopatamia is epic. After playing host to three great empires, the Hammurabic and Kassite empires, and the Neo-Babylonian ...
