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New England’s Crises and Cultural Memory
In this magisterial study, John McWilliams traces the development of New England’s influential cultural identity. Through written responses to...
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Making English Morals
Campaigns for moral reform were a recurrent and distinctive feature of public life in later Georgian and Victorian England. Anti-slavery, temperance,...
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Aeschylus: The Oresteia
This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus’ Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It...
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The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe\'s writing...
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Homer: The Iliad
This volume is a distinctive critical introduction to Homer’s Iliad, the earliest epic poem, and the earliest known work of literature in ancient...
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The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Cambridge Companion to Harriet Beecher Stowe establishes new parameters for both scholarly and classroom discussion of Beecher Stowe\'s writing...
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Violence and Democracy
In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the...
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Virgil: The Aeneid
The Aeneid is a landmark of literary narrative and poetic sensibility. This guide gives a full account of the historical setting and significance of...
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The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working...
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Individuals, Institutions, and Markets
Individuals, Institutions, and Markets offers a theory of how the institutional framework of a society emerges and how markets within institutions...
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Ancient Anger
Anger is found everywhere in the ancient world, starting with the very first word of the Iliad and continuing through all literary genres and every...
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Aristotle East and West
This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God’s being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan...
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The Cambridge Companion to David Mamet
This collection of specially written essays offers both student and theatregoer a guide to one of the most celebrated American dramatists working...
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Violence and Democracy
In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the...
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Plato’s Introduction of Forms
Scholars of Plato are divided between those who emphasize the literature of the dialogues and those who emphasize the argument of the dialogues, and...
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Shakespeare and the American Nation
Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly independent America had...
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Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England
Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, were not, in...
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Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy
In fourth-century Greece (BCE), the debate over the nature of philosophy generated a novel claim: that the highest form of wisdom is theoria, the...
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Culture, Technology, and the Creation of America’s National Parks
Richard Grusin’s study investigates how the establishment of national parks participated in the production of American national identity after the...
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Challenging Diversity
What challenges are presented by the claim that diversity should be celebrated? How should equality politics respond to controversial constituencies,...
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The Transformation of Mathematics in the Early Mediterranean World
The transformation of mathematics from ancient Greece to the medieval Arab-speaking world is here approached by focusing on a single problem proposed...
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The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature
This history offers new perspectives on African and Caribbean literature. It provides the general coverage and specific information expected of a...
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Event History Modeling
Event History Modeling provides an accessible, up-to-date guide to event history analysis for researchers and advanced students in the social...
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Galen: On Antecedent Causes
This book is a new edition of a short but fascinating treatise by Galen on causal theory. This text survives only in a Latin translation of the...
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