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Indigenous London Native Travelers at the Heart of Empire

Thrush Coll

ISBN: HB: 9780300206302, Yale University Press, January 2017
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 40 black&white illus.

An imaginative retelling of London's history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metrop...

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Corporate Commonwealth Pluralism and Political Fictions in England, 1516-1651

Turner Henry S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226363356, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

"The Corporate Commonwealth" traces the evolution of corporations during the English Renaissance period and explores the many types of corporations that once flourished. Along the way, the book offers important insights into our own definitions of fi...

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European Intellectual History from Rousseau to Nietzsche

Turner Frank M., Lofthouse Richard A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219487, Yale University Press, April 2016
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 14 black&white illus.

One of the most distinguished cultural and intellectual historians of our time, Frank Turner taught a landmark Yale University lecture course on European intellectual history that drew scores of students over many years. His lectures – lucid, accessi...

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Men from the Ministry How Britain Saved Its Heritage

Thurley Simon

ISBN: PB: 9780300205244, ISBN: HB: 9780300195729, Yale University Press, September 2014
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm, 50 black&white illus.

Between 1900 and 1950 the British state amassed a huge collection of over 800 historic buildings, monuments and historic sites and opened them to the public. Nothing like it had ever been seen before. Of course, collections of paintings, sculptures,...

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Danube A Journey Upriver from the Black Sea to the Black Forest

Thorpe Nick

ISBN: PB: 9780300205459, Yale University Press, August 2014
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

The magnificent Danube both cuts across and connects central Europe, flowing through and alongside ten countries: Romania, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Austria and Germany. Travelling its full length from east to we...

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Invention of Scotland Myth and History

Trevor-Roper Hugh

ISBN: PB: 9780300208580, Yale University Press, August 2014
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Now with a new preface to mark the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, this is a characteristically robust and controversial account of Scottish myth and history by the late Hugh Trevor-Roper, one of Britain's greatest historians. In this work Tre...

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Culture Studies

Familiarity of Strangers The Sephardic Diaspora, Livorno, and Cross-Cultural Trade in the Early Modern Period

Trivellato Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780300187496, Yale University Press, October 2012
480 pp., 23.1x15.5 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Taking a new approach to the study of cross-cultural trade, this book blends archival research with historical narrative and economic analysis to understand how the Sephardic Jews of Livorno, Tuscany, traded in regions near and far in the seventeenth...

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Prague Palimpsest Writing, Memory, and the City

Thomas Alfred

ISBN: HB: 9780226795409, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 halftones

A city of immense literary mystique, Prague has inspired writers across the centuries with its beauty, cosmopolitanism, and tragic history. Envisioning the ancient city in central Europe as a multilayered text, or palimpsest, that has been constantly...

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Raven King Matthias Corvinus and the Fate of His Lost Library

Tanner Marcus

ISBN: PB: 9780300158281, Yale University Press, August 2009
288 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16 black&white illus.

Seizing the Hungarian throne at the age of fifteen, Matthias Corvinus, "the Raven King", was an effervescent presence on the fifteenth-century stage. A successful warrior and munificent art patron, he sought to leave as symbols of his strategic and h...

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Resilience and Courage Women, Men, and the Holocaust

Tec Nechama

ISBN: PB: 9780300105193, Yale University Press, September 2004
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this volume, Nechama Tec offers insights into the differences between the experiences of Jewish women and men during the Holocaust.

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