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Prince of Tricksters The Incredible True Story of Netley Lucas, Gentleman Crook

Houlbrook Matt

ISBN: HB: 9780226133157, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones

Meet Netley Lucas, Prince of Tricksters – royal biographer, best-selling crime writer, and gentleman crook. In the years after the Great War, Lucas becomes infamous for climbing the British social ladder by his expert trickery – his changing names an...

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Pocket Magna Carta 1217 Text and Translation

ISBN: HB: 9781851244522, Bodleian Library Publishing, April 2016
64 pp., 15.5x10 cm,

"No freeman is to be taken or imprisoned, or dispossessed... except through the lawful judgment of his peers or through the law of the land". "To no one shall we sell, to no one shall we deny or delay right or justice" "Magna Carta" (or "Great Char...

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History of Art

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Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II Mannerist Art and Architecture in the Imperial Capital, 1583-1612

Fucikova Eliska

ISBN: PB: 9788024622637, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, November 2015
200 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 106 colour plates, 25 halftones, 6 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Prague in the Reign of Rudolph II" takes readers back to the days of the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II (1576-1611) when Prague became the metropolis of the Holy Roman Empire, and when the i...

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Parables of Coercion Conversion and Knowledge at the End of Islamic Spain

Kimmel Seth

ISBN: HB: 9780226278285, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, competing scholarly communities sought to define a Spain that was, at least officially, entirely Christian, even if many suspected that newer converts from Islam and Judaism were Christian in name only. Unl...

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Politics of Cultural Retreat Imperial Bureaucracy in Austrian Galicia, 1772-1867

Vushko Iryna

ISBN: HB: 9780300207279, Yale University Press, August 2015
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian officials from Bohemia, Hungary, the Hapsburg Netherlands, Italy, and several German states administered Gal...

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World

Poilu The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas, Barrelmaker, 1914-1918

Barthas Louis, Strauss Edward M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300212488, Yale University Press, May 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Along with millions of other Frenchmen, Louis Barthas, a thirty-five-year-old barrelmaker from a small wine-growing town, was conscripted to fight the Germans in the opening days of World War I. Corporal Barthas spent the next four years in near-ceas...

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Pagan Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300205466, Yale University Press, February 2015
496 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 103 black&white illus.

Britain's pagan past, with its mysterious monuments, atmospheric sites, enigmatic artifacts, bloodthirsty legends, and cryptic inscriptions, is both enthralling and perplexing to a resident of the twenty-first century. In this ambitious and thoroughl...

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Paris Summit, 1377-78 Emperor Charles IV and King Charles V of France

Smahel Frantisek

ISBN: HB: 9788024625225, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2015
680 pp., 27.9x22.8 cm, 150 colour plates

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The Czech king and Roman Emperor Charles IV met with the French king Charles V in Paris in 1378. Reconstructing the journey to this meeting with deft narrative talent, Frantisek Smahel tra...

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Political Science

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Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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Plague of Informers Conspiracy and Political Trust in William III's England

Weil Rachel

ISBN: HB: 9780300171044, Yale University Press, February 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.

Stories of plots, sham plots, and the citizen-informers who discovered them are at the centre of Rachel Weil's compelling study of the turbulent decade following the Revolution of 1688. Most studies of the Glorious Revolution focus on its causes or l...

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