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  • The Professor of Secrets

    Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy

    by William Eamon ...
    In the tradition of Galileo's Daughter and Brunelleschi's Dome, this exciting story illuminates the captivating world of the late Renaissance—in this case its plagues, remedies, and alchemy—through the life of Leonardo Fioravanti, a brilliant, remarkably forward-thinking, and utterly unconventional doctor. Fioravanti's marvelous cures and talent for self-aggrandizement earned him the adoration of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Science and the Secrets of Nature

    Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

    by William Eamon ...
    By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Visual Cultures of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe

    by Giancarlo Fiorenza, Patricia Simons, William Eamon, Maria Ruvoldt, Henry Dietrich Fernández, Allie Terry-Fritsch, Lyle Massey ...
    Series series Early Modern Studies
    Secrets in all their variety permeated early modern Europe, from the whispers of ambassadors at court to the emphatically publicized books of home remedies that flew from presses and booksellers’ shops. This interdisciplinary volume draws on approaches from art history and cultural studies to investigate the manifestations of secrecy in printed books and drawings, staircases and narrative ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Limerick Boycott in Context

    by Eamon Maher ...
    Series Book 136 - Reimagining Ireland
    'Historically it has been fashionable to view the Limerick Boycott as a deplorable but isolated incident. The essays in this volume expertly challenge this view, assiduously placing the boycott in much wider religious and political contexts.'- Geoffrey Alderman, Professor Emeritus, University of Buckingham'The contributors brilliantly embed the Limerick Boycott amid the land and cultural movements ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

    by Jonathan Rose ...
    This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day.“An ... Read more

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  • Benjamin Disraeli

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    Part of the Jewish Encounter seriesA dandy, a best-selling novelist, and a man of political and sexual intrigue, Benjamin Disraeli was one of the most captivating figures of the nineteenth century. His flirtation with proto-Zionism, his ideas about power and empire, and his fantasies about the Middle East remain prophetically relevant today. How a man who was born a Jew--and who remained in the ... Read more

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  • Labour And The Gulag

    Russia and the Seduction of the British Left

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  • Trials of the Diaspora

    A History of Anti-Semitism in England

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    Trials of the Diaspora presents the long and troubling history of anti-Semitism in England, from the middle ages to the twenty-first century. Anthony Julius identifies four distinct versions of English anti-Semitism, which he then investigates in detail. The first is the anti-Semitism of medieval England, a radical prejudice of defamation, expropriation, and murder, which culminated in 1290, the ... Read more

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  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

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  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

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