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This is a fascinating new overview of European-American relations during the long twentieth century. Ranging from economics, culture and consumption t

The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocrati

Egypt played a crucial role in the Roman Empire for seven centuries. It was wealthy and occupied a strategic position between the Mediterranean and In

Carol Gilligan's landmark book In a Different Voice – the "little book that started a revolution" – brought women's voices to the fore in work on the

A Byron biography like no other – published to mark the bicentennial of his death – it tells the remarkable life story of the celebrated Romantic poet

Often understood as a high-minded, orderly event, the American Revolution grows in this masterful history like a ground fire overspreading Britain’s m

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Clarissa Dalloway, elegant and vivacious, is preparing for a party and remembering those she once loved. In another part of London, Septimus Warren Sm

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In ‘Herinneringen aan het levenloze’ schetst Michiel Cox het verhaal van een toneelstudent die met zijn vriendin gaat samenwonen in Rotterdam. Tijdens

The Rorty Reader represents the first comprehensive collection of the writings of Richard Rorty, one of the twentieth century’s most influential think

The new edition of the leading textbook on Roman art, updated with new images and expanded geographic and cultural scope A History of Roman Art is an

In her award-winning, critically acclaimed Women's Writing in Italy, 1400-1650, Virginia Cox chronicles the history of women writers in early modern

Using a comparative analysis of women's activities as artists, musicians, composers, and actresses, Cox locates women's writing in its broader context

Tracing a day in the life of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway, Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist.

A seminal, widely studied feminist polemic that touches on both literature and politics, A Room of One's Own is essential reading for those wishing to