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When Champagne Became French
Winner of the Outstanding Manuscript Award from Phi Alpha Theta, this work explains how nationhood emerges by viewing countries as cultural artifacts, a product of "invented …
How NATO Adapts
Today's North Atlantic Treaty Organization, with nearly thirty members and a global reach, differs strikingly from the alliance of twelve created in 1949 to "keep the Americans in, …
The Natural Philosophy of Margaret Cavendish
Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, led a remarkable-and controversial-life, writing poetry and prose and philosophizing on the natural world at a time when women were denied …
The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood
In 1894, French army captain Alfred Dreyfus, an Alsatian Jew, was wrongly accused of passing military secrets to the Germans. The ensuing scandal has often been studied for what it …
Genoa and the Sea
Genoa enjoyed an important and ever-changing role in the early modern Mediterranean world. In medieval times, the city transformed itself from a tumultuous maritime republic into a …
Schooling in Renaissance Italy
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Juana the Mad
Born to Isabel and Ferdinand, the Catholic Monarchs whose marriage united the realms of Castile and Aragon, Juana "the Mad" (1479-1555) is one of the most infamous but least …
Between Christians and Moriscos
In early modern Spain the monarchy's universal policy to convert all of its subjects to Christianity did not end distinctions among ethnic religious groups, but rather made …
The Empress, the Queen, and the Nun
In the early seventeenth-century, when Spanish interests often competed with those of the House of Austria, three women in the court of Philip III of Spain-Empress Maria, Philip's …
Hydrocarbon Nation
Understanding the complex history of US fossil fuel use can help us build a sustainable future.In Hydrocarbon Nation, Thor Hogan looks at how four technological …
Hunting and Fishing in the New South
This innovative study re-examines the dynamics of race relations in the post-Civil War South from an altogether fresh perspective: field sports. In the late nineteenth and early …
The Expert Cook in Enlightenment France
In the eighteenth-century French household, the servant cook held a special place of importance, providing daily meals and managing the kitchen and its finances. In this …