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George and Robert Stephenson
The railways were the most revolutionary innovation of Victorian times. They carried Britain into the modern age with dramatic speed, transforming the pace and style of everyday …
Johnson's Milton
Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended …
Reading Robinson
This reprint - originally published by Quintus Publishing - brings together essays by leading Australian and international historians in an analysis of the monumental Friendly …
A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East
Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and …
Imprisoned in the Caribbean
Winston Churchill recognized in his memoirs: The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril.His fears would be realized in the Caribbean: By the …
Poison at the Source
An examination of a number of English women novelists who portrayed the crises and conflicts in the development of the female consciousness as a response to the anomalies of the …
The Making of Johnson's Dictionary 1746–1773
Following the discovery of manuscript materials, including hundreds of unpublished additions and changes, for Samuel Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language, Allen Reddick …
Reason and Conversion in Kierkegaard and the German Idealists
In his late work Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason, Immanuel Kant struggles to answer a straightforward, yet surprisingly difficult, question: how is radical …
A Companion to Sparta, 2 Volume Set
The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the …
Prisoner of History
According to legend, Aspasia of Miletus was a courtesan, the teacher of Socrates, and the political adviser of her lover Pericles. Next to Sappho and Cleopatra, she is the best …
August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle
Providing a detailed study of American playwright August Wilson (1945-2005), this collection of new essays explores the development of the author's ethos across his …
Samuel Rawson Gardiner and the Idea of History
A study of an eminent historian of seventeenth-century Britain and his work, showing its continued importance for all those working on the period.Samuel Rawson Gardiner [1829-1902] …