Road to Jerusalem–Now Available
03/29/2007
The Road to Jerusalem: Pilgrimage and Travel in the Age of Discovery F. Thomas Noonan 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 38 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3994-2 |… READ MORE
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Nightclub City–Now Available
03/28/2007
Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan Burton W. Peretti 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3997-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 This dark… READ MORE
Dramatic Impressions–Now Available
Dramatic Impressions: Japanese Theatre Prints from the Gilbert Luber Collection Frank L. Chance and Julie Nelson Davis. Edited by Dilys Winegrad 64 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 55… READ MORE
Lustick Responds to Brzezinski Op-Ed
03/26/2007
Ian S. Lustick, author of Trapped in the War on Terror, noticed something familiar in Zbigniew Brzezinski’s recent Washington Post editorial. In his blog, Lustick wrote: In a long op-ed… READ MORE
Matter, Magic & Spirit–Now Available
03/22/2007
Matter, Magic, and Spirit: Representing Indian and African American Belief David Murray 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3996-6 | $59.95 | £39.00 Matter, Magic, and… READ MORE
Inscription & Erasure–Now Available
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century Roger Chartier. Arthur Goldhammer, Translator 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3995-9… READ MORE
Atlantic Virginia–Now in Paperback
03/21/2007
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century April Lee Hatfield 320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 maps Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1997-5 | $22.50 |… READ MORE
Doctor Franklin’s Medicine Excerpt Available
03/20/2007
In Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin–scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman–played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital… READ MORE
Tropic of Venice Contest Winner
03/19/2007
Tropic of Venice author Margaret Doody knows Venice. So does Bonnie Hollis, winner of our Tropic of Venice contest. Over 360 people took our Tropic of Venice online quiz. 15… READ MORE
Shuger Immortal?
03/15/2007
Debora Shuger’s Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England recently received supernatural praise. "Scrupulously researched, carefully written, argued, and developed, this is one of those books… READ MORE
