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This book addresses the issues of collecting, consuming, classifying and describing the curiosities, antiques and objets d'art that proliferated in French literary texts during the last decades of the nineteenth century. After Balzac made such issues significant in canonical literature, the Goncourt brothers, Huysmans, Mallarme and Maupassant celebrated their golden age. Flaubert and Zola scorned them. Rachilde and Lorrain perverted them. Prou...

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A definitive reinterpretation of the role and influence of the French army during Richelieu's ministry.

A study of women's bodies and eating disorders as depicted in Victorian literature.

This is the first scholarly biography of Heinrich Bruning, chancellor of Germany from 1930 to 1932.

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The first survey in English of novels by German women in the period 1771 1871, and their role in shaping attitudes.

The first book devoted to the Queen's Men, one of the major acting companies of the age of Shakespeare.

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A House Dividing compares Virginia and Pennsylvania to answer a crucial question of American history: how did slavery undermine the development of the southern economy? Extensive archival research reveals that in the first decades of the nineteenth century, local residents in each state financed transportation improvements to raise land values and spur commercial growth. In the 1830s, however, Philadelphia capitalists began financing Pennsylva...

This book explores the policies used in post-socialist countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union to stop the fall in output that followed Communism's collapse.

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The twelve lessons forming this volume were originally issued in the shape of monthly lessons, known as " The Advanced Course in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism" during a period of twelve months beginning with October, 1904, and ending September, 1905. These lessons were intended as a continuation of, or sequel to "The Fourteen Lessons in Yogi Philosophy and Oriental Occultism" issued during the previous year. We have been urged to pri...