Oxford University Press
Only the Clothes on Her Back: Clothing and the Hidden History of Power in the Nineteenth-Century United States
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Throughout history, clothing has played a pivotal role as a signifier of class, race, and gender. Before the 18th century, when Western sumptuary ...Read Review
The Lockhart Plot: Love, Betrayal, Assassination and Counter-Revolution in Lenin’s Russia
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Bruce Lockhart, a British diplomat and secret agent, is at the center of a conspiracy involving American, British, and French operatives to murder ...Read Review
The Last Assassin: The Hunt for the Killers of Julius Caesar
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From its first pages, The Last Assassin is a trustworthy and compelling read, qualities the best histories share. I thought I’d dipped ...Read Review
Collision of Worlds: A Deep History of the Fall of Aztec Mexico and the Forging of New Spain
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Combining written texts and unwritten archeological and anthropological signs of civilization, this deep history focuses on the confrontation between Spanish explorers and indigenous ...Read Review
The Beauty and the Terror: The Italian Renaissance and the Rise of the West
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The Beauty and the Terror captures, in increments of topical chapters, a place and time whose global influence—economic, religious, political, and artistic—...Read Review
King Edward VIII: An American Life
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The affair was the scandal and the wedding of the century – and the toll it took on the royal family of England is ...Read Review
Mohawk Valley
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1755. When young Alan Carey is wrongfully accused of cheating at cards, his father, Lord Aubigny, sends him to Ashwater, the 3000-acre family estate ...Read Review
The Black Prince of Florence: The Spectacular Life and Treacherous World of Alessandro De’ Medici
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Few today remember Alessandro, the first Duke of Florence. During the 1520s and 30s the rivalry between the two illegitimate young Medici heirs, ...Read Review
Sigrun’s Secret
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Fifteen-year-old Sigrun has grown up happy in the belief that she knows all about her parents, Bjorn and Thora, and how they came ...Read Review
The Buried Cross
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Glastonbury 1190. Fire has destroyed Glastonbury’s famous cathedral. Among those affected are Hereward and Gwyneth Mason, aged 12 and 13. Their father, innkeeper of the ...Read Review
