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Title Due Date Subject Type Imprint
The Burden of the Past
Thomas A. Kovach & Martin Walser
English translation, analysis, and contextualization of Walser's notorious but little-examined speech and earlier related essays.
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Nov 2008 German
Literature
T Camden
House
The Mismapping of America
Seymour Schwartz
The history of five major cartographic errrors of American geography which have had considerable resonance long after they were perpetrated.
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Oct 2008 Modern
History
P University of
Rochester
Press
A Political History of The Gambia, 1816-1994
Arnold Hughes & David Perfect
The only complete study of modern Gambian politics from the establishment of British rule to the overthrow of the Jawara government.
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Jul 2008 African
Studies
P University of
Rochester
Press
Dress Accessories, c. 1150- c. 1450
Geoff Egan & Frances Pritchard
Description and discussion of over two thousand brooches, rings, buckles, pendants, buttons, purses and other accessories found in archaeological digs in London, and dating from the period 1150-1450.
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May 2008 Medieval
History
P Boydell Press
Knives and Scabbards
J. Cowgill & M. de Neergaard, N. Griffiths
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May 2008 Medieval
History
P Boydell Press
Elliott Carter
Felix Meyer & Anne C. Shreffler
Previously unseen letters, documents and photographs trace the life and artistic evolution of Elliott Carter.
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Oct 2008 Music T Boydell Press
The Countryside of East Anglia
Susanna Wade Martins & Tom Williamson
First detailed study of the landscape history of the early twentieth century.
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Oct 2008 Modern
History
T Boydell Press
The Madonna of Humility
Beth Williamson
Detailed analysis of an iconographic motif of huge significance in European art.
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Oct 2008 Art Architecture
& Photography
T D.S. Brewer
The Spy Who Came In From the Co-op
David Burke
A story of wartime intelligence, super-power relations and spies and their handlers - seen through the experience of Melita Norwood.
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Oct 2008 Modern
History
T Boydell Press
Illustrating Camelot
Barbara Tepa Lupack
An account in words and pictures of how the world of Camelot and King Arthur's knights was reflected in, and shaped by, book illustration.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
Literature
T D.S. Brewer
Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960-1974
Messay Kebede
A provocative investigation into the root causes of the Ethiopian political upheavals in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Nov 2008 African
Studies
A University of
Rochester
Press
An Annotated Catalogue of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
Edited by Christopher Hoolihan
The final volume in a comprehensive catalog of rare books dealing with "popular medicine" in early America.
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Nov 2008 History of
Science &
Medicine
A University of
Rochester
Press
A Catalog of the Edward C. Atwater Collection of American Popular Medicine and Health Reform
Edited by Christopher Hoolihan
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Nov 2008 Hispanic
Studies
A University of
Rochester
Press
John W. Thompson
Paul Weindling
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Nov 2008 History of
Science &
Medicine
A University of
Rochester
Press
Schiller's Literary Prose Works
Edited by Jeffrey L. High
New translations of Schiller's literary prose works, accompanied by fresh critical essays.
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Nov 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
A Companion to the Works of J. G. Herder
Edited by Hans Adler
Edited by Wulf Koepke
New, specially commissioned essays providing an in-depth scholarly introduction to the great thinker of the European Enlightenment.
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Nov 2008 Art Architecture
& Photography
A Camden
House
The United States and West Africa
Edited by Alusine Jalloh
Edited by Toyin Falola
The first volume devoted to interrogating the complex relationship -- both historic and contemporary -- between the United States and West Africa.
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Nov 2008 African
Studies
A University of
Rochester
Press
History of Literature in Canada
Edited by Reingard M. Nischik
The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.
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Nov 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
After the Avant-Garde
Edited by Randall Halle
Edited by Reinhild Steingröver
New essays exploring the surging field of experimental film in today's Germany and Austria.
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Nov 2008 Film Performing
Arts & Media
A Camden
House
Women and Death
Edited by Helen Fronius
Edited by Anna Linton
Identifies and analyzes thematizations of women and death from the past five centuries, illuminating the present and recent past.
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Oct 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
Variations on the Canon
Edited by Robert Curry
Edited by David Gable
Edited by Robert L. Marshall
Masterful essays honoring the great pianist and critic Charles Rosen, on masterpieces from Bach and Beethoven to Chopin, Verdi, and Stockhausen.
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Oct 2008 Music A University of
Rochester
Press
Edinburgh German Yearbook 2
Edited by Sarah Colvin
Edited by Peter Davies
Volume focusing on a multitude of incarnations and meanings of "masculinity" in German culture from medieval times to the present.
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Oct 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
The Revivifying Word
Clayton Koelb
Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought.
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Oct 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
Joseph Roth's March into History
Kati Tonkin
A strikingly new view of the novelistic career of the famously enigmatic interwar writer.
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Oct 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
The Urban Roots of Democracy and Political Violence in Zimbabwe
Timothy Scarnecchia
A timely examination of African politics during the formative years of Zimbabwean nationalism.
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Oct 2008 African
Studies
A University of
Rochester
Press
Historical Musicology
Edited by Stephen A. Crist
Edited by Roberta Montemorra Marvin
Seventeen studies by noted experts that demonstrate recent approaches toward the creative interpretation of primary sources regarding Renaissance and Baroque music, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Debussy, and beyond.
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Oct 2008 Music A University of
Rochester
Press
Hölderlin after the Catastrophe
Robert Savage
The first book-length study of Hölderlin's postwar reception and a case study of Germanistik.
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Sep 2008 German
Literature
A Camden
House
John Goodwin and the Puritan Revolution
John Coffey
`A major contribution to our understanding of the English Revolution.' Ann Hughes, Professor of Early Modern History, Keele University.
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Jun 2008 German
Literature
A Boydell Press
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [volume I]
Edited by C.W. Foster
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Jun 2008 History of
Religion
A Lincoln
Record Society
Registrum Antiquissimum of the Cathedral Church of Lincoln [volume 2]
Edited by C.W. Foster
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Jun 2008 History of
Religion
A Lincoln
Record Society
Anglo-Australian Relations and the `Turn to Europe', 1961-1972
Andrea Benvenuti
Detailed analysis of the changing international relations between the UK and Australia, set against the growth of the EEC.
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Oct 2008 Modern
History
A Royal
Historical
Society
Radicalism, Reform and National Identity in Scotland, 1820-1833
Gordon Pentland
The history of the Reform Acts viewed from a Scottish angle, bringing out its implications for relations with England.
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Oct 2008 Modern
History
A Royal
Historical
Society
The Knightly Tale of Golagros and Gawane
Edited by Ralph Hanna
New edition, with full apparatus, of an important medieval Arthurian romance.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
Literature
A Scottish Text
Society Fifth
Series
A History of the County of Suffolk
Edited by William Page
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Oct 2008 Modern History A Victoria
County
History
Burke's Great War Peerage
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Nov 2008   T Burke's
Peerage
Renaissance France at War
David Potter
The rulers of Renaissance France regarded war as hugely important. This book shows why, looking at all aspects of warfare from strategy to its reception, depiction and promotion.
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Sep 2008 Military
History
A Boydell Press
Julian of Norwich
Elisabeth Dutton
A new reading of the Revelations in the context of late-medieval manuscript traditions.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
Literature
A D.S. Brewer
Empire and Nation in Early English Renaissance Literature
Stewart Mottram
Sensitive readings of Renaissance texts offer new insights into the perception of imperialism in the sixteenth century.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
Literature
A D.S. Brewer
Young Choristers, 650-1700
Edited by Susan Boynton
Edited by Eric Rice
First full-length consideration of the role played by young singers, bringing out its full significance and its development over time.
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Oct 2008 Music A Boydell Press
Death and the Noble Body in Medieval England
Danielle Westerhof
An examination of early medieval ideas about death and dying, in relation to funeral practices, traditions and rituals.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
History
A Boydell Press
A Companion to Don Quixote
Anthony Close
An introduction to Cervantes's complex masterpiece.
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Oct 2008 Hispanic
Studies
A Tamesis
Essays on the Literary Baroque in Spain and Spanish America
John Beverley
The continuing importance of the Baroque in Spanish and Latin American culture.
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Oct 2008 Hispanic
Studies
A Tamesis
A Companion to Spanish Cinema
Bernard P.E. Bentley
The history of Spanish cinema.
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Oct 2008 Hispanic
Studies
A Tamesis
Design and Distribution of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England
Edited by Margaret Connolly
Edited by Linne R. Mooney
New essays on late medieval manuscripts highlight the complicated network of their production and dissemination.
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Oct 2008 Medieval
Literature
A Manuscript Culture in the British Isles

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