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Nightclub City–Now Available

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

Lustick Responds to Brzezinski Op-Ed

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

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

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

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