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Ways of Writing–Now in Paperback

Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0… READ MORE

Porta Pallazo–Now Available

Porta Palazzo: The Anthropology of an Italian Market Rachel E. Black. Foreword by Carlo Petrini 240 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4406-9 |… READ MORE

Books Without Borders–Now Available

Books Without Borders in Enlightenment Europe: French Cosmopolitanism and German Literary Markets Jeffrey Freedman 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4389-5 | $79.95… READ MORE

Shame and Honor–Now Available

Shame and Honor: A Vulgar History of the Order of the Garter Stephanie Trigg 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4391-8 | $55.00… READ MORE

Natural Light on Natural History: Rosamond Purcell’s Notes on Photographing Artifacts for A Glorious Enterprise

The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.