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Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe

By Marjorie Curry Woods (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) With an unusually broad scope encompassing how Europeans taught and learned reading and writing at all levels, Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the Poetria nova across Medieval and Renaissance Europe provides a synoptic picture of medieval and early modern instruction in rhetoric, poetics, and composition theory and practice. As Marjorie Curry Woods convincingly argues, … Continued

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Contemporary Caribbean Cultures and Societies in a Global Context

Edited by Franklin W. Knight (NHC Fellow, 1986–87) and Teresita Martínez-Vergne The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world. From the first moment Europeans set foot on the islands to the present, products, people, and ideas have made their way back and forth between the region and other parts … Continued

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D.H. Lawrence: Dying Game, 1922-1930

By David Ellis (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Originally published in 1998, the final volume of the Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence chronicles his progress from leaving Europe in 1922 to his death in Venice in 1930. Based on much previously unfamiliar material, it describes his travels in Ceylon, Australia, the USA and Mexico in an … Continued

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Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution: From Utopianism to Hedonism

By Jiwei Ci (NHC Fellow, 1991–92) Behind the profound social and economic changes now taking place in China is a complex history of communism's invention and loss of meaning. This history, from 1949 to the present, has been extensively studied by scholars using the methods of history and political science. Dialectic of the Chinese Revolution … Continued

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Elinor James: Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part Three, Volume 11, 1st Edition

Edited by Paula McDowell (NHC Fellow, 1999–00) This volume makes available for the first time the complete surviving works of the London printer-author Elinor James (c.1645-1719). Uniquely in the history of early modern women, James wrote, printed and distributed more than ninety pamphlets and broadsides addressing political, religious and commercial concerns. Written over a period … Continued

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Enlightenment, Reawakening, and Revolution, 1660-1815

Edited by Timothy Tackett (NHC Fellow, 2000–01) and Stewart J. Brown During the tumultuous period of world history from 1660 to 1815, three complex movements combined to bring a fundamental cultural reorientation to Europe and North America, and ultimately to the wider world. The Enlightenment transformed views of nature and of the human capacity to … Continued

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Flash!: Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination

By Kate Flint (NHC Fellow, 2007–08; 2015–16) Flash! presents a fascinating cultural history of flash photography, from its mid-nineteenth century beginnings to the present day. All photography requires light, but the light of flash photography is quite distinctive: artificial, sudden, shocking, intrusive, and extraordinarily bright. Associated with revelation and wonder, it has been linked to the … Continued

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Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff

By Edward J. Balleisen (NHC Fellow, 2009–10) In America, fraud has always been a key feature of business, and the national worship of entrepreneurial freedom complicates the task of distinguishing salesmanship from deceit. In this sweeping narrative, Edward Balleisen traces the history of fraud in America—and the evolving efforts to combat it—from the age of P. … Continued

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Gay Berlin: Birthplace of a Modern Identity

By Robert Beachy (NHC Fellow, 2006–07) In the half century before the Nazis rose to power, Berlin became the undisputed gay capital of the world. Activists and medical professionals made it a city of firsts—the first gay journal, the first homosexual rights organization, the first Institute for Sexual Science, the first sex reassignment surgeries—exploring and … Continued