Book titles
Titles
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The Horrors of Slavery and Other Writings by Robert Wedderburn
Edited by Iain McCalmanThe Horrors of Slavery vividly records the history, ideas, and rhetoric of Robert Wedderburn, a Scottish-West Indian slave offspring, who was a leader in the mo…
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Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries, and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840
This highly acclaimed study draws on information from spy reports and contemporary literature to look at English popular radicalism during the period between th…
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National Biographies and National Identity: a critical approach to theory and editorial practice
Edited by Iain McCalman, Jodi Parvey & Misty CookThis book presents a collection of papers presented at a conference which debated current and future trends in the shaping of national biographical dictionaries…
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Mad Cows and Modernity. Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Crisis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
Edited by Iain McCalman, Benjamin Penny & Misty CookProceedings of an interdisciplinary workshop held at the Australian National University, plus later invited papers, about the panicked response of the public to…
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Gold: Forgotten Histories and Lost Objects of Australia
Edited by Iain McCalman, Alexander Cook and Andrew ReevesThroughout history, gold has been the stuff of legends, fortunes, conflict and change. The discovery of gold in Australia 150 years ago precipitated enormous de…
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age: British culture, 1776-1832
General Editor: Iain McCalmanFor the first time in this innovative reference book the Romantic Age is surveyed across all aspects of British culture, rather than in literary or artistic ter…
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Proof & Truth: The Humanist as Expert
Edited by Iain McCalman & Ann Margaret McGrathLawyers, historians, anthropologists and literary scholars draw heavily on the concepts of ‘evidence’, ‘proof’ and ‘truth’ but these crucial terms generally car…
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Barnaby Rudge, by Charles Dickens
Edited by Jon Mee, Iain McCalman and Clive Hurst‘What dark history is this?’ This is the question that hangs over Dickens’s brooding novel of mayhem and murder in the eighteenth century. Set in London at the…
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The Enlightenment World
Edited by Martin Fitzpatrick, Peter Jones, Christina Knellwolf & Iain McCalmanThe Enlightenment World offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch a…
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The Seven Ordeals of Count Cagliostro
Guiseppe Balsamo, the Count of Cagliostro, was an 18th-century Sicilian who became a magician, a mystic, a healer, a Freemason, swindler and, last but not least…
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Newgate in Revolution: An Anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution
Edited by Michael T. Davis, Iain McCalman, Christina ParolinNewgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought-provoking anthology of radical literature-satirical, philosophical, and political writings-issued by the rad…
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Darwin’s Armada
Darwin’s Armada is both a gripping adventure story and a brilliantly enlightening work of history, for the first time portraying the Darwinian revolution as a c…