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Dante’s Bones: How a Poet Invented Italy	Raffa, Guy P.	HARDCOVER	05/12/2020	$35.00	Not yet available
The Myth of Race: The Troubling Persistence of an Unscientific Idea	Sussman, Robert Wald	PAPERBACK	03/14/2016	$20.50
The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History	Moyn, Samuel	PAPERBACK	03/05/2012	$22.50
The Harvard Sampler: Liberal Education for the Twenty-First Century	Shephard, Jennifer M. Kosslyn, Stephen M. Hammonds, Evelynn M.	HARDCOVER	10/15/2011	$29.95	Currently unavailable
Explore Harvard: The Yard and Beyond		HARDCOVER	10/10/2011	$39.95
Questioning the Millennium: A Rationalist's Guide to a Precisely Arbitrary Countdown, Revised Edition	Gould, Stephen Jay	PAPERBACK	10/01/2011	$20.50
Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination	Kang, Minsoo	HARDCOVER	02/28/2011	$50.00
The Colors of Zion: Blacks, Jews, and Irish from 1845 to 1945	Bornstein, George	HARDCOVER	02/01/2011	$35.00
The Peculiar Life of Sundays	Miller, Stephen	HARDCOVER	12/15/2008	$29.50
Hysterical Men: The Hidden History of Male Nervous Illness	Micale, Mark S.	HARDCOVER	11/30/2008	$41.00
Blackett: Physics, War, and Politics in the Twentieth Century	Nye, Mary Jo	E-DITION	10/30/2004	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition	Himmelfarb, Gertrude	PAPERBACK	05/30/2004	$33.00
Pattern and Repertoire in History	Roehner, Bertrand M. Syme, Tony	E-DITION	06/30/2002	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Revolution in Time: Clocks and the Making of the Modern World, Revised and Enlarged Edition	Landes, David S.	PAPERBACK	08/15/2000	$23.50
Reformers, Critics, and the Paths of German Modernity: Anti-Politics and the Search for Alternatives, 1890-1914	Repp, Kevin	E-DITION	06/27/2000	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Modernizing the Provincial City: Toulouse, 1945–1975	Wakeman, Rosemary	E-DITION	06/15/1998	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Creating a National Home: Building the Veterans’ Welfare State, 1860–1900	Kelly, Patrick J.	E-DITION	08/01/1997	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
British Military Spectacle: From the Napoleonic Wars through the Crimea	Myerly, Scott	E-DITION	11/01/1996	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Path to Christian Democracy: German Catholics and the Party System from Windthorst to Adenauer	Cary, Noel	E-DITION	05/01/1996	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
City of the Great King: Jerusalem from David to the Present	Rosovsky, Nitza	E-DITION	03/01/1996	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
America’s Struggle against Poverty, 1900–1994: Revised Edition	Patterson, James T.	E-DITION	01/01/1995	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Prophets and Emperors: Human and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius	Potter, David	E-DITION	12/30/1994	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from Nero to Hadrian	Bartsch, Shadi	E-DITION	01/01/1994	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland	Ireland, Patrick	E-DITION	01/01/1994	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Avant-Garde Florence: From Modernism to Fascism	Adamson, Walter	E-DITION	12/28/1993	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Press Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents	Ritchie, Donald A.	PAPERBACK	01/01/1993	$28.50
Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome	White, Peter	E-DITION	01/01/1993	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Widescreen Cinema	Belton, John	E-DITION	11/06/1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Broken Staff: Judaism through Christian Eyes	Manuel, Frank E.	E-DITION	05/01/1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
China in the Tokugawa World	Jansen, Marius B.	E-DITION	04/01/1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
United Government and Foreign Policy in Russia, 1900–1914	McDonald, David MacLaren	E-DITION	03/01/1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Lost Comrades: Socialists of the Front Generation, 1918-1945	White, Dan	E-DITION	01/01/1992	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Patriarch and Folk: The Emergence of Nicaragua, 1798-1858	Burns, E. Bradford	E-DITION	09/23/1991	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Arab World Today: Fifth Edition	Polk, William R.	E-DITION	08/01/1991	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Blue and the Yellow Stars of David: The Zionist Leadership in Palestine and the Holocaust, 1939–1945	Porat, Dina	E-DITION	12/01/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Ways of Lying: Dissimulation, Persecution and Conformity in Early Modern Europe	Zagorin, Perez	E-DITION	09/25/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Sadat and After: Struggles for Egypt's Political Soul	Baker, Raymond William	E-DITION	08/29/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Married Women’s Separate Property in England, 1660–1833	Staves, Susan	E-DITION	03/20/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Netherlands and Nazi Germany	de Jong, Louis	E-DITION	03/01/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Black, French, and African: A Life of Léopold Sédar Senghor	Vaillant, Janet G.	E-DITION	01/01/1990	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Nature into Art: Cultural Transformations in Nineteenth-Century Britain	Woodring, Carl	E-DITION	10/30/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Unruly Eloquence: Lucian and the Comedy of Traditions	Branham, R. Bracht	E-DITION	07/01/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Missionaries of Revolution: Soviet Advisers and Nationalist China, 1920–1927	Wilbur, C. Martin How, Julie Lien-ying	E-DITION	05/11/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Agrarian Radicalism in China, 1968–1981	Zweig, David	E-DITION	04/25/1989	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The Invention of Li Yu	Hanan, Patrick	E-DITION	08/24/1988	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
The French Revolution and Enlightenment in England, 1789–1832	Deane, Seamus	E-DITION	08/22/1988	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Sister Republics: The Origins of French and American Republicanism	Higonnet, Patrice	E-DITION	08/15/1988	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Myths about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572–1576	Kingdon, Robert M.	E-DITION	02/22/1988	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
God Land: Reflections on Religion and Nationalism	Cruise O'Brien, Conor	E-DITION	01/01/1988	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »
Elites and the Idea of Equality: A Comparison of Japan, Sweden, and the United States	Verba, Sidney Kelman, Steven Orren, Gary R. Miyake, Ichiro Watanuki, Joji Kabashima, Ikuo Ferree, G. Donald	E-DITION	11/16/1987	$65.00	Available from De Gruyter »

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