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This study challenges the conventional polarities used to describe British politics of the 1790s; Pitt versus Fox, Burke versus Paine, Church versus Dissent, ruling class versus working class, Jacobin versus anti-Jacobin. Such polarities were sedulously promoted by Pitt's wartime government, which applied 'Jacobin' shamelessly to all its critics and opponents, and thus foreshadowed the McCarthyite tactic of guilt by association. The author seeks to make the less strident but more persuasive contemporary voices again audible. He takes seriously those who questioned the necessity for Burke's crusade to destroy the French republic, and who deplored Britain's alliance with the partitioners of Poland. more...

Price: $99.00

This unique window on history employs hundreds of images and written records from Japanese periodicals during World War II--many previously unavailable in the West--to provide an accurate representation of the official Japanese narrative of the war in contemporary terms. more...

Price: $82.00

"Colour'd Shadows" interprets nineteenth-century British women writers' works in connection with the material contexts of writing, printing, and publishing, and the book illustrates methods of "reading" the material book for what it reveals about the meanings of the literary work that it embodies. more...

Price: $65.00

By examining the changing ways in which Reader’s Digest has explained America and its relation to the world, Sharp exposes the links that the magazine has forged between the individual reader and the destiny of the United States, particularly as this relates to the Soviet Union, the Cold War enemy whose character the Digest is often credited with helping to create. Not about the Soviet Union per se, or about the historical details of any other threat to the United States, this is a book about America and the changing roles that this central voice of American mass culture envisioned for the country and its citizens. more...

Price: $35.00

Based on new research on the John Murray archive, Cutmore looks at who contributed to the Quarterly Review, why they did and how it influenced journalism as a career. more...

Price: $99.00