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Triumph of a Naturalist

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

by Evelyn Fox Keller


History Lessons

The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

by Barbara W. Tuchman


A Nymph of the New

Herself Defined: The Poet H.D. and Her World

by Barbara Guest


Slithering over the Brink

Russia and the Origins of the First World War

by D.C.B. Lieven

France and the Origins of the First World War

by John F.V. Keiger


The Power of the Doctors

The Social Transformation of American Medicine

by Paul Starr


The Bloom Is Off

Vita: The Life of V. Sackville-West

by Victoria Glendinning

Harold Nicolson: A Biography Vol. I, 1886–1929 Vol. II, 1930–1968

by James Lees-Milne


The New Eighteenth Century

In Defiance of Oligarchy: The Tory Party 1714–60

by Linda Colley

The Birth of a Consumer Society: The Commercialization of Eighteenth-Century England

by Neil McKendrick and John Brewer and J.H. Plumb

Industrialization before Industrialization: Rural Industry in the Genesis of Capitalism

by Peter Kriedte and Hans Medick and Jürgen Schlumbohm

Augustan England: Professions, State and Society, 1680–1730

by Geoffrey Holmes

Bath 1680–1850: A Social History, or, a Valley of Pleasure, yet a Sink of Iniquity

by R. S. Neale

The Impact of English Towns, 1700–1800

by Penelope J. Corfield

The Georgian Triumph, 1700–1830

by Michael Reed

The Experience of Labour in Eighteenth-Century English Industry

by John Rule

Marriage Settlements, 1601–1740: The Adoption of the Strict Settlement

by Lloyd Bonfield

Electoral Behavior in Unreformed England: Plumpers, Splitters, and Straights

by John A. Phillips

Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century Britain

edited by Paul-Gabriel Boucé

Hogarth's Marriage À-la-mode

by Robert L.S. Cowley

Strict Settlement: A Guide for Historians

by Barbara English and John Saville

English Society in the Eighteenth Century

by Roy Porter

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