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Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–19...

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The Library of Lost Maps: An Archive of a World in Progress

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Colm Murphy, "Futures of Socialism: ‘Modernisation', the Labour Party, and the British Left, 1973–19...

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Dan Edelstein﻿, "The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin" (﻿Princeton ...

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Taylor McCall, "The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe" (Reaktion Books, 2023)

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Vanesa Rodríguez-Galindo, "Madrid on the Move: Feeling Modern and Visually Aware in the Nineteenth C...

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Jenny C. Mann, "The Trials of Orpheus: Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime" (Princeton UP,...

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Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, "The Construction of Witchcraft in Early Modern Denmark, 1536-1617" (Routl...

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Jakub Gortat, "Remembering National Socialism in Austrian Post-war Film" (1945-1955) (Brill, 2025)

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Kenneth G. Appold, "Luther and the Peasants: Religion, Ritual, and the Revolt Of 1525" (Oxford UP, 2...

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Maurice Samuels, "Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair" (Yale UP, 2024)

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Paul Galvez, "Courbet's Landscapes: The Origins of Modern Painting" (Yale UP, 2022)

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