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Magic, Witchcraft and Ghosts in the Greek and Roman Worlds: A Sourcebook
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4.14 avg rating — 222 ratings
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The Secret Lives of Color
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3.99 avg rating — 22,364 ratings
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The Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Victorian Homes Changed Everything
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4.16 avg rating — 877 ratings
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Yankel's Tavern: Jews, Liquor, and Life in the Kingdom of Poland
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3.87 avg rating — 30 ratings
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Stories Of The Forgotten: Infamous, Famous & Unremembered
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Ivory Vikings: The Mystery of the Most Famous Chessmen in the World and the Woman Who Made Them
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3.62 avg rating — 774 ratings
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Trial of Gilles De Rais
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3.74 avg rating — 475 ratings
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Cloth and Clothing in Early Anglo Saxon England, AD 450-700
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4.37 avg rating — 38 ratings
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American Witches: A Broomstick Tour through Four Centuries
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3.64 avg rating — 1,078 ratings
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The Golden Peaches of Samarkand: A Study of T'ang Exotics
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4.25 avg rating — 128 ratings
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The Victorian Book of the Dead (The Ghosts of the Past 4)
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4.03 avg rating — 452 ratings
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A Medieval Book of Seasons
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3.71 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Psycho USA: Famous American Killers You Never Heard Of
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3.76 avg rating — 1,477 ratings
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The Lady in Medieval England 1000-1500
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3.80 avg rating — 51 ratings
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The Oxford Handbook of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America (Oxford Handbooks)
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4.31 avg rating — 36 ratings
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The Rise of Universities
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3.77 avg rating — 253 ratings
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American Ghost: A Family's Extraordinary History on the Desert Frontier
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3.45 avg rating — 3,030 ratings
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The Idea of the Labyrinth: from Classical Antiquity through the Middle Ages
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3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings
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A Natural History of Ghosts: 500 Years of Hunting for Proof
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3.54 avg rating — 1,315 ratings
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Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History
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4.19 avg rating — 300 ratings
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Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
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3.73 avg rating — 10,806 ratings
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Life in the French Country House
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3.94 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Corpses, Coffins, and Crypts: A History of Burial
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3.63 avg rating — 477 ratings
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The Rise and Fall of Merry England: The Ritual Year 1400-1700
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3.88 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Women in the Middle Ages: The Lives of Real Women in a Vibrant Age of Transition
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3.77 avg rating — 910 ratings
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The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England
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4.06 avg rating — 464 ratings
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The Vengeful Djinn: Unveiling the Hidden Agenda of Genies
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3.64 avg rating — 238 ratings
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The Medieval Garden
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3.93 avg rating — 68 ratings
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God's Playground: A History of Poland, Vol. 1: The Origins to 1795
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4.22 avg rating — 819 ratings
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A Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food: Processing and Consumption
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4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires (Garnet Books)
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3.61 avg rating — 350 ratings
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A Second Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Food & Drink: Production & Distribution
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
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The Dawn of Slavic: An Introduction to Slavic Philology (Yale Language Series)
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4.07 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Peace-Weavers and Shield-Maidens: Women in Early English Society
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3.83 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Civil War Diary of Clara Solomon: Growing Up in New Orleans, 1861-1862
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3.78 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
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4.17 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Jewish Confederates
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4.13 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Young Medieval Women
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3.33 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Scarlet Memorial: Tales Of Cannibalism In Modern China
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3.88 avg rating — 43 ratings
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The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan
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4.04 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Snow, Forest, Silence: The Finnish Tradition of Semiotics
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4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Mead-Hall: The Feasting Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England
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4.31 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
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4.52 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Bodies from the Ash: Life and Death in Ancient Pompeii
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4.15 avg rating — 244 ratings
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The Terracotta Warriors: Exploring the Most Intriguing Puzzle in Chinese History
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3.72 avg rating — 101 ratings
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A First-Century Traveler's Guide to Palestine
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3.51 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words
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4.04 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Royal Babylon: The Alarming History of European Royalty
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3.72 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Hounds and Hunting in Ancient Greece
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Medieval Underpants and Other Blunders: A Writer's (and Editor's) Guide to Keeping Historical Fiction Free of Common Anachronisms, Errors, and Myths
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3.93 avg rating — 587 ratings
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Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
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3.89 avg rating — 597 ratings
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The Dybbuk and the Yiddish Imagination: A Haunted Reader
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4.14 avg rating — 28 ratings
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The Greeks and the Irrational
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4.20 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
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4.15 avg rating — 1,633 ratings
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Sex with the Queen: 900 Years of Vile Kings, Virile Lovers, and Passionate Politics
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3.89 avg rating — 5,219 ratings
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The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
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3.63 avg rating — 1,832 ratings
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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge
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3.69 avg rating — 8,377 ratings
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A Rose By Any Name
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3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
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4.02 avg rating — 26,830 ratings
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Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair: A Natural History
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3.88 avg rating — 184 ratings
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The Library of Greek Mythology
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3.91 avg rating — 2,525 ratings
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Tower: An Epic History of the Tower of London
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3.76 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Classical Compendium: A Miscellany of Scandalous Gossip, Bawdy Jokes, Peculiar Facts, and Bad Behavior from the Ancient Greeks and Romans
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3.99 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Hive: The Story of the Honeybee and Us
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3.72 avg rating — 377 ratings
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Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
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3.93 avg rating — 16,764 ratings
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Consider the Fork: A History of How We Cook and Eat
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3.86 avg rating — 10,458 ratings
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The Six Wives of Henry VIII
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4.12 avg rating — 73,305 ratings
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One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw
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3.69 avg rating — 787 ratings
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In Search of Lost Roses
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4.23 avg rating — 115 ratings
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A History of the World in 6 Glasses
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3.81 avg rating — 34,323 ratings
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The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan
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4.21 avg rating — 242 ratings
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An Edible History of Humanity
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3.77 avg rating — 6,273 ratings
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Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Civilization
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3.64 avg rating — 270 ratings
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The Druids
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Waiting for the Weekend
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3.61 avg rating — 256 ratings
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The Cult of the Fox: Power, Gender, and Popular Religion in Late Imperial and Modern China
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4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Kamikaze, Cherry Blossoms, and Nationalisms: The Militarization of Aesthetics in Japanese History
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3.85 avg rating — 123 ratings
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The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why It Matters
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3.91 avg rating — 2,084 ratings
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The Book of Chinese Beliefs: A Journey into the Chinese Inner World
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3.76 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A World Trimmed with Fur: Wild Things, Pristine Places, and the Natural Fringes of Qing Rule
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A Rosenberg by Any Other Name: A History of Jewish Name Changing in America (Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish Studies, 9)
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3.63 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Borderland: Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1939
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4.06 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Waltz the Hall (American Made Music Series)
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Peasants Into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914
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4.28 avg rating — 403 ratings
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Freedom's Forge: How American Business Produced Victory in World War II
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4.33 avg rating — 2,971 ratings
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The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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Strange and Secret Peoples: Fairies and Victorian Consciousness
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Dressing Renaissance Florence: Families, Fortunes, and Fine Clothing (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, 120)
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Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East
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3.75 avg rating — 124 ratings
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White Cargo: The Forgotten History of Britain’s White Slaves in America
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3.98 avg rating — 851 ratings
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The man behind the iron mask
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3.54 avg rating — 54 ratings
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The White Death: A History of Tuberculosis
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3.75 avg rating — 89 ratings
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Bach, Beethoven, and the Boys
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3.86 avg rating — 706 ratings
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The Blizzard of '88
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3.86 avg rating — 453 ratings
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The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century's On-line Pioneers
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3.96 avg rating — 3,623 ratings
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Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-class Culture in America, 1830-1870
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4.04 avg rating — 167 ratings
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All-American Girl: The Ideal of Real Womenhood in Mid-Nineteenth Century America
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3.93 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century
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3.86 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century
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Sugar-Plums and Sherbet
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