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In seventeenth-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, Family Business reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena....

By turns flippant and profound, The Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas is the story        of an unheroic man with half-hearted political ambitions, a harebrained idea for        curing the world of melancholy, and a thousand quixotic theories unleashed from        beyond the grave. Written by Brazil's greatest novelist of the nineteenth...

Digressions in Modern American PoetryTheoretical accounts of modern American poetry often regard literary texts as theexpression of a subjectivity irremediably fractured by the dividing practices ofpower. In Changing Subjects, Srikanth Reddy seeks to redress our critical biastoward a fatalistic poetics of rupture and fragmentation by foregrounding...

This book explores the conversations between two media, the book and the stage, as they evolved in both competition and sympathy. Focusing on seven of Shakespeare's plays, it argues the book on stage, as both object and idea, offers one of the most articulate and developed hermeneutic tools available in the study of early modern English culture....

Preferences, Strategies, and EffectsDismantling Public Policy seeks to develop a comparative approach to understanding policy dismantling. It looks at the cutting, reduction, diminution or complete removal of existing policies....