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    Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution

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    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    The long conflict that culminated in the American Revolution and the founding of the U.S. Republic upended the lives of men and women throughout the colonies. In a time of upheaval and uncertainty, they reinvented their lives, their communities, and their vision of the world.Drawing from the pathbreaking scholarship published by the Omohundro Institute over the past fifty years, these essays ... Read more

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  • The Specter of the Archive

    Political Practice and the Information State in Early Modern Britain

    An exploration of the proliferation of paper in early modern Britain and its far-reaching effects on politics and society.We are used to thinking of ourselves as living in a time when more information is more available than ever before. In The Specter of the Archive, Nicholas Popper shows that earlier eras had to grapple with the same problem—how to deal with too much information at their ... Read more

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  • New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship

    Edited by Ann Blair, Nicholas Popper ...
    An illuminating exploration of the new frontiers—and unsettled geographical, temporal, and thematic borders—of early modern European history.The study of early modern Europe has long been the source of some of the most creative and influential movements in historical scholarship. New Horizons for Early Modern European Scholarship explores recent developments in historiography both to exhibit the ... Read more

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