Sable Island: The Strange Origins and Curious History of a Dune Adrift in the Atlantic 9780802719393, 2004052049

Curious Land: Jesuit Accommodation and the Origins of Sinology 9780824845988

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The Strange History of the American Quadroon: Free Women of Color in the Revolutionary Atlantic World 1469607522, 9781469607528

Exotic, seductive, and doomed: the antebellum mixed-race free woman of color has long operated as a metaphor for New Orl

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Strange Tale of Panorama Island 9780824837273

Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and

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A Curious History of Sex 9781783528066

This is book contains, as the title promises, many delightful curiosities. There are people, for instance, who get arous

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Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea 0268106975, 9780268106973

At its core this book is intellectual history, tracing the work of progressive historians as they in turn wrote the hist

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A Curious History of Sex 9781783528066, 9781783528059

Thisis not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across allcultures throughout time, as that woul

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Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America 9780812203400

Using a wide array of evidence drawn from poetry, fiction, diaries, letters, and examples of hairwork, Love Entwined tra

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Comics and the Origins of Manga: A Revisionist History 9781978827257

Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often vie

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Crossing the Sound: The Rise of Atlantic American Communities in Seventeenth-Century Eastern Long Island 9780814786727

Early Long Island/New England history exploring how relations between settlers and natives were more harmonious and equa

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A Princely Impostor?: The Strange and Universal History of the Kumar of Bhawal 9780691218311

In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked a

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