The Lawrence Stone Lectures9
This series features titles on a range of historical topics originated in an annual lecture series delivered by Princeton University’s Lawrence Stone Visiting Professor, co-sponsored by Princeton University Press, Princeton’s History Department, and the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. The Center was founded by former chair of the History Department, Lawrence Stone (1919–91).
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western world
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From the author of the acclaimed biography Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet, new perspectives on how Luther and others crafted his larger-than-life image
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From the bestselling author of The Sleepwalkers, a book about how the exercise of power is shaped by different concepts of time
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A succinct and comprehensive history of the development of citizenship from the Roman Empire to the present day
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A bold new history of the rise of the medieval Italian commune
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A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean
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A history of partition seen through the life and fiction of one of the subcontinent's most important modern writers
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A groundbreaking interpretation of the intellectual origins of the United Nations
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The paradox of racial inequality in Barack Obama's America