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  • Roger Williams: The Church and the State

    Edmund S. Morgan

    Paperback

    An illuminating portrait of the nation's earliest—and most passionate—advocate for the total separation of church and state.

  • The Life of John Maynard Keynes

    Roy Forbes Harrod

    Paperback

    The Life of John Maynard Keynes traces the life and career of the famous English economist and evaluates his contribution to modern economic policy...

  • Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History

    Sidney W. Mintz

    Paperback

    This is the absorbing story of Don Taso, a Puerto Rican sugar cane worker, and of his family and the village in which he lives. Told largely in his own words, it is a vivid account of the drastic changes taking place in Puerto Rico, as he sees them.

  • Augustus

    A. H M Jones, Moses I. Finley

    Paperback

    Constitutional changes, administrative revisions, factional rivalry, and war are all themes that Professor Jones develops within the main narrative. He treats separately such topics as finance, religion, social policy, literature and the arts, and the sources of this crucial period in the history of Rome.

  • Alexander the Great

    Ulrich Wilcken, Eugene N. Borza, G C. Richards, Eugene N. Borza, Eugene N. Borza

    Paperback

    Here is one of the great biographies of Alexander, in its original form, brought fully up to date with findings of modern research and criticism.