Books written by Edmund Richardson

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  Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity

  ... that wealth in a capitalist society did not tend to come to those who held true to their Protestant principles. As one commentator, Bolton Hall, sardonically put it: 'These “honesty-and-industry-lead-to-affluence” boys did not ...

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  The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

  This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, ...

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  Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

  This is a wild journey through nineteenth-century India and Afghanistan, with impeccably researched storytelling that shows us a world of espionage and dreamers, ne'er-do-wells and opportunists, extreme violence both personal and military, ...

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  Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception

  Classics in Extremis reimagines classical reception.

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  Classics in Extremis: The Edges of Classical Reception

  If classical reception is always-already in extremis, caught between presence and absence, then perhaps the truly problematic category is not the 'extreme' classical reception, but the 'central' one. One might wonder: Central for whom?