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The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered invention. They established trade routes and drew ...
A finely spun history of clothes and where they come from
Linen, Cotton, Silk, Synthetics, Wool- through the stories of these five fabrics, Sofi Thanhauser ...
The dramatic story of how steam power reshaped our cities and our seas, and forged a new world order
Steam power transformed our world. It ...
Humans have been on the move for most of history. Even after the great urban advancement lured people into the great cities of Uruk, Babylon ...
This highly accessible guide to world history brings key milestones and events to life in visual timelines
Packed with illustrations and fascinating facts, this book ...
'If there were a Nobel Prize in History, Colley would be my nominee' - Jill Lepore, New Yorker
'One of the most exciting historians of her ...
A biography of a staple grain we often take for granted, exploring how wheat went from wild grass to a world-shaping crop.
At breakfast tables ...
'Brilliantly recapturing the febrile atmosphere of Berlin in the first four years after the Second World War, Giles Milton reminds us what an excellent story-teller ...
Discover how the modern world came to be with this easy-to-follow and up-to-date history companion Want to get a taste of the entirety of human ...
A visual exploration of the movements of peoples, cultures, and ideas that brings a human perspective to a global phenomenon
Discover how the migration of ...
How deadly germs and pandemics have shaped history - and why they are products of our success as a species.
Plagues upon the Earth is a ...
Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a ...
Compact edition of the first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers
Discover how we got to where we are, in this ...
On bookshelves around the world, surrounded by ordinary books bound in paper and leather, rest other volumes of a distinctly strange and grisly sort: those ...
Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for NonfictionThe Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the ...
