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Cities of Power
Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice - carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move ...
The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years
In this monumental study, acclaimed historian Frank ...
The New Deal: A Global History provides a radically new interpretation of a pivotal period in US history. The first comprehensive study of the New ...
What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected world The empires of the past were far-flung experiments in multinationalism ...
A microhistory in the vein of Salt and Cod exploring the biological, evolutionary, and cultural history of one of the world's most fascinating fibers ...
Tracing Your Ancestors' Lives is not a comprehensive study of social history but instead an exploration of the various aspects of social history of particular ...
The Library of Congress brings booklovers an enriching tribute to the power of the written word and to the history of our most beloved books ...
What does drug addiction mean to us? What did it mean to others in the past? And how are these meanings connected? In modern society ...
"We make landfall on an island of oaks." So reads a 12th century Templar manuscript recovered from a medieval Italian church. Two of history's ...
What happened to the European mind between 1605, when an audience watching Macbeth at the Globe might believe that regicide was such an aberration of ...
The tragedies of World War II are well known. But at least one has been forgotten: in September 1939, four hundred thousand cats and dogs ...
'Incisive and scary.. a wake-up call' Nick Fraser, Guardian 'This is the most astonishing, convincing, and disturbing book I've read in years' Joe Sacco ...
In 1518, in a small town in Alsace, Frau Troffea began dancing and didn't stop. She danced until she was carried away six days ...
