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Vintage, November 2015. Trade Paperback. WINNER OF THE BANCROFT PRIZE - A Pulitzer Prize finalist that's as unsettling as it is enlightening: a book that brilliantly weaves together the story of cotton with how the present global world came to exist. "Masterly ... An astonishing achievement." --The New York Times.....
Hooper & Jackson, Ltd., 1908. Hardcover. VOLUME 23 ONLY. Quite worn. VOLUME 23 ONLY. Quite worn.
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Vintage, October 2021. Trade Paperback. In a captivating tour of cities famous and forgotten, acclaimed historian Ben Wilson tells the glorious, millennia-spanning story how urban living sparked humankind's greatest innovations. "A towering achievement.... Reading this book is like visiting an exhilarating city for the first time--dazzling." --The Wall Street Journal.....
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Simon & Schuster, November 2002. Hardcover. In "To America," Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the country's most influential historians, reflects on his long career as an American historian and explains what an historian's job is all about. He celebrates America's spirit, which has carried us so far. He confronts its.....
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Vintage, October 1979. Trade Paperback. A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is--decades after its first publication--one of the most important books written about our divided world. - With a new foreword by Ussama Makdisi "Intellectual history on a high order .......
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Europa Compass, March 2022. Trade Paperback. The remarkable (and occasionally ridiculous) stories of 48 nations that fell off the map. "Countries are just daft stories we tell each other. They're all equally implausible once you get up close." Countries die. Sometimes it's murder, sometimes it's by accident, and sometimes it's.....
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Vintage, February 1985. Trade Paperback. An original history of man's greatest adventure: his search to discover the world around him. In the compendious history, Boorstin not only traces man's insatiable need to know, but also the obstacles to discovery and the illusion that knowledge can also put in our way.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, August 2015. Trade Paperback. Globalization is emerging as a major economic, cultural, and political force. In Writing History in the Global Era, historian Lynn Hunt examines whether globalization can reinvigorate the telling of history. She looks toward scholars from the East and West collaborating in.....
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Biblioasis, September 2024. Trade Paperback. A Globe 100 Best Book of 2024 - A New Yorker Best Book of 2024 - A Kirkus Most Anticipated Book of Fall 2024 The first history of the notebook, a simple invention that changed the way the world thinks. We see notebooks everywhere we.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, July 2025. Trade Paperback. No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new.....
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Bloomsbury Publishing, September 2009. Trade Paperback. Tamerlane, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the Manchus, the British, the Japanese, the Nazis, and the Soviets: All built empires meant to last forever; all were to fail. But, as John Darwin shows in this magisterial book, their empire-building created the world we know today.....
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Holt Paperbacks, December 2007. Trade Paperback. From the bestselling social commentator and cultural historian Barbara Ehrenreich comes a fascinating exploration of one of humanity's oldest traditions: the celebration of communal joy. "Fascinating . . . An admirably lucid, level-headed history of outbreaks of joy from Dionysus to the Grateful Dead.".....
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Crown Publishing Group (NY), March 2024. Trade Paperback. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A "gripping" (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history--from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism--have been shaped not by humans but by germs "Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves.....
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Basic Books, March 2021. Trade Paperback. An extraordinary account of how the Christian Revolution forged the Western imagination, from the author of Rubicon. "A galloping tour of Christianity's influence across the last 2,000 years." --New York Times Crucifixion, the Romans believed, was the worst fate imaginable, a punishment reserved for.....
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PublicAffairs, April 2021. Trade Paperback. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND GQ "A radical new history of the United States abroad" (Wall Street Journal) which uncovers U.S. complicity in the mass-killings of left-wing activists in Indonesia, Latin America and around the.....
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Basic Books, October 2019. Trade Paperback. A "big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent" (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold War We think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne.....
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Oxford University Press, USA, January 2020. Hardcover. Text clean; some thumbing; at least one dogear. Text clean; some thumbing; at least one dogear. How did Western imperialism shape the developing world? Atul Kohli tackles that question by analyzing British and American influence on Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin.....
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University of Chicago Press, June 2009. Hardcover. Traditionally, social scientists have assumed that past imperialism hinders the future development prospects of colonized nations. Challenging this widespread belief, Matthew Lange argues in Lineages of Despotism and Development that countries once under direct British imperial control have developed more successfully than those.....
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Wiley-Blackwell, February 1997. Trade Paperback. Emmanuel Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced.
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Houghton Mifflin, October 2006. Trade Paperback. This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, Western Civilization appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. New technology resources, including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace.....
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Houghton Mifflin, October 2006. Trade Paperback. This survey text presents the Western intellectual tradition within a chronology of political history. Known for its accessible writing style, Western Civilization appeals to students and instructors alike for its brevity, clarity, and careful selection of content. New technology resources, including Houghton Mifflin's Eduspace.....
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Canongate Books, December 2018. Trade Paperback. Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana. The Beatles learn to be brilliant in an hour and a half. An Englishman arrives back from Calcutta but refuses to adjust his watch. Beethoven has his symphonic wishes ignored. A US Senator.....
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Collins, November 2005. Trade Paperback.
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Arcadia, February 2015. Trade Paperback. Conventional chronologies of world history concentrate on the reigns of kings and queens, the dates of battles and treaties, the publication dates of great books, the completion of famous buildings, the deaths of iconic figures, and the years of major discoveries. But there are other.....
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North Point Press, June 2005. Trade Paperback. The open ocean--that vast expanse of international waters--spreads across three-fourths of the globe. It is a place of storms and danger, both natural and manmade. And at a time when every last patch of land is claimed by one government or another, it.....
