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Elizabeth Newman,
Global History in 15 Latin American Foods

Global History in 15 Latin American Foods traces the paths by which 15 ingredients, from corn to chiles, and from guava to gum, made their way from Precolumbian Latin America to world cuisine today.Why is…

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Darcy Ingram
The Second Greatest Show on Earth

In 1865 wealthy American expatriate Henry Bergh (1813--1888) chose suddenly to abandon a life of leisure in Europe. Returning to his home city of New York, he set to work on what soon proved a remarkable …

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Petroc Trelawny
Cornwall

It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national …

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Sally Coulthard
A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects

A Waterstones Best Book of 2024: Nature WritingThe untold story of rural Britain revealed through its artefacts ' A really lovely, fascinating book. I dived straight into this clever, joyous, celebration …

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Beth Linker
Slouch

The strange and surprising history of the so-called epidemic of bad posture in modern America---from eugenics and posture pageants to today's promoters of "paleo posture"In 1995, a scandal erupt…

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Elizabeth Newman,
Global History in 15 Latin American Foods

Global History in 15 Latin American Foods traces the paths by which 15 ingredients, from corn to chiles, and from guava to gum, made their way from Precolumbian Latin America to world cuisine today.Why is…

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Nick Rees-Roberts,
Failure

Fashion thrives on fame and success, capitalism and culture. But beneath the luster and hype, fashion is also inevitably about failure - an essential part of its history and evolution. In his contribution…

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Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy

Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP combines historical scholarship with philosophical acuteness,…

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Sally Coulthard
Fowl Play

The humble chicken has conquered the world. This unlikely descendant of Tyrannosaurus Rex is now so ubiquitous there are more than 20 billion chickens pecking, strutting and scratching around the planet a…

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Raffaele Danna
The Craft of Indo-Arabic Numerals

"A must-read." -Joel Mokyr, Nobel Prize-winning author of A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern EconomyAn illuminating, fine-grained account of how Indo-Arabic numerals facilitated the …

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Matthew Lockwood
Explorers

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matthew Lockwood interweaves stories of famous figures-including Sacagawea, Pocahontas a…

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David Olusoga
Black and British

Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees' Award Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeUnflinching and revealing, Black and British is a vital history that reveals…

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Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itWITH A NEW FOREWORD BY ANDY BURNHAM, MAYOR OF GREATER MANCHESTER'What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.'Long…

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John Blair
Killing the Dead

A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia---and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account…

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Vasileios Balaskas
Revivals of Classical Drama in Greece and Spain (1860s-1970s)

Vasileios Balaskas examines how Classical drama was revived at ancient European venues during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing on Spain and Greece. These revivals turned ancient theatres i…

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John Parker
Great Kingdoms of Africa

A groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great precolonial…

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Ziad Abu-Rish
The State of Lebanon

Lebanon gained its formal political independence in 1943. During the dozen years that followed, women and men across class, sectarian, geographic, and ideological divides built, challenged, and reformed t…

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Britain and Holocaust Consciousness in the 1960s

Until now, in the scholarly literature on the development of 'Holocaust consciousness' in the UK, the 1960s has been a missing decade. This book brings together an impressive cast of expert scholars to pr…

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Joseph Pearson
Sweet Victory

The fascinating story of how a forgotten group of airmen---who had spent World War II dropping Allied bombs on Berlin---risked their lives in 1948-49 dropping chocolate bars from the sky.> In June of 1…

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Rebecca L Davis
Fierce Desires

Our era is one of sexual upheaval. Roe v. Wade was overturned in the summer of 2022, school systems across the country are banning books with LGBTQ+ themes, and the notion of a "tradwife" is gai…

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