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Kelly Clancy
Playing with Reality

'A dopamine hit on every page' Marcus du Sautoy A sweeping intellectual history of games and their importance to human progress. We play games to learn about the world, to understand our minds and the min…

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Georgios Varouxakis
The West

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Weste…

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Hendrik Dey
The Making of Medieval Rome

Integrating the written sources with Rome's surviving remains and, most importantly, with the results of the past half-century's worth of medieval archaeology in the city, The Making of Medieval Rome is t…

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Andrew Hammond
Late Ottoman Origins of Modern Islamic Thought

"In this major contribution to Muslim intellectual history, Andrew Hammond offers a vital reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on a poe…

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Nicola Miller
Republics of Knowledge

"Republics of Knowledge tells the story of how the circulation of knowledge shaped the formation of nation-states in Latin America, and particularly in Argentina, Peru and Chile, during the century a…

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Todd Kontje
Global Germany Circa 1800

Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what i…

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Gayle Feldman
Nothing Random

The story of the legendary Random House founder, whose seemingly charmed life at the apogee of the American Century afforded him a front-row seat to literary and cultural history in the making"A stun…

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J. Mackenzie Pierce
Sounds of Survival

"A major intellectual history with extraordinary significance as scholars ask how art music in Europe has been a site for the contestation of difference. This beautifully crafted book is a model twen…

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Melissa Ann Kaul
Animals in Premodern Japan

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

In this Open Access book, the reader is presented with an outlook on current developments in Japanese Animal Ethics and how And¿ Sh¿eki's depictions of non-human animals, as well as the examination of Chi…

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Sean Delehanty
Company Men

How an esoteric economic theory--and its most devout believers--changed the world forever.In the modern economy, stock price is king. The value of a corporation is measured in how it enriches its sharehol…

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Jacob T. Snyder
Leisure

Intellectual history of leisure and the use of that history to grapple with its potential future. Leisure is a genealogy of the concept of leisure, from its peak in the classical age to its inversion and …

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Eli Rubin
Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity

"Kabbalah and the Rupture of Modernity provides a comprehensive intellectual and institutional history of Chabad Hasidism through the Kabbalistic concept of òsimòsum. The onset of modernity, Eli Rubi…

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Understanding the Greek Revolution (1821-1832)

The Greek Revolution remains a neglected episode in the revolutionary history of the insurrectionary wave of the 1820s. This volume collects the most recent research concerning the social, political and c…

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Geoff Eley
The Modernist Wish

As the 20th century recedes, how should its history be written? The 1920s and 1930s were a time of paradox, of great conflict and contradiction. If those years were the crucible of a new metropolitan mode…

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Robert D Koch
Juan Perón's Anti-Imperialist Geopolitics

Using a blend of global, intellectual and cultural history, this book explores the geopolitics of Juan Perón and their relationship to, and impact on, the international history of the mid-20th century. Be…

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The Mahabharata in Global Political and Social Thought

The ancient Indian epic, Mahabharata, was first composed in Sanskrit and then rendered into Indian vernaculars and other Asian and European languages. This book demonstrates how the epic has shaped the bi…

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Alon Helled
Israel's National Historiography

The book analyses the development of Israel's national identity through the world of local Jewish Zionist historiography. Inspired by Norbert Elias' historical and figurational sociology, the book examine…

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Matthew Costa
Mother of Capital

Rent, or unearned income, is a pervasive concept in contemporary economics. Economists of all stripes see today's global economy as riddled with harmful rents, but most deny these are intrinsic to capital…

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He Bian, Marten Soderblom Saarela
The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants and Animals in High Qing China

As the territory of Qing China expanded, so evolved the ways in which birds, beasts, fish, trees, and flowers came to be known in the multilingual empire. The Manchu Mirrors and the Knowledge of Plants an…

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