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Sylvie Laurent
Capital and Race

1492: a year that captivated the world. Columbus's "discovery" of a new continent is widely remembered for revealing both the wonders of the earth and the unprecedented capacity of men to free t…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

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The Value of Work since the 18th Century

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day. Fo…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their…

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Oliver Basciano
Outcast

The story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracizationOutcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world's foundational …

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration

The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift: the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curios…

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James Taylor
Sexism in the City

Before stock exchanges even existed, women were prominent not only as investors, but as intermediaries, managing the investments of others. This book charts their lives and careers from the late nineteent…

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

A history of epilepsy and the work required to manage it.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms promised new possibilities for man…

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Allen C Guelzo, James Hankins
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II

"The way Guelzo weaves faith, liberty, reason, and historical complexity into a coherent and accessible story creates a rich and thoughtful exploration of Western civilization that feels both rigorou…

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Florian Bieber
Hvar in the Modern Age

In this open access book, Florian Bieber traces the history of the island of Hvar during the 19th and 20th centuries. Bieber uses Hvar as a novel lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing stat…

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Short Story as World Literature

Literatures as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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Mark Knights
Trust and Distrust

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social…

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The Cambridge World History of Genocide

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it…

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Alessandro Stanziani, Thomas Piketty
Earth Capital

This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of econo…

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Yair Mintzker
I, Wandering Jew

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of "the Wandering Jew"The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew&q…

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Ben Cobley
The Progress Trap

The idea of progress, one of the animating ideas of Western civilization, has now gone global. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today's mutant identity politics, it offers a framework of knowledge and co…

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J. P. Park
The Forger's Creed

"The Forger's Creed is the first comprehensive study of forgery practices in early modern China and the underlying cultural, social, and genealogical anxieties that produced this plethora of fabricat…

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A Revolution in Colour

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on…

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Luca Cesari,
The History of Pizza

Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how…

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