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Anna Fishzon, Ian Beilin
Fin de Siècle Europe

An examination of the most significant social, artistic, intellectual, and political developments in Europe at the turn of the 20th century (1870 to 1914), Fin de Siècle Europe provides a comprehensive ap…

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Adi Imsirovic, Colin Bryce
The Rivers of Money

Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flouris…

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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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Sophia Rosenfeld
The Age of Choice

Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in…

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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