Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World, Hardcover - Andrew Phillips

How chartered company-states spearheaded European expansion and helped create the world's first genuinely global orderFrom Spanish conquistadors to...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): J. C. SharmanIllustration(s): 9 maps.Number of pages: 272Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 156 x 23...

A global history of the world's most famous secret society, encompassing kings and presidents, writers and legislators, composers and entertainers,...

Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World - Giorgio Riello

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the wo...

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Professor John Dickie's riveting new history of Freemasonry - an organization as mysterious as it is influential.

One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishing city of broad streets, sp...

The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured--and transformed--the world's imagination...

The new book from the award-winning SUNDAY TIMES journalist Brian Appleyard. This is a spirited exploration of cars and their cultural impact throu...

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The story of dealers of Old Masters, champions of modern art, and victims of Nazi plunder. Since the late-1990s, the fate of Nazi stolen art has be...

"Empowers readers with a toolkit of traditional and sustainable practices for an emerging artisanal crafts movement, and a brighter future." --Alic...

What keeps capitalism afloat? The global ocean has through the centuries served as a trade route, strategic space, fish bank and supply chain for t...

What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? This thought-provoking book pr...

Reducere. DescriptionA dazzling new history of the irrepressible demographic changes and mass migrations that have made and unmade nations, continents, and e...

Reducere. "Seek for meetings with holy men and women." These words from fifth-century bishop Palladius ring as true today as they did 1600 years ago. Palladi...

Reducere. DescriptionHow silver influenced two hundred years of world history, and why it matters todayThis is the story of silver's transformation from soft...

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magnitude. Central bankers have ...

Reducere. Nearly six hundred years ago, a short, genial, cannily alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf, saw with exci...

Reducere. Build your brain and blitz through the canon with Literature in 30 Seconds of Less!, a collection of illuminating synopses of the great works. Burs...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jennifer Regan-LefebvreIllustration(s): 11 b-w illustrations, 3 mapsNumber of pages: 342Publica...

Reducere. Before civilization... Before religion... Before language... Along came Little Fang. This charming story is a whimsical retelling of how the game o...

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Reducere. A work of extraordinary range and striking originality, The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen traces the global history of written constitutions from the ...

This fascinating three-thousand-year history of the census traces the making of the modern survey and explores its political power in the age of bi...

DescriptionThis book is about the history and the current state of the art in the exciting field of cosmology -- the science about the Universe as ...

Reducere. Stories of non-US citizens caught in the jaws of the immigration bureaucracy and subject to indefinite detention are in the headlines daily. These ...

Reducere. According to accepted historical wisdom, the goal of the African Colonization Society (ACS), founded in 1816 to return freed slaves to Africa, was ...

A comprehensive look at the life and continuing influence of 16th-century scientific genius and occultist Dr. John Dee - Presents an overview of De...