World History of Rubber. Empire, Industry, and the Everyday, Paperback - Stephen L. Harp

A World History of Rubber helps readers understand and gain new insights into the social and cultural contexts of global production and consumption...

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Mundane Methods brings together an exciting array of interdisiplinary approaches to researching the extra-ordinary everyday. Covering themes of mat...

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The Victorian era saw huge technological advances in civil engineering and transport, mass urbanisation and social change, as well as still-treasur...

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Iain Hutchison's book traces the major developments in a particularly turbulent phase ofScottish history.

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this ...

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The British Empire, wrote Adam Smith, 'has hitherto been not an empire, but the project of an empire' and John Darwin offers a magisterial global h...

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Publisher: Vintage PublishingAuthor(s): Ella Frances SandersNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 141 x 215 x 22Cover type: Paperba...

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A fundamental dimension of the Russian historical experience has been the diversity of its people and cultures, religions and languages, landscapes...

Charts the major political developments in a particularly turbulent phase of Scottish history Six thematic chapters outline the complex social, cul...

Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far lar...

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin America...