How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence, Paperback - Jonathan Daly

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

This book offers a new account of how the Great War unmade and then remade the political order of the Middle East. Ranging from Morocco to Iran and...

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The newly revised and expanded study of the world-renowned Finnish design company Artek.Publisher: Yale University PressIllustration(s): 500 color ...

Reducere. It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial pow...

DescriptionFrom one of our most eminent and accessible literary critics, a groundbreaking account of how the Greek and Roman classics forged Shakes...

DescriptionAt the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Timur KuranIllustration(s): 2 MapsNumber of pages: 422Publication date: 2012Dimensions: 234 x 154 x...

Reducere. This eye-opening narrative journey into the rapidly changing world of artificial intelligence reveals the dangerous ways AI is exploiting the uncon...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): James BelichIllustration(s): 12 maps.Number of pages: 640Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 167 x 24...

From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, an "expansive" global history that highlights "how textiles truly changed the world" (Wall Street Journal)Pub...

Reducere. I began my study of Gog and Magog more than fifteen years ago in the early 90's while resident in New York. My subsequent public lecture on the sub...

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Exam Board: OCR Level: GCSE Subject: History First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 An OCR endorsed textbook Trust Ben Walsh to guide...

Indian Mathematics gives a unique insight into the history of mathematics within a historical global context.Publisher: World Scientific Europe Ltd...

A single mother in desperate financial straits considers an indecent proposal that could rectify her situation. The }Guardian{ praised its way with...

DescriptionThe third edition of Astronomical Spectroscopy examines the physics necessary to understand and interpret astronomical spectra. It offer...

DescriptionA major intellectual history of the American Revolution and its influence on later revolutions in Europe and the AmericasThe Expanding B...

Reducere. When Rassie Erasmus took over as coach of the Springboks in 2018, few thought they had a chance of winning the Rugby World Cup. The Boks had slippe...

Accompanying the coming series produced for the BBC World Service, Tim Harford looks at how Bitcoin, canal locks, the jumbo jet and forty-seven oth...

Reducere. Cardinal Ratzinger addresses the challenges and responsibilities that both the Church and society in Europe face after the collapse of Marxism. Bot...

DescriptionImmanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social...