Economic growth isn't working, and it cannot be made to work. Offering a counter-history of how economic growth emerged in the context of colonialism, fossil-fueled...
In 15,000 B.C. early humankind, who had evolved in Africa tens of thousands of years before, and spread out to populate the Earth, arrived in...
In this absorbing chronicle of the role of race in US history, David R. Roediger explores how the idea of race was created and recreated...
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London in the eighteenth century was very much a new city, risen from the ashes of the Great Fire. With thousands of homes...
Mythocracy examines the narrative mechanisms that script our lives through the stories we tell one another. Digging beneath common anxieties about fake news, Yves Citton...
A wide-ranging new history of NATO, from its origins to the present day—published for the alliance’s seventy-fifth anniversary &,nbsp, For seven decades, NATO’s stated aim...
A celebration of beer-its science, its history, and its impact on human culture What can beer teach us about biology, history, and the natural world?...
It was Hitler’s boast that the Third Reich would last a thousand years. Instead it lasted only twelve. But into its short life was packed...
Škoda Octavia: The Story of a Czechoslovakian Automotive IconStep into the remarkable history of Czechoslovakian car design through the lens of the Škoda Octavia –...
The fascinating history of the people, the ideas and the dishes that have fed - and starved - the nation, by the author of the...
Emerging from the great social upheavals that contested the sexual and racial divisions of labor globally in the 1970s, Leopoldina Fortunati's classic work expands and...
Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistWinner of the Willie Lee Rose PrizeWinner of the PROSE Award in United States HistoryHagley Prize in Business History FinalistA...
In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out...
100 Ideas that Changed Street Style is a look-by-look dissection of the key ideas that changed the way we dress from the middle of the...
THE CLASSIC NATIONAL BESTSELLER ",A wonderful, splendid booka book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to...
From the fury of the Punic Wars to the icy waters of Dunkirk, relive 5,000 years of world-changing combat with this guide to the most...
",A powerful story of social realities, pressures, and the fracturing of traditional structures.",-Ruth Goodman, Wall Street Journal Nineteenth century Britain saw remarkable economic growth and...
A fascinating new account of the life and legend of the Wild West's most notorious woman: Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary, popularly known as Calamity...
Named one of Book Riot's Six Great Nonfiction Books about Time ",[A] mind-stretching book. . .. Skilfully written.",-John Carey, Sunday Times (London)A tour of clocks...
