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The Histories

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Translated by Tom Holland ...

Tom Holland's 'stirring new translation' (Telegraph) of Herodotus' Histories, one of the great books in Western history - now in paperbackThe Histories of Herodotus, completed in the second half of the 5th century BC, is generally regarded as the first work of history and the first great masterpiece of non-fiction writing. Joined here are the sheer drama of Herodotus' narrative of the Persian ... Read more

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Fall of Civilizations

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Tao Te Ching

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A History of Jerusalem

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Life in a Medieval Village

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Series series Medieval Life
The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made ... Read more

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The reissue of Joseph and Frances Gies’s classic bestseller on life in medieval villages.This new reissue of Life in a Medieval Village, by respected historians Joseph and Frances Gies, paints a lively, convincing portrait of rural people at work and at play in the Middle Ages. Focusing on the village of Elton, in the English East Midlands, the Gieses detail the agricultural advances that made
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Maths on the Back of an Envelope

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Promiscuous Knowledge

Information, Image, and Other Truth Games in History

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"[A] lively account of the cultural and intellectual history of how Americans have lived with image and information since the mid-nineteenth century." —Peter Simonson, author of Refiguring Mass CommunicationSergey Brin, a cofounder of Google, once compared the perfect search engine to "the mind of God." As the modern face of promiscuous knowledge, however, Google's divine omniscience traffics in ... Read more

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Time's Monster

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CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NEW STATESMAN AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE'In this searing book, Priya Satia demonstrates, yet again, that she is one of our most brilliant and original historians' Sunil Amrith, author of Unruly WatersFor generations, the history of the British empire was written by its victors. British historians' accounts of conquest guided the consolidation of imperial rule in India
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Medium Raw

A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook

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Medium Raw marks the return of the inimitable Anthony Bourdain, author of the blockbuster bestseller Kitchen Confidential and three-time Emmy Award-nominated host of No Reservations on TV’s Travel Channel. Bourdain calls his book, “A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook,” and he is at his entertaining best as he takes aim at some of the biggest names in the foodie world,
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The LGBTQ + History Book

Big Ideas Simply Explained

by DK ...

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Discover the rich and complex history of LGBTQ+ people around the world - their struggles, triumphs, and cultural contributions.Exploring and explaining the most important ideas and events in LGBTQ+ history and culture, this book showcases the breadth of the LGBTQ+ experience. This diverse, global account explores the most important moments, movements, and phenomena, from the first known lesbian
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Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of ‘new’ knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history.Since the mapping of the human genome in 2001, there has been an expansion in the use of genetic information for historical investigation. Geneticists are confident ... Read more

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Double Helix History examines the interface between genetics and history in order to investigate the plausibility of ‘new’ knowledge derived from scientific methods and to reflect upon what it might mean for the practice of history.Since the mapping of the human genome in 2001, there has been an expansion in the use of genetic information for historical investigation. Geneticists are confident
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Dieser Text aus dem Jahr 1526 beschreibt den Vertrag der Stadt Speyer ausgehandelt mit dem Bischof der Stadt. Es geht um die Rechte der jeweiligen Gruppierung. Auf diese Weise soll der ewige Streit zwischen der Stadt Speyer und der katholischen Kirche geschlichtet und letztlich beigelegt werden.
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A pioneering and comprehensive study of the historical imagination in Kashmir, this book explores the conversations between the ideas of Kashmir and the ideas of history taking place within Kashmir’s multilingual historical tradition. Analysing the deep linkages among Sanskrit, Persian, and Kashmiri narratives, Kashmir’s Contested Pasts contends that these traditions drew on and influenced each
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Все улицы Петербурга. История названий улиц и проспектов, рек и каналов, мостов и островов

by Алексей Владимирович, Алексей Ерофеев ...

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The Limits of Westernization

American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860 – 1960

by Jon Davidann ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Modern History
The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century ... Read more

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The goal of this project is to locate the origins and development of modern thought in the United States and East Asia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. While a strong literature on post-war modernization exists, there is a gap in the pre-war origins and development of modern ideas. This book re-evaluates the influence of the United States on East Asia in the twentieth century
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Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain

Volume III: Quantifying Life: Statistical, Social and Human Sciences

Edited by Charles H. Pence ...

Series series Nineteenth-Century Science, Technology and Medicine: Sources and Documents
This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of quantified, statistical social science came into being. Such innovations were quickly marshaled for use ... Read more

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This collection of primary sources examines scientific methodology in Britain during the long nineteenth century. The nineteenth century played host to the development, for the first time, of statistical and probabilistic methods across the biological, human, and social sciences. A new kind of quantified, statistical social science came into being. Such innovations were quickly marshaled for use
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十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受

by 孙柏 ...

中国现代戏剧的发生和晚清到民国初年的中西戏剧文化交流有着极为密切而直接的关系。然而，长期以来，学术界对于这一时段中西戏剧文化交流史的认识和理解存在着相当大的误区，其原因主要是在于我们习惯性地把西方戏剧看作一个连续一致的整体，以易卜生式的戏剧作为现代戏剧唯一合法的存在形态，因而完全没有注意到这样一个基本事实，即清末出访欧洲的国人所观看和接受的实际是十九世纪西方的主流戏剧，它属于可称之为“维多利亚时代戏剧”的完全不同的剧场史范畴。本书的基本目标就是希望通过重新检阅晚清国人出访欧洲留下的观剧笔记材料，对中西戏剧交流史上这一被遗忘甚至可以说是有意无意被抹去的段落予以发覆。它的一方面的工作是通过对中文和英语原始史料进行参证阅读，复原十九世纪英国以及欧洲戏剧的历史真实景况；另一方面则聚焦于晚清国人的接受层面，不仅还原这些丰富史料中所记载的基于切实感受的观剧所得，而且提请注意史料撰述者如何以前现代中国既有的 ... Read more

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中国现代戏剧的发生和晚清到民国初年的中西戏剧文化交流有着极为密切而直接的关系。然而，长期以来，学术界对于这一时段中西戏剧文化交流史的认识和理解存在着相当大的误区，其原因主要是在于我们习惯性地把西方戏剧看作一个连续一致的整体，以易卜生式的戏剧作为现代戏剧唯一合法的存在形态，因而完全没有注意到这样一个基本事实，即清末出访欧洲的国人所观看和接受的实际是十九世纪西方的主流戏剧，它属于可称之为“维多利亚时代戏剧”的完全不同的剧场史范畴。本书的基本目标就是希望通过重新检阅晚清国人出访欧洲留下的观剧笔记材料，对中西戏剧交流史上这一被遗忘甚至可以说是有意无意被抹去的段落予以发覆。它的一方面的工作是通过对中文和英语原始史料进行参证阅读，复原十九世纪英国以及欧洲戏剧的历史真实景况；另一方面则聚焦于晚清国人的接受层面，不仅还原这些丰富史料中所记载的基于切实感受的观剧所得，而且提请注意史料撰述者如何以前现代中国既有的
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Re-Figuring Hayden White

Edited by Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domańska, Hans Kellner ...

Series series Cultural Memory in the Present
Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays ... Read more

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Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday, Re-Figuring Hayden White testifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays
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Rum

A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776

by Ian Williams ...

Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era. ... Read more

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Rum arguably shaped the modern world. It was to the eighteenth century what oil is to the present, but its significance has been diminished by a misguided sense of old-fashioned morality dating back to Prohibition. In fact, Rum shows that even the Puritans took a shot now and then. Rum, too, was one of the major engines of the American Revolution, a fact often missing from histories of the era.
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Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity

by Nerijus Milerius, Agnė Narušytė, Violeta Davoliūtė, Lukas Brašiškis ...

Series series Identities and Modernities in Europe
This book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies. It reveals how the experience of war trauma takes root in everydayness and shows how artists try to question the ‘normality’ of the everyday, to actualise the memory of war ... Read more

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This book analyses photographic and cinematographic representations of war and its memorialisation rituals in the period of late modernity from the perspectives of cultural sociology, philosophy, art theory and film studies. It reveals how the experience of war trauma takes root in everydayness and shows how artists try to question the ‘normality’ of the everyday, to actualise the memory of war
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Revivals to Revolvers . . . to Die for Commonwealth and Family!

A History of the Second Regiment Kentucky Infantry, Csa

by COL Charles W. L. Hall ...

Over two thousand men were recruited for this regiment from the counties of Hickman, Fayette, Bullitt, Jefferson, Graves, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Owen, Bourbon, and Anderson throughout 18611865! The Second Kentucky persevered over three years of unbelievable hardship valorously and under constant threat of death! Honoring all Kentuckians past and present! Part of the real life story is given to ... Read more

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Over two thousand men were recruited for this regiment from the counties of Hickman, Fayette, Bullitt, Jefferson, Graves, Franklin, Harrison, Scott, Owen, Bourbon, and Anderson throughout 18611865! The Second Kentucky persevered over three years of unbelievable hardship valorously and under constant threat of death! Honoring all Kentuckians past and present! Part of the real life story is given to
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China's Last Emperor was 2 Years Old! History Books for Kids | Children's Asian History

by Baby Professor ...

Yes, China’s last emperor was a toddler! Can you just imagine how he ruled a nation when he was still in his diapers? This book will hold the answers. Learning about history from countries far from yours will help develop an understanding of its cultures and traditions. Learn about a piece of history from a foreign country. Begin today! ... Read more

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Yes, China’s last emperor was a toddler! Can you just imagine how he ruled a nation when he was still in his diapers? This book will hold the answers. Learning about history from countries far from yours will help develop an understanding of its cultures and traditions. Learn about a piece of history from a foreign country. Begin today!
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American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919

Volume III: From the Mexican-American War to the Spanish-American War, 1846–1898

Edited by Adam Burns ...

This volume navigates the course of US imperialism between two major wars – the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) and the Spanish-American War (1898) – both of which saw significant US territorial expansion. However, these conflicts alone do not tell the whole story. Alongside the territorial acquisitions that followed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) this volume’s sections also explore the ... Read more

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This volume navigates the course of US imperialism between two major wars – the Mexican-American War (1846–1848) and the Spanish-American War (1898) – both of which saw significant US territorial expansion. However, these conflicts alone do not tell the whole story. Alongside the territorial acquisitions that followed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo (1848) this volume’s sections also explore the
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Effects of Chemical Warfare

A Selective Review and Bibliography of British State Papers

by Andy Thomas, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute ...

Series series Routledge Library Editions: Historical Security
Originally published in 1985, this book is the result of an exploration of the state papers of the United Kingdom undertaken with the aim of discovering information about the past use of chemical warfare. This information may serve as a point of historical reference in speculation upon the possible nature and consequences of large-scale chemical warfare recurring in Europe. Part I of the monograph ... Read more

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Originally published in 1985, this book is the result of an exploration of the state papers of the United Kingdom undertaken with the aim of discovering information about the past use of chemical warfare. This information may serve as a point of historical reference in speculation upon the possible nature and consequences of large-scale chemical warfare recurring in Europe. Part I of the monograph
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The Histories

Fall of Civilizations

Tao Te Ching

A History of Jerusalem

Life in a Medieval Village

Maths on the Back of an Envelope

Promiscuous Knowledge

Time's Monster

Medium Raw

The LGBTQ + History Book

Double Helix History

Pfalzgraue Ludwigs Vertrag zwischen der Pfaffheit unnd Stadt Speyer

Kashmir’s Contested Pasts

Все улицы Петербурга. История названий улиц и проспектов, рек и каналов, мостов и островов

The Limits of Westernization

Scientific Methodology in Nineteenth Century Britain

十九世纪西方演剧与晚清国人的接受

Re-Figuring Hayden White

Rum

Everyday Representations of War in Late Modernity

Revivals to Revolvers . . . to Die for Commonwealth and Family!

China's Last Emperor was 2 Years Old! History Books for Kids | Children's Asian History

American Imperialism in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Documentary History, 1775–1919

Effects of Chemical Warfare