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A "supremely entertaining" (The New Yorker) exploration of who gets to record the world’s history--from Julius Caesar to......more

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This Element offers seven propositions toward a theory of ’Our Urban Planet’ that is useful to global urban historians. ......more

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In the years following World War I, as connections between the Middle East and South Asia began to proliferate, Egypt an......more

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The Rulers of India series was conceived to make available the key features of Indian history through biographies of the......more

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A New Imperial History of Northern Eurasia, 1700-1918 proposes a new language for studying and conceptualizing the space......more

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So far, the history of football has been written by sport historians who have considered the history of this sport in is......more

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Infectious disease has been the biggest threat to human life throughout history, and specific outbreaks have imprinted t......more

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Typically we think of power as economic, political, or military, but fictional narratives attached to kings, empires, re......more

A famous White European male named Eugen Sandow (1867-1925) toured colonial South Africa and South, Southeast, and East ......more

The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909: Darwinism’s Generations uses the impact of Charles Darwin’s ......more

This volume examines the interplay between emotions and archives from the 18th to the 21st century. Exploring how feelin......more

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How easy and uncomplicated was it for an 18th-century, medium-sized, Ottoman trade company to expand its business in the......more

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This volume explores how the quest for security reshaped the world over the course of the 19th century, altering the str......more

Bringing together scholarship from across the social sciences and humanities, this handbook critically examines the rela......more

From the New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in Twelve Maps, this is the revelatory history of t......more

A group portrait of six of the finest historians of the First World War In A Sextet on the Great War, Perry Anderson pic......more

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This collection takes a case study approach to enter into and explore spaces of ’Second-Third World’ interaction during ......more

What if researchers interested in ’the past’ used their noses? This open access book makes the case for a more imaginati......more

The story of humanity’s evolving relationship with the natural world from pre-history to the present day Nature has long......more

A global perspective on the nature and evolution of nationalism, from the early modern era to the present The current ri......more

From an esteemed military historian, a sweeping history of the revolutions in war-fighting that have shaped the modern w......more

The impulse to seek out new worlds is universal to humanity. In a truly inclusive account of exploration, historian Matt......more

Showcases the wonderful world of honey from hive to jar. A beautifully illustrated global survey of the flavor of honey,......more

History of the World provides a sumptuous, pictorial guide to the most significant events in human history, from the Bro......more

Now in its fourth edition, Introduction to Global Military History is an accessible, up-to-date account of modern warfar......more

Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and su......more

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People have been drawing lines on maps for as long as there have been maps to draw on. Sometimes rooted in physical geog......more

In this third edition of his widely acclaimed survey, historian Randall D. Law makes sense of the history of terrorism b......more

Among all the Korean dynasties, the Koryŏ dynasty (918-1392) was the first to have contact with the Western world. It wa......more

A first-class narrative writer blends his unique cartographic and topographic understanding of the key ports of early se......more

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Ever since innovations in agriculture vastly expanded production of food, our remarkable achievements in reshaping natur......more

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From the Watergate scandal, deposition of Haile Selassie and the expulsion of Solzhenitsyn from the Soviet Union, to ABB......more

In The Politics of Coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia’s authoritarian regime for more than fou......more

In The Politics of Coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia’s authoritarian regime for more than fou......more

This book seeks to highlight some of the difficult imperial histories and legacies embedded in the Ethnographic Collecti......more

Expecting the End of the World in Medieval Europe: An Interdisciplinary Study examines the phenomenon of medieval eschat......more

"A model of popular-science writing" STEVEN POOLE Who was "the first speaker" and what was their first message? An erudi......more

A unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data from every part of the world and cover......more

From an award-winning historian, a new global history of Communism When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the world was certai......more

This volume explores the global history of natural dyes from the Americas and asks how their production and trade have s......more

Shifts the conversation from abstract "global warming" to the deeply human impacts of heat--and how our efforts to keep ......more

It’s been said that we’re a more fearful society than ever before. Yet fear, and the panic it produces, have long been d......more

Now in its fourth edition, this highly successful global history of the twentieth century is written by four prominent i......more

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