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Sophia Rosenfeld
The Age of Choice

Winner of the István Hont Book Prize, Institute of Intellectual History Finalist for the Cundill History Prize A New York Times Notable Book of the YearA sweeping history of the rise of personal choice in…

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Barbara Di Gennaro Splendore
The State Drug

A revelatory account of the "wonder drug" theriac, which became a powerful tool in the hands of medical and political authorities at the height of the Italian Renaissance.From the 1490s, one of …

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The Value of Work since the 18th Century

Beginning in the 18th century, a turning point in labour history as work encountered an industrialising modernity, this book explores how different forms of work have been valued up to the present day. Fo…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their…

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A Cultural History of Furniture in the Age of Exploration

The 16th and 17th centuries in Europe witnessed a significant paradigm shift: the exploration so characteristic of the period stemmed from religious motives but came to be propelled by commerce and curios…

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Eleanor Doughty
Heirs and Graces

There are fewer than 5000 people who can genuinely claim to be members of the British aristocracy, and yet they loom large in the popular consciousness. We're fascinated by their houses and estates, their…

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Oliver Basciano
Outcast

The story of how one misunderstood disease became the global blueprint for stigma and ostracizationOutcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World reveals leprosy as the world's foundational …

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James Taylor
Sexism in the City

Before stock exchanges even existed, women were prominent not only as investors, but as intermediaries, managing the investments of others. This book charts their lives and careers from the late nineteent…

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Mark Knights
Trust and Distrust

Trust and Distrust offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850, and as such will appeal not only to historians, but also to political and social…

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Alessandro Stanziani, Thomas Piketty
Earth Capital

This book is a major new history of capitalism that takes account of the material and ecological underpinnings of productive activity as well as the social, political and institutional dimensions of econo…

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Florian Bieber
Hvar in the Modern Age

In this open access book, Florian Bieber traces the history of the island of Hvar during the 19th and 20th centuries. Bieber uses Hvar as a novel lens to tell a larger story about modernity, changing stat…

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Short Story as World Literature

Literatures as World Literature

Global in scope, this volume uncovers the deep history of the short story as an "impure" genre by challenging the commonplace understanding in contemporary literary studies that the short story …

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Rachel Elder
Secrecy and Safety

Disability History of Science, Technology, and Medicine

A history of epilepsy and the work required to manage it.In the middle of the twentieth century, medical advancements like anticonvulsant drugs and electroencephalograms promised new possibilities for man…

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A Cultural History of Ideas in the Age of Enlightenment

PRAISE FOR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF IDEAS: VOLUMES 1-6 A 2024 CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE 2023 AAP PROSE AWARDS WINNER: BEST HUMANITIES REFERENCE WORKThis volume of A Cultural History of Ideasfocuses o…

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Goffredo Adinolfi
The Rise of Mass Parties, Liberal Italy, and the Fascist Dawn (1919-1924)

Through an in-depth study of the electoral process, the aim of this Element is to analyse the political transformations that occurred in Italy from 1919 to 1924. After the takeover of the low chamber by t…

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Dam Internationalism

During the 20th century dam-building became a truly global endeavour. Built around the world, they generated networks of actors, institutions and companies embedded in globally circulating technological k…

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Oil Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of International Order

The 1970s are widely seen as a turning point for the world economy and a transformative decade for the international order. This volume explores the role played by the oil crises in this transformation, f…

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Joseph Fronczak
The Five Ages of Antifascism

A global history of antifascism from its inception to our own times. Its inspiration, and subject of critique, though, is a work of fascist history, Robert O. Paxton's classic essay The Five Stages of Fas…

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Yair Mintzker
I, Wandering Jew

Combining history, detective story, and memoir, a surprising and revealing account of the antisemitic myth of "the Wandering Jew"The story behind the mythical figure of "the Wandering Jew&q…

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Archives and Emotions

WINNER OF THE SOCIETY OF AMERICAN ARCHIVISTS' WALDO GIFFORD LELAND AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE AND USEFULNESS IN ARCHIVAL HISTORY, THEORY, AND PRACTICE 2025 Archives and Emotions argues, at its most fundamental …

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