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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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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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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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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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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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Allen C Guelzo, James Hankins
The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition, Volume II

"The way Guelzo weaves faith, liberty, reason, and historical complexity into a coherent and accessible story creates a rich and thoughtful exploration of Western civilization that feels both rigorou…

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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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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

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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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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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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The Cambridge World History of Genocide

Volume III examines the most well-known century of genocide, the twentieth century. Opening with a discussion on the definitions of genocide and 'ethnic cleansing' and their relationships to modernity, it…

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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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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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Bruno Carvalho
The Invention of the Future

A kaleidoscopic and original new history of urbanization---from Lisbon to New York, Paris to Rio de Janeiro, and Buenos Aires to LagosFor the past three centuries, urban dwellers and planners have imagine…

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A Revolution in Colour

This major volume aims to re-colour the European world of dress, c.1300-1800. New dyes created one of the most important visual experiences of the period, yet their story has been side-lined by a focus on…

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Luca Cesari,
The History of Pizza

Pizza is the Italian food that has conquered the world: from Brussels to LA, from Beijing to Buenos Aires, pizzas and pizzerias can be found everywhere today. But what are the origins of this food and how…

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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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War and Childhood in the Era of the Two World Wars

This innovative book reveals children's experiences and how they became victims and actors during the twentieth century's biggest conflicts.

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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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