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The eighteenth century was a time of major global transitions. Movements of religious and intellectu…

An engaging and informative history of Mevagissey. For over eight hundred years Mevagissey has flour…

This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern wo…

If all measures of human advancement in the last hundred centuries were plotted on a graph, they wou…

A concise history of the Caribbean's long and fascinating history, from pre-contact civilisations to…

Brought to you by Penguin.What can humankind’s rich history of radical revolts teach us about the po…

The Founders of the American nation would have had trouble recognizing the America that emerged afte…

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The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare’s First Folio, the world’s most obsessively pursu…

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Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopoliti…

Originally published in 1778, Evelina is Frances Burneys first and most beloved novel. It was a land…

The riveting true story of a legendary Spanish galleon that sunk off the coast of Colombia with over…

In a chilling exploration of a nearly forgotten chapter of history, Marcus Rediker delves into the d…

The study of ancient Greece has been central to Western conceptions of history since the Renaissance…

This program is read by the author.Paul Craddock's Spare Parts offers an original look at the histor…

Myths! Lies! Recycling scams? Discover the real story behind the first Earth Day celebration and som…

A global history of how Thomas Jefferson's descendants navigated the legacy of the Declaration of In…

A scientific detective story and a case study in the social construction of mass psychogenic illness…

The history of espionage is far older than any of today’s intelligence agencies, yet the long histor…

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The rich history of the acoustic guitar and its impact on the music world.In 2020, guitar expert Joh…

How can we explain the origins of the great wave of paranoid hatreds that seem inescapable in our cl…

The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred…

A revolutionary new history that reveals how climate change has dramatically shaped the development&…

In this vivid and captivating journey through the colors of an artist’s palette, Victoria Fin…

Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals…

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A tasty compendium of spices and a fascinating history and wide array of uses of the worlds favorite…

A blend of Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel and Simon Winchester’s Pacific, a thri…

A sweeping new history reveals how the Cherokees became a nation as they navigated a century and a h…

How does the physics we know today—a highly professionalized enterprise, inextricably linked t…

A major new history of Saudi Arabia, from its eighteenth-century origins to the present day Saudi Ar…

A sweeping history of Irish emigration, arguing that the Irish exodus helped make the modern worldWh…

For the ruling and propertied classes of the late eighteenth century, the years following the French…

Slaves to Fashion is a cultural history of the black dandy, from his emergence in Enlightenment Engl…