A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps
Tom Harper and Tim Bryars
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The 20th century was a golden age of map-making, and maps permeated almost every aspect of daily...
The 20th Century in Cartoons: A History in Pictures
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A picture says more than a thousand words and this is a decade-by-decade resume of the twentieth...
The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century
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The beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered, Friedman argues, not for military...
A People's History of the 20th Century: As Told in Diaries, Letters and Journals
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Enjoy a front row seat to the momentous events of the last century. In Travis Elborough's expertly...
The Acadian Diaspora: An Eighteenth-Century History
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Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the...
How the Other Half Ate: A History of Working-class Meals at the Turn of the Century
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In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, working-class Americans had eating habits that...
The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century
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A rollicking true-crime adventure and a thought-provoking exploration of the human drive to possess...
History Crime
Prague, Capital of the Twentieth Century: A Surrealist History
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Setting out to recover the roots of modernity in the boulevards, interiors, and arcades of the "city...