Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes
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When Dionysus the Renegade faked a Sophocles text in 400BC (cunningly inserting the acrostic...
Food in Time and Place: The American Historical Association Companion to Food History
Joyce E. Chaplin, Paul Freedman and Ken Albala
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Food and cuisine are important subjects for historians across many areas of study. Food, after all,...
Mountains of the Mind: a History of a Fascination
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Why do so many feel compelled to risk their lives climbing mountains? During the climbing season,...
Everybody Loves Our Town: a History of Grunge
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Grunge, also known as the 'Seattle Sound', emerged from the Pacific north-west in the early part of...
Faith of Our Families: Everton FC, an Oral History
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It is known as The School of Science, a pioneering institution from the game's inception as a...
Three-Fifths a Man: A Graphic History of the African
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The essential primer on African American history, from the Middle Passage to Black Lives Matter ...
History Politics social issues
Screen Nazis: Cinema, History, and Democracy
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From the late 1930s to the early twenty-first century, European and American filmmakers have...
In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal
Niklaus Largier and Graham Harman
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In Praise of the Whip: A Cultural History of Arousal is a new history of voluntary flagellation in...
The Shock of the Anthropocene: The Earth, History, and Us
Christophe Bonneuil and Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
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Scientists tell us that the Earth has entered a new epoch: the Anthropocene. We are not facing...