In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History
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"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu...
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...
The Politics of Opera: A History from Monteverdi to Mozart
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A wide-ranging look at the interplay of opera and political ideas through the centuries The Politics...
Historical Mechanisms: An Experimental Approach to Applying Scientific Theories to the Study of History
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Historical Mechanisms argues that scientific method can provide key new insights about events that...
Boxing on This Day: History, Facts & Figures from Every Day of the Year
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Boxing On This Day revisits the sport's most magical moments, from title tear-ups, shocks and famous...
Law, Crime and Deviance Since 1700: Micro-Studies in the History of Crime
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Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the...
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived: The Stories in Our Genes
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This is a story about you. It is the history of who you are and how you came to be. It is unique to...
Historical Figures
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Big Lives. Little-known Facts. Great, unknown stories hide inside history—every Wednesday, we dig...
Food in the Air and Space: The Surprising History of Food and Drink in the Skies
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In the history of cooking, there has been no more challenging environment than those craft in which...
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World
Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris and Richard P. Saller
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In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity,...