The City: A World History
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The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient...
The Female Voice of Myanmar: Khin Myo Chit to Aung San Suu Kyi
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The Female Voice of Myanmar seeks to offer a female perspective on the history and political...
The Free Port of Livorno and the Transformation of the Mediterranean World
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In the twilight of the Renaissance, the grand duke of Tuscany-a scion of the fabled Medici family of...
The Inequality Trap: Fighting Capitalism Instead of Poverty
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US President Barack Obama has called economic inequality the "defining issue of our time." It has...
The Innovation Illusion: How So Little is Created by So Many Working So Hard
Fredrik Erixon and Bjorn Weigel
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Timely, compelling, and certain to be controversial-a deeply researched study that reveals how...
The Long Process of Development: Building Markets and States in Pre-Industrial England, Spain and Their Colonies
Jerry F. Hough and Robin Grier
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Douglass North once emphasized that development takes centuries, but he did not have a theory of how...
The Making of Working-Class Religion
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Religion has played a protean role in the lives of America's workers. In this innovative volume,...
The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News
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The Media Players: Shakespeare, Middleton, Jonson, and the Idea of News builds a case for the...
The Metabolic Ghetto: An Evolutionary Perspective on Nutrition, Power Relations and Chronic Disease
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Chronic diseases have rapidly become the leading global cause of morbidity and mortality, yet there...
The Origins of Neoliberalism: Modeling the Economy from Jesus to Foucault
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Dotan Leshem recasts the history of the West from an economic perspective, bringing politics,...