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A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress From H.G. Wells to Isaac Asimov

In this wide-ranging survey, Peter J. Bowler explores the phenomenon of futurology: predictions abou...

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Demopolis: Democracy Before Liberalism in Theory and Practice

What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? Combining...

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The Cambridge History of World Music

Scholars have long known that world music was not merely the globalized product of modern media, but...

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Stories of Daily Life from the Roman World: Extracts From The Ancient Colloquia

What did Roman children do first when they arrived at school in the morning? What excuse for missing...

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On Writing History from Herodotus to Herodian

What is history and how should it be written? This important new anthology, translated and edited by...

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From Byron to bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers

What makes people fight and risk their lives for countries other than their own? Why did diverse ind...

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Revolution and Counterrevolution: Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory

An exciting contribution to the discussion about class and the Russian Revolution.Nearly all recogni...

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The Conspiracy of Free Trade: The Anglo-American Struggle Over Empire and Economic Globalisation 1846-1896

Following the Second World War, the United States would become the leading 'neoliberal' proponent of...

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Hitlers Island War: The Men Who Fought for Leros

In September 1943, at the height of World War II, the Aegean island of Leros became the site of the...

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Lenin: Building the Party 1893-1914

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the pivotal events in world history, and the Russian Bolsh...

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The Idea of a Town: The anthropology of Urban Form in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World

Roman towns and their history are generally regarded as being the preserve of the archaeologist or t...

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The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945-1957

In 1949 Mao Zedong hoisted the red flag over Beijing's Forbidden City. Instead of liberating the cou...

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War and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt

In the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors discovered the New World. The vast quantities of gol...

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The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962¯1976

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing' , this is the final volume of 'The People'...

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Exorcising Hitler: The Occupation and Denazification of Germany

Not since the end of the Roman Empire, almost fifteen hundred years earlier, is there a parallel, in...

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