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Bourgeois Equality: How Ideas, not Capital or Institutions Enriched the World

WINNER OF THE 2017 HAYEK PRIZEThere’s little doubt that most humans today are better off than their...

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The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman EmpireHere is t...

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Peiresc's Mediterranean World

Antiquarian, lawyer, and cat lover Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc (1580–1637) was a “prince” of the Republ...

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The World Until Yesterday

The no. 1 bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel explores the profound lessons tha...

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Contemporary Turkey in Conflict: Ethnicity, Islam and Politics

Explores ethnicity, politics and Islam in Turkey in the 21st-century.New perspectives on ethnic rela...

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The Legacy of Iraq: From the 2003 War to the 'Islamic State'

Examines the complex and difficult legacies of the Iraq war of 2003 and their critical relevance tod...

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Ideas of Liberty In Early Modern Europe: From Machiavelli to Milton

Europe's long sixteenth century—a period spanning the years roughly from the voyages of Columbus in...

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Evidence for Hope: Making Human Rights Work in the 21st Century

A history of the successes of the human rights movement and a case for why human rights work.Evidenc...

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A New Stoicism, Revised Edition

What would stoic ethics be like today if stoicism had survived as a systematic approach to ethical t...

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Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict between the Habsburgs and Ottomans

In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that se...

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The Ottomans and the Mamluks: Imperial Diplomacy and Warfare in the Islamic World

Beginning on the eve of Oceanic exploration, and the first European forays into the Indian Ocean and...

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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind w...

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A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from History's Most Orthodox Empire

Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-l...

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Russia in Flames: War, Revolution , Civil War 1914-1921

October 1917, heralded as the culmination of the Russian Revolution, remains a defining moment in wo...

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Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World

The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to e...