World History - Page 54

Haunted by Chaos: China’s Grand Strategy from Mao Zedong to Xi Jinping

“Readers will not find a shrewder analysis as to why the Chinese act as they do.”—Robert D. Kaplan...

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The Riddle of the Rosetta: How an English Polymath and a French Polyglot Discovered the Meaning of Egypt

In 1799, a French Army officer was rebuilding the defenses of a fort on the banks of the Nile when h...

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Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe

'Magisterial ... Immensely readable' Douglas Alexander, Financial Times'Insightful, productively pro...

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American Republics: A Continental History of the United States, 1783-1850

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian, the powerful story of a precarious United States as it expa...

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A Natural History of Beer

A celebration of beer—its science, its history, and its impact on human culture “Curatorial eminence...

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Beer: A Global Journey Through the Past and Present

A fascinating exploration of beer, ancient and contemporary, and its role in shaping human societyBe...

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Slave Empire: How Slavery Built Modern Britain

The idea that the British empire was built on freedom is a myth. Britain rose to global power in the...

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Unfinished Empire:The Global Expansion of Britain

A both controversial and comprehensive historical analysis of how the British Empire worked, from Wo...

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China Unbound: A New World Disorder

From Hong Kong to Russia to Australia, an award-winning foreign correspondent chronicles the human c...

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Benjamin Franklin (Critical Lives)

All Franklin biographers face a major challenge: they must compete with their subject. In one of the...

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How Nations Remember: A Narrative Approach

How Nations Remember draws on multiple disciplines in the humanities and social sciences to examine...

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The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales

‘His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in...

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Duel Without End: Mankind’s Battle with Microbes

In this panoramic and up-to-date account, we learn how the Black Death, smallpox, the Spanish flu an...

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Toxic: A History of Nerve Agents, From Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia

A dark and chilling story of the invention, proliferation and use of nerve agents. Nerve agents...

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Sunnis and Shi‘a: A Political History

When Muhammad died in 632 without a male heir, Sunnis contended that the choice of a successor shoul...

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