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Frans-Paul van der Putten
China Resurrected

A history of China's geopolitical evolution from 1840 to the present, tracing its rise from the Opium Wars to an emerging world power.

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Harvey Claflin Mansfield
The Rise and Fall of Rational Control

Harvey C. Mansfield traces the birth of modern political philosophy to Machiavelli's brief on behalf of rational control of human affairs, which became the basis of liberalism. But Rousseau, Kant, Marx, a…

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Rethinking Period Boundaries

Period boundaries provide essential order to the past. This order, however, can be a mixed blessing, opening our eyes to some changes and continuities, whilst inevitably blinding us to others. In this vol…

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Laura King
Living with the Dead

Through an innovative methodology of collaborative critical family history, this book examines the relationship between the living and the dead within family life, charting the way families create afterli…

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Tamara Chaplin
Becoming Lesbian

A landmark analysis of how a marginalized subculture used modern media to transform public attitudes toward sexual desire.In Becoming Lesbian , historian Tamara Chaplin argues that the history of female s…

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Glen van Brummelen
The Doctrine of Triangles

An interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentiethThe Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, s…

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Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
The Mistral

"Every year, most forcefully when winter turns to spring, the chilly mistral wind blows through the Rhãone Valley of southern France over the northwest coast of the Gulf of Lion into the Mediterranea…

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Julia Ioffe
Motherland

Acclaimed journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.In 1990, seven-year-old Julia Ioffe and her family fled the Sovie…

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Brian Groom
Made in Manchester

A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who made itA Financial Times Book of the Year 2024

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Egbert Klautke
Modern Vienna

This book provides a concise history of the capital city of Vienna in modern times. It includes a comprehensive outlook on the development of the city in social, economic and cultural terms.Modern Vienna …

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Andrew Bomback
Long Days, Short Years

How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids.When did "parenting" become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibil…

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Egbert Klautke
Modern Vienna

This book provides a concise history of the capital city of Vienna in modern times. It includes a comprehensive outlook on the development of the city in social, economic and cultural terms.Modern Vienna …

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Julia Ioffe
Russia Girl

Award-winning journalist Julia Ioffe tells the story of modern Russia through the history of its women, from revolution to utopia to autocracy.

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Cody Johnson
Magic Medicine

Magic Medicine is an armchair traveler's guide to all substances psychedelic! Readers will learn about their properties, use, lore, place in history, and their current research and applications as medicin…

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Alberto P. Guimarães
A Longstanding Attraction

This book describes how the phenomenon of magnetic attraction has been a topic of interest for more than a thousand years, and how our modern understanding of magnetism and its connection with electrical …

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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Bernhard Struck, James Koranyi, Jan Koura
Modern Europe

Europe is a small continent, and yet it became the dominant global power from the late 18th century. While the continent appeared to become a global centre, it also experienced various fractures along con…

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Francis Pike
Empires at War

From the author of Hirohito's War comes the second edition of his magisterial modern history of Asia, Empires at War. With 13 new and 2 updated chapters, Francis Pike brings the reader up to 2020, coverin…

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Alternative Representations of the Past

The relationship between the Chinese nation and its recent past has been fraught with contradictions and tensions. In making sense of this complex relationship, this collection explores alternative repres…

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Colin Bryce, Adi Imsirovic
The Rivers of Money

Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flouris…

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