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In Search of the Immortals
Mummies, Death and the Afterlife
Howard Reid
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Everyone knows that the ancient Egyptians were great mummifiers, and their sarcophagi and bandage-wrapped corpses are familiar images to us all. Yet across...
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Forbidden Knowledge
From Prometheus To Pornography
Roger Shattuck
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A Disease Apart
Leprosy in the Modern World
Tony Gould
St. Martin's Press
This fascinating cultural and medical history of leprosy enriches our understanding of a still-feared biblical disease. It is a condition shrouded for...
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Contesting Empires
Opposition, Promotion, and Slavery
Jonathan Hart
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Based on extensive archival research, Contesting Empires looks at the earlier contest of empires in the New World, especially among Spain, France, and England...
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The Chemical Muse
Drug Use and the Roots of Western Civilization
D.C.A. Hillman, Ph.D.
Thomas Dunne Books
“The last wild frontier of classical studies.” ---The Times (UK) The Chemical Muse uncovers decades of misdirection and obfuscation to reveal the history of...
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Beneath the Mask of Holiness
Thomas Merton and the Forbidden Love Affair that Set Him Free
Mark Shaw
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Thomas Merton is the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century, called the “most important spiritual writer of the twentieth century.”...
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A Short History of Western Political Thought
W.M. Spellman
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This brief narrative survey of political thought over the past two millennia explores key ideas that have shaped Western political traditions. Beginning with...
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Savage Anxieties
The Invention of Western Civilization
Robert A. Williams, Jr.
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From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the...
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Village England
A Social History of the Countryside
Trevor Wild
I.B. Tauris
The romantic imagery of "village England" and the prominence that this commands in English cultural identity is well known. Yet just how accurate is this...
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Competing Visions of World Order
Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s
Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History
Edited by Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier
Palgrave Macmillan
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question of how we can...
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Charity and Poverty in England, c.1680-1820
Wild and Visionary Schemes
Sarah Lloyd
Manchester University Press
This book explores responses to poverty in eighteenth-century England, with an eye to some of the odder manifestations of charity and poor relief. Whether...
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Cheated not Poisoned?
Food Regulation in the United Kingdom, 1875-1938
Michael French and Jim Phillips
Manchester University Press
Newly available in paperback, this book provides the first comprehensive evaluation of Britain’s food laws from the 1860s to the 1930s and the first analysis...
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The Poor in England 1700-1850
An Economy of Makeshifts
Edited by Alannah Tomkins and Steven King
Manchester University Press
This fascinating study investigates the experience of English poverty between 1700 and 1900 and the ways in which the poor made ends meet. The phrase "economy...
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A History of the Arabian Peninsula
Edited by Fahd al-Semmari
I.B. Tauris
The importance of this collection lies in its origins: for the first time, leading Saudi Arabian historians have created a history of the Arabian Peninsula...
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Bonds of Blood
Gender, Lifecycle, and Sacrifice in Aztec Culture
Early Modern History: Society and Culture
Caroline Dodds Pennock
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The history of the Aztecs has been haunted by the spectre of human sacrifice. As bloody priests and brutal warriors, the Aztecs have peopled the pages of...
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Engaging Otherness
Encounters: An International Journal for the Study of Culture and Society
Edited by Rafael Reyes-Ruiz
Zayed University Press
Across history some of the most creative and fruitful, as well as the most violent, encounters have occurred when civilizations and cultures first have contact...
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Tributary Empires in Global History
Edited by Peter Fibiger Bang and C. A. Bayly
Palgrave Macmillan
Tributary Empires in Global History is one of a very select few to pioneer comparisons between the great historical empires of agrarian societies, such as the...
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Competing Visions of World Order
Global Moments and Movements, 1880s-1930s
The Palgrave Macmillan Transnational History Series
Edited By Sebastian Conrad and Dominic Sachsenmaier
Palgrave Macmillan
Bringing together scholars from around the world, this first book in the Palgrave Macmillan Series in Transnational History raises the question of how we can...
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Tudor Queenship
The Reigns of Mary and Elizabeth
Queenship and Power
Edited by Anna Whitelock and Alice Hunt
Palgrave Macmillan
The essays in this volume contribute to a new understanding of the second half of the sixteenth century when England experienced the unprecedented rule of two...
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Agents of Atrocity
Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil War
Neil J. Mitchell
Palgrave Macmillan
The book provides a general explanation of why the relationship between a government and its citizens deteriorates into violence by examining, in both...
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Political Organization in Nigeria since the Late Stone Age
A History of the Igbo People
John N. Oriji
Palgrave Macmillan
This groundbreaking study provides broad insights into the changes Igbo history and political systems have undergone since the Late Stone Age. It discusses...
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A History of Korea
Palgrave Essential Histories Series
Kyung Moon Hwang
Palgrave Macmillan
A concise, lively history of Korea, which explores the richness of Korean civilization from the ancient era through to the jarring transformation that resulted...
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Savage Anxieties
The Invention of Western Civilization
Robert A. Williams
Palgrave Macmillan
From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the...
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The Dialogue of Civilizations in the Birth of Modern Science
Arun Bala
Palgrave Macmillan
Arun Bala challenges Eurocentric conceptions of history by showing how Chinese, Indian, Arabic, and ancient Egyptian ideas in philosophy, mathematics,...
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