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Disasters and History: The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies
The collaborated book by Bas Van Bavel and others, Disasters and History; The Vulnerability and Resilience of Past Societies, offers a distinctive examination of various methodologies and discoveries in historical disaster research. It situates...
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In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia
In the Land of Ninkasi: A History of Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia by Tate Paulette offers a straightforward introduction to its subject matter. It provides a comprehensive insight into the ancient practice of Mesopotamian beer-making. Each...
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Revolutionaries : The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom
Revolutionaries: The Other Story of How India Won Its Freedom is a popular history book about the sacrifice of the Indian people during the Indian Revolution. The author, Sanjeev Sanyal, is currently a member of the Indian Prime Minister...
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Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World
Paper Before Print: The History and Impact of Paper in the Islamic World, penned by the retired art historian Jonathan Max Bloom from Boston College, offers a comprehensive exploration of the prominence of paper in Islamic history and its...
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In Praise of the Ancestors: Names, Identity, and Memory in Africa and the Americas
Susan Elizabeth Ramírez’s In Praise of the Ancestors book underlines the fact that besides collective memories, the modern world’s sense of history is based primarily on written records stored in archives around the world. This book seeks...
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The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe
Each chapter of the book examines key developments in time and space across Medieval Europe, starting and ending in Ravenna, Italy. It covers: the late Western Roman Empire the Byzantine Empire, the Goths, Anglo-Saxon Britain...
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The Politics of Reproduction in Ottoman Society, 1838-1900
Gülhan Balsoy is a professor of history at Istanbul Bilgi University. The book is a revised and rewritten version of Balsoy’s PhD thesis. The book's five chapters respectively focus on the history and transformation of midwifery, abortion...
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In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750-86
In Miserable Slavery: Thomas Thistlewood in Jamaica 1750-86 is a detailed account of the life of Thomas Thistlewood, an Englishman who moved to Jamaica in the mid-18th century and became a plantation overseer and later a small-scale landowner...
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Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years
Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years by Paula Fredriksen conveys precisely written ideas from the result of meticulously analyzing a great deal of historical data. Different branches of Christianity emerged simultaneously...
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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires
The Silk Road may have carried the world’s most luxurious fabrics for trade, but it was paved with horses’ hooves. From the Bronze Age to the 20th century, the empires of China, Persia, India, and Mongolia conquered astride the backs of horses...
