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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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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 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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Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
The key purpose of Melissa Reynolds's first book, Reading Practice: The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print, is to explore how readers interacted with texts and manuscripts related to natural knowledge and how the readers...
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Notework: Victorian Literature and Nonlinear Style
Victorian literature often presents the two matching pieces of the same artefact – expressed and implied. Naturally, any work of literature written in this period carries traces of the obscure and intertwined. In Notework, Simon Reader draws...
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Nobody's Boy and His Pals: The Story of Jack Robbins and the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic
Hendrik Hartog's Nobody’s Boy and His Pals is about one of the little-known social reformers of the United States, Jack Robbins. This book provides an engaging account of the Boys’ Brotherhood Republic and its legacy. Boys’ Brotherhood Republic...
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Medieval Song from Aristotle to Opera
Sarah Kay is a prolific writer on medieval European literature and the arts. The concept of song as logos and phone (text plus music) is most apparent in medieval song, where not only the performance of the song but its presentation in the...
