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  • Sound, Space and Civility in the British World, 1700-1850

    Series series British Literature in Context in the Long Eighteenth Century
    In this collection, the essays examine the critical role that judgments about noise and sound played in framing the meaning of civility in British discourse and literature during the long eighteenth century. The volume restores the sonic dimension to conversations about civil conduct by exploring how censured behaviours and recommended practices resonated beyond the written word. As the ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Piracy in World History

    In a modern global historical context, scholars have often regarded piracy as an essentially European concept which was inappropriately applied by the expanding European powers to the rest of the world, mainly for the purpose of furthering colonial forms of domination in the economic, political, military, legal and cultural spheres. By contrast, this edited volume highlights the relevance of both ... Leer más

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  • Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia

    de David Graeber ...
    The final posthumous work by the coauthor of the major New York Times bestseller The Dawn of Everything.Pirates have long lived in the realm of romance and fantasy, symbolizing risk, lawlessness, and radical visions of freedom. But at the root of this mythology is a rich history of pirate societies—vibrant, imaginative experiments in self-governance and alternative social formations at the edges ... Leer más

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  • The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor

    "Readers cannot but be provoked and stimulated by this splendidly iconoclastic and refreshing book."—Andrew Porter, New York Times Book ReviewThe Wealth and Poverty of Nations is David S. Landes's acclaimed, best-selling exploration of one of the most contentious and hotly debated questions of our time: Why do some nations achieve economic success while others remain mired in poverty? The answer, ... Leer más

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  • Pirates

    A New History, from Vikings to Somali Raiders

    de Peter Lehr ...
    "In his lively, vivid history of pirates, Lehr finds some striking continuities from ancient to modern times." — Foreign AffairsA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearIn the twenty-first century, pirates have regained a central place in Western culture, thanks to an odd combination of a blockbuster film franchise and a dramatic rise in piracy around the Horn of Africa. In this global ... Leer más

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  • The Sea and Civilization

    A Maritime History of the World

    de Lincoln Paine ...
    A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how goods, languages, religions, and entire cultures spread across and along the world’s waterways, bringing together civilizations and defining what makes us most human.Lincoln Paine takes us ... Leer más

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  • The World the Plague Made

    The Black Death and the Rise of Europe

    de James Belich ...
    A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern ageIn 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The ... Leer más

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  • Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

    "A brilliant and readable book…a rich study of humankind's restless spirit." —Candice Millard, New York Times Book ReviewGreeted with coast-to-coast acclaim on publication, Fernández-Armesto's ambitious history of world exploration sets a new standard. Presenting the subject for the first time on a truly global scale, Fernández-Armesto tracks the pathfinders who, over the past five millennia, lay ... Leer más

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  • Viking Age Iceland

    de Jesse Byock ...
    Medieval Iceland was unique amongst Western Europe, with no foreign policy, no defence forces, no king, no lords, no peasants and few battles. It should have been a utopia yet its literature is dominated by brutality and killing. The reasons for this, argues Jesse Byock, lie in the underlying structures and cultural codes of the islands' social order. 'Viking Age Iceland' is an engaging, multi ... Leer más

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  • Escape from Rome

    The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity

    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this groundbreaking book, Walter Scheidel argues that Rome's dramatic collapse was actually the best thing that ever happened, clearing the path for Europe's economic rise and the creation of the modern age ... Leer más

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  • Civilizations

    Culture, Ambition, and the Transformation of Nature

    In Civilizations, Felipe Fernández-Armesto once again proves himself a brilliantly original historian, capable of large-minded and comprehensive works; here he redefines the subject that has fascinated historians from Thucydides to Gibbon to Spengler to Fernand Braudel: the nature of civilization.To Fernández-Armesto, a civilization is "civilized in direct proportion to its distance, its ... Leer más

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  • The Story of Work

    A New History of Humankind

    de Jan Lucassen ...
    The first truly global history of work, an upbeat assessment from the age of the hunter-gatherer to the present dayWe work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs.Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive history of humanity’s busy labor ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD