A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy 9780691168883, 0691168881, 9780691180960, 0691180962

Escaping poverty: The origins of modern economic growth [1 ed.] 9783737001687, 9783847101680

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The Origins of Modern Town Planning

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The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction 9781685858186

The first edition of this book, completed in 1970, was hailed as a major contribution to scholarship on the development

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Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece 9781478002048

Eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers a previously unknown history of the influences and creative process

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At the Origins of Modern Atheism 9780300195903

The rise of atheism in the modern world is a religious phenomenon unprecedented in history, both in the number of its ad

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Origins of the Modern Chinese State 9781503619661

What is “Chinese” about China’s modern state? This book proposes that the state we see today has developed over the past

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Ambassadors of Culture: The Transamerican Origins of Latino Writing 9780691221304

This polished literary history argues forcefully that Latinos are not newcomers in the United States by documenting a va

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The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century 9780520948570

Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest

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Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, and the Public Sphere in Early-Modern England 0691006946, 9780691006949

This innovative work of historical sociology locates the origins of modern democratic discourse in the emergent culture

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The social origins of the modern Middle East 9781555875091, 9780931477638

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