Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World 0691203512, 9780691203515

Imperial Wine: How the British Empire Made Wine’s New World 9780520975088

A fascinating deep dive into the colonial roots of the global wine industry. Imperial Wine is a bold, rigorous history o

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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World 9781400884254

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution

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How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence 9781350029453, 9781350029460, 9781350029484, 9781350029446

One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishin

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The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World 9780300198546

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a countr

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Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern 9781684580576, 9781684580569, 1684580579

"This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Ex

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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global 9781400882847

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by

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The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World 0750996668, 9780750996662

A sweeping history of the Roman Empire's influence beyond its borders and through time At its height in the secon

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The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World 9781803991504, 180399150X

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The Hungry Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World 9781448182091, 9781847922700

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The Taste of Empire: How Britain's Quest for Food Shaped the Modern World 9780465056668, 9780465093175, 0465056660

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