The story of human civilization can be read most deeply in the materials we have found or created, used or abused. They
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Work defines who we are. It determines our status, and dictates how, where, and with whom we spend most of our time. It
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In most developed countries there is a palpable sense of confusion about the contemporary state of the world. Much that
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"No one has done so much as Mr. Eliade to inform literature students in the West about 'primitive' and Or
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In the tradition of his own bestselling masterpieces -- The Story of Civilization. Durant completed twenty-one of a prop
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How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world history Are mass violence and
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Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousand
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of
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Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming co
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Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS builds from Marc Epprecht’s p
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