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The Social Life of Books
Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home
2019 || Paperback || Abigail Williams || Yale University Press
The Anti-Enlightenment Tradition
2009 || Hardcover || Zeev Sternhell || Yale University Press
Presents a controversial view of the origins of fascism, locating them in the eighteenth century with the advent of the Anti-Enlightenment, a far earlier date than most historians. This book contends that J G Herder, Edmund Burke, and Joseph de Maistre can be connected to the origins of the Anti-Enlightenment.
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Seapower States
Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict That Made the Modern World
2024 || Paperback || Andrew Lambert || Yale University Press
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Global Crisis
War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century
2024 || Paperback || Geoffrey Parker || Yale University Press
The calamities of the mid-seventeenth century were not only unprecedented, they were agonisingly widespread. The author examines first-hand accounts of men and women throughout the world describing what they saw and suffered during a sequence of political, economic and social crises that stretched from 1618 to the 1680s.
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Dickensland
The Curious History of Dickens's London
2024 || Paperback || Lee Jackson || Yale University Press
The intriguing history of Dickens’s London, showing how tourists have reimagined and reinvented the Dickensian metropolis for more than 150 years
Spice
The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World
2025 || Paperback || Roger Crowley || Yale University Press
Death to Order
A History of Modern Assassination
2025 || Hardcover || Simon Ball || Yale University Press
A Little History of Economics
2025 || Paperback || Niall Kishtainy || Yale University Press
A Little History of Archaeology
2025 || Paperback || Brian Fagan || Yale University Press
A Little History of Science
2025 || Paperback || William Bynum || Yale University Press