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Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind: (Patterns of Life)
2019 || Paperback || Yuval Noah Harari || Vintage Publishing
Yuval Noah Harari's bestselling phenomenon now in a beautifully packaged new special edition. Planet Earth is 4.5 billion years old.
Writing History! / 1st edition
a companion for Historians
2018 || Paperback || Jeannette Kamp e.a. || Amsterdam University Press
Historians not only have knowledge of history, but by writing about it and engaging with other historians from the past and present, they make history themselves. This companion offers young historians clear guidelines for the different phases of historical research; how do you get a good historical question? How do you engage with the literature? How do you work with sources from the past, from archives to imagery and objects, art, or landscapes? What is the influence of digitalisation of th...
American Nations
A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
2023 || Paperback || Colin Woodard || Penguin
• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction •
Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who in this presidential election year, this is an endlessly fascinating look at American regionalism and the eleven "nations" that continue to shape North America
According to award-winning journalist and historian Colin Woodard, North America is made up of eleven distinct nations, ea...
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017
2021 || Paperback || Rashid Khalidi || Henry Holt and Co.
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US historian of the Middle East, told through pivotal events and family history.
In 1899, Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, mayor of Jerusalem, alarmed by the Zionist call to create a Jewish national home in Palestine, wrote a letter aimed at Theodore Herzl: the country had an indigenous people who would not easily accept their own displacement. He warned of the perils ahead, ending his note, "in the...
The Spitfire Pocket Manual
1939-1945
2017 || Hardcover || UK) Martin (University of Exeter Robson || Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Developed in 1938 from a Schneider trophy-winning design by the aeronautical engineer and designer R.J Mitchell, the Supermarine Spitfire went on to become the definitive Allied fighter of the Second World War, and ranks amongst the most famous aircraft of all time. This pocket manual presents an accessible collection of fascinating historical documents to help readers explore the technical and tactical developments relating to the design and use of this famous aircraft. Sources include the A...
History: A Very Short Introduction
A Very Short Introduction
2000 || Paperback || John H. Arnold || Oxford University Press
There are many stories we can tell about the past, and we are not, perhaps, as free as we might imagine in our choice of which stories to tell, or where those stories end. John Arnold's Very Short Introduction is a stimulating essay about how we study and understand history. The book begins by inviting us to think about various questions provoked by our investigation of history, and explores the ways these questions have been answered in the past.
Concepts such as causation, interpretation, a...
A History of Western Society Volume 1
From Antiquity to the Enlightenment
2016 || Paperback || John P. McKay e.a. || Macmillan
Captures students’ interest in the everyday life of the past
Praised by instructors and students alike for its readability and attention to everyday life, the twelfth edition of A History of Western Society includes many tools to engage today's students and save instructors time. This edition features a comprehensive primary source program, five chapters devoted to the lives of ordinary people that make the past real and relevant, and the best and latest scholarship throughout.
The Great Leveler
Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century
2018 || Paperback || Walter Scheidel || Princeton University Press
Are mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To judge by thousands of years of history, the answer is yes. Tracing the global history of inequality from the Stone Age to today, Walter Scheidel shows that it never dies peacefully. The Great Leveler is the first book to chart the crucial role of violent shocks in reducing inequality over the full sweep of human history around the world.
The "Four Horsemen" of leveling-mass-mobilization warf...
The End of the Megamachine
A Brief History of a Failing Civilization
2020 || Paperback || Fabian Scheidler || John Hunt Publishing
The End of the Megamachine provides a uniquely comprehensive picture of the roots of the destructive forces that are threatening the future of humankind today. Spanning 5000 years of history, the book shows how the three tyrannies of militarized states, capital accumulation and ideological power have been steering both ecosystems and societies to the brink of collapse. With the growing instability of the Megamachine in the 21st century, new dangers open up as well as new possibilities for sys...
The Battle for Syria / 2nd edition
International Rivalry in the New Middle East
2020 || Paperback || Christopher Phillips || Yale University Press
An unprecedented analysis of the crucial but underexplored roles the United States and other nations have played in shaping Syria's ongoing civil war"One of the best informed and non-partisan accounts of the Syrian tragedy yet published."-Patrick Cockburn, Independent Syria's brutal, long-lasting civil war is widely viewed as a domestic contest that began in 2011 and only later drew foreign nations into the fray. But in this book Christopher Phillips shows the crucial roles that were played b...