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Reinventing Knowledge

From Alexandria to the Internet

2009 || Paperback || Ian F. McNeely || WW Norton & Co

Here is an intellectual extravaganza, a dazzling history of the key institutions that have shaped and channeled knowledge in the West from the classical period to the present. Fashioned with elegance and wit, this exhilarating survey carries us through the pivotal points of institutional change and cultural transformation. It is full of memorable characters, from the flamboyant founder of the great library at Alexandria and the arrogant medieval logician Peter Abelard to the dashing global ad...

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The Invention of Prehistory

Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins

2025 || Paperback || Stefanos (New York University) Geroulanos || WW Norton & Co

Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and speculate about what those findings tell us about our earliest ancestors. We are obsessed with prehistory-and, in this respect, our current era is no different from any other in the last three hundred years. In this coruscating work, acclaimed historian Stefanos Geroulanos demonstrates how claims about the earliest humans not only shaped Weste...

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Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

The Horse and the Rise of Empires

2025 || Paperback || David Chaffetz || WW Norton & Co

A captivating history of civilization that reveals the central role of the horse in culture, commerce, and conquest.

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Germany in the World

A Global History, 1500-2000

2024 || Paperback || David Blackbourn || WW Norton & Co

Brilliantly conceived and majestically written, this monumental work of European history recasts the five-hundred-year history of Germany

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Nature's Metropolis

Chicago and the Great West

1992 || Paperback || William Cronon || WW Norton & Co

In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America's most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto our national past.

This is the story of city and country becoming ever more tightly bound in a system so powerful that it reshaped the American landscape and transformed American culture. The world that e...