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The Jewish Century
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The Jewish Century

By Yuri Slezkine ,

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Overcome by Modernity: History, Culture, and Community in Interwar Japan
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Overcome by Modernity

By Harry D. Harootunian ,

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Liquid Modernity
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Liquid Modernity

By Zygmunt Bauman ,

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How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism
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How Russia Shaped the Modern World

By Steven G. Marks ,

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Vermeer's Hat: The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World
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Vermeer's Hat

By Timothy Brook ,

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On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World
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On the Move

By Timothy Cresswell ,

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The Scottish World: A Journey Into the Scottish Diaspora
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The Scottish World

By Billy Kay ,

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The Scottish Enlightenment: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
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The Scottish Enlightenment

By Arthur Herman ,

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The Future of Nostalgia
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The Future of Nostalgia

By Svetlana Boym ,

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A Brief History of the Human Race
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A Brief History of the Human Race

By Michael Cook ,

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Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
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Periodization and Sovereignty

By Kathleen Davis ,

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Himalaya
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Himalaya

By Eric Valli , Anne de Sales ,

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A Secular Age
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A Secular Age

By Charles Taylor ,

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How the Scots Invented the Modern World
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How the Scots Invented the Modern World

By Arthur Herman ,

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The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
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The Empathic Civilization

By Jeremy Rifkin ,

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Europeana: A Brief History of the Twentieth Century
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Europeana

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Towards the Light: The Story of the Struggles for Liberty and Rights that Made the Modern West
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Towards the Light

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