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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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The Great Transformation

By Karl Polanyi ,

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The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
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The Nutmeg's Curse

By Amitav Ghosh ,

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Future Shock
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Future Shock

By Alvin Toffler ,

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Medieval Women
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Medieval Women

By Eileen Power ,

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
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Acid Dreams

By Bruce Shlain , Martin A. Lee ,

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Progress: Ten Reasons to Look Forward to the Future
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Progress

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Liquid Modernity
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Liquid Modernity

By Zygmunt Bauman ,

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Adventures of a Bystander
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Adventures of a Bystander

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Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy
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Possessing Nature

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The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century
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The People of Paris

By Daniel Roche ,

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Journal of My Life
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Journal of My Life

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The Samurai: A Military History
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The Samurai

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Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300
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Kingdoms and Communities in Western Europe 900-1300

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The World of Odysseus
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The World of Odysseus

By M.I. Finley ,

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Energy and Equity
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Energy and Equity

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The Third Wave: The Classic Study of Tomorrow
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The Third Wave

By Alvin Toffler ,

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Invincible Microbe: Tuberculosis and the Never-Ending Search for a Cure
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Invincible Microbe

By Jim Murphy , Alison Blank ,

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Inventing the American Astronaut
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Inventing the American Astronaut

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Geography of Home: Writings on Where We Live
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Geography of Home

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Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer
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Daniel Boone

By John Mack Faragher ,

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Stomping the Blues
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Stomping the Blues

By Albert Murray ,

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Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation & the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783
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Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women

By Edith M. Ziegler ,

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The Transnational World of the Cominternians
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The Transnational World of the Cominternians

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The Making of Europe: Conquest, Colonization, and Cultural Change, 950-1350
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The Making of Europe

By Robert Bartlett ,

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The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898
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The Old Army

By Edward M. Coffman ,

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The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
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The End of American Childhood

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Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages
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Furta Sacra

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Miss Mapp
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Miss Mapp

By E.F. Benson ,

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The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England
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The Economy of Obligation

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Pre-Industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-Modern World
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Pre-Industrial Societies

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Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth
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Why Australia Prospered

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The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World
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The New Silk Roads

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Upheaval
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Upheaval

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The Sources of Social Power: Volume 1, A History of Power from the Beginning to AD 1760
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The Sources of Social Power

By Michael Mann ,

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A Narrow Street
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A Narrow Street

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Vile Bodies
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Vile Bodies

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The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life
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The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe

By E. Bever ,

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Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Southern Community, 1861-1865
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Seasons of War

By Daniel E. Sutherland ,

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The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood
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The Creator's Game

By Allan Downey ,

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Old Times: A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century, Collected and Illustrated from the Satirical and Other Sketches of the Day
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Old Times

By John Ashton ,

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Rehearsals for Living
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Rehearsals for Living

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Other Middle Ages: Witnesses at the Margins of Medieval Society
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Other Middle Ages

By Michael Goodich (editor) ,

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General History of the Caribbean: Autochthonous Societies
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General History of the Caribbean

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A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpower
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A History of Japan

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World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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World-Systems Analysis

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The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare
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The Eastern Front, 1941-45, German Troops and the Barbarisation of Warfare

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A Global History of Indigenous Peoples: Struggle and Survival
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A Global History of Indigenous Peoples

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Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe
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Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Europe

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