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  • Anne De Courcy The best books on the social history of the inter-war years Book cover of Nancy Cunard Book cover of A Narrow Street Book cover of Vile Bodies Book cover of The Great Gatsby Book cover of Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38
  • David Garrioch The best books on the social history of eighteenth-century Paris Book cover of The People of Paris: An Essay in Popular Culture in the 18th Century Book cover of The Smile Revolution: In Eighteenth Century Paris Book cover of Journal of My Life Book cover of Fabricating Women: The Seamstresses of Old Regime France, 1675-1791 Book cover of Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris
  • Tim Harcourt The best books from around the world on economic and social history Book cover of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Book cover of Why Australia Prospered: The Shifting Sources of Economic Growth Book cover of The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World Book cover of How Football Began: A Global History of How the World's Football Codes Were Born Book cover of The Ball is Round: A Global History of Soccer
  • Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues Vieira The best books for understanding the transformation of capitalism and globalisation Book cover of The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order: America and the World in the Free Market Era Book cover of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths Book cover of Easternization: Asia's Rise and America's Decline From Obama to Trump and Beyond Book cover of Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism Book cover of The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
  • William Caferro The best books on economic history and testing assumptions Book cover of The Black Swan Book cover of The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time Book cover of Tristram Shandy Book cover of The Passions and the Interests: Political Arguments for Capitalism Before Its Triumph Book cover of The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor
  • Fabian Scheidler The best books on capitalism and the crisis of life on earth Book cover of Technics and Human Development: The Myth of the Machine, Vol. I Book cover of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism Book cover of Debt: The First 5,000 Years Book cover of The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time Book cover of Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation
  • Cian T. McMahon The best books on maritime social history Book cover of Two Years Before The Mast Book cover of The Slave Ship: A Human History Book cover of Harlots, Hussies, & Poor Unfortunate Women: Crime, Transportation & the Servitude of Female Convicts, 1718-1783 Book cover of A Path in the Mighty Waters: Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World Book cover of Star of the Sea
  • MK Raghavendra The most incisive writing - political, critical, and interdisciplinary Book cover of World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction Book cover of Illuminations Book cover of Labyrinths Book cover of Plausible Prejudices: Essays on American Writing Book cover of Theatre of War
  • Tom Wheeler The best books on today’s roadmap to tomorrow Book cover of Future Shock Book cover of Tools and Weapons: The Promise and the Peril of the Digital Age Book cover of The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology is Transforming Business, Politics and Society Book cover of The Master Switch: the Rise and Fall of Information Empires Book cover of The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth
  • George C. Rable The best books on the American Civil War that creatively and provocatively go beyond the usual battles and leaders Book cover of Seasons of War: The Ordeal of a Southern Community, 1861-1865 Book cover of Armies of Deliverance: A New History of the Civil War Book cover of A Government of Our Own: The Making of the Confederacy Book cover of The Calculus of Violence: How Americans Fought the Civil War Book cover of The Howling Storm: Weather, Climate, and the American Civil War
  • Brian McAllister Linn The best books on the peacetime US Army Book cover of America's Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force Book cover of Preparing for War: The Emergence of the Modern U.S. Army, 1815-1917 Book cover of The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 Book cover of From Here to Eternity Book cover of Jackson's Sword: The Army Officer Corps on the American Frontier, 1810-1821
  • Julian Goodare The best books on the history of European witchcraft and witch-hunting Book cover of Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe Book cover of Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany Book cover of Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft Book cover of The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Book cover of The Realities of Witchcraft and Popular Magic in Early Modern Europe: Culture, Cognition and Everyday Life
  • Sophie Brickman The best parenting books you actually want to read, whether or not you’re a parent Book cover of The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us about the Relationship Between Parents and Children Book cover of Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting (Now with Bébé Day by Day: 100 Keys to French Parenting) Book cover of Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age Book cover of Mother Nature: Maternal Instincts and How They Shape the Human Species Book cover of The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child
  • Mitchell Thomashow The best books for deep environmental learning Book cover of Fathoms: The World in the Whale Book cover of The Sound of the Sea: Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans Book cover of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Book cover of Islands of Abandonment: Nature Rebounding in the Post-Human Landscape Book cover of Atlas of the Invisible: Maps and Graphics That Will Change How You See the World
  • Eric Pawson The best books about new futures for food, landscapes and planetary health Book cover of The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals Book cover of Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet Book cover of Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm Book cover of Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet Book cover of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
  • Susan M. Sterett The best books on the breadth of governing disasters in a changing climate Book cover of The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis Book cover of The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History Book cover of Summertime: Reflections on a Vanishing Future Book cover of Salvage the Bones Book cover of Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
  • Jason Wilson and Richard M. Reid The best books taking seriously the impact of sport on social history Book cover of The Creator's Game: Lacrosse, Identity, and Indigenous Nationhood Book cover of Becoming Native in a Foreign Land: Sport, Visual Culture, and Identity in Montreal, 1840-85 Book cover of The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics Book cover of George Dixon: The Short Life of Boxing's First Black World Champion, 1870-1908 Book cover of The Game
  • Sergei Guriev The best books on why countries succeed and why they fail Book cover of Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Book cover of How the World Became Rich: The Historical Origins of Economic Growth Book cover of Upheaval Book cover of Alexander Hamilton Book cover of A Gentleman in Moscow
  • Thomas Lockley The best books to get aboard the rollercoaster world of Japan’s global history Book cover of The Making of Modern Japan Book cover of The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives Book cover of Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World Book cover of The Samurai: A Military History Book cover of Madame Sadayakko: The Geisha Who Bewitched the West
  • Graham St John The best books on psychedelics and culture Book cover of Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond Book cover of The Yage Letters Redux Book cover of True Hallucinations: Being an Account of the Author's Extraordinary Adventures in the Devil's Paradise Book cover of High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies Book cover of PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story
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