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The Continuities of German History


  • Helmut Walser Smith
  • This book addresses the long term of German history, tracing ideas and politics across what have become sharp chronological breaks. Smith argues that current historiography has become ever more focused on the twentieth century, and on twentieth-century explanations for the German catastrophe.  
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A Movable Feast Ten Millennia of Food Globalization

  • Kenneth F. Kiple
  • This groundbreaking new work, from the editor of the highly regarded Cambridge World History of Food, examines the exploding global palate.
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Europe and the Making of    England, 1660–1760 Add to basket

Europe and the Making of England, 1660–1760


  • Tony Claydon
  • This book is a wide-ranging and original re-interpretation of English history and national identity during the vital century (1660–1760) in which the country emerged as the leading world power and developed its peculiarly free political culture.
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Inventing the Indigenous Local Knowledge and Natural History in Early Modern Europe

  • Alix Cooper
  • Drawing on cultural, social and environmental history, as well as the histories of science and medicine, this book argues that learned physicians began to urge their readers to discover their own "indigenous" natural worlds.
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A History of Natural Philosophy From the Ancient World to the Nineteenth Century

  • Edward Grant
  • The book describes how, in the seventeenth century, natural philosophy and the exact mathematical sciences were joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
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What was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe

  • Anthony Grafton
  • Elegant and accessible, this book is a deliberate evocation of E. H. Carr’s celebrated Trevelyan Lectures on What Is History?.
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The Reconstruction of the Church of Ireland


  • John McCafferty
  • This study examines how John Bramhall, William Laud, and Thomas Wentworth embarked on a policy for the established church which represented not only a break with a century of reforming tradition but which also sought to make the tiny Irish church a model for the other Stuart kingdoms.
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The Early Modern Ottomans Add to basket

The Early Modern Ottomans


  • Edited by Virginia H. Aksan and Daniel Goffman 
  • This book is a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the middle years of the Ottoman Empire, from the conquest of Byzantium in 1453 to the establishment of the Tanzimat in 1839.
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