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How We Lived Then: A History of Everyday Life During the Second World War

This Civilisation is Finished: Conversations on the end of Empire - and what lies beyond

Contagion: How Commerce Has Spread Disease

The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance

Eating the Enlightenment: Food and the Sciences in Paris, 1670-1760

Colonial Lives of Property: Law, Land, and Racial Regimes of Ownership (Global and Insurgent Legalities)

The Demographic Transition: Stages, Patterns, and Economic Implications

The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History

Humanology: A Scientist’s Guide to our Amazing Existence

White Supremacy: A Comparative Study of American and South African History

Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient World

Wisdom of the Ancients: Life lessons from our distant past

Einstein’s Fridge: The Science of Fire, Ice and the Universe

Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution: 1780–1880: 34 (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

Birth Control and American Modernity: A History of Popular Ideas

The Mystery of the Parsee Lawyer: Arthur Conan Doyle, George Edalji and the Case of the Foreigner in the English Village

The Scholar Denied: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Birth of Modern Sociology

A War for the Soul of America, Second Edition: A History of the Culture Wars

British Population History: From the Black Death to the Present Day (New Studies in Economic and Social History)

Blood Legacy: Reckoning With a Family’s Story of Slavery

Field Work: What Land Does to People & What People Do to Land

Border Wars: The conflicts of tomorrow

The Prospect of Global History

Empires of Food: Feast, Famine and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Consumerism in Twentieth-Century Britain: The Search for a Historical Movement

Poverty Knowledge in South Africa: A Social History of Human Science, 1855–2005

Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe

The Romans: An Introduction (Peoples of the Ancient World)

The Pristine Culture of Capitalism: A Historical Essay on Old Regimes and Modern States (Verso World History Series)
