Empire of Things: How We Became a World of Consumers, from the Fifteenth Century to the Twenty-First 9780241198407, 0062456342, 9780062456342

Empire of Things 9780241198407

The epic history of consumption, and the goods that have transformed our lives over the past 600 years What we consume h

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Insignia of Rank in the Nahua World: From the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 1607322404, 9781607322405

This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use

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Revolutionary Empire: The Rise of the English-Speaking Empires from the Fifteenth Century to the 1780s 0525190805, 9780525190806

A new edition, previously published in 1981 by Cape, this is the story of the early phases of English and British expans

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Jewish Historiography on the Ottoman Empire and Its Jewry from the Late Fifteenth Century to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century 9781617191541, 161719154X

This work is a study of Jewish history writing in the Ottoman Empire through various periods, including the Sabbatian mo

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Jewish Historiography on the Ottoman Empire and its Jewry from the Late Fifteenth Century to the Early Decades of the Twentieth Century 9781463226077

This work is a study of Jewish history writing in the Ottoman Empire through various periods, including the Sabbatian mo

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How We Became Our Data: A Genealogy of the Informational Person 9780226626611

We are now acutely aware, as if all of the sudden, that data matters enormously to how we live. How did information come

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Sculpture: From Antiquity to the Middle Ages : from the Eighth Century BC to the Fifteenth Century 3822870595, 9783822870594

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Jacobean Pilgrims From England to St. James of Compostela: From the Early Twelfth to the Late Fifteenth Century 8445322877

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Things we hide from the light

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The Things We Make: The Unknown History of Invention from Cathedrals to Soda Cans 9781728215761, 1728215765

Discover the secret method used to build the world... For millennia, humans have used one simple method to solve problem

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