Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World: C. 1200 BCE–1302 CE, From Troy to Courtrai 1473893755, 9781473893757

Famous Battles and How They Shaped the Modern World, 1588–1943: From the Armada to Stalingrad 1526727420, 9781526727428

Why are some battles remembered more than others? Surprisingly, it is not just size that matters, nor the number of dead

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How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism 0691118450, 9780691118451

In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed

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How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism 9780691221519

In this sweeping history, Steven Marks tells the fascinating story of how Russian figures, ideas, and movements changed

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Europa: How Europe Shaped the Modern World 1681778246, 9781681778242

European history is deeply embedded in the global civilization that has emerged in the 21st century. More than two third

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Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World 9789353579456, 9789353579463

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Age Of Pandemics (1817-1920): How they shaped India and the World 9789353579456, 9789353579463

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The Ancient Greeks: Ten Ways They Shaped the Modern World 009958364X, 9780099583646

They gave us democracy, philosophy, poetry, rational science, the joke. They built the Parthenon and the Library of Alex

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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World 9781400884254

This panoramic book tells the story of how revolutionary ideas from the Enlightenment about freedom, equality, evolution

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Central Banks and Gold: How Tokyo, London, and New York Shaped the Modern World 9781501705953

In recent decades, Tokyo, London, and New York have been the sites of credit bubbles of historically unprecedented magni

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Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World 9781742231600

Evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks argues that the origins of these twenty-first century problems can be found where the

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