The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World 9780241391501

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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The Power of Knowledge: How Information and Technology Made the Modern World 9780300198546

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a countr

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How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence 9781350029453, 9781350029460, 9781350029484, 9781350029446

One thousand years ago, a traveler to Baghdad or the Chinese capital Kaifeng would have discovered a vast and flourishin

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Outsourcing Empire: How Company-States Made the Modern World 9780691203515, 9780691206196, 9780691206202

From Spanish conquistadors to British colonialists, the prevailing story of European empire-building has focused on the

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The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World [Course Book ed.] 9781400865703

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

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Belonging and Betrayal: How Jews Made the Art World Modern 9781684580576, 9781684580569, 1684580579

"This book aims to restore and recreate the life, work, and milieu of certain Jews who became arbiters of taste. Ex

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American Jesuits and the World: How an Embattled Religious Order Made Modern Catholicism Global 9781400882847

At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by

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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World 1541617606, 9781541617605

The story of humanity is the story of textiles-as old as civilization itself. Textiles created empires and powered inven

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Aspects of Aristocracy: Grandeur and Decline in Modern Britain 9780300236156

In this stylish and provocative book, the eminent historian David Cannadine brings his characteristic wit and acumen to

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The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World 9781803991504, 180399150X

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