The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World 0871403161, 9780871403162

1368: China and the Making of the Modern World 9781503631519

A new picture of China's rise since the Age of Exploration and its historical impact on the modern world. The est

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The first American Constitutions: Republican ideology and the making of the State constitutions in the Revolutionary era 0807813885

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Age of Coexistence: The Ecumenical Frame and the Making of the Modern Arab World 9780520971745

"Flawless . . . [Makdisi] reminds us of the critical declarations of secularism which existed in the history of the

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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy 9781400823499

The Great Divergence brings new insight to one of the classic questions of history: Why did sustained industrial growth

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The great divergence: China, Europe, and the making of the modern world economy 9781400813025, 9780691090108, 9780691005430

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The Middle East and the Making of the Modern World 9780674981096

How do historians make sense of the spatial layeredness of the past? Cyrus Schayegh argues that the modern world’s ultim

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The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World 9781474215725, 9781845202484, 9781845202491

We constantly hear about ‘the consumer’. The ‘consumer’ has become a ubiquitous person in public discourse and academic

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A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World 2021943630, 030024732X, 9780300247329

An award-winning historian’s revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated pol

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The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy 9780691217192, 9780691217185, 069121719X

A landmark comparative history of Europe and China that examines why the Industrial Revolution emerged in the West Th

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Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World 9780801463235

Generously illustrated with both color and black-and-white images, Empire of Dogs shows that human-canine relations ofte

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