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Tangible Things
Making History through Objects
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
In a world obsessed with the virtual, tangible things are once again making history. Tangible Things invites readers to look closely at the things around them, ordinary things like the food on their plate and extraordinary things like the transit of planets across the sky. It argues that almost any...
On Foot
A History of Walking
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
"I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understand the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks, who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
" Everything is within walking distance if you have the time."
-Stephen...
Summary of SPQR
by Mary Beard | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Summary of SPQR by Mary Beard | Includes Analysis Preview: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard is a single-volume history of Ancient Rome. The book covers Roman history from its semi-mythical origins in roughly 753 BC, to the decision by the Emperor Caracalla in 212...
Currents in Transatlantic History
Encounters, Commodities, Identities
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2017
Transatlantic historians are dedicated to analyzing the dynamic process of encounter, interchange, and creolization that was initiated when peoples on different sides of the Atlantic Basin first made contact and continues until the twenty-first century.
The forty-ninth annual Walter Prescott...
The Third Horseman
Climate Change and the Great Famine of the 14th Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure
In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that...
Animal Oppression and Human Violence
Domesecration, Capitalism, and Global Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies over time, David A. Nibert reaches...
The Golden Bough Vol I
A Study of Magic and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. It was first published in 1890. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as...
The Golden Bough Vol II
A Study of Magic and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2013
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer. It was first published in 1890. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as...
by Arthur R. Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
Among my first passions was that for exploration. The Unknown—that region of mysteries lying upon the outskirts of commonplace environment—drew me with a mighty attraction. My earliest recollections are of wanderings into the domains of the neighbors, and of excursions—not infrequently in direct...
Lawyers and Savages
Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Legal primitivism was a complex phenomenon that combined the study of early European legal traditions with studies of the legal customs of indigenous peoples. Lawyers and Savages: Ancient History and Legal Realism in the Making of Legal Anthropology explores the rise and fall of legal primitivism,...
by Geoffrey Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
The general history of ancient Greece and Rome is traced separately and then their contribution to the West is looked at under the headings Gods, Rulers, Thinkers, Writers, Artists and Historians. This is the first in a five volume History of the West that is published at the same time. One theme...
by Molly Caldwell Crosby
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2007
In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the killer virus.
Over the course of history, yellow fever has paralyzed governments, halted commerce,...
The Dancing Lares and the Serpent in the Garden
Religion at the Roman Street Corner
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
The most pervasive gods in ancient Rome had no traditional mythology attached to them, nor was their worship organized by elites. Throughout the Roman world, neighborhood street corners, farm boundaries, and household hearths featured small shrines to the beloved lares, a pair of cheerful little dancing...
The Science of Investigation
Working with Equations -- Book 2, The Human Equation Toolkit
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2012
The second of five books in the groundbreaking new series The Human Equation Toolkit.
In Book 1 of The Human Equation Toolkit series, mime Wayne Constantineau and scholar Eric McLuhan explore the four positions of humans -- standing, lying down, sitting, and kneeling -- as the basis of all...