Why Men?
A Human History of Violence and Inequality
ISBN: HB: 9781805260165,
Hurst Publishers,
September 2023
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
440 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm
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Are war and inequality inevitable, because evolution made men competitive and dominant? Think again with this entertaining yet powerful new history of "true" human nature.
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperati...
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25.00 GBP
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In The Shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral
The Churchyard that Shaped London
ISBN: PB: 9780300273380,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 30 black&white illus., 21 colour illus., 3 maps
320 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 30 black&white illus., 21 colour illus., 3 maps
The extraordinary story of St. Paul's Churchyard – the area of London that was a center of social and intellectual life for more than a millennium.
St. Paul's Cathedral stands at the heart of London, an enduring symbol of the city. Less well known i...
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10.99 GBP
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Coming of the Railway
A New Global History, 1750-1850
ISBN: HB: 9780300267891,
Yale University Press,
June 2023
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., 6 maps
416 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 32 colour illus., 30 black&white illus., 6 maps
The first global history of the epic early days of the iron railway.
Railways, in simple wooden or stone form, have existed since prehistory. But from the 1750s onward the introduction of iron rails led to a dramatic technological evolution – one t...
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Art of Walking
A History in 100 Images
ISBN: HB: 9780300266849,
Yale University Press,
May 2023
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 84 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
272 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 84 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
A lively and thought-provoking tour of the intertwined histories of art and walking.
What does a walk look like? In the first book to trace the history of walking images from cave art to contemporary performance, William Chapman Sharpe reveals that...
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Georgians
The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-Century Britain
ISBN: PB: 9780300270563,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
488 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
488 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 32 colour illus., 5 black&white illus.
What did the Georgians think of themselves, and of their exciting, turbulent, and controversial times?
The Georgian era (1714-1830) was a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, the world's first industrial revolution, and de...
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Moving Crops and the Scales of History
ISBN: HB: 9780300257250,
Yale University Press,
March 2023
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
352 pp., 23,4x15,5 cm, 25 black&white illus.
A bold redefinition of historical inquiry based on the "cropscape" – the people, creatures, technologies, ideas, and places that surround a crop.
Human efforts to move crops from one place to another have been a key driving force in history. Crops h...
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35.00 GBP
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On Parchment
Animals, Archives, and the Making of Culture from Herodotus to the Digital Age
ISBN: HB: 9780300260212,
Yale University Press,
February 2023
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 164 colour illus.
448 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 164 colour illus.
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia.
For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of s...
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30.00 GBP
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Islands and Cultures
How Pacific Islands Provide Paths toward Sustainability
ISBN: PB: 9780300253016,
ISBN: HB: 9780300253009,
Yale University Press,
January 2023
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 14 black&white illus.
A uniquely collaborative analysis of human adaptation to the Polynesian islands, told through oral histories, biophysical evidence, and historical records.
Humans began to settle the area we know as Polynesia between approximately 3,000 and 800 year...
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29.00 GBP
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65.00 GBP
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Story of Tutankhamun
An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King
ISBN: HB: 9780300267433,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 40 colour illus.
192 pp., 21,5x13,9 cm, 40 colour illus.
A lively new biography of Tutankhamun – published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb's modern discovery.
The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania g...
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Story of Work
A New History of Humankind
ISBN: PB: 9780300267068,
Yale University Press,
October 2022
544 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 6 maps
544 pp., 19,6x12,7 cm, 18 colour illus., 9 black&white illus., 6 maps
We work because we have to, but also because we like it: from hunting-gathering over 700,000 years ago to the present era of zoom meetings, humans have always worked to make the world around them serve their needs.
Jan Lucassen provides an inclusive...
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