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The decline of the West is something that has long been prophesied. Symptoms of decline are all around us today- slowing growth, crushing debts, ageing ...
The world at the beginning of the 20th century seemed for most of its inhabitants stable and relatively benign. Instead, it proved to be the ...
"The Human Past" has established itself as the most thorough and authoritative introductory survey of human prehistory and the development of civilizations around the globe ...
On 13 September 1759, General James Wolfe, having led the British troops up the St Lawrence to victory in the Battle of Quebec, died on ...
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the ...
Hindsight hurts. The British Parliament passes the Townshend Acts, making the American colonies pay for their own defense - which instead starts a revolution. In 1929 ...
Any explanation of political collapse carries lessons not just for the study of ancient societies, but for the members of all complex societies in both ...
A beautifully presented guide to the plants that have had the greatest impact on human civilisation. Entries range from crops like rice and wheat that ...
This is a gripping biography of six extraordinary women who, in their very different ways, epitomise the decade they came of age - the 1920s. Glamorized ...