Giorgio Riello 
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The Fabric that Made the Modern World

Following a historically chronological approach, and with a clear focus on the marked regional diversity characterising Italy, this volume analyses the impact of social, economic, cultural and politi …

The French-Indian War was fought in the forests, open plains, and forts of the North American frontier. The French army, supported by North American tribes, was initially more successful than the Bri …

Stuart England is an invaluable introduction to the political, religious and social history of seventeenth-century England. It provides a wide-ranging and lively account of core events, drawing on bo …

Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural historians. Farmers made agriculture h …

This book introduces and explores the role of apprehension in reasoning – setting out the problems, determining the vocabulary, fixing the boundaries, and questioning what is often taken for granted. …

First published in 1997. The aim of this study is to re-appraise the evidence for planned communities in ancient Egypt by reviewing published and unpublished data along with my own fieldwork at the s …

This text is an introductory survey of German society focusing on the post-unification situation. It raises questions relating to German identity and adopts an integrated approach, considering societ …

A memoir by former diplomat Ephraim Dowek which provides a comprehensive study of the relations between Egypt and Israel from peace until the present day. This is an informative account of the author …

While a culture may have a dominant way of ‘mapping, ‘ its geography is always plural, and there is always competition among conceptions of space. Beginning with this understanding, this book traces …

This book breaks new ground in the study of cultural unity in the Near East from pre-Roman to early Islamic times (first century BC – eighth century AD). Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek …