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How did the United States become the twentieth century»s dominant economy? What is special about America and the American way of capitalism, that favoured such a rapid climb to wealth and power? And …

Ethnographic writing has become all but ubiquitous in recent years. Although now considered a thoroughly modern and increasingly indispensable field of study, Ethnography»s roots go all the way back …

Gold. For centuries people have been entranced by the riches it promises; thousands have gone wild in their search for it and surely there will be many more. After the Financial Crisis, the price of …

The advance of women through the political system has been one of the most significant developments of the second half of the twentieth century. For the first time we have seen women Prime Ministers …

This book reconsiders the power of the idea of the future. Bringing together perspectives from cultural history, environmental history, political history and the history of science, it investigates h …

Drawing on case studies and presenting archaeological evidence throughout, Alan Greaves presents a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos. Focusing on the archaic era and exploring …

The Bretton Woods system ensured a quarter of a century of relative stability on the world»s financial markets. The quarter of a century which has followed has brought financial chaos and excessive …

This is an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Fifty Years» war and the relationship that dominated world politics in the second half of the twentieth century. For fifty years relations b …

Research in collective memory is a relatively new area capturing the interest of scholars in social psychology, memory, sociology, and anthropology. The core idea is that collective attitudes and beh …

This anniversary study presents a readable, informative account of the development and current structure of Berlin. …