A Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Winner of the Bancroft Prize.

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A fascinating study of the important role of biology in European expansion, from 900 to 1900.

Drawing on her own experience living with and interviewing indigenous people in the region, Bathsheba Demuth presents a profound tale of the dynamic changes and unforeseen consequences that human ambition has brought (and will continue to ...

• A New Republic Best Book of the Year • The Globalist Top Books of the Year • Winner of the Maine Literary Award for Non-fiction Particularly relevant in understanding who voted for who during presidential elections, this is an ...

This 1862 volume from the Hakluyt Society contains a sixteenth-century Portuguese history of exploration from 'the Flood' to 1555.

This book challenges media-celebrated evolutionary studies linking Indo-European languages to Neolithic Anatolia, instead defending traditional practices in historical linguistics.

What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book.

Historical Atlas of Hasidism demonstrates how geography has influenced not only the social organization of Hasidism but also its spiritual life, types of religious leadership, and cultural articulation.

This book traces the connections among regions brought about by the movement of people, diseases, crops, technology and ideas.