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![Information: A Historical Companion](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41quSn3jitL._SL160_.jpg)
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Information: A Historical Companion
The internet only changes how people process information instead of creating the idea of 'information.' As soon as humans developed writing around 3400 BCE, we found many ways to record information from tax records to poetry and from legal...
![The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Tpa025eiL._SL160_.jpg)
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
In the book's Introduction, Edward Watts sets out his premise clearly. Roman politicians grew their power by destabilizing the present conditions of their society. As Watts points out, when trying to restore Rome, politicians often violated...
![Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41PpzAKEgyL._SL160_.jpg)
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Everyday Cosmopolitanisms: Living the Silk Road in Medieval Armenia
When I first saw the title of this book, I was excited to read it. Many studies on the Silk Road focus on its eastern end in China or its southern sections in the Middle East, but few scholars have looked at the relationship between Central...
![Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+maSIEkEL._SL160_.jpg)
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
The story of the Mughal Empire is a fascinating one. It has most of the historical elements that one might expect out of an empire: powerful male rulers, wars of succession, magnificent buildings, conflicts between religious and non-religious...
![Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31J8zHZORcL._SL160_.jpg)
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Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Although it was published in 1995, Richard R. John's Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse remains a must-read in the media history academia. This book practically shaped today's academic research in this genre...
![Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/418uOHJwOLL._SL160_.jpg)
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
There are many books, both scholarly and popular, that discuss one of the most seminal events in English history: the Norman Conquest of 1066. Perspectives of the Anglo-Saxons, the French, the Normans, and the various populations living in...
![Origin Story: A Big History of Everything](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Mf1ly1-oL._SL160_.jpg)
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Origin Story: A Big History of Everything
Every culture, religion, and community has its narrative of how this world originated. This narrative tells the people in that community why our landscapes look the way they are, why we have different seasons, why the sky rains, and, more...
![The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE – 1500 CE](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41D6TucdFML._SL160_.jpg)
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The Cambridge World History: Volume 5, Expanding Webs of Exchange and Conflict, 500 CE – 1500 CE
In 2015, Cambridge University Press published a seven-volume series titled "The Cambridge World History." The series aimed to offer a comprehensive account of a variety of cultures and communities as they are understood today. The range of...
![Insight Guides Silk Road (Travel Guide)](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51wQG6vDbcL._SL160_.jpg)
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Insight Guides Silk Road (Travel Guide)
Over the last 20 years, there has been quite a boom in the publication of books about the Silk Road. The Silk Road would more accurately be referred to as the plural "Silk Roads," since it was a network of roads rather than a single highway...
![Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41tZ9uThutL._SL160_.jpg)
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Articulating Bodies: The Narrative Form of Disability and Illness in Victorian Fiction
Kylee-Anne Hingston, Assistant Professor of English at St. Thomas More College in Saskatoon, Canada, uses a conversational approach and gentle writing to show how literary forms create and determine literary characters' bodily images in her...