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Until There Is Justice: The Life of Anna Arnold Hedgeman
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
A demanding feminist, devout Christian, and savvy grassroots civil rights organizer, Anna Arnold Hedgeman played a key role in over half a century of social justice initiatives. Like many of her colleagues, including A. ...
A Brief History of Mathematical Thought
(Oxford University Press, 2017)
In A Brief History of Mathematical Thought, Luke Heaton provides a compulsively readable history that situates mathematics within the human experience and, in the process, makes it more accessible. Mastering math begins ...
Making 20th Century Science: How Theories Became Knowledge
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
Historically, the scientific method has been said to require proposing a theory, making a prediction of something not already known, testing the prediction, and giving up the theory (or substantially changing it) if it ...
The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The Iliad: A New Translation by Peter Green
(University of California Press, 2015)
One of the oldest extant works of Western literature, the Iliad is a timeless epic poem of great warriors trapped between their own heroic pride and the arbitrary, often vicious decisions of fate and the gods. Renowned ...
The Modern World-System II: Mercantilism and the Consolidation of the European World-Economy, 1600-1750
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The Modern World-System III: The Second Era of Great Expansion of the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730s-1840s
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein’s highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century’s greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...
The pilgrim art: cultures of porcelain in world history
(University of California Press, 2010)
Illuminating one thousand years of history, The Pilgrim Art explores the remarkable cultural influence of Chinese porcelain around the globe. Cobalt ore was shipped from Persia to China in the fourteenth century, where it ...
The modern Middle East: a political history since the First World War
(University of California Press, 2011)
Since it was first published in 2006, this concise overview of the making of the contemporary Middle East has become essential reading for students and general readers who want to gain a better understanding of this diverse ...
The Modern World-System IV: Centrist Liberalism Triumphant, 1789-1914
(University of California Press, 2011)
Immanuel Wallerstein's highly influential, multi-volume opus, The Modern World-System, is one of this century's greatest works of social science. An innovative, panoramic reinterpretation of global history, it traces the ...