Global History


The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Empire of Cotton: A Global History
What Is Global History?
After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire Since 1405
The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy
Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
The Age of Empire, 1875–1914
The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (America in the World)
The Age of Capital, 1848–1875
The Age of Extremes, 1914-1991
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
The Civil Law Tradition by John Henry MerrymanNegotiate Like a CEO by Jotham S. SteinCriminal Justice Through the Looking Glass by Daniel  TeitelbaumThe Color of Law by Richard RothsteinSisters in Law by Linda R. Hirshman
Law and Legal History
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Wheat is the only grain with a significant amount of gluten, so we have our first clue to the origins of pastry. Superb pastry could only have developed where wheat was grown: rye, barley and oats do not make good pastry, nor do rice or maize or potato starch.
Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History

The pie-cook and the pie-consumer are both lucky if the smell of the pie 'sells' not only its desirability as biological fuel but also remembrance of pies past. ...more
Janet Clarkson, Pie: A Global History

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