Overview :Focusing on three seminal cases of military defeat--the South after the Civil War, France in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War, and German... Read More
Overview :Wolfgang Schivelbusch tells the story of the development of artificial light in the nineteenth century. Not simply a history of a technology... Read More
Overview :From the extravagant use of pepper in the Middle Ages to the Protestant bourgeoisie's love of coffee to the reason why fashionable Europeans... Read More
Overview :The impact of constant technological change upon our perception of the world is so pervasive as to have become a commonplace of modern socie... Read More
Overview :Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal is regarded today as the democratic ideal, a triumphant American response to a crisis that forced Germa... Read More