The world of sugar

how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health, and environment over 2,000 years

The definitive 2,500-year history of sugar and its human costs, from its little-known origins as a luxury good in Asia to worldwide environmental devastation and the obesity pandemic. For most of history, humans did without refined sugar. After all, it serves no necessary purpose ...

Ucrania y la Guerra Civil rusa

(Revista Desperta Ferro. Contemporánea, Nº 59, año 2023)

La intelectualidad ucraniana llevaba pensando en el renacimiento de un Estado propio desde mediados del siglo XIX. Representación parlamentaria, florecimiento cultural, publicación de periódicos y obras literarias en ucraniano habían sido hitos tan importantes como la creación de un sistema educativo en su propio idioma ...

Los herederos

un retrato íntimo de Sudáfrica en tres vidas

Tres vidas que explican el presente de Sudáfrica al tiempo que da voz a los herederos de su dolorosa y conflictiva historia En 1994, el último régimen segregacionista racial del mundo cayó para dar paso a un nuevo sistema que carecía de precedentes y que ...

Victorious in defeat

the life and times of Chiang Kai-shek, China, 1887-1975

An extensively researched, comprehensive biography of Chinese Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-shek, one of the twentieth century's most powerful and controversial figures Chiang Kai-shek (1887-1975) led the Republic of China for almost fifty years, starting in 1926. He was the architect of a new, republican ...

Korea

a new history of South and North

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day Korea has a long, riveting history-it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned ...

The tropical turn

agricultural innovation in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean

This book chronicles the earliest histories of familiar tropical Asian crops in the ancient Middle East and the Mediterranean, from rice and cotton to citruses and cucumbers. Drawing on archaeological materials and textual sources in over seven ancient languages, The Tropical Turn unravels the breathtaking ...

Ramesses the Great

Egypt's king of kings

Ramesses II ruled the Nile Valley and the wider Egyptian empire from 1279 to 1213 B.C., one of the longest reigns in pharaonic history. He was a cultural innovator, a relentless self-promoter, and an astute diplomat-the peace treaty signed after the Battle of Kadesh ...

Ancient Greek housing

The temples and theatres of the ancient Greek world are widely known, but there is less familiarity with the houses in which people lived. In this book, Lisa Nevett provides an accessible introduction to the varied forms of housing found across the Greek world between ...

A Jew in the Roman bathhouse

cultural interaction in the ancient Mediterranean

A provocative account of Jewish encounters with the public baths of ancient Rome Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterranean world, the baths drew people of all backgrounds ...

Divine institutions

religions and community in the Middle Roman Republic

How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman Republic Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. Divine Institutions places religion at the heart ...

Asclepius

Medicina y religión

A lo largo de la Antigüedad, los pacientes buscaban alivio y curación de sus aflicciones en los santuarios de Asclepio, el dios de la curación. El culto de curación en sus templos incluía sacrificios, abluciones e incubación. En sus sueños, los pacientes recibieron instrucciones terapéuticas ...

First kings of Europe

Exhibition Catalog

This catalogue accompanies an international exhibition, "First Kings of Europe," and another volume also published by the Cotsen Institute, First Kings of Europe: From Farmers to Rulers in Prehistoric Southeastern Europe, that examine the artifacts and cultures of this area from the Neolithic to the ...

Henry III

reform, rebellion, civil war, settlement, 1259-1272

The second volume in the definitive history of Henry III's rule, covering the revolutionary events between 1258 and the king's death in 1272 After coming to the throne aged just nine, Henry III spent much of his reign peaceably. Conciliatory and deeply religious ...

Early Medieval Militarisation

The societies of ancient Europe underwent a continual process of militarisation, and this would come to be a defining characteristic of the early Middle Ages. The process was neither linear nor mono-causal, but it affected society as a whole, encompassing features like the lack of ...

The art of anatomy in medieval Europe

A new history of the medieval illustrations that birthed modern anatomy. This book is the first history of medieval European anatomical images. Richly illustrated, The Art of Anatomy in Medieval Europe explores the many ways in which medieval surgeons, doctors, monks, and artists understood and ...

Tempest

the Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions

A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican France. Britain relied on the Royal Navy to protect its shores and empire, but as radical ideas ...

Navigations

the Portuguese discoveries and the Renaissance

A critical reassessment of world-shaping Portuguese voyages of discovery that places these quests in historical context. The lasting impact of historic Portuguese voyages of discovery is unquestionable. The slave trade, the diaspora of the Sephardic Jews, and the intercontinental spread of plants and animals all ...

Barnave

the revolutionary who lost his head for Marie-Antoinette

A major new biography of Antoine Barnave-the politician and writer who advocated for a constitutional monarchy in revolutionary France Antoine Barnave was one of the most influential statesmen in the early French Revolution. He was a didactic man of austere morals and vaulting ambition who ...

Debates on the German Revolution of 1918-19

In November 1918 a revolution overthrew the old imperial system in Germany and inaugurated a republic. The revolution was formally completed in August 1919 when the social democrat Friedrich Ebert was sworn in as president. By this time, however, many of the revolution's original ...

Red closet

the hidden history of gay oppression in the USSR

In 1934, Joseph Stalin enacted sodomy laws, unleashing a wave of brutal detentions of homosexual men in large Soviet cities. Rustam Alexander recounts the compelling stories of people whose lives were directly affected by those laws, including a native Scottish journalist based in Moscow who ...