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  • [[File:Democratic_sound_1.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|<i>The Democratic Sound</i> by Fred Turner]] ...historians, with their concern for contingency, complexity, and agency in the past.
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  • ...way as we do. As with any of our booklists, we have included some caveats and explanations for our selections. ...s on this list are hers. If you are reading any of the books on this list and say to yourself "WOW!!" please thank Camille because she probably picked i
    6 KB (1,006 words) - 01:13, 8 May 2018
  • ...afe picks, you leave off some of the good stuff. Trust us, we will get to the good stuff. ...ions? Yes, there are ridiculously important books that have been left off the list, but you have to start somewhere.
    4 KB (654 words) - 06:07, 8 June 2019
  • ...tively were family-run business, and forms of investment banking appear in the ancient Near East. ...Assyrians see: Larsen, Mogens Trolle. 1976. ''The Old Assyrian City-State and Its Colonies''. Mesopotamia, v. 4. Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag : [eksp.,
    16 KB (2,512 words) - 01:20, 16 September 2021
  • ...urat at Babylon (Etemenanki), which likely becomes the "Tower of Babel" in the Bible, was also enclosed within a sacred wall that had a likely garden insi ...he roots of this concept are more complex and developed from earthly ideas and religious structures.
    11 KB (1,719 words) - 01:33, 3 October 2021
  • [[File:Uluburun3.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Blue glass bar of the Uluburun Shipwreck]] ...ty of Chicago Press.</ref> Perhaps the earliest glass anywhere comes from the ancient Near East or Egypt, by roughly 3500 BC, when temperatures in kilns
    9 KB (1,397 words) - 19:54, 15 September 2021
  • ...This leads to the question on how did human societies become or evolve to the point where dairy consumption became prevalent? ==Evolution and Agriculture==
    10 KB (1,505 words) - 01:07, 4 October 2021
  • ...ce see: Millar, Fergus. 2002. ''The Roman Republic in Political Thought.'' The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures. Hanover: University Press of New England. ...Asian and European governments particularly in the centuries that followed the fall of Rome.
    8 KB (1,219 words) - 05:35, 5 October 2021
  • ...2010. ''What Makes Civilization?: The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West''. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.</ref> ...ee: Zeder, Melinda A., ed. 2006. ''Documenting Domestication: New Genetic and Archaeological Paradigms''. Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press
    10 KB (1,478 words) - 07:00, 12 January 2019
  • [[File:640px-Alcan_construction.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|Widening a road of the Alaska Highway in 1942]] __NOTOC__ ...ers Who Built the Alaska Highway: A History of Four U.S. Army Regiments in the North, 1942-1943'', McFarland & Company, Inc., 2008, page 111</ref>
    9 KB (1,500 words) - 01:38, 5 October 2021
  • ====[[Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]==== ...le increased dramatically. {{Read more|Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}
    10 KB (1,545 words) - 21:05, 20 February 2021
  • [[File:Anonymous_-_Prise_de_la_Bastille.jpg|thumbnail|left|400px|Storming the Bastille]] ...ot all) have argued that the French Revolution can be seen as the start of the modern world.
    10 KB (1,608 words) - 21:17, 22 November 2018
  • ...ure - that its core principles are codified into a system which servers as the primary source of law. ==Importance of the Roman Law: from ancient times to modern law systems==
    12 KB (2,085 words) - 16:45, 30 September 2021
  • ...www.trans-lex.org/104970/_/malynes-gerard-consuetudo-vel-lex-mercatoria-or-the-ancient-law-merchant-/ |Lex Mercatoria printed in London 1622]] ...oted its advantages and key role and importance in many fundamental points and areas.
    14 KB (2,102 words) - 18:46, 13 September 2021
  • ...n the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law in general. ==The Initial Reasons Behind Magna Carta==
    11 KB (1,816 words) - 14:45, 2 October 2021
  • ...Is social inequality is a natural consequence of agricultural development and urbanization or perhaps is it a result of other factors? ...Ubaid itself did not show evidence of inequality until the later parts of the period.
    12 KB (1,765 words) - 06:03, 1 October 2021
  • ...gneyroaring.jpg|thumbnail|left|250px|James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart in ''The Roaring Twenties'', 1939]] ...Warner Brothers Studios, actors such as James Cagney, Edward G. Robinson, and newcomer Humphrey Bogart became movie stars.
    14 KB (2,175 words) - 14:45, 22 September 2021
  • ...le: The_Alien_and_Sedition_Acts_of_1789.jpg|thumbnail|275px|left|The Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798]] ...y, these laws were incredibly controversial and strongly opposed by Thomas Jefferson's opposition Democratic-Republican party.
    11 KB (1,774 words) - 23:53, 17 April 2019
  • [[File:OriginsAmericanReligiousNationalism.png|thumbnail|250px|left|''The Origins of American Religious Nationalism'']] .../michaelhattem/jefferson-christianity-and-twitter Jefferson, Christianity, and Twitter].
    17 KB (2,741 words) - 21:12, 22 November 2018
  • ...nctioned as one of the first places for dedicated research into scientific and philosophical questions, at least in Europe, took place by gathered scholar ...olars to develop a new understanding of our universe. This makes it one of the first known institutions that dedicated itself to fundamental discovery abo
    10 KB (1,616 words) - 19:29, 20 September 2021

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