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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
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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.,
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  • ...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.
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  • [[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
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  • ...This leads to the question on how did human societies become or evolve to the point where dairy consumption became prevalent? ==Evolution and Agriculture==
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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
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  • [[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>
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  • ====[[Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara]]==== ...le increased dramatically. {{Read more|Inventing the Pinkertons: Interview with Paul O'Hara}}
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  • [[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.
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  • ...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==
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  • ...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.
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  • ...n the history of democracy itself, as well as civil rights and obligations and common law in general. ==The Initial Reasons Behind Magna Carta==
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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.
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  • ...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.
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  • [[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
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  • ...erican history, the book most responsible for shaping his career, and even the most overrated history book ever. It's a biggie. ...y several younger scholars. In many ways books are like music, people like the music of their formative years better than anything that came before it or
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  • ...tates gradually transformed itself from a former colony into a superpower. The impact of this revolution cannot be ignored. ...same story. By changing our perspective on the Revolution they also to see and think about aspects of American history that we never considered. Here's ou
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  • ...0f6b36848b60f7234b3e64170d55 The Fate of the Revolution: Virginians Debate the Constitution]</i>]] ...and it was critical for the state to ratify the Constitution to legitimize the process.
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  • ...treasureposter.jpg|thumbnail|250px|left|Movie poster for ''The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.'']] ...cing capitalism through the use of explicit dialogue, tacit symbolism, and the psychological deterioration of Fred C. Dobbs.
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  • ...ivateering.jpg|thumbnail|left|275px|<i>Privateering: Patriots & Profits in the War of 1812</i>]] ...and investors took advantage of it and funded privateering outfits during the war. Needless to say, privateers were incredibly risky investments.
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  • ...strengthen personal privacy rights? These concerns will only intensify in the years to come. ...to protect liberty, peace and justice, and who want to take the debate to the highest level, will find this book indispensable."
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  • ...n which they spread. For example, Christianity greatly expanded as part of the official religion of Rome.]] ...till, universal philosophies had begun before these religions, and through the vehicle of empires, universal religions spread.
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  • ...ces. Hurst worked hard throughout his career to reform both legal history and education. ...hat any history of American laws would also have to be a social history of the United States.<ref>Ernst, p. 9.</ref>
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  • [[File: LEtterofTushratta.jpg|300px|thumbnail|left|Cuneiform Letter from the Mitanni King Tushrata]]__NOTOC__ ...de ideas and commodities, but entire civilizations are thrust into contact with each other.
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  • [[File:AmINotAMan.jpg|left|thumbnail|250px|Am I Not a Man and a Brother? (1837)]]__NOTOC__ ...uman cost. Therein lies the paradox. How could a system so responsible for the modern world’s economic progress, like enslavement, be ended by those who
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  • ...the document contains a complicated relationship to what some have called the United States’s original sin: slavery. ...would prove essential to understanding the makeup of the Constitution and the interests that were served.
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  • [[File:Deesse au vase (Mari).jpg|thumbnail|left|200px|Figure 1. One of the oldest fountain features to have preserved is from Mari, Syria.]] ...decorative, they have important symbolic values, such as the city of Rome and its Trevi Fountain. Since their inception, fountains have awed us as a way
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  • ...e books explore concepts of citizenship as well as biological reproduction and power. ...&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a818f98524c020e5e923f1b310482750 A Midwive's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812],'' (Vintage Books, 1
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  • ====History of the Early Republic==== {{#dpl:category=History of the Early Republic|ordermethod=firstedit|order=descending|count=40}}
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