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The Hamburger
A History
Large Type / Large Print Edition
America has run on hamburgers for almost a century. This is the story of their sizzle and their symbolism, where they came from and how they conquered the world. What do Americans think of when they think...
The Future of the Internet--And How to Stop It
The Internet is primed for a meltdown—and the most obvious cures are just as bad This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity—and...
The Cherokee Diaspora
An Indigenous History of Migration, Resettlement, and Identity
The Cherokee are one of the largest Native American tribes in the United States, with more than three hundred thousand people across the country claiming tribal membership and nearly one million people internationally...
Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents
Essential documents, accompanied by previously unpublished essays by distinguished historians and political scientists, on the most important military alliance in the world today The most important military...
Christians and Pagans
The Conversion of Britain from Alban to Bede
Christians and Pagans offers a comprehensive and highly readable account of the coming of Christianity to Britain, its coexistence or conflict with paganism, and its impact on the lives of both indigenous islanders and...
In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts
A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical...
Stukeley's 'Stonehenge'
An Unpublished Manuscript 1721-1724
William Stukeley (1667-1765), one of the first to conduct fieldwork at Stonehenge and to recognize its historic importance, meticulously recorded his findings in a manuscript that has remained unpublished for hundreds of...
The Light in Troy
Imitation and Discovery in Renaissance Poetry
“Extraordinarily rich and awesomely learned…. The complexity of its subject matter is here mastered in an exemplary fashion. The study offers detailed, concrete, and perceptive assessments of individual writers...
Sacred Games
A History of Christian Worship
When contemporary Christians worship—be they Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, or Pentecostal—they engage in a variety of ritual acts whose diversity and complexity may at first puzzle the observer. A closer look reveals that...
England's Empty Throne
Usurpation and the Language of Legitimation, 1399-1422
After the dethronement and subsequent murder of Richard II, the usurping Lancastrian dynasty faced an exceptional challenge. Interrupting a long period of Plantagenet rule, Henry IV and Henry V needed not only to establish...