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  • Inventing America: A History of the United States

    Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar, Daniel J. Kevles

    Second Edition

    Volume: 1

    Paperback

    For the Second Edition, the authors have expanded and strengthened the innovation theme and pared some supporting detail to create a more concise...

  • The Human Web: A Bird's-Eye View of World History

    J. R. McNeill, William H. McNeill

    Paperback

    Why did the first civilizations emerge when and where they did? How did Islam become a unifying force in the world of its birth? What enabled the West to project its goods and power around the world from the fifteenth century on? Why was agriculture invented seven times and the steam engine just once?

  • Japan: A Modern History

    James L. McClain

    Paperback

    Japan: A Modern History provides a comprehensive narrative that integrates the political, social, cultural, and economic history of modern Japan from the investiture of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 to the present.

  • The Revolutionary Era, 1789-1850

    Charles Breunig, Matthew Levinger

    Third Edition

    Paperback

    The Revolutionary Era, Third Edition, provides a vivid historical account of the forces that shaped early nineteenth-century Europe.

  • France in Modern Times

    Gordon Wright

    Fifth Edition

    Paperback

    This text charts the political history of France from the 18th century to the present, interspersing narrative with chapters on society, the economy, culture and historiography.