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William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among...
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century...
In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...
Histories of neutrality and collaboration in the Second World War tend to focus on Europe. Yet, considering these dynamics in Asia is essential to understand
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The First World War was a war of empires that started in the Balkans and ended in the Middle East. Yet, some historians still see this war as a mostly European
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WW2 Comparative History from BelowWritten by Claire Andrieu Unlike the objects of its title, the subject of this book did not fall from the sky. I did not set
The post When War Knocks on the Door: What Do Civilians Do? first appeared on Fifteen Eighty Four | Cambridge University Press....