Books Describing Historical Paths

• 1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed

  Eric H. Cline

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• 1808: The Flight of the Emperor: How a Weak Prince, a Mad Queen, and the British Navy Tricked Napoleon and Changed the New World

  Laurentino Gomes

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• 6,000 Years of Housing

  Norbert Schoenauer

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• A Concise History of Serbia

  Dejan Djokic

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• A History of the Byzantine State and Society

  Warren Treadgold

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• A History of the English People

  Paul Johnson

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• A History of Venice

  John Julius Norwich

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• A Short History of Drunkenness: How, Why, Where, and When Humankind Has Gotten Merry from the Stone Age to the Present

  Mark Forsyth

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• About The Size Of It: The Common Sense Approach To Measuring Things

  Warwick Cairns

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• After 1177 B.C.: The Survival of Civilizations

  Eric H. Cline

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• Aleppo: The Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City

  Philip Mansel

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• Ancient Glass: An Interdisciplinary Exploration

  Julian Henderson

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• Annals of Imperial Rome

  Tacitus

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• Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm since Hippocrates

  David Wootton

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• Beatrice's Last Smile: A New History of the Middle Ages

  Mark Gregory Pegg

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• Berlin

  David Clay Large

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• Butter: A Rich History

  Elaine Khosrova

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• City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas

  Roger Crowley

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• Clocks and Culture: 1300-1700

  Carlo M. Cipolla

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• Cluny: In Search of God's Lost Empire

  Edwin Mullins

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• Coal: A Human History

  Barbara Freese

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• Color: A Natural History of the Palette

  Victoria Finlay

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• Critical Path

  R. Buckminster Fuller

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• Crossings: How Road Ecology Is Shaping the Future of Our Planet

  Ben Goldfarb

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• Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the world

  Tom Holland

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• Drink: A Cultural History of Alcohol

  Iain Gately

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• Empire of Silver: A New Monetary History of China

  Jin Xu

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• Exercised: Why Something We Never Evolved to Do Is Healthy and Rewarding

  Daniel Lieberman

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• Fez: City of Islam

  Titus Burckhardt

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• Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs

  Camilla Townsend

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• France: An Adventure History

  Graham Robb

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• God's Philosophers: How the Medieval World Laid the Foundations of Modern Science

  James Hannam

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• Going Back to Constantinople, Istanbul: A City of Absences

  Alexandros Massavetas

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• Greek: A History of the Language and its Speakers

  Geoffrey Horrocks

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• Greeks, Romans, Germans: How the Nazis Usurped Europe's Classical Past

  Johann Chapoutot

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• Guilt and Sin in Traditional China

  Wolfram Eberhard

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• Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play-Element in Culture

  Johan Huizinga

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• How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

  Stewart Brand

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• How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World & Everything in It

  Arthur Herman

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• Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism

  Benedict Anderson

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• In Defense of Civilization: How Our Past Can Renew Our Present

  Michael R. J. Bonner

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• In the Shadow of the Sword: The Birth of Islam and the Rise of the Global Arab Empire

  Tom Holland

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• India: A History

  John Keay

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• India: A Portrait

  Patrick French

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• Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

  Steven Strogatz

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• Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

  James Gleick

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• Iran

  Ali M. Ansari

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• Jerusalem: The Biography

  Simon Sebag Montefiore

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• Just Price in the Markets: A History

  Charles R. Geisst

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• Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions

  Don Bates

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• Lament from Epirus: An Odyssey into Europe's Oldest Surviving Folk Music

  Christopher C. King

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• Livy: The Early History of Rome

  Titus Livy

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• Marriage and Love in England: 1300-1840

  Alan MacFarlane

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• Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization

  Ed Conway

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• Mending Bodies, Saving Souls: A History of Hospitals

  Guenter B. Risse

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• Modern Times, Modern Places

  Peter Conrad

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• Out of Our Minds

  Felipe Fernández-Armesto

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• Pagans and Christians: In the Mediterranean World from the Second Century AD to the Conversion of Constantine

  Robin Lane Fox

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• Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure

  Paul Veyne

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• Paper: Paging Through History

  Mark Kurlansky

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• Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours

  Noga Arikha

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• Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age

  Tom Holland

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• Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914

  Eugen Weber

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• Polis: A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

  John Ma

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• Porcelain: A History from the Heart of Europe

  Suzanne L. Marchand

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• Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750

  Jonathan I. Israel

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• Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory

  Bruno Latour

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• Salt: A World History

  Mark Kurlansky

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• Scholars of Byzantium

  Nigel Guy Wilson

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• Siena, City of the Virgin

  Titus Burckhardt

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• Smoke and Ashes: Opium's Hidden Histories

  Amitav Ghosh

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• Stones of Venice

  John Ruskin

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• Storm's Edge: A New History of Life, Death and Magic in the Islands of Orkney

  Peter Marshall

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• Tea: The Drink that Changed the World

  Laura C. Martin

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• Technics and Civilization

  Lewis Mumford

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• The "Higher Law" Background of American Constitutional Law

  Edward S. Corwin

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• The Alexiad

  Anna Komnene

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• The Alhambra

  Robert Irwin

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• The Ancient City

  Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

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• The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

  James C. Scott

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• The Cadastral Map in the Service of the State: A History of Property Mapping

  Roger J. P. Kain & Elizabeth Baigent

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• The Caesars

  Suetonius

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• The Cat in Ancient Egypt

  Jaromir Malek

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• The Coming of the Third Reich

  Richard J. Evans

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• The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications

  Paul Starr

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• The Crisis of the European Mind: 1680-1715

  Paul Hazard

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• The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas

  Isaiah Berlin

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• The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800

  David A. Bell

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• The Damascus Events: The 1860 Massacre and the Making of the Modern Middle East

  Eugene Rogan

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• The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity

  David Graeber & David Wengrow

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• The Discovery of France

  Graham Robb

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• The Earth Transformed: An Untold History

  Peter Frankopan

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• The Economic Decline of Empires

  Carlo M. Cipolla

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• The Economic Laws of Scientific Research

  Terence Kealey

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• The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

  Mikhail Zygar

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• The Ethnic Ancestry of the Orthodox Christians of Syria and Palestine

  Pavlos Karolidis

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• The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine

  Ilan Pappe

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• The Evolution of Civilizations: An Introduction to Historical Analysis

  Carroll Quigley

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• The Evolution of Technology

  George Basalla

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• The First Crusade: The Call from the East

  Peter Frankopan

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• The First Universities: Studium Generale and the Origins of University Education in Europe

  Olaf Pedersen

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• The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination

  Alain Corbin

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• The Fountains of Rome

  H. V. Morton

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• The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape

  James Howard Kunstler

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• The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World

  William Dalrymple

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• The Histories

  Herodotus

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• The Jews in Sicily

  Shlomo Simonsohn

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• The Land Where Lemons Grow: The Story of Italy and Its Citrus Fruit

  Helena Attlee

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• The Last Empire of Iran

  Michael R. J. Bonner

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• The Last Great War of Antiquity

  James Howard-Johnston

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• The Last Kings of Shanghai: The Rival Jewish Dynasties That Helped Create Modern China

  Joseph Kaufman

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• The Lever of Riches: Technological Creativity and Economic Progress

  Joel Mokyr

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• The Lion in the Living Room: How House Cats Tamed Us and Took Over the World

  Abigail Tucker

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• The Making of Medieval Rome: A New Profile of the City, 400 – 1420

  Hendrik Dey

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• The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335)

  Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog

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• The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History

  Ibn Khaldûn

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• The Myth of the Holy Cow

  D.N. Jha

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• The Myths of Innovation

  Scott Berkun

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• The Ottoman City between East and West: Aleppo, Izmir, and Istanbul

  Edhem Eldem, Daniel Goffman & Bruce Masters

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• The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea

  Peter Kemp

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• The Paris Law Courts: Sketches of Men and Manners

  Gerald P. Moriarty

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• The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance

  Henry Petroski

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• The Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies and Trade

  Maria Eugenia Aubet

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• The Popes and Science The History of the Papal Relations to Science During the Middle Ages and Down to Our Own Time

  James Joseph Walsh

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• The Problem of China

  Bertrand Russell

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• The Red Fort of Shahjahanabad

  Anisha Shekhar Mukherji

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• The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

  Josiah Ober

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• The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760

  Richard M. Eaton

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• The Rise of the Western World: A New Economic History

  Douglass North

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• The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles

  Michael Wood

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• The Russian Revolution

  Richard Pipes

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• The Silk Roads: A New History of the World

  Peter Frankopan

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• The Soul of Battle: From Ancient Times to the Present Day, How Three Great Liberators Vanquished Tyranny

  Victor David Hanson

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• The Tribe of Tiger: Cats and Their Culture

  Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

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• The Way of Zen

  Alan Watts

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• The West: A New History in Fourteen Lives

  Naoíse Mac Sweeney

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• The Western Medical Tradition: 1800-2000

  W. F. Bynum

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• The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to AD 1800

  Lawrence I. Conrad

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• The World of Late Antiquity

  Peter Brown

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• The World of the Phoenicians

  Sabatino Moscati

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• This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

  Ramachandra Guha

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• Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew

  Avi Shlaim

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• Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World

  Mark Pendergrast

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• When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne

  Hans-Lukas Kieser

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• White-Collar Crime in Modern England: Financial Fraud and Business Morality, 1845-1929

  George Robb

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