Brief Histories of Almost Everything
Fifty savvy slices of our global past
Fifty concise, entertaining histories on a broad, eclectic range of ideas (borders, feminism), global issues (migration, world trade), commodities (bananas, jeans), regions (Africa, Ireland) and institutions (corporations, the World Bank).
Lucid and irreverent, Brief Histories of Almost Anything challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each history has been selected from the New Internationalist magazine, a leading authority on alternative history and "Best International Coverage" winner in the Utne Independent Media Awards, USA.
See what the 20th century looks like in fives (5 ridiculous wars, 5 big ideas), take a world tour of megalomania, find out how history has been hijacked, and much more.
Edited by Chris Brazier, New Internationalist co-editor and author of the best-selling "No-Nonsense Guide to World History".
136 x 214 mm, 224 pages, paperback.
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