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  • A Little History of Music

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300257748

    A lively, engaging guide to music around the world, from prehistory to the present   Human beings have always made music. Music can move us and tell stories of faith, struggle, or

  • Vienna

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300266535

    How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century?   Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From

  • Ignorance

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300265958

    A rich, wide-ranging history of ignorance in all its forms, from antiquity to the present day  A Seminary Coop Notable Book of 2023   “Ignorance: A Global History explores the

  • USA: The Ruthless Empire

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9781510776784

    Empires rise and fall; they do not last. In the eyes of many, the US exerts the strongest destabilizing influence on world events, and thus presents the greatest threat to world

  • A Cultural History of the Medieval Sword

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9781837650361

    The sword is an important and multi-faceted symbol of military power, royal and communal authority, religion and mysticism. This study takes the sword beyond its functional role as

  • The World Bank

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780745348285

    In 1944, the Bretton Woods Conference ushered in a new international economic order. The World Bank emerged as one of the most powerful financial institutions in the world, and a

  • The Rediscovery of America

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300244052

    National Bestseller   Winner of the 2023 National Book Award in Nonfiction • Finalist for the 2023 Los Angeles Times Book Award in History • Winner of 2024 Anisfield-Wolf Book

  • Out of the Melting Pot, into the Fire

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9781641773195

    The melting pot has been the prevailing ideal for integrating new citizens through most of America’s history, yet contemporary elites often reject it as antiquated and racist.

  • How Finland Survived Stalin

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300273618

    A dramatic and timely account of Stalin’s failed invasion of Finland in 1939, and the decade of wars and fraught relations that followed   In November 1939, Stalin directed his

  • Women in Intelligence

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    klotband, 2023, Engelska, ISBN 9780300260779

    A groundbreaking history of women in British intelligence, revealing their pivotal role across the first half of the twentieth century   From the twentieth century onward, women