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A Temperate Empire: Making Climate Change in Early America by Anya Zilberstein (2016)

The Alchemy of Conquest: Science, Religion, and the Secrets of the New World By Ralph Bauer (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Paris, Capital of Modernity by David Harvey (2006)

Border Land, Border Water: A History of Construction on the U.S.-Mexico Divide by C.J. Alvarez (2019)

Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change, and Economic Development under the Commune by Joshua Eisenman (2018)

The Habsburg Empire: A New History by Pieter Judson (2016)

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

How to Survive a Plague: The Inside Story of How Citizens and Science Tamed AIDS, by David France (2016)

Great Books on Women’s History: United States

This New Ocean: The Story of the First Space Age, by William Burrows (1998)

The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester (2005)

Digital History: A Guide by Daniel J. Cohen and Roy Rosenzweig (2006): New Archive (No. 18)

Visible Empire: Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment, by Daniela Bleichmar (2012)

The Making of Man-Midwifery: Childbirth in England 1660-1770, by Adrian Wilson (1995)

Shores of Knowledge: New World Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination, by Joyce Appleby (2013)

The Ottoman Age of Exploration by Giancarlo Casale (2010)

The Discovery of Jeanne Baret: A Story of Science, the High Seas, and the First Woman to Circumnavigate the Globe, by Glynis Ridley (2010)

Great Books on Science & Technology – Light & Power

People Are Not the Same by Eric Silla (1998)

Great Books on Science Myth-Busters

Manhattan Projects: The Rise and Fall of Urban Renewal in Cold War New York by Samuel Zipp (2010)

AIDS & Accusation: Haiti and the Geography of Blame by Paul Farmer (1992)

The Culture of Time and Space, 1880-1918 by Stephen Kern (2003)

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