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A Business of State - Commerce, Politics, and the Birth of the East India Company by Rupali Mishra
Category: History | Series: Harvard Historical Studies
At the height of its power around 1800, the English East India Company controlled half of the world's trade and deployed a vast network of political influencers at home and abroad. Yet the story of the Company's beginnings in the early seventeenth century has remained largely untold. Rupali Mishra's acc ...Show more
Dairy Queens: The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine De' Medici to Marie-Antoinette by Meredith S. Martin
Category: History | Series: Harvard Historical Studies
In a lively narrative that spans more than two centuries, Meredith Martin tells the story of a royal and aristocratic building type that has been largely forgotten today: the pleasure dairy of early modern France. These garden structures - most famously the faux-rustic, white marble dairy built for Mari ...Show more
INVENTION OF THE RESTAURANT by SPANG REBECCA L
Category: Cook Books | Series: Harvard Historical Studies
Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize Winner of the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize "Witty and full of fascinating details." --Los Angeles Times Why are there restaurants? Why would anybody consider eating alongside perfect strangers in a loud and crowded room to be an enjoyable pastime? To find the an ...Show more
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