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Brief history of almost everything

Here are 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, โ€Brief Histories of Almost Anythingโ€ challenges common perceptions associated with the subjects by going behind the facts. Each history has been selected from the โ€New Internationalistโ€ magazine, a leading authority on alternative history and โ€Best International Coverageโ€ winner in the โ€Utne Readerโ€ Independent Press Awards.Edited by Chris Brazier, author of the best-selling โ€No-Nonsense Guide to World History.โ€