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This book brings readers into the history of navigation. They will learn about the different eras of ships, from the early navigators to the era of sail and steam to contemporary navigation.

Details armies throughout history, from Roman legionnaires and Mongol riders to Japanese samurai and Navy SEALs.

"Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked for high wages at specialized occupations. Middle-class spending drove sustained economic growth. Classical wealth produced a stunning cultural efflorescence...

Claire Priest is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Twitter @priest_claire How American colonists laid the foundations of American capitalism with an economy built on credit Even before the United States became a country, laws prioritizing access to credit set colonial America apart from the rest of the world. Credit Nation examines how the drive to expand credit shaped property laws and legal institutions in the colonial...

Presents the major events of a period characterized by fear of another world war, unprecedented high standards of living, and great scientific advances.

Surveys the political, economic, social, and cultural events and trends of the decade of the 1930's.