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Kate Welham

    The Roots of Western Finance
    A Man of Contradictions
    The Imperial Archive
    Pepys and his Contemporaries
    Stonehenge
    Drinking with Chickens
    • 2020

      Drinking with Chickens

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading
      4.6(67)Add rating

      What's new in cocktails? Finally, we can say gorgeous chickens photo-bombing every shot. Think of this as goat yoga but instead of yoga, cocktails and in place of goats, chickens.

      Drinking with Chickens
    • 2017

      The Roots of Western Finance

      • 283 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      In The Roots of Western Finance, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to origins of western finance and credit in ancient societies, covering a period of five thousand years from ancient Mesopotamia to the Islamic world in the eleventh century. Park and Greenberg reveal that credit is not simply an economic transaction; it is a social relationship and a technology of power.

      The Roots of Western Finance
    • 2015

      A striking and original interpretation of the awesome Stone Age site from one of the world's foremost archaeologists on death and burial

      Stonehenge
    • 2015

      Pepys and his Contemporaries

      • 120 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      The National Portrait Gallery's series of compact, fully illustrated, historical guides to literary and artistic personalities and themes. Written by well known contemporary authors, they examine the lives, thoughts and relationships within each selected group through works from the Gallery's Collection.

      Pepys and his Contemporaries
    • 2013

      He proclaimed himself a genius and raged against the slightest criticism from fellow scholars; he was a Marxist who despised the 'Idiot People'; he could be generous yet hurled insults at his friends; he inveighed against Puritanism but was himself in many ways a Puritan: A L Rowse was a man of many contradictions. This book tells his story.

      A Man of Contradictions
    • 1993

      Argues that by meeting the vast administrative challenge of the British Empire - thorough maps and surveys, censuses and statistics - Victorian administrators developed a new symbiosis of knowledge and power. The book draws on works by Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells and Bram Stoker.

      The Imperial Archive