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A History Of The World In Six Glasses
by Tom Standage

And a Bottle of Rum: A History of the New World in Ten Cocktails
by Wayne Curtis
Spice: The History of a Temptation
by Jack Turner

Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky

History of the Breast
by Marilyn Yalom

The Immortal Game: A History of Chess
by David Shenk


The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic--and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
by Steven Johnson

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, the Epidemic that Shaped Our History
by Molly Caldwell Crosby

The Great Arab Conquests: How the Spread of Islam Changed the World We Live In
by Hugh Kennedy

The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present
by Peter Lewis Allen

Birth of the Chess Queen : A History
by Marilyn Yalom

The History of Human Marriage
by Edward Alexander Westermarck

A History of the Wife
by Marilyn Yalom

The True History of Chocolate,
by Sophie D. Coe, Michael D. Coe

The Potato: How the Humble Spud Rescued the Western World
by Larry Zuckerman

Bananas: An American History
by Virginia Scott Jenkins

Vanilla : The Cultural History of the World's Favorite Flavor and Fragrance
by Patricia Rain

The Story of Corn
by Betty Fussell

Corn and Capitalism: How a Botanical Bastard Grew to Global Dominance
by Arturo Warman

Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
by Iain Gately

Seeds of Wealth: Five Plants That Made Men Rich
by Henry Hobhouse

Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World
by Mark Kurlansky

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell
by Mark Kurlansky

The Most Important Fish in the Sea: Menhaden and America
by H. Bruce Franklin

Citrus: A History
by Pierre Laszlo

Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
by Dan Koeppel

Beans: A History
by Ken Albala

Medieval Cuisine of the Islamic World: A Concise History with 174 Recipes
by Lilia Zaouali (Author), Charles Perry (Foreword), M. B. DeBevoise (Translator)

Food: The History of Taste
by Paul Freedman

Taste: The Story of Britain Through Its Cooking
by Kate Colquhoun

Cavalier: A Tale of Chivalry, Passion, and Great Houses
by Lucy Worsley

Moveable Feasts: From Ancient Rome to the 21st Century, the Incredible Journeys of the Food We Eat
by Sarah Murray

Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food
by John Dickie

The United States of Arugula: The Sun Dried, Cold Pressed, Dark Roasted, Extra Virgin Story of the American Food Revolution
by David Kamp

Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver
by Arthur Allen

Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire
by Philippa Levine

Impotence: A Cultural History
by Angus McLaren

Putting Science in Its Place: Geographies of Scientific Knowledge
by David N. Livingstone

Placing the Enlightenment: Thinking Geographically about the Age of Reason
by Charles W. J. Withers

Sex, Botany and Empire
by Patricia Fara

Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies
by Tom Griffiths (Editor), Libby Robin (Editor)

The First Modern Economy: Success, Failure, and Perseverance of the Dutch Economy, 1500-1815
by Jan de Vries (Author), Ad van der Woude

Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World
by Londa Schiebinger

Death in the Pot: The Impact of Food Poisoning on History
by Morton Satin

Matters of Exchange: Commerce, Medicine, and Science in the Dutch Golden Age
by Harold J. Cook

The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution
by Deborah E. Harkness

Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity
by Virginia Smith

A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis
by David M. Friedman

Plague Ports: The Global Urban Impact of Bubonic Plague, 1894-1901
by Myron Echenberg

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera
by Sandra Hempel

Champagne: How the World's Most Glamorous Wine Triumphed Over War and Hard Times
by Don Kladstrup , Petie Kladstrup

War, Wine, and Taxes: The Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1900
by John V.C. Nye

Power and Plenty: Trade, War, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium
by Ronald Findlay (Author), Kevin H. O'Rourke (Author)

Contours of the World Economy 1-2030 AD: Essays in Macro-Economic History
by Angus Maddison

A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World
by Gregory Clark

God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World
by Walter Russell Mead