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The Mushroom at the End of the World / 1st edition
On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
2023 || Paperback || Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing || Princeton University Press
What a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world-and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices.
In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a cru...
The Craft of International History
A Guide to Method
2006 || Paperback || Marc Trachtenberg || Princeton University Press
This is a practical guide to the historical study of international politics. The focus is on the nuts and bolts of historical research--that is, on how to use original sources, analyze and interpret historical works, and actually write a work of history. Two appendixes provide sources sure to be indispensable for anyone doing research in this area.
The book does not simply lay down precepts. It presents examples drawn from the author's more than forty years' experience as a working historian....