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Unofficial cookbooks—handwritten recipes passed from kitchen to kitchen—provided their owners with social and cultural capital within the Soviet system.

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The migration of Asian people—from India, from China, from Japan—to South America and the Caribbean began as early as the sixteenth century.

How marketing made guns a fundamental element of contemporary boyhood.

How did the campaign behind the Partnership for a Drug Free America’s iconic commercials develop, and why were its products so memorable?

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As the power of the East India Company grew, British writers embraced the idea that the (alleged) passiveness of Indians was due in part to vegetarianism.

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