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An age of commerce and civility was how many eighteenth-century thinkers, including the Scots Adam Smith and Adam Ferguson and Frenchmen such as Turgot, saw their own time. Unlike previous…
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At this time of year, Mexico turns golden. The banks along the highway across the high, dry country north from Mexico City and Querétaro glow with marigolds, Mexican marigolds, members…
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Yes, the title of this post does verge on clickbait. In the popular imagination and in a large number of articles and books, the history of pizza is located firmly…
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