1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Winner
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The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity
Roy Porter
Explores the development of medicine against the backdrop of the religious, scientific, philosophical, and political beliefs of each age, and unearths a treasure trove of medicinal oddities…
1998 Los Angeles Times Book Prize – History Shortlist
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Hope in a Jar: The Making of America’s Beauty Culture
Kathy Peiss
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Many Thousands Gone: The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
Ira Berlin
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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
Philip D. Morgan
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