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Ordish, George. The Great Wine Blight . London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1987.

Owen, David. The Walls Around Us: The Thinking Person’s Guide to How a House Works . New York: Villard, 1992.

———. Sheetrock & Shellac: A Thinking Person’s Guide to the Art and Science of Home Improvement . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Owen-Crocker, Gale R. Dress in Anglo-Saxon England . London: Boydell Press, 1986.

Palladio, Andrea. The Four Books of Architecture , facsimile ed. London: Isaac Ware, 1738.

Palmer, Arlene. Glass in Early America . New York: W. W. Norton, 1993.

Parissien, Steven. Adam Style . London: Phaidon, 1992.

———. Palladian Style . London: Phaidon, 1994.

———. The Georgian House . London: Aurum Press, 1995.

Paston-Williams, Sara. The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking and Eating . London: National Trust, 1993.

Patton, Mark. Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind . Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.

Peatross, C. Ford, ed. Historic America: Buildings, Structures and Sites . Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1983.

Petersen, Christian. Bread and the British Economy, Circa 1770–1870 . Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1995.

Petroski, Henry. The Evolution of Useful Things . New York: Vintage Books, 1994.

Pettigrew, Jane. Tea: A Social History . London: National Trust, 2001.

Picard, Liza. Restoration London: Everyday Life in London 1660–1670 . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.

———. Dr. Johnson’s London: Everyday Life in London 1740–1770 . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2000.

———. Elizabeth’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London . London: Orion Books, 2003.

———. Victorian London: The Life of a City 1840–1870 . London: Phoenix, 2005.

Piponnier, Françoise, and Perrine Mane. Dress in the Middle Ages . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1997.

Planel, Philippe. Locks and Lavatories: The Architecture of Privacy . London: English Heritage, 2000.

Platt, Colin. The Architecture of Medieval Britain: A Social History . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

Plumridge, Andrew, and Wim Meulenkamp. Brickwork: Architecture and Design . New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1993.

Pollan, Michael. The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals . London: Penguin Books, 2007.

Pollard, Justin. Seven Ages of Britain . London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2003.

Porter, Roy. Flesh in the Age of Reason . London: Allen Lane, 2003.

Postgate, Raymond. Story of a Year: 1848 . London: Jonathan Cape, 1955.

Pryce, Will. Buildings in Wood: The History and Traditions of Architecture’s Oldest Building Material . New York: Rizzoli International, 2005.

Pullar, Philippa. Consuming Passions: A History of English Food and Appetite . London: Book Club Associates, 1977.

Quiney, Anthony. Town Houses of Medieval Britain . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Raby, Peter. Alfred Russel Wallace: A Life . London: Chatto & Windus, 2001.

Rackham, Oliver. The History of the Countryside . London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1986.

Rapport, Mike. 1848: Year of Revolution . New York: Basic Books, 2008.

Rathje, William, and Cullen Murphy. Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage . Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.

Reader, John. Cities . London: William Heinemann, 2004.

———. Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History . London: William Heinemann, 2008.

Renfrew, Colin. The Prehistory of Orkney . Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1985.

Reynolds, Andrew. Later Anglo-Saxon England: Life & Landscape . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton, 1999.

Reynolds, Reginald. Beds; With Many Noteworthy Instances of Lying On, Under or About Them . London: Andre Deutsch, 1952.

Ribeiro, Aileen. Dress in Eighteenth-Century Europe, 1715–1789 . London: B. T. Batsford, 1984.

Richardson, Tim. The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape . London: Bantam Press, 2007.

Riis, Jacob A. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Poor . London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1891.

Ritchie, Anna. Prehistoric Orkney . London: Batsford, 1995.

Ritchie, Graham and Anna. Scotland: Archaeology and Early History . London: Thames and Hudson, 1981.

Rivers, Tony, Dan Cruickshank, Gillian Darley, and Martin Pawley. The Name of the Room: A History of the British House and Home . London: BBC, 1992.

Roach, Mary. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science . New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.

Romer, John. The History of Archaeology . New York: Facts on File, 2001.

Root, Waverley, and Richard de Rochemont. Eating in America: A History . New York: William Morrow, 1976.

Rose, Michael. The English Poor Law, 1780–1930 . Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1971.

Rosenthal, Joel T., ed. Essays on Medieval Childhood: Responses to Recent Debates . Donington, Lincolnshire: Shaun Tyas, 2007.

Roth, Leland M. American Architecture: A History . Boulder, Co.: Westview Press, 2001.

Roueché, Berton. Curiosities of Medicine: An Assembly of Medical Diversions, 1552–1962 . London: Victor Gollancz, 1963.

Russell, E. John. A History of Agricultural Science in Great Britain: 1620–1954 . London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.

Rybczynski, Witold. Home: A Short History of an Idea . London: Pocket Books, 1987.

———. Waiting for the Weekend . New York: Viking, 1991.

———. City Life. Urban Expectations in a New World . London: Scribner, 1995.

———. A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century . New York: Scribner, 1999.

———. The Look of Architecture . New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.

———. The Perfect House: A Journey with the Renaissance Master Andrea Palladio . New York: Scribner, 2002.

Salmon, Frank. Building on Ruins: The Rediscovery of Rome and English Architecture . Aldershot, Hampshire: Ashgate Press, 2000.

Salvadori, Mario. Why Buildings Stand Up: The Strength of Architecture . New York: W. W. Norton, 1980.

———, and Matthys Levy. Structural Design in Architecture . Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1967.

Sambrook, Pamela A. The Country House Servant . Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton/ National Trust, 2004.

Savidge, Alan. The Parsonage in England: Its History and Architecture . London: SPCK, 1964.

Scheller, William G. Barons of Business: Their Lives and Lifestyles . Los Angeles: Beaux Arts Editions, 2002.

Schlereth, Thomas J. Victorian America: Transformations in Everyday Life, 1876–1915 . New York: HarperCollins, 1991.

Schneer, Jonathan. The Thames: England’s River . London: Little, Brown, 2005.

Schofield, John. Medieval London Houses , 2nd ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Scott, Geoff. Building Disasters and Failures: A Practical Report . London: Construction Press, 1976.

Scott, George Ryley. The Story of Baths and Bathing . London: T. Werner Laurie, 1939.

Selinus, Olle. Essentials of Medical Geology: Impacts of the Natural Environment on Public Health . Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2005.

Shapiro, Laura. Something from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America . New York: Viking, 2004.