User:Phoebe/histories

A list of unusual histories of things, or, object/item/concept-centered histories.

This is as opposed to:
 * "The Box: how the shipping container made the world smaller and the world economy bigger" / Marc Levinson.
 * "Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World" / Dan Koeppel
 * "Color: A Natural History of the Palette" / Victoria Finlay
 * "Salt: A World History" / Mark Kurlansky
 * "Cod: A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World" / Mark Kurlansky
 * "Spice: The History of a Temptation" / Jack Turner
 * "The Toothpick: Technology and Culture" / Henry Petroski
 * "The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance" / Henry Petroski
 * One Good Turn: A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw / Witold Rybczynski
 * "A Short History of Nearly Everything" / Bill Bryson