Civilization

'Erudite, bold and wide-ranging - a book that makes you think about knowledge, wisdom and what the future has in store.' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A book of remarkable sweep and scope - not just learned, but deeply humane.' TOM HOLLAND The long human...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780592438849Author John G JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 72Imprint www.bnpublishing.comPublisher www.bnpublishing.comWeight(grams) 277gDimensions(mm)...

The Prospect of Global History takes a new approach to the study of global history, seeking to apply it, rather than advocate it. The volume seeks perspectives on history from East Asian and Islamic sources as well as European ones, and insists on depth...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807046432Author David CarrascoFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 318g

Exploring the major historiographical, theoretical, and methodological approaches that have shaped studies on slavery, this addition to the Writing History series highlights the varied ways that historians have approached the fluid and complex systems of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781956296259Author Enthralling HistoryFormat HardbackPage Count 138Imprint Enthralling HistoryPublisher Enthralling HistoryWeight(grams) 354gDimensions(mm)...

Michael Burger’s goal in this overview is to provide a brief historical narrative of Western civilization. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-author approach make this book an affordable yet valuable asset for every history student. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668031087Author Patrick JoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint ScribnerPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 549g

Jurgen Habermas' pioneering work has provoked intense discussion about the rise of a modern public sphere and civil society. Redekop revises and expands the Habermasian thesis by demonstrating that, rather than being particularly "bourgeois,"...

How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom...

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933648767Author Roger OsborneFormat PaperbackPage Count 532Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 653gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 155mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393418712Author James M BrophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams) 953g

Xenophon's Anabasis, or The Expedition of Cyrus, is one of the most exciting historical narratives—as well as the most important autobiographical work—to have survived from ancient Greece. It tells the story of Cyrus, a young and charismatic Persian...

National history has once again become a battlefield. In internal political conflicts, which are fought in the fields of popular culture, museums, schoolbooks, and memorial politics, it has obtained an important and contested role. Irrespective of...

The first book-length account of the symbolic chains that link remakes and explain their disguises, Film Remakes as Rituals and Disguise is also the first book to explore how and why these stories are told. Anat Zanger focuses on contemporary retellings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780804141512Author Jody RosenFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'. The belief and ideology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894258Author Joseph ShackFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194115Author Valerie HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566567589Author Nicholas BadcottPage Count 32Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 218g

Greek views of the Achaemenids and their Empire. How did the Greek view of Persia and Persians change so radically in the archaic and classical Greek sources that they turned from noble warriors into peacock loving cross dressers with murderous mothers?...

The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704-681 BC), Part 1 (Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period 3/1) provides reliable, up-to-date editions of thirty-eight historical inscriptions of Sennacherib. The texts edited in RINAP 3/1,...

A sweeping history of southeastern Europe from antiquity to the present that reveals it to be a vibrant crossroads of trade, ideas, and religions.We often think of the Balkans as a region beset by turmoil and backwardness, but from late antiquity to the...

Forty thousand years ago, the human species existed as thousands of small, virtually autonomous bands, roaming a world almost entirely untouched their presence, each band in contact with a few neighbors but unaware of the thousands of others spread...

Big History tells the story of the universe, from the beginning to now, by interweaving the fields of biology, geology and anthropology to offer an all-encompassing account of Earth's history. Flowing seamlessly from the birth of the universe to life on...

Muslim Civilization has experienced an overall decline during the last five centuries after having undergone a long period of prosperity and comprehensive development. This raises a number of questions such as what factors enabled Muslims to become...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483728Author Thomas CahillFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679423089Author Edward GibbonFormat HardbackPage Count 1902Imprint Everyman's Library USAPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 2092gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194108Author Valerie HansenFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest developments in human history and the rise of the first major civilizations, from the Middle East to India and China.In this volume of the six-part History of the World series,...

The state of nature, the origin of property, the origin of government, the primordial nature of inequality and war why do political philosophers talk so much about the Stone Age? Widerquist and McCall draw on archaeology and anthropology to show that...

Around 550 B.C.E. the Persian people-who were previously practically unknown in the annals of history-emerged from their base in southern Iran (Fars) and engaged in a monumental adventure that, under the leadership of Cyrus the Great and his successors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909979451Author Christopher LascellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Crux PublishingPublisher Crux PublishingDimensions(mm) 220mm * 126mm * 29mm

Cundill Prize FinalistA Financial Times Book of the YearA Spectator Book of the YearA Five Books Book of the YearThe Mongols are known for one thing: conquest. But in this first comprehensive history of the Horde, the western portion of the Mongol empire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647487836Author Captivating HistoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 490Imprint Captivating HistoryPublisher Captivating HistoryWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm)...

Lively and well written, Bread and Circuses analyzes theories that have treated mass culture as either a symptom or a cause of social decadence. Discussing many of the most influential and representative theories of mass culture, it ranges widely from...

Society is under siege - under attack on two fronts: from the global frontier-land where old structures and rules do not hold and new ones are slow to take shape, and from the fluid, undefined domain of life politics. The space between these two fronts,...

Everything you should know--but PC professors won't teach--about our Western heritageWestern civilization is the envy of the globe. It has given to the world universally accepted understandings of human rights (rooted in Judeo-Christian principles),...

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern...